FlowingRiver

This is one of those situations, even if they don't want to release specific code, they could at least release the specifications so that others could build the software stack for this.

I am dealing with it by walking away from the internet and connected technology as much as possible.

Unfortunately, generally if people can do something, they will. And with AI systems they have been given one of the largest short cuts possible, thus they take it relentlessly. There is no concern for quality so long as it is good enough to benefit them.

They will try to rationalize it but it typically ends up in moral corruption of "If I don't, they will."

It saddens me because I saw the vision of what computers and connected technology could be in the 90's and 2000's, only to see it turn bitter.

I remember reading an essay by Richard Stallman calling all this kind of stuff out in the late 1980's and I kind of hate that he got it so right. In assuming that many will take the power play and the convenience means that this is the path we take.

The more you can walk away form this stuff the better even if you don't want to.

Its like directly addressing a compulsive liar. They know, that we know what they are doing but they will never admit it to us.

We aren't there yet but one can definitely see the run up in action.

We prefer the terms, spice diplomacy, proactive landscaping, aggressive cultural exchange or unplanned synergy meeting.

Exactly, a notable time military tech has been deployed in public in full would be the TOR network. That was done to provide enough noise on the network to hide its purpose/make difficult to track.

So long as the targeted area is limited, you only need imagery data for set routes/areas and can keep local data pools reasonable.

Can already see the poor headlines of "Snapdragon chips used to bomb schools!"

You could have the GPS constantly changing in the same way as time sensitive rolling key authenticators work. Without the base private key, you wouldn't be able to decode it in time. So it remains functional for those that need it but becomes useless, actively works against those without it.

This is the easiest trick technique for figuring out vaguely north/south direction.

Take an analog watch. Say it is 9am, point the 12pm/midday point of the watch at the horizon directly below the sun, the half way distance between the hour hand and 12pm is the fairly close direction of the pole. So in that case, the 10:30am point would be the pole.

In the northern hemisphere it points South, in Southern hemisphere it points North.

EDIT : The Wikihow article shows it better.

https://www.wikihow.com/Use-an-Analog-Watch-as-a-Compass

It is an old Army/SAS trick for keeping baring without a compass.

A few months back Vertisium did a decent run down on how Russians are testing GPS blocking satellites over Europe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz23G_UXCGA

This is a key point to many things. Need to identify the difference between technically viable and economically viable.

It is the same argument I make for Starship. Technically, yeah it should work. The economics of of going to Mars, not so sure about that.

It is Simon Michaux that throws out the figure that you need 2TWH of storage to make it through he worse of Winter.

https://www.ecoshock.org/2024/02/why-renewables-cannot-power...

I think he points to a valid point but completely over plays his hand. Everyone that has argued these kinds of points have brought valid arguments but have completely under estimated the pace of change.

Do keep in mind that Michaux is a fan of being a little contrarian. He likes the attention it being to him.

He might be right, and him pointing to the issues may actually be something that helps us avoid these issues. Generally, knowing about a problem is a much better position than being slammed by something you didn't anticipate.

I tend to think long term we are going to a much lower energy world, that we made the mistake of building a world and our expectations to the paradigm of fossil fuels. But I also think that we are not going back to the stone age and that renewables will do better than the pessimists. Good chance we will hit a reasonable mid-ground even if it means living standards change, possibly a smaller, slower but more intentional world. It may be nice even if it means you can no longer get a slab of Coke for an hours wage.

While I am somewhat negative on ARM/RISCV systems due to there being like 50 different boot systems and ASIC setups, I am cautiously optimistic that something like the A16 will end up unintentionally becoming sort of a standard via a large amount being sold.

I suspect in the next 5 years something like this will come up.

Here in Melbourne I am seeing data-centers going up rapidly. Not uncommon to see the providers names splashed on the side of the cranes as they are being constructed.

That said, my favorite is the NextDC NE1. A tiny 1MW in the middle of nowhere, check out the map location on this thing.

https://www.nextdc.com/data-centres/newman-data-centre-coloc...

I think we have a winner of the pelican bike challenge!

It is unfortunate that I must speak like this, but it will fascinating to see how accurate predictions like this will be.

What if it is 10 times this? I worry that as drastic an event that would be ignored in short order, the same way the excess deaths in 2020 where. Maybe it will be 10 times less. 45,000 people is still lots but certainly a better out come.

Stepping back further, not just because of this but also the blow back from a war moving into war mode, I do think that 2027 is going to be a fairly rough year in general. The era of a stable global order is crumbling and the further it goes the harder it will be to bring it back IF we can bring it back.

In technology, one step ahead in an innovator, two steps ahead is a martyr.

General magic was two steps ahead.

If you want some more behind the scene stories, here is a clip of Chris MacAskill who worked with them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgbxa_JutQI

It is funny that I discovered Chris through his youtube channel 'Viva Longevity' and he very occasionally mentions some of these things about General Magic and working with Steve jobs.

Absolutely. There is a long way to go but at least there is some good foundations.

That is all true but I will defend the FX series a little. Mostly now that there is a lot of software that scales across cores better now, they haven't aged as terribly as others have. They aren't great but not terrible considering.

Obligatory random appearance of George.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC9RI8_QYmw

Pretty much, but you would be surprised at just how low some of these phone RAM setups can go.

I had a low end Oppo 'something', I remember the RAM had a 16bit data bus, the whole thing had a peak theoretical bandwidth at just over 4GB/sec. That phone sauntered through the workload at the best of times. The Mediatek chip was probably not the weaklink for once.

On the upside the battery could go well over a week between charges.

Said it for a long time. My biggest problem with Apple hardware is the software.

Things like Asahi fix that.

The Fake News Media is reporting that NASA completely lost the Moon race to China. A total disaster! Under my Administration, Space Force is winning BIG. Now, Beijing is supposedly up there doing who knows what. Fake flags, very low quality! The moon is ours, and Mars too (which the Moon is part of!). MAKE AMERICA SPACE AGAIN!

President Donald J Trump

I suspect it would be like the Apollo missions. It is on for a few years but then they just sort of give up.

Time to rename Starship to 'The Filibuster'.

Both SPARC and PowerPC met the same fate. A brilliant ISA done poorly was no match for a poor ISA (x86) done really well.

I had the same experience twice in a few months from those two. Moving from a Sparc server to a Xeon based system, and again when the first Intel Mac Mini's came out and was faster than the dual-G5 systems we had.

I don't think this messaging has caught up with many people. This isn't just economics, it is ideological.

They is why the SLS became known as the Senate Launch System.

I think the defining moment is that IF China gets man back to the moon before the US, that will be the moment when it becomes too hard to ignore. That is the new political high ground.

The Chang’e missions plan for this in 2030 and they have hit every target to date. While the US is currently targeting 2028, it isn't inconceivable that it can slip by two years.

New pyramid leans very heavily on meat and dairy which goes contrary to most long term dietary studies. Those are industries that lobby heavily.