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That’s like saying you don’t care what the business side of your company does, you just want to write code.

Well, if your company goes bankrupt because engineering didn’t work with the product guys you don’t have a job anymore.

I wonder if it was possible to build chips in a way that they could disable themselves if used in a way not approved of by the manufacturer. Perhaps a set of pre-generated keys that have preset validity times. You would then need to contact the manufacturer to receive the next key in the set.

Probably too much effort for the gain though. For military chips maybe?

> the extremely aggressive, unnecessary and dehumanizing remarks from Linus

Linus being Linus. I thought he had gotten some comms training but it’s hard to change when you’ve spent most of your career communicating very directly.

This does seem a bit like throwing the baby out with the bath water but it’s understandable that the kernel project doesn’t have the resources for a more granular approach when even large organizations struggle with this problem.

I’m always in for making more clear and transparent processes though.

> And in an ideal environment, there should be an educator overseeing a kid and asking what went wrong if kid decides they wanna play with their phone instead of working.

The reason primary education is mandatory is because the average kid doesn’t want to sit there learning things. Even some parents barely care. We have collectively decided to force these children to sit through school because we want the population to have at least some basic skills.

Catering to the outliers would not be efficient, sometimes people need to be coerced to set a minimum standard.

And if nobody goes to see the interview, that’s an important signal to not waste time on doing them.

That works until it doesn’t.

> I'm hoping some non AI generative content branch of the internet will be created.

Social media has been filled with disinformation and bot generated slop for well over a decade. AI or not, the internet is turning into shit until we come up with ways to filter it out. Maybe we need to build a section of internet where we use identity verification, the anonymous internet has all been turned suspect by malicious actors.

I don’t think those mainframes running COBOL are getting patched either.

Fair point. I think it would still be a net gain for society, at the very least open source would get a boost.

> If all it does is allow us to churn more high level software, which let's be honest is demand inelastic due to mostly large margins on software products (i.e. they would of paid a person anyway due to ROI) it doesn't seem it will add much to society other than shifting profit in tech from Labor to Capital/owners.

If creating software becomes cheaper then that means I can transform all the ideas I’ve had into software cheaply. Currently I simply don’t have enough hours in the day, a couple hours per weekend is not enough to roll out a tech startup.

Imagine all the open source projects that don’t have enough people to work on them. With LLM code generation we could have a huge jump in the quality of our software.

> unless the solution is also googleable in 30s.

Is anything googleable in 30s? It feels like finding the right combination of keywords that bypasses the personalization and poor quality content takes more than one attempt these days.

> The person who they are is the one who spent the time and effort to collect them.

> The collection is a /product/ of that time and effort, not the other way around.

Does the person cease to be if the collection is trashed? Or is the collection just detritus from the process, something that could have been discarded instead of hoarded?

Does fluency in English make someone good at solving trick questions? I usually don’t even bother trying but mostly because trick questions don’t fit my definition of entertaining.

> without member states giving up massive amounts of sovereignty.

Why is this a bad thing?

The latter. I don’t think Intel will survive their spiral without government intervention, the organization is too married to x86. They might transform into something else and keep the name, the same way Nokia stopped being Nokia.

> There is no methodology (organizational, programming, testing, etc.) that can make excellence out of mediocrity.

That’s a pretty toxic statement. No one was born writing perfect code, every one of us needed to learn. An organizational culture that rewards learning is the way to produce an organization that produces excellent software.

It doesn’t matter how excellent someone is if the organization puts them to work on problems that nobody needs solved. The most perfect piece of software that nobody uses is a waste of bytes no matter how well it’s written.

IBM still sells CPUs based on the PowerPC (now Power ISA) architecture. AMD doesn’t need to die for x86 to become irrelevant.

R2 is ridiculously cheap compared to S3. The price difference was more than 40x when I last looked at it.

ARM wins the instruction set wars and buys the tech. Future ARM processors will have x86 hardware that offers compatibility with legacy software. Eventually the instruction set is forgotten.

He’s saying ignore the potentially worthless options and invest that extra 50% salary you earn at elsewhere in Intel stock instead of working there.

I doubt she had a spouse or kids, if no one realized her passing for three days.

At least mice are having memory issues: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030438942...

> Except many card issuers limit contactless payments to $100... rendering tap to pay useless on the pump because it'll deny the preauth and require chip insertion.

I’ve noticed lately that contactless payments that go over the limit don’t require chip insertion, the reader just asks for the PIN to proceed. Maybe there’s been some updates to the standards?

Does Maven come bundled with the SDK?

I’ll check back in 2030

I’ve been hearing that for at least a decade.

I think you are mixing up concepts. Curing mortality doesn’t mean it’s impossible to be killed.

Authoritarian regimes don’t end because the dictator gets old and dies, they end because the people rise up against the oppressive government. If mortality was the liberator you imagine it to be then North Korea would already be rid of their nightmare.

> I don't really know anything about business, but something else I've wondered is this: if LLM scaling/progress really is exponential, and the juice is worth the squeeze, why is OpenAI investing significantly in everything that's not GPT-5? Wouldn't exponential growth imply that the opportunity cost of investing in something like Sora makes little sense?

You can spend 100% on the next generation or you can spend a small percentage to productize the previous generation to unlock revenue that can be spent on the next generation.

The latter will result in more investment into the next generation.

Can a normal drive even do that?