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That's the one thanks! I was just searching for the link.

Watch the Joe Rogan interview with Zuckerburg. There's a moment in there where Rogan gives Zuckerberg a reality check on it, it's hilarious.

Analyzing frequency of email addresses would be enough for what GP posted here. Questionable, but not as egregious as reading peoples email. But hey, gmail has done it for years so.... meh.

It's interesting see people still working in this niche, I think it used to be called "backend as a service"? There were several contenders at one point, but Firebase seemed to "win" several years ago, and has been the last one standing for some time.

Just curious what the market size is for these types of services? It doesn't seem like anyone really uses them; for tech people it's just as easy to spin up an instance in some cloud somewhere. For non technical people, well these types of services still seem to be too complex.

I think the one thing Firebase has going for it, that is a differentiator is it's mobile push service that pushes to both iOS and Android. There aren't many options there.

> Why go so far as to wish it doesn't exist?

Because it pollutes other more "reliable" sources of information.

I really wish twitter didn't exist. The utility I see in it is limited. For example, I don't have an account, but I do view tweets from time to time. The tweets I generally view are related to some real time event I'm interested in (ie news). I find the fact that even then, there is usually an endless stream of mostly banal, vapid responses to be very off putting.

Not only do I find the content vastly uninteresting, the way the content on twitter is reported by mainstream media is exhausting. I could really care less about the stream of conscious tweeting of celebrities and politicians. It's not "news worthy" in my estimation.

But clearly a lot of people find it useful, I am completely mystified how this could be.

Agreed, used to be outlandish and questionable content was relegated to known publications such as the National Inquirer (a weekly purveyor of alien, crop circle and 90 year old grand mothers giving birth) in the US. Nowadays with the decline of journalism, and decrease in editorial objectivism, it's almost impossible to know what information can be trusted. It's a sad state of affairs.

If this is satire it's brilliant. I don't doubt it's factual, but the last sentence is a slayer.

Indeed, as Erdogan, Orban, and Trump have shown, the path from democracy to autocracy is very short, disturbingly so. What's needed is a treaty organization that promises to invade and restore democracy in the case certain conditions are not met. A sort of inverse Nato if you will.

I get your point, the calculations are generally just arithmetic, but there are in fact many cryptologist who spend a lot of time and effort understanding these algorithms and finding ways to "crack" them.

> it'd get stuck behind all the ox carts already on the road.

Lol, that's pretty much the case today, as anyone who's driven a sports car in traffic, on public streets can attest!

In my public education the steam engine received zero coverage which is a pity because it's development and application spurred so much science and understanding. I've often thought a science curriculum based on the study of steam and work would be particularly enlightening.

> It was a bad night

> It was a surprising restful night.

Is not a night of bad sleep often followed by a night of good sleep?

I think this comment is a good example of why such an AI would be nigh impossible to implement, at least in a way to be meaningful. When I read this comment, at a high level it's very original like something GPT-3 could create. But this comment has meaning that GPT-3 gibberish wouldn't. Basically I think I'm implying that such an AI would effectively be AGI.

I was wondering if this (128bit memory) are on the radar of any of the BSDs. Will they forever be stuck at 64bit?

If you're on the jvm, lucene is actually pretty trivial to embed. The complexity comes around representing the data to be seached as "documents", ingesting the documents to be searched, reimporting when they change, and lucene's goofy query syntax.

I think the parent was posting ironically or forgot to add the \s? Otherwise, yeah, folks need to hang on to those '21/'22 salaries if they can. We may not see those again for some time.

> This is a really interesting debate – I just wish it scratched deeper than the surface more often than it does, with a bit more historical context.

I find this is true of a lot of topics, too bad there's not some way to shorten the time between shallow to more useful/informative debate. Your post above does that for this topic, thanks for that.

Interesting, can anyone point out some SOCs with multiple serdes? As an interested, non embedded developer, I know high end fpga do, but I'm not aware of any SOCs.

Also how hard is it to layout pcb for these? Is length matching sufficient?

I agree with this sentiment. Although I didn't make it to even applying to grad programs because the professors at my uni were very much "what are you going to do for me" in Thomas Edison invention factory way, when even inquiring about undergrad research.

> I now havent touched really anything in CS research because this experience completely killed my love for the field, and advanced learning in general.

I wager you'll come around, out of genuine interest, and when you want to work on interesting things, you'll run into novel problems, a lot. But this is sad to me because every few years I'll come up with something novel, and discover someone already did a ph.d thesis on it. I feel like I'd be much further along if I had access to people who really cared about teaching and pushing the boundaries.

> You just need to get off social media and google to find it.

Maybe if you know the exact url or specific keywords, but generally not now. Google has turned into ad placement the same level ask jeeves and their ilk were. It's atrocious for surfacing anything other than click bait. Duckduckgo is better, but not by much imo.

Probably both, it is a top research university in the world, with a lot of smart people and funding. Also note the "T" in MIT stands for technology, they do tend to focus a bit more on practical applications and not just theoretical knowledge.

This is some old school stuff right here. I have a hard time believing this sort of gumption and moxy are as prevalent today.

> The best perk is the number of parking spaces the requisite orange utility traffic cone opens up for you.

That's hilarious.

There's a fair amount to unpack here.

> I can see why this is frustrating, especially to someone with no C exposure. But bear in mind that the C underpinnings are part of the reason why these languages are popular in the first place -- like Perl used to be before Python.

I the idea GP is proposing here is that because C is so cumbersome, that is why scripting languages became prominent in the first place. I don't think this many would argue with this.

> In a very real sense, the entire concept of an interpreted language in the modern sense is such an ugly kludge

Here GP is implying that if C were nicer/better, or if some other low level language would have risen to prominence, the scripting langauges would not have been "necessary" or desirable in the same way.

> (much cleaner to "go all in" on the language, LISP machines being the notable predecessor) -- but do be aware of the tradeoff.

Here I assume GP is referring to the work in the 80s on Lisp machines where the idea was to build machines from the ground up more suited to a different paradigm. And thus obviating the need for a cumbersome language such as C.

I personally wonder if GP is familiar the "worse is better" essay?

> with cameras and transmission capabilities

I think the "transmission" part here is the real story for military applications. To get real time video further out than a few kilometers, not many nations have satellite datalink capabilities. Those that don't will be at the whim of commercial providers (Starlink for now). Otherwise, the long duration drone flight discussed here could be most valuable for aerial, orbiting, microwave transponders.

Indeed, I've seen two instances of this. First, early in my career, a company was acquired and had a layoff leaving a skeleton crew in IT and development. People remaining did not have the knowledge or experience to deploy or maintain the applications. That company had a week of down time where business just halted. No purchases were made, nothing previously purchased shipped, no calls to customer service were answered.

The second time was when I was an engineering manager and 3/4 of our team quit for high pay within 6 months. Our application was a line of business app with a few thousand users. Our release dates went from being delayed a few months to over a year. The companies reputation was horrid, and hiring was impossible. My boss, a Director, sent me support people who could spell "java" and expected me train them from zero. I left that disaster soon after.

So yes, the risk is real, and the result can be calamitous.

For comparison, a rail car can carry 120 tons of coal.

There was a category of med/high range microprocessor machines ($10k+) that used it a lot, like Z-80 S100 machines with a bunch of "custom" expansion cards. I don't recall any of their names now, but if you look at the ads in late 70's Byte magazine you'll see them.

> They had the best BASIC interpreter in the business[0] and everyone licensed from them already.

Commodore 64 owners may have a different opinion.... :P

> None of the witnesses can be considered reliable.

I find this to be a curious statement, as in not reliable in what way?

Gordon Eubanks company was acquired by Kildall and worked for them at the time. I found this interview to very interesting, he touches on those events and gives his perspective.

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10271736...

Say what you will, but McDonalds is pretty remarkable in their consistency, even internationally. A big mac in New York is the same a Big Mac in San Francisco, as in the Midwest, as in Germany.

A pet peeve of mine is pizza joints who serve a different pie every time, depending on who's in the kitchen. If I have a great pizza, I expect to get it again, but rarely do. Consistency is hard.