olive247

Do you have links to the other great resources you are referring to?

I've also been confused why they stay so small. It seems like such a good idea, why not scale faster and larger. My guess is they are so bound to the hacker ethos and culture. Also the regulatory gray area the product sits in, scaling too large would put a target on them.

Wait no way? That’s where the pirate eye patch trope comes from? There was a practical reason?

> I do have good news for fans of coercive government regulation,” Gruber says. “Apple’s hand was effectively forced. But by China, not the EU.”

What conditions need to be present which would encourage companies to cooperate on standards like this instead of waiting on a government to make the call?

Ok cool, so basically pipe is the max number of requests that were in flight at one time. Nice.

Does geolocation of the server not matter for your application? I am curious if there are any latency issues with this solution as opposed to a hosted option.

chiken

This talk just made me realize how little I understand about what the firmware is really doing. I had previously understood the BIOS to be a small piece of firmware that runs the bootloader at startup and maybe some other coordination between other hardware devices and the CPU. Then CPU takes over and the firmware takes a backseat. The speaker mentioned a whole can of firmware worms that I had no idea even existed.

I’m interested to see the progress of open source firmware now.

Humans absolutely are not built for large social networks. There is a theory called Dunbar's number that suggests that humans have a cognitive limit of ~150 social relationships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number