Surprised that didn’t inspire people to purchase gold/artifacts and bury them on their property…
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Spread over a year, roughly estimating a generous 4 kbytes of data per commit, comes out to a throughput of a little under 2 MB/s.
Of course, it isn’t spread out uniformly and there is also a lot of hashing and other things going on.
Maybe pulls and clones drive more I/O ?
Aside from the income, employment also has a way of occupying one’s time. Without that, one would often spend additional funds on various forms of entertainment (books, movies, crafts, travel, etc.)…
The one with the wealth would be effectively be unable to obtain greater wealth, power, or influence.
Other this individual being able to command arbitrary amounts of goods and services, the rest would compete for the remaining scraps as we do today.
Ironically, if they want technological innovation and all the fancy toys that result, then it would be in their interest to give the rest something to aim for. Serfdom isn’t going to cut it!
Holding on to all the wealth so that nobody else can get it would be highly detrimental to a capitalistic society.
Everyone initially wants thing A. But then they want to customize it to do all permutations and combinations n of A, B, C. They want it to be extensible. They want redundancy. They want orchestration. They want integration.
It’s why practically every config file format eventually becomes its own scripting language. Even HTML started off simple — now ridiculously complex — all the more ironic since practically nobody writes it by hand. Instead of CSS simplifying it, it became more complex.
There is another thing that is extremely customizable and extensible. It’s called a programming language. People write programs to solve specific problems.
There seems to be a perverse trend of cobbling together a Byzantine mesh of libraries, plugins, and services with complex configuration files to make it do practically everything possible. We just used to write software for such purposes…
And for anyone who thinks HTML is simple… the A (anchor) tag has an “ping” attribute that results in POST requests to a list of URLs when a link is clicked ! The list of attributes and resulting variations in behavior is quite mind boggling. It was supposed to be a damn link! https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html
The lag will be with you. VNC won’t be any better.
He’ll, even some YouTube videos are overly taxing from Firefox in Linux.
Also Stream seems to think Windows is more equal than Linux…
Getting anyone to look beyond the next quarter or year is almost impossible. Decades out ?
fuhgedaboudit …
The hardware may be willing but the software is now incapable.
Even in rural towns, the midday sun in India feels “dimmer” on a clear day. Even for the winter, this seems odd as the relatively lower latitude should make for more direct sun.
It feels like the soft warm filters used in photography… Outdoor sun normally bothers me greatly, but there sunglasses don’t even seem needed…
Not sure what proportion is coal dust, dirt, or wood smoke but something major is definitely going on…
Tutorials using them are so widespread… Start feeling like a weirdo for not wanting to give an unknown rando full indefinite root access to the system, with virtually zero peer review… all to install one version of a package where updates are undesired or infrequent…
The most exciting feature is now cloud providers will be able to charge for the specific amount of energy used by the CPU for each workload ???
All the while leaving out energy costs associated with GPUs, RAM, storage, networking …
Surprised they didn’t take a page from Apple and paint it fluorescent orange or such…
Of course, the question explicitly being asked (related to internal mandate) was if the firmware was signed — not if the firmware update process actually checked the signature (it certainly did not).
Feels like the scenes in the Matrix when ordinary people suddenly morph into agents.
The interesting areas involve some sort of domain expertise- medical, physics, civil, electrical, chemical engineering, etc. or even pure math in the case of data science.
CS lacks all of those, including a strong math background.
Sure, for plain “boring” software development, CS is perfectly fine.
But in terms of one’s personal education and career trajectory, why not aim higher?
I used to do email/browsing/games on 8MB of RAM. Upgraded to 24MB and was able to print a poster sized photo that I scanned with a handheld scanner.
I have 2000x as much RAM now, about 3000x more CPU, but hard to say what really changed for so much increase.
Yeah, full motion video is now more trivial. Gaming graphics certainly improved but not 1000x more fun.
I probably have more computing power today in my room than medium sized universities had back in the day.
The (US) Civil War seemed like distant history in school. But I’ve come to realize there are a lot of people that still seem to live with the prejudice from those times.
The war ended but the problems never went away. Can’t help but wonder if Reconciliation was such a good idea. One half the country might be quite happy not dealing with the other.
I also used to not understand how Protestants and Catholics could fight (Ireland). Almost seems odd both being Christian. Of course, I was extremely blind to the religious divides long existing here too.
If I were in a fine China shop, I would be mindful of the location of the bull running amok.
Industrialization allowed people to shift human labor from agriculture to factories and such.
Seems like intellectual labor became more possible as people looked beyond subsistence but also more valuable since a greater population could drive demand for more than just subsistence related activities.
If both aren’t done by many humans, what’s left? Sports training and massage therapy? Sports training might not even be safe…
OTOH, my current lifestyle is already weird if I think about it. Developing software for a machine that I cannot make myself, whose raw materials I cannot obtain, using energy I cannot produce on my own — somehow entitles me to get a particular amount of goods and services from others including food, healthcare, entertainment, landscaping, and manufactured goods.
We live in interesting times…
AI guardrails can’t even dream of that!
Imagine if it was just the absence of “I’m evil” in the payload.
ld.so
Yeah — loose the phone and it’s pretty much game over.
Rotate new features across 0.01% of the user base to conscript them into being QAs.
Telemetry probably even means the user doesn’t have to submit a report…