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Audio processing is a bit light sight processing - once you miss the critical development period, which is not directly related to the "critical period" for language learning, you will never actually develop them. People can develop something, for example people who had oxygen-destroyed corneas causing blindness who later got corneal transplants, but it will never be vision as you know it.

They certainly have this. A lot of embedded boot loaders run entirely from cache until they can bring main memory up and check it.

People are happier having a place to live and food to eat.

No argument that the rich are con artists, in a way, but not to the extent you mean. Most jobs are terrible - raw sewage? Handing drywall? Meat processing? etc. They are awful. Robots won't be there any time soon if ever. They probably won't even replace retail workers in the next 10 years.

Keynes predicted we would be working 15-hour weeks. He was wrong because he missed that the enslavement was, in fact, the point.

A global hash-based index is literally an undergraduate project to do well. You could even ride atop bittorrent if you really had to.

This is basically not true. Low end automobiles and solutions like ebikes, etc have the volume to sustain production at crazy low margins. Despite tech fantasies, delivery bots, drones, etc. aren't even close.

Every now and then you notice one stuck in Mountain View on Castro Street through Covid period.

The whole idea always struck me as absurd and an example of how VC malinvestment was being driven by ZIRP and outright lies about autonomy by a lot of people with a vested interest in keeping the money train going.

Humans are too stupid to collectively govern themselves. Just look at the US election cycle that is starting. There is a genuine messianistic cult at work.

Let's see how software people feel when it becomes routine to AI wash projects to de-license them.

I'd be very curious what project you have for which IPFS is a good solution.

It's for mapped I/O primarily.

Then what good is it?

Quic is not suited for satellite communications. There are good custom protocols though that are FEC heavy.

It’s only not going down if the content is actually present in such nodes. It’s not.

Caches solve this placement problem just fine today and content addressing does not alleviate the placement problem at all.

Reality is the space thing is just part of the usual crypto grift narrative building.

IMHO yes.

Objectively, those people are normalizing performance-enhancing drugs and the usual vicious cycle that goes with it.

Less objectively, they also tend to be the typically soul-less nerds who have made the technology industry so malicious.

The videos I posted at top level are, unintentionally, for you.

Dan Olson covers NFTs very solidly in "Decentraland is a dead mall" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8Q ) and "Line Goes Up" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g ). Both as well worth watching.

Since this is also about GameStop specifically, his "This is financial advice" video addresses the GameStop cult, and to a lesser extent the bizarre cult around GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen, really well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pYeoZaoWrA

Also, cue some apes/NFT investors coming in to ask "why do you care about my money?" and other oft-repeated talking points.

2C-B is one of the few drugs on my "want to try" list. I imagine I won't see a reliably uncontaminated version in my lifetime though.

I had the same experience, minus MDMA (never had the chance) and the racism stuff. Completely changed my mental shape at age 47 when I tried mushrooms for the first time (also my first psychedelic). Not a do-frequently thing but genuinely mind opening.

The people using microdosing to be more effective at work, well... good grief.

You'd probably get one anyway due to that receptor activation.

Looking at demonstrations and on-the-ground displays of these mechanisms leaves me absolutely in awe and terror. I really can't imagine putting my life in the hands of the thrust vectoring mechanisms. It's really something.

They're amazing but they violate the intuitive moving-parts-to-risk count.

Look, all sentences in any language implicitly start with or end with the words: "For now." The sooner you incorporate that into your beliefs, the better off you will be. It isn't about "trust." Trust is conditional and blind trust in statements that cannot be true under all circumstances is something you just need to grow out of; circumstances change and intents change.

As you gain experience, you get really good at parsing and identifying axes of flexibility in statements from the power structure. In general, professional managers in a power structure will always distort or mislead with any statements they make to turn any announcement into a steering opportunity. This is just how it is and it's really not about "trust", it's about manipulation.

Manipulation is _everywhere_ in the tech companies. Nothing is more amazing to me than an experience I had early on that woke me up: the day after I attended a meeting about how the company was working on a project that was incredibly unethical (think google's china search engine-level unethical or worse, like Nokia's building anti-dissident features into their 3g networking for Iran), I attended a company all hands where the entire message from every exec, including those that were involved, was about how we were a force for free speech, freedom, etc. I already knew but it was stark.

They also engage in constant attempts to blur things. Google, in particular, spends a lot of money to help muddy the job-vs-personal waters because it gives them power. For their first decade and a half, at least, they ran the whole company like college - extracurricular activities, etc. This wasn't just because the founders had no professional experience prior, it was strategic to make it very hard for people to leave (and when they started leaving for FB, that was to another place that was similar).

So forget about "trust" - start thinking in terms of "what is this person not saying, what is this person trying to imply without putting it in words, what flexibility are they reserving for themselves with their statements" etc.

You say that, and then an army of idiots out in the real world continues to use floats for financial data and other large integers.

I ran into a site that broke because they were using 64b unix nanotime in Javascript and comparing values which were truncated. You see this in js, python, etc. constantly.

Fountain codes are not local.

They seem to be pretty represented in TOP500 with Slingshot. Shame if it is dead.

I've wondered about these - why don't they do the same split that HVAC pumps use? It seems really bizarre as a design. Components would also mean replacing the tank would be more cost effective and circuit routing would be easier.

The Zenith Z100 series, Dec Rainbow, and Epson QX-10+ would have been interesting to include. There was a very, very rich set of non-IBMPC MSDOS machines in the period. IIRC MS-DOS early on included tools written in a variant of Forth so that portability was easy and memory use was tight.

How will we ever find something that sucks less if we aren't honest about the downsides of our current model of capitalism?

I don't need to show you something proven to be better to ask that question unless you have some kind of creationist-like belief that all systems have been discovered and tried.

Fabulously, not as many. HP, Intel, Sun, SGI, Microsoft, Cisco, ... I mean all of these did leave people fabulously rich. So I'm not sure what you're talking about unless you mean the ZIRP IPOs of scam companies we've seen in the last fifteen years.

If anything, from 1970 to late 1997 you did have a few differences - the fraction of scams dumped at inflated valuations on the public markets was a lot lower, and the number of huge company exits was lower - but that's actually more about how the industry was healthier (less bullshit) and smaller (it hadn't grown yet).

70s.