mcculley

> OSS will die because of this

OSS will not die.

Yes, if your programming language/environment is weak.

As a Floridian, I apologize for the 2000 election. But we have a much better system now. We have paper ballots that are scanned. We have an auditable fallback for untrustworthy machines. There is no reason other states cannot have the same.

No, it never occurred to me. This has prompted a fun discussion with my wife. I suggested I could grow some stem cells into a skin that would match the color of my ears. She suggests that I should not have these ideas.

The modern world is funny. I have a hearing impairment, tinnitus, and use both AirPods and less visible hearing aids to hear people better. I only wear the AirPods around people who know me well enough to know that I am wearing them so that I can better hear them. I don’t want strangers to think I don’t want to hear them or that I am being rude. When I am out among strangers, I wear the less visible hearing aids.

But a funny consequence is that because my modern, less visible, hearing aids are connected to my phone, I am often listening to podcasts or news and nobody can tell. So sometimes a stranger will say something and I have to pause the audio and ask them to repeat themselves.

I am wondering what social norms will be like once everyone has less visible electronics in their ears.

But what if I want to access my cameras remotely but not have their manufacturer access them?

I encourage my competitors to refactor a working codebase into a different language.

> capable of accessing the sum total of human knowledge

No. Lots of knowledge is still behind paywalls or not yet digitized. Some models have been trained on books that we cannot search or download.

There were plenty of reruns. Not as much content back then as we have now.

But is it a local disk? The post above says that one uses Chrome Remote Desktop.

The web needs a HIG.

All of these people who keep saying that webapps can replace desktop applications were simply never desktop power users. They don’t know what they don’t know.

The existence of well maintained and clean public restrooms and hooligans is a shibboleth for culture. Some cultures are simply superior.

> You now "own" the movie (or TV show), not a "license".

You do not "own" the movie. You still only have the right to view your personal copies. You cannot broadcast it. You cannot charge others to watch it.

Yes. I do mean designing software to make it testable.

The code that uses that value can be run in an environment where that value can be controlled.

I have written code that does this same thing and built a test harness for it.

> It will not be caught in development testing — who runs a test for 50 days?

You don't have to run the system for 50 days. You can simulate the environment and tick the clock faster. Many high reliability systems are tested this way.

If the U.S. implements a draft, would we first implement exit visas?

I never said that AI should replace all teachers. AI can help provide more teaching labor (more teaching capacity). Every child can have a personalized tutor in addition to human teachers.

See Bloom's 2 sigma problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem

An idea I have been thinking about: Increasingly powerful chatbots provide more teaching capacity. I think this will lead to counterintuitive outcomes like teaching environments where the human student is not allowed to use any device but is being taught and tested by a synthetic intelligence.

What paid subscriptions respect the readers? I would love to pay for news from organizations that only get money from readers. For example, I have been paying for The Economist for decades and still see advertisements.

I am surprised by the assumption that each box could only handle one modem. I seem to remember that some DOS BBS packages could handle multiple modems/users concurrently and only needed multitasking operating systems for “door” programs. Am I misremembering?

You think an implementation of SQLite in another language, with more memory safety, has no value?

I agree that this current implementation is not very useful. I would not trust it where I trust SQLite.

Regardless, the potential for having agents build clean room implementations of existing systems from existing tests has value.

My interpretation of the GP comment is that you are saying the same thing. Linux will return a pointer that is valid for your address space mappings, but might not be safe to actually use, because of VM overcommit. Unixes in general have no way to tell the process how much heap can be safely allocated.

I am bemused every time I use Uber and the car has some flush-mounted door handle that I have to figure out. When exiting the car and closing the door, I end up leaving fingerprints I would not have left if the handle had been designed by someone who had been in a car before.

> Whole disk encryption is pretty fast today, but probably is a bit slower than unencrypted.

Isn’t whole disk encryption nowadays done in hardware on the storage controller?

I am not sure that we are in the same conversation. I misinterpreted your reply to my comment as having something to do with it.

I did not argue for or against collection of GPS data.

What magical technology do you think would beat GPS?

Cell tower triangulation does not provide the same precision as GPS.

Cell tower triangulation does not provide the same precision as GPS.

How was a noise other than ASCII BEL sent over telnet?