whatshisface
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- whatshisfaceIf a $100B/year company closes a $1B/year division, they are doing something much worse than losing $1B/year: they are giving $1B in funding to a new competitor which can grow to threaten the major part.
- The most common long-term project worldwide is the raiding of the public chest. :-)
- They're going to issue a bailout that saves themselves via your paying for it all.
- They can take your stuff faster than you can make it.
- If the security depends on the person it's supposed to be secure against not trying to break it...
- There's zero overlap between banning social media for kids and banning news from Rupert.
P.S. that soveregnity issue is not likely to be acted on because there are always a lot of people who prefer foreign influence to domestic opposition! Just ask the Roman Empire.
- In this vein, one of the biggest time-savers has turned out to be its ability to make me realize I don't want to do something.
- If you want it to be remembered as a revolutionary computer interface, you will have to make sure it is not used in interrogations.
- What's the plan for after this mind reading helmet works reliably?
- If you invest $100B and get back $40B in sales, you're investing $60B of money and $40B of your products. This is simple stuff. The question is whether or not it is a good investment. Probably not.
- They key difference between plagarism and building on someone's work is whether you say, "this based on code by linsey at github.com/socialnorms" or "here, let me write that for you."
- The eero also has a privacy policy that allows them to record your DNS traffic (they are owned by Amazon).
https://www.historytools.org/docs/reasons-to-avoid-amazon-ee...
- Zig has closed enums, so you can recover some of Rust's sum type safety.
- The need for book-length expositions is much greater for Rust.
- Zig is not done yet. They make breaking changes with each minor version.
- Memory safety is a gradient. Zig is "memory safe-er" than C just because its arrays store length. Of course, RCE vulnerability is not a gradient.
- Companies doing things for the common good because they feel threatened by competiton is the whole idea behind Capitalism.