The common people have viewed tech elites being out of touch. Tech elites have some sort of moral higher ground they like to espouse but rarely have the goods to show.
You are working on ads, slurping up data and trapping people into rage baits and dramas with an economy centered around marketing and influencer types.
I don't think these tech elites should decide arbitrarily by signing some fake elitist pledge.
The USA has a democratic way of resolving these things. It should not be in the hands of a few. The executive branch is a side effect of elections and should hold the line against these tech elites.
I don't agree with the essence of these nonsense pledges either: they are actively undermining the US while living and breathing here thanks to the most advanced military and defense systems on earth.
Why are these tech elites not including things like "we won't slurp up ad data" or "we will not work on dark patterns" because it's easy to come up with BS pledges and seem like 'we are so holier than thou'.
It is a bit infuriating because this resulted in the mess we are in. The income disparity between the tech elites (the entire tech industry) and the rest of the country is so huge that I don't think empty posturing and pledges and moral superiority matters.
I do not want to be associated with these elitist people who as a group are extremely educated, talented, impactful - but in one very very tiny piece in the grand scheme of things. Doesn't automatically make you the controller of the entire world's decisions.
Dude you are building ads and doomscrolling content that is driving this country’s youth into a downward spiral.
Stop with this “building” BS.
You want a platform you can control, away from Google and Apple - you are not satisfied with slurping up people’s data and turning them into products (pretend glasses and VR crap are just that).
The galls of these SF bozos is just appalling.
It’s sad that we have shipped all our important technology to China where they really are building and instead we have a bunch of clowns pretend ‘building’ crap and are pure marketing geniuses. Nothing else.
It's an ad network with an attached optional pair of glasses.
It's the platform Zuck always wanted to own but never had the vision beyond 'it's an ad platform with some consumer stuff in it'.
I am super impressed with the hardware (especially the neural band) but it just so happens that a very pricey car is being directly sold by an oil company as a trojan horse.
We all know what the car is for unfortunately.
I can't wait to see what Apple has in store now in terms of the hardware.
Great point - an analogy comes to mind: MSFT (and Adobe) were totally okay with (and even encouraged) students pirating Windows/Photoshop etc in non-Western countries in the hopes they grow up and carry that knowledge in a future legal venture.
They were right.
This is the hardware equivalent of that.
Only until CUDA is replaceable though: and who is gonna do that? Intel better carry through their promises in this regard.
I am sure you can make a similar argument that the chance of hitting 31 on a roulette table is ‘lower’ compared to 2021 highs or whatever imaginary gambling stat we can conjure up.
These are all made up numbers so number go down or up isn’t the issue here.
I wonder how this compares with Carbon -> C++ [0].
Carbon is (was?) a fantastic proposal, but not sure if it has lost steam since it was introduced or how well it is being adopted (be it inside Google or outside)?
Being able to incrementally/interchangeably use/call existing C++ code (and vice versa) seems like a great design choice (in Carbon) without having to introspect the actual generated code.
Not sure how easy it is to get the cppfront-generated C++ to bridge with existing C++ code (and vice versa)?
Haven’t octopuses already shown this to be the case? Learning from each other (even though they are pretty not-so-social creatures). The claim that bees are the first invertebrates to do social skill passing seems weird.
I wonder if there is a more productive form of it that helps learn/practice difficult technologies in a short amount of time. Say a combo of Ray tracing in a weekend, a game with reinforcement learning etc that helps people learn disparate technologies that they may not be familiar with while staying grounded on practical yet difficult problems.
FWIW AoC is great and anything that keeps the core CS spirit going seems like a good thing!
Theory meets practice. An automated theorem proves that knows about Android view hierarchy, Parcelables, Android kernel well really entirety of SELinux not to mention whatever Bluetooth firmware drivers seems quite a bit of boiling the ocean.
The actual device (not the app) does seem poorly engineered and not at all fail safe / provided with ‘might kill the patient’ error handling.
Seems like double whammy where an app and hardware conspire against its user.
You are working on ads, slurping up data and trapping people into rage baits and dramas with an economy centered around marketing and influencer types.
I don't think these tech elites should decide arbitrarily by signing some fake elitist pledge.
The USA has a democratic way of resolving these things. It should not be in the hands of a few. The executive branch is a side effect of elections and should hold the line against these tech elites.
I don't agree with the essence of these nonsense pledges either: they are actively undermining the US while living and breathing here thanks to the most advanced military and defense systems on earth.
Why are these tech elites not including things like "we won't slurp up ad data" or "we will not work on dark patterns" because it's easy to come up with BS pledges and seem like 'we are so holier than thou'.
It is a bit infuriating because this resulted in the mess we are in. The income disparity between the tech elites (the entire tech industry) and the rest of the country is so huge that I don't think empty posturing and pledges and moral superiority matters.
I do not want to be associated with these elitist people who as a group are extremely educated, talented, impactful - but in one very very tiny piece in the grand scheme of things. Doesn't automatically make you the controller of the entire world's decisions.