When I learned to program (before 9/11) there was a big emphasis on assembly language and using low level interfaces to communicate with other hardware. The idea was that everyone studying computer science should understand every aspect of the CPU down to the register and operation level, and then be able to design logic gates to replicate that functionality if needed.
Now we have CPUs that are fundamentally undocumented, unknowable, and untranslatable. The entire infrastructure of the network, the telecoms, and the cpu design itself has all been subverted to the needs of the national security complex or corporate advertising.
I'm not sure what computer science even means anymore. Everything I learned is completely useless.
Yes, after we eliminate all the trucking jobs in the county which are one of the last remaining decent jobs for unprivileged people, then the robberies will really take off. Better come up with a log(n) solution to those dirty poor people with bedsheets before prioritizing anything else, because there will surely be robberies.
Maybe instead of intentionally creating a nightmarish hellscape so we can fix the robbery problem we just take a step back for a minute? What are we actually building? For whom?
The libertarian tech monoculture is the problem, not the solution. If you knew the history of the industry or Kansas over the past 30 years you'd realize you're exactly backwards.
Deere and similar companies got the idea to create this "perfect walled garden monopoly tractor" from Steve Case. AOL was the first to really lay out the pattern so many other industries (and Google and Amazon and Apple and other monopolists) have now emulated.
This isn't about innovation or disruption, it's about consolidation, power and monopoly. There are lots of smart people trying to innovate in Kansas right now, for the most part they are getting absolutely crushed by massive corporate concentration.
Calling it a "victimless grift" as this writer does is just naive and silly. The thousands of people who got laid off while Adam got billions in golden parachute funds is the very definition of the word victim.
Just because we've grown accustomed to decades of golden parachutes and widening income inequality and excessive equity based compensation to dodge taxes at the high end doesn't mean any of this is normal or victimless. The victims are everyone who isn't an executive.
Everyone is getting tired of the bullshit industrial complex that so many companies seem to tread in. If you have zero plans for profitability, zero plans for sustainability, zero ideas for actually creating a new useful product or service then you shouldn't be forcing a semi-fraudulent IPO through the door that is s transparent cash grab for the stakeholders.
This is a good thing. The number doesn't always need to go up. Especially when it's all bullshit.
Yeah it's funny how he was the only corrupt CEO in all of corporate America during that time. So weird how nobody else besides him and Martha Stewart ever got prosecuted for insider trading despite it happening ALL THE TIME EVERY DAY EVERYWHERE.
Yes, Qwest (the telecom, formerly US West) resisted and fought tooth and nail to not cooperate.
Their CEO was prosecuted to hell and back for daring to do this, and the company was forced to sell to a competitor. Nobody even remembers his name anymore, few people even remember Qwest.
It's kind of hilarious that they still spend money on the PR team to push these stories about how important and sanctimonious cash is while at the same time printing billions of dollars every night and just transferring to any bank or hedge fund that wants it in the overnight repo market.
A whole set of theatrics for the commoners who still use cash, meanwhile we just press some buttons and poof a billion dollars appears out of thin air in your account (if you're rich enough).
It seems like Boeing (and the FAA and the industry more broadly) have been hiding behind the veil of the "zero commercial accidents" streak for however long that was happening while aggressively trying to coverup serious problems.
It's great that everyone is finally doing a deep dive to figure out these problems. We need more of this, more critical thought and curmudgeons and people who assume the statistics are wrong.
It boggles my mind how terrible the web is becoming on lower end connections. I have about 200ms of delay to most servers and about 5Mbit of bandwidth, and many major web pages take over 30 seconds to load if I don't block most of the assets.
It's insane that webpages are now loading megabytes of data across hundreds of http requests before the images even start downloading.
I've completely given up on the mobile web since I can't block things the way I need to. It's just unusable. It's a platform that just flat out doesn't work anymore for lots of people in remote areas.
The news here is that all telecom equipment is required to have back doors built into them, the "crime" is the manufacturer sometimes using this too.
I don't know if this is hugely revelatory or surprising, it has been common knowledge that all the telecoms are effectively government entities for a long time now. It's still just a bit surreal to see it all spelled out in black and white in the WSJ.
It really seems like this might be the start of the collapse of an incompetent monopoly. Lots of new business opportunities here, this is a rare event.
It's a bit surreal having multiple trillion dollar companies all of a sudden. Meanwhile, the tent city that used to just be under the bridge near downtown keeps spreading, it's up to a few hundred tents spread across almost two blocks now.
Not sure why I keep thinking about those two things together.
It's just a diamond, they are not very interesting unless you believe the TV commercials that tell you they are super important and special. Carbon is carbon.
I'm just laughing at 800 MILLION YEAR OLD ROCK. Like you know how old all the rocks are right?
Now we have CPUs that are fundamentally undocumented, unknowable, and untranslatable. The entire infrastructure of the network, the telecoms, and the cpu design itself has all been subverted to the needs of the national security complex or corporate advertising.
I'm not sure what computer science even means anymore. Everything I learned is completely useless.