> If i recall correctly, there is also a part in the transcript where he admits he just didn’t know Russias true strength, and he never would have invaded had he known. Remarkably different language than he used at the time.
In the recording linked here he says (around the 8 min mark), while talking about Russia's strength in terms of the amount of tanks: "Had I known this my heart would have been even heavier but I would have made the decision even more so because I did not have another option".
What? No! I've been there last year during my Seattle internship and it was the most amazing experience having grown up after most of the machines exhibited were around.
There have to be some philantropists around who got rich in computing and have an interest in keeping it alive.
It is one of a kind, I was raving about it to everyone. I'd be happy to donate even though it's across the world from me.
It's a bit ridiculous making such a non-differentiating statement claiming to be against automation when that is a lot of what the digital revolution is about in the first place. No less on hacker news, which is one of the hubs to talk about the digital revolution.
I'm a co-author of a paper where we use program synthesis to optimize big-data (i.e., slow-running) SQL queries. The synthesis engine we use encodes its search problems into SAT.
Any language with static types should be easier to make sense of, though. I get it's faster to write dynamically typed code, but your point is specifically about reading code, which I can't follow.
Of course Python nowadays has support for static types too.
Sorry, but this argument is terrible. Look at the bay area and see how all the wages have risen. Nobody has to be homeless there because they can't afford housing anymore right?
In the recording linked here he says (around the 8 min mark), while talking about Russia's strength in terms of the amount of tanks: "Had I known this my heart would have been even heavier but I would have made the decision even more so because I did not have another option".