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Really interesting.

From even before the RAM shortage there was noise in the robotics world of sensor and actuator shortages due to them being bought up in bulk by some of the major AI labs.

LSP helps massively with some models.

It sounds a lot like you are focused on using Pi as a OpenAI/Anthropic wrapper when that isn’t your audience. (Hint: raw token usage is less of a concern).

That underrates the difficulty in keeping things simple.

It is mentioned elsewhere here that a lot of time was burned on unused firmware features. It takes surprising discipline to cut stuff and still deliver.

Ever since SNAP the whole IPO show has been a transparent scam to game the index funds.

The market simply doesn’t have enough people actively investing because it rewards mass stupidity over generating meaningful returns.

Focus on making products/services for people that actually do have money to spend then.

A dimension people hate looking at is credit is far too easy in the US, which means too many companies are heavily optimized for extracting that money from people that didn’t really earn it in the first place. This means a lot of the smartest workers are preoccupied on the wrong things instead of helping advance society.

Most AML courses Ive done have emphisized that the people behind high level money laundering can be too dangerous to take down

This is how they deliberately miss the point. They are not taken down not because they are dangerous but because they align with us, and will buy tat from our buddies in Mayfair and Knightsbridge at inflated prices with some of the proceeds.

British high society is completely rotten by this stuff. They are still amazed that Al Fayed was’t nearly as grimy as many had assumed.

Our money laundering supports freedom, while theirs supports tyranny etc.

I love the whole “unexplained wealth” concept the UK developed, curiously enough after Abramovich had been running around buying Chelsea etc. If you are friend to MI6 this week you are allowed to do anything, but if you get on their wrong side you will be Berezhovskied.

The book Zero to One is legitimately good.

His actions helping Hulk Hogan against Gawker were also thoroughly deserved.

At some point people are going to start asking awkward questions going all the way back to the PayPal mafia and everything that has subsequently happened. Thiel landing on the steering committee of the Bilderberg Group just looks too ridiculous, but is a thing, and now this guy goes off ranting about the Antichrist?

I am actually sympathetic to much of what Thiel has done, but the current arc makes the supposed Howard Hughes oddities look positively reasonable.

Aha, yes the resulting OEM freakout would do it.

The question here is what metric at Microsoft was bad enough for them to make a post like this?

This whole episode is a charade to do exactly that while claiming they are morally superior to China because the UK does it “for the children” while China does it because they are just evil authoritarians.

For Tiananmen Square substitute Rape Gangs.

From a detached perspective Play Services itself is practically sanctioned malware and this is to protect that monopoly.

Your admittedly exaggerated example is arguing against the entire concept of relational databases, which is not a winning proposition.

You do not write programs with one map of id to thing as you are suggesting here.

Often significant improvements to every aspect of a system that interacts with a database can be made by proper design of the primary keys, instead of the generic id way too many people jump to.

The key difficulty is identifying what these are is far from obvious upfront, and so often an index appears adjacent to a table that represents what the table should have been in the first place.

Promoting the idea of one data structure with many functions contradicts:

“If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident.”

And:

“Use simple algorithms as well as simple data structures.”

A data structure general enough to solve enough problems to be meaningful will either be poorly suited to some problems or have complex algorithms for those problems, or both.

There are reasons we don’t all use graph databases or triple stores, and rely on abstractions over our byte arrays.

Perlis absolutely is not saying the same thing, and as the commenter notes the functional community interpret it in a particularly extreme way.

I would guess Pike is simply wise enough not to get involved in such arguments.

Better to have 100 comments on one topic than 10 comments on 10 topics.

If want to solve a problem - it's natural to think about logic flow and the code that implements that first and the data structures are an after thought, whereas Rule 5 is spot on.

It is?

How can you conceive of a precise idea of how to solve a problem without a similarly precise idea of how you intend to represent the information fundamental to it? They are inseparable.

Perlis is just wrong in that way academics so often are.

Pike is right.

VRChat is what you would point at to justify the creation of Horizon Worlds, while saying “it is just too creepy for normies”.

Neither of those extremes are tolerable.

Which is almost word for word the state Microsoft have been in for over 20 years.

To the point it was a running joke at MSR.

Zuckerberg wants a cyberpunk future, not some 3D immersive HR department on your face.

The usage numbers probably reflect what happened in this house: since the pestering to confirm age and the horizon worlds update the Meta VR devices have literally not been recharged.

They had the foundation of something half reasonable at one point, but their product management clearly got in the way.

Right, if these countries want these laws at least ensure the verification is all done within the country in question and the data never leaves.

Of course, that defeats the entire point of the exercise.

You and many of your repliers are framing this as a “like” thing: it’s not.

The key question is “can you trust this guy?” and he is so clearly not trustable it’s amazing.

Makes them look like the FTX of data processing.

The fact Alex Karp has any security clearance at all boggles the mind.

Soccer without beer would be like college basketball without the gambling.

At that point what you are describing is a theme park ride. It only works a handful of times though before people get bored of it and want something else.

Back pre digital I was once lucky enough to see Aliens on one of the private cinemas at Fox, and it was astounding. I think people underestimate how poorly operated most normal cinemas used to be, combined with maybe not the best prints etc.