mrmonkeyman

Agreed. This is the way of the future. Is there a subscription model? I'd like myself a CPU-as-a-service. $50-100 a month seems reasonable.

Using these "efficiently repurposable" building blocks we can even create new software! Ultimate composability. I'll rent you a couple of instructions and you can create whatever turing-completeness your heart desires for the low, low cost of $0.01 per instruction. (I will have to send all your data to our headquarters in Russia and China, but only occasionally.)

Did anyone patent this already? Time to jump on this.

You call it equal potential, like it is some obvious thing, but what if that is intelligence?

Anecdote: same here, but did not avoid anything on that list.

And if you ever ignore a red light, pay your taxes late or do anything other than your absolute best to be an upstanding citizen you should be put into prison for the rest of your life.

This lacks nuance. You ignore the effect they have on the ecosystem as a whole. Mentioning the "Go community" and their "agreement" of Google's decisions without acknowledging this is disingenuous at best. They have already swayed and gatekept large swaths of the (web)development "community" by their decade-long dominance and no one can make an impactful, meaningful decision in that field without their implicit approval. Their dominance is felt best by the way they control the conversation i.e. what we don't talk about - i.e. the web among other things they touch sucks, continues to suck and it is going to get worse and less free and they are significant negative contributers. So yeah, I'd rather see them cut into pieces.

But still lightyears off. You are dramatizing our priviledged existence. Billions (literal) would offer their firstborn son to be "cogs" working a "massive corporate enterprise". What you are describing is the good part of modern life, I suggest you don't look at the bad parts if this already disturbs your soul.

I like the idea, but the reality is that it fosters extreme complexity on all kinds of axes for marginal benefit.

Sure, for hobbyists it is fine but professional use.. I disagree.

As a computer engineer you need to focus on computers, not people. I know this is popular right now, but it sucks and it is wrong and leads to bad results. Yes, the current state of affairs is a "bad result", young ones.

We expect civil engineers to account for people, but they think about materials, planning, math, etc. Stay close to your craft or you might see it and/or your position in it evaporate.

The longest battery isn't on an iphone, the best camera isn't on an iphone, the latest screen tech isn't on an iphone, etc. etc.

It is not on any single Android model either. Fragmentation is a thing.

Take time off, go offline and have deep thoughts. Record everything.

In 90% of cases: you need to ignore these thoughts as they can be time-consuming. You are not going to solve anything worthwhile related to organizing a 100M democracy if you are not in that field. You will not just "pick it up" unless you are a freak of nature and you are not.

There is a new wave of games coming which use advanced physics, think destructible voxel worlds, like minecraft but having blocks of 1cm instead of 1m. VR benefits immensely from CPU/GPU overkill and can use any cycle it can get. The status quo you see now is caused by CPU stagnation not the other way around. Once tech finds a way to afford more cycles games and applications will find ways to use them (and not just by wrapping them with Electron :).

It's time to separate UI from logic (finally). Let the UI guys make UI projects that hook onto engines made by backend guys. Why one frontend? Let the community come up with a few and don't let a backend engineer and their practices and ideas anywhere close to a designer, the former will suffocate the latter with their total lack of vision and sensitivity.

It's an old trick. Hand readers, mediums and various types of cold readers are really good at this. You can always be right using these techniques.

I'm quite interested in what you suppose the word "man" means? I'm serious.

In theory, yes. In practice, no.

Of course not. But executing it right is hard.

It actually was. Shocking, isn't it?

HN likes to downplay this, apparantly, but not everything can be boiled down to bureaucracy.

Yes, medical professionals use checklists. They also have a harsh and very unforgiving culture that fosters craftsmanship and values professionalism above all else. You see this in other high-stakes professions too.

You cannot just take the checklist and ignore the relentless focus on quality, the feelings of personal failure and countless hours honing and caring for the craft.

Developers are notorious for being lazy AF, so it's not hard to explain our obsession with "just fix the system". It's a required but not sufficient condition.

Having a post to repost on HN is a prerequisite to "being lucky".. luck favors the prepared and all that.

This. Money is no hindrance. It can be set in motion for good. It's the only thing capable of producing real change.

They have a problem with 4 though

He found a legal way to destroy a highly intelligent living organism for no f* reason at all except his enjoyment. Nothing wrong with that.

Who will create these new applications?

Who will manage them, optimize them, secure them? And with what? Crappy online text editors with 1% of the features of the tools you are used too?

If you don't like code you don't become a developer.

If you hate wrenches you're going to have a .. difficult time being a mechanic.

The QR shit is annoying. I'm young, but having to keep picking up our phones to look at menus and getting distracted by them is exactly why I go to a restaurant in the first place: human experience. Purely consuming food can be done at home.

Also, my wife's phone was low on battery so we were on a clock. This sucked. They had batteries but no cables for an Android phone.

That's the easy part.

Love and fear are the least human I'd wager. They are mammalian in the case of love and even lower in the case of fear. It's rational thought that sets us apart, the rest is shared machinery. Some animals have _more_ emotional machinery than we do. (Orcas)

That's because it _is_ a cheap build. Enjoy.

The cost is stepping in the Microsoft tarpit. No chance in hell I'm getting near it.

Netherlands or Hungary? Europe is enormously diverse.