Not because it’s perfect but because its wide deployment means it takes a lot of effort to replace

Shareholders I guess

Madonna - Like a Prayer

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Arrival

I dunno, sounds like communism to me. They are basically opening the door for Russians to just take over. /s

Careful, back in the future we might all identify as attack helicopters from then on

I was a trainee in Japan at the time and had spoken in an IRC channel about how I was going home to Sweden for Christmas.

Then I ended up in a disagreement with some Norwegian guy about affirmative action. I felt that in the computer science field it could be a good idea for a time to “jumpstart” female participation in the field, and once prejudice had been torn down you wouldn’t need affirmative action anymore.

He vehemently disagreed and said he would drive down to Stockholm’s airport to kill me with his rifle. There weren’t that many flights from Japan to Sweden so based on what I had said earlier he was able to figure out what flight I would be arriving with. But, well, I’m still alive. It taught me to be more careful with what information I volunteer on the Internet.

It’s log, log, log!

The Mirror’s Edge theme was written and performed by Lisa Miskovsky who was part of Cheiron Studios and worked on several hit songs including Backstreet Boys’ “Shape of my heart”. One of my favorite songs of hers is “Why start a fire”.

I could post messages on FidoNet with my 8Mhz Atari ST in 1988 too

On the other hand, we don’t need nanoscale transistors to achieve most of the usefulness of CPUs. Most of that high-tech performance is wasted on things of questionable usefulness for society. The C64 CPU had an 8 micrometer process that likely does not require ISO class 1 or 2.

Technically it’s a bunch of LANs that are connected to each other

I know how it must sound but it wasn’t like that when I graduated around 2002. 80% of my classmates were self-sufficient and had gained experience and self-esteem through various demanding group projects and their thesis work. Many of them already had more value to offer than the tired self-educated colleagues they met on their first job.

When you have developed and simulated your own ad-hoc wireless routing protocol, implemented distributed two-phase commit algorithms and built your own compiler, you don’t need to ask your colleague fifty times how to use React state. You google it and figure it out. You’re trained to always learn new things and be comfortable with it.

• Developing an Android app that doesn’t pass review

My experience as a senior dev who is often involved in the recruitment process (admittedly in Sweden and not Silicon Valley) is that there are hundreds of people applying but they all lack sufficient skill. We still have a severe shortage of people who can actually do the job without requiring so much hand holding that they have a negative impact on productivity. There seems to have been a surge in “quick-fix” educations that are a couple of months long, and the new iPad kids are already behind when they start the education because they don’t understand how a computer works. They have no interest in the craft and don’t enjoy it, they just want to check off a detailed todo list and get a fat pay check. We need people who can think, extrapolate from unclear requirements, and ask smart follow-up questions.

The demand is still there, the supply isn’t. Half of these applicants couldn’t even implement FizzBuzz.

In sci-fi, AI devices (like self-driving cars or ships, or androids) seem like an integrated unit where any controls or sensors they have are like human limbs and senses. The AI “wills” the engine to start. I always imagined AI would be like a single organism where neurons are connected directly to the body.

Given the development of LLM:s and how they are used, it now seems more likely that AI will be an additional “smart layer” on top of the dumb machinery, and actions are performed by emitting tokens/commands (“raise arm 35 degrees”) that are sent to API:s. The interaction will be indirect in the way that we control the TV with the remote.

Probably just dumb kids who don’t understand how to play but heard friends in school talk about it. Or people like me who are caught up in life and even though I want to play I never really have the time that the games require.

I find that hard to believe. There are several US websites that have blocked the EU entirely because they don’t want to spend resources on following EU regulations. If what you say is true it would be more beneficial for them to just not do anything. Getting fewer EU visitors is better than getting none at all.

To do business in the EU, surely they still must follow EU regulations even if they’re seated in another country. Just like with the cookie warnings that the entire world has had to adapt to.