Thrillington

The Cortex-A series are big processors. They're generally used when compute power is more important than power consumption. While it's a promising benchmark, the RISC-V will need to compete with the M-series (and other 8/16 bit cores) to break into the IoT market.

Sure, if your only goal is to maximize profit extraction and wealth consolidation.

The very next quote debunks the interviewers statement that you've quoted.

When Netflix moved into streaming there were not competitors. Lots of people saw a market there, but companies didn't start popping up until Netflix showed it was actually possible.

They're more analysis defeaters than killswitches. Some testbeds will respond to all dns lookups as valid. If this is the case the binary assumes its in a testbed and exits to avoid analysis.

    In short, things are fucking amazing. Life is pretty awesome, if you choose to focus on the awesome things.

That only works when you have the luxury of making that choice.

I recently rejoined the workforce after taking about 18 months off due to burnout. I had the luxury to do so. During that downtime I gained a roommate who is doing facilities work at a gym. She does not have the luxury to focus on the good things in life.

Don't forget referring to adult women as girls!

My wife made the observation a few years back that anytime she thought, "fuck it" while procrastinating or avoiding responsibilities that you could replace it with, "fuck you, future self"

That phrasing helps immensely. Sometimes it's worth it to push out the pain, but usually it isn't.

Every new method of radically increasing information transfer speeds is ripe for monopoly.

Um... What?

You do understand that a view of history is necessary to solve our current problems right? Studying how 17th century paintings reflect a culture on the cusp of global access to addictive substances is helpful for modern humans to understand how we deal with the global availability of dopamine producing gaming. A big problem we are only starting to acknowledge.

Even if it's somehow not helpful, the effort spent does not prevent or diminish anyones work towards those issues you see as more important.

Extracting value through code is not an inherently positive moral exercise.

It may improve the world. From my perspective code that is built to extract value eventually attempts vendor lockin to create a long term revenue stream.

We would be better off going back to the antitrust monopoly busting of the initial 1930s new deal anyway.

Maybe PC hardware vendors has some automated kernel testing. I think it's different with embedded. The SoC company I worked for a couple of years ago didn't have anything like that.

With most people, I'd agree with you that local engagement would be more effective. Doubly so in the homeless hating bay area.

However, Chris' access to capital, which equates to power in America, makes it more successful for him to fight on the federal level. trump in the white house has emboldened local behavior that threatens our education/healthcare systems, the homeless and countless other social safety net related issues. There are plenty of us left who can bring the fight on the local level. I'm coming around to the idea that winning the larger fights is also important.

I've not heard of Chris Sacca before reading this article. He appears to be that rare person with an understanding of the social obligations of wealth and the means to build some larger communities around that.

That sounds more like a systemic problem where companies profitability is put forward as an excuse for anti-social behavior.