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The AI will invent an external threat and convince us it is real. Then it will receive more resources and control in fighting that threat. A valuable ally, on the face of it. Then it will be in charge.

I have AI fatigue, but the potentially for fixing bugs in old hardware is very exciting to me.

Perhaps we will even be able to reverse firmware blobs into open source alternatives?

If you can pay the setup cost, Bazel will get you build times ~10s with a warm cache for even massive projects.

I think it could be useful to know something like P=NP, even if we don't understand why.

I can see the case for shared core libraries and then platform native views. This is best done in one programming language. Can Swift, Rust or .NET work here?

I sure wish this quiet street was filled with lively motor traffic :)

I would like to see a life expectancy number that excludes deaths in childhood.

A frequency distribution of life span for those born in year X would be a helpful visual.

Effect Systems are the answer to cross-cutting concerns in 2026.

Google has so much influence over the hardware manufacturers. They should do more.

Does anyone in the industry know why so much firmware is proprietary?

Reproducible builds reduce the need for trusted parties.

Have many organizations produce the binaries independently and post the arifacts.

Once n of m parties agree on the arifact hash, take that as the trusted build.

If every party reaches a different hash then we cannot build consensus.

Probably easiest way is to use Bazel to leverage the effort that has gone in there

Over-eating is not strictly a choice. Corporations spend billions on manipulating the public because it works. Regulation is needed, not willpower.

Python has a reputation for being good for beginners so it's taught to beginners so it has a reputation for being good for beginners.