burdock
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Comment · 17 days ago
That's not my perspective at all. The film is far more sympathetic to Holmes than you might anticipate. I don't want to spoil it, but, after watching I recommend you revisit both of our comments :)
Comment · 17 days ago
Having seen this documentary, that is very much the point. In fact, I believe Fielder and Oppenheim intentionally biased the filmography to make you question everything: is "Liz" being intellectually honest? Does she understand what she did wrong? How does Fielder actually feel about the subject?
As the film ends, no questions are answered, no facts are presented to push or counter the narratives introduced, it just ends, and you're left wondering what just happened.
To my point, some of these questions have obvious answers, at some points EH is presented as honest, and at some points she is presented as deliberately obtuse. Some things are intentionally played up both in editing and acting to direct you to an answer. It makes you question everything, including the documentary itself, which is why I think it kind of transcends "documentary" as a genre.
Comment · 19 days ago
I've written at length about my disdain for text interpolation in helm.
I've done some experiments using Apple's Pkl and CNCF's KCL, which look to solve these problems with a simple "configuration language".
I don't think either have very widespread adoption, though I did hear a while back that Apple is using Pkl internally.
Comment · 21 days ago
Intellectual property has rarely ever been "the golden goose", despite the anecdotes of the few Henry Fords that exist.
Throughout history, the golden goose has typically been owning capital, and having market reach (see: advertising, the silk road).
No matter how amazing your IP is, if you can't produce it at economically viable scales, and if you can't put it in front of people who will buy it, then you have nothing. So venture capital comes along, buys you out, and takes all your future profits in exchange for the "risk".
On the other side of the coin, there's open source software developers, PhD's publishing papers for free, and your local musicians that like to play at events just for funsies.
I mean, imagine the kind of world we'd live in if medicine were focused strictly on profitable moats instead of open research, and... oh. Right.
Comment · 23 days ago
That's why I think lower speed, high density 3D compute is a good candidate for future hardware.
By lowering the clock speed, power and heat drop exponentially.
I'm just hoping we figure out something logistically better than laminating chips together.
Comment · 24 days ago
I've been thinking about going into biochem. Seems like an interesting problem space where, in the past year we've seen massive progress in our understanding of molecular biology.
Comment · 1 month ago
Cloudflare Proxy, which is required for their ddos protection - and which as I recall accounts for like half of internet traffic - handles TLS termination at CF servers.
When you capture traffic at internet backbones, which the NSA does (Room 641A), you don't get to middle-man the encrypted traffic. Cloudflare gets access to unencrypted traffic, because they act as the TLS termination.
Most companies take this trade-off because "we can trust cloudflare", or "the data isn't that important, and besides it's encrypted the rest of the way anyway."