sheepybloke

This is partially why my pride in my work is not around my code, but the product or output it creates. People care that the interfaces are good, the code style matches, and that it's maintainable. But they don't really care if it's clever or smart or creative. To me, the creativity is in the product, the tool, in what the code does. AI lets me be more creative in the tools I build because I can justify taking the time to build them. I can create more interesting products because I can get past the mundane.

On the opposite side, this read to me like there was so much image processing going on in the background and off device that they felt like they needed to prove that there was a real image backing the creation, and that it was not all AI. It really begs the question of what the extent is of image processing.

My similar correlation question is with Minecraft. I know multiple people, myself included, who credit Minecraft with starting their career in computing. Would be interesting to hear how many people would credit Minecraft as their start.

It's funny this came out today! Just at lunch we were googling the highest and lowest capitals of the world. Lowest is Baku in Azerbaijan, at -28m!

> battle-tested like TLS instead of reinventing data encryption

Working in the industry, CCSDS SDLS is quite battle tested, albeit in a different way than TLS. It's not reinventing everything from scratch; in most cases, companies have common libraries and services that they've been using since the 90's that implement the standards. I found it interesting that a lot of the CCSDS standards sound a lot like internet standards because many were developed alongside the internet standards, just targeting constrained space systems rather than ground systems.

TLS is difficult because it doesn't work well when you get to large latencies (e.g. 700ms in LEO to ~1.5s in GEO). CCSDS standards target general space systems, so they have to account for that latency.

It's most likely using vxworks for it's OS, since I believe it's one of the only fully certified ARINC653 OS's for human flight. It's used in most Aircraft and space missions.

My uncle works in the industry and was getting a new car recently. His two options were all electric or all ICE, because from his experience, EHEVs have the problems of both ICE and BEV vehicles.

> But it seems that the pinnacle of human intelligence: the greatest, smartest, brightest minds have all come together to... build us another ad engine. What happened to superintelligence and AGI?

While we all knew it was inevitable, I think this quote from the article sums up the feeling nicely.

That's why I always have a clear case on my Macbook I cover with stickers. That way, I can take them with me when I leave, or take them off if I have a big meeting/presentation!

A lot of the chips have started including NPUs. How are applications supposed to access that acceleration now with embedded Linux? Does linux handle this for you, or do you need to leverage some specific drivers like CUDA?

Exactly. We've looked at using Wireguard at my company, but because it can't be made FIPS compliant, it makes it a hard sell. There is a FIPS Wireguard implementation by WolfSSL, interestingly enough.

It was interesting to see that they didn't show the robot folding laundry; rather, just it laying out the clothes.

> Switch to someone who won't? And who would that be?

The issue is that it's not as simple as just "switching" and giving another company your money. How would you migrate your 5-10 years of Confluence pages and Jira tickets if you wanted to switch from Atlassian? You're going to put all of your members through the hassle of switching a booking service/payment process? You know you're being screwed, but the cost to switch is often more than the increased cost. The modern economy is balancing cost increases to your customers with the cost to switch to a competitor.

For me, it's the first true upgrade in the design of a phone in a long time. It's not a slightly better CPU or battery, but a different way to work with this key device in my life. I think it will be the default phone format in ~5 years, especially for younger people.

As mentioned by others, I think the art world has reached a major schism where there are two types of artists: those who target rich collectors and those who are more grassroots. I've been to a lot of the larger art shows in the US and it's always amazing to me how expensive so many of the pieces are. I couldn't even justify buying a cheaper piece I want on a software engineer's salary. Instead, I've found that local art fairs have been where so much of the growth is at. Things like Cherry Creek Art festival or the myriad of smaller markets around, you can find amazing artists selling interesting and beautiful works. Between markets and social media, there's a path to being a sustainable, working artist. And personally, I think being a collector of smaller artist's prints and works is more fun than the expensive ones!