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Ultimately, it's an internal battle. A battle of bureaucracy+ignorance vs democracy+optimism+innovation. The side that weighs more wins. And the adversaries are hoping it's the former.

Irrespective of the political leadership, it's unlikely that USA military is completely oblivious about the new modes of wars - cheap drones, AI, rapid build-outs (e.g. in China). On the contrary, they are likely deeply aware of it. That being said, it is also likely true that USA has become more bureaucratic and there is a high chance of deer-in-headlights situation. USA remains the shining city on the hill, though probably not for long, unless we pull up socks and innovate, work, work, work and build, build and build.

I live in the New England and last year got a quote for replacing my existing boiler and furnace with two heat pumps. MassSave offers a good rebate program with $10k rebate. The problem is that the installers have bumped up the prices to the point where even after the rebate it would have costed me $35K. With that kind of price, and high electricity rates, I have no hope of saving money compared to my current setup.

Does anyone know where is official golang in its support for WASM? Last time I checked you had to use a fork of Go called TinyGo.

For a layperson, the passwords are easy to understand and provide enough ways to shoot themselves in the foot. Unless you are an expert, password hygiene can rarely be accomplished.

For a layperson, passkeys are difficult to understand, but provide out-of-the-box hygiene and security.

Passwords are not fine. What we need is better explanation/education of passkeys.

This will probably not work for everyone, but works pretty well for me. I simply use the "default" Mac OS/iOS apps:

- Photos (shared via iCloud)

- Notes

- Music

- iCloud for file storage

- I also use google docs for spreadsheets etc.

This pretty much covers my digital life and mostly meet my requirement to be on auto-pilot.

AI may be meta's only and real "grow out of newsfeed business" card. They should probably pivot, release their own version of ChatGPT/VoiceGPT, start charging for it and maybe rebrand (metai?). They are currently not being taken seriously, despite the chops they have, due to their stupid obsession with social and connecting people.

It’s about time. We probably need to go even faster, like face melting faster to remain competitive/relevant. Frankly though, this is just one of the dimensions. There is also the “people will need to work harder” dimension. That will be a harder adjustment for people. Nevertheless this is a good news

It’s hard to be an absolutist on such a big question. Everyone has distilled it in their own ways. I will throw mine:

There is no purpose of life. Life is THE purpose. To experience its full brilliance is the ONLY purpose. And only way to experience that is through a healthy mind and healthy body. So do what you can to take care of those.

It’s hard to predict. Companies with good DNA can bounce back. Take a look at Microsoft. They were written off in Google’s hay days.

Google has a good technology DNA. I think they need an inspiring leader, maybe another insider who is a strong engineer and a leader.

I have never had any brush with the giant. But I have my own little story to share. Way back in 1998, I was a newly minted engineer in India and was visiting Bangalore. While roaming around on MG Road, I picked up a book named “Inside Intel”. It is through that book that I learned about Gordon Moore. On the 48 hour train journey back to Delhi, I devoured the book. It left an impression and I was in awe. It also ignited something in me. I wanted to become a better engineer, so I bought my first computer soon after. I wanted to be in the “Silicon Valley”. As the fate would have it, 3 years later, I landed there. Little did I know that this serendipity and random inspiration would weave my life story. I remain awestruck with the person and the impact that he left. RIP

Resident Alien - I think that’s how USCIS calls people who do intend to stay but not immigrate

<rant>Having recently started writing Java once again, i am horrified at the mess that it has become. Between reactive streams, completable futures, guice wiring, it feels like voodoo. It’s hard to even reason which code is running synchronously and what is asynchronous. Not to mention the upcoming lightweight threads. </rant> I crave for the simplicity of go routines and explicitness.

I am big fan of Elon Musk. But the way things are going, I predict he will end up in one of the following ways:

- end up in jail, as he has ruffled too many feathers. Someone will throw the book at him

- end up ousted from Tesla, because investors have had enough of his antics. Those have damaged the Tesla brand too much.

- he will keep digging a deeper hole and end up like Howard Hughes.

I wish none of this happens and would rather have him get back to his senses. But he seems be on the rock star track right now.

They don't say much on why not Envoy. It would be interesting to hear if there were concerns with it.