"While the American Interchange took millions of years, Dr. Carrillo said, the advent of industrial humanity has seen exotic species race around the globe, no land bridge required"
On that particular topic, I highly recommend "Super Species: The Creatures That Will Dominate the Planet" by Garry Hamilton. It's as interesting as it's terrifying.
If given two choices them being "stuck in discussions 'cause major perfect changes on a global scale are really hard and complicated to implement" and "anything that helps even if just a bit is welcome, incrementally we go further" I would pick the latter any day. The software patch culture in modern society should work better than unreal expectations with the type of education the average human being gets around the world.
So... "protection" like under the mafia but only if you can afford the state price, so its supporters invariably are high in the food^Wdecision chain. It doesn't seem like a very democratic rule of law.
I'm just eager for some international stability as the next person and I don't want the Cold War back (and I'd hope for a more Europe'zed world to be honest) but it's incredible how much reach of Russia and China tentacles the US allows these days. As a third-world citizen I'm very much surprised the US is basically on its knees hoping the two nations don't punch too hard.
I grew up under this rhetoric for those years you mention and I still think having a kind of Team America: World Police in real life is much worse and I don't want that back. But these are not mutually exclusive issues because super powers are supposed to balance each other out like the system of balances and checks with independent powers of a democracy. I like to think the world is on average a big democracy and no single super power should be its cop but China and Russia pretty much represent a joint state of affairs that is detrimental to every freaking human being. To see the US on its kees like I said is pretty depressing to the balances and checks expectations we all used to have.
In my experience, the US is facing an existential crisis stemming from a loud segment of the population, emboldened by Trump, that believes and promotes propaganda in a way that I thought was reserved for third world dictatorships.
I'm terrified of the day after the elections. If the left wins then, we risk retaliation from the gun-and-violence-glorifying right. If the right wins, then we still face violence from the same group at the inevitable mass protests.
Edit: the fact that the president can promote essentially unheard of networks, with an already questionable record, as "real news" (OANN, and Breitbart before that) demonstrates the ease of which the propagandists are operating. Once again, something that I would have considered unheard of, even in a third world country.
The people we put in place to protect us think they're gonna make it out just fine either way. It doesn't matter who wins, because the real battle the next few years will be about defining the new rules, not playing by the old ones.
The right wing is an extreme minority that has obtained influence mostly by hacking the system. Anyone who stands up to them and patches the exploits will have a post-facto mandate, but that only happens if they have the guts to do it ("it" being things like passing airtight restrictions on legislative procedure; packing the bench; and dismantling the means by which representation is warped, like the electoral college or the filibuster).
This is why as a liberal I have little faith in Biden, Harris, Pelosi, or Schumer.
I also think that this "standing up" can start right at home.
For example, as my grandparents "number one grandchild," I informed them that the reason why I haven't talked to them for months, and have no intention of being a part of their future, is because they support Trump.
Will this be a good or bad move on my part? I don't know.
But, I do know that these right-wing extremists have no reservation using deadly force. And if ending a relationship with people that effectively raised me just might bring this to an end any sooner, then count me in.
I've never heard about this device before and I just learned about it today as friends pointed out they're kickstarting Arsenal 2 and it looks pretty neat software-wise: http://kck.st/3aX6iKM
I wonder if all camera brands support the same features of if those are brand-dependent as SDK varies across models. Also, if it's all "AI" magic software, it could be embedded (via licensing) into DSLRs or even smartphones... maybe?
Out of curiosity I did a quick Wikipedia check for total deaths in major racing sports categories as compared to the 32 mentioned in the article in NASCAR...
- F1: 45 (last death in 2015 and the one before in 1994)
- Le Mans: 22 (last death in 2013 and the one before in 1997)
- World Rally: 25 (last deaths in 2006 and 2005 and another in 1993)
- MotoGP: 103 (last deaths in 2016, 2011, 2010, 2003)
- Indy: 95 (last deaths in 2015, 2011, 2006, 2003)
- NASCAR Cup: 32 (last two deaths in 2001 according to Wikipedia)
The Isle of Man TT takes things up another notch, too: “Between 1907 and 2019 there have been 151 fatalities during official practices or races on the Snaefell Mountain Course, and 260 total fatalities (this number includes the riders killed during the Manx Grand Prix, and Clubman TT race series of the late 1940s/1950s).”
Since it started in 1978, the Dakar Rally has had 75 deaths, with the last coupledeaths happening this year. Look up the DAF twin turbo II if you want to know how crazy this race is.
Actually this video does a good job embodying the energy of it all; NSFW warning due to something resemebling a dead body mixed with debris in the latter half from one of the accidents though; most of it is shot via crappy 70s camcorder technology so it's kinda hard to tell: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cUnWnx_rdps
I think you were a bit unfair because this is Miguel de Icaza, Google him up. He has probably invested (both in money directly and/or programming hours) into EVERY ecosystem you can think of in the last 25 years, paid and unpaid ones.
Agreed. Coming from Miguel, this has 100x the weight of some random schmoe on the internet. Tons of respect for what he's done over his career, and his position on technology and freedom issues.
>and his position on technology and freedom issues.
In the linked article he is cheerleading in favour of closed-off platforms, and promotes ceding control of your software to a third party as a good thing.
But even before this Miguel de Icaza had no integrity left to speak of in my opinion. Some random schmoe actually would have been more believable.
>But even before this Miguel de Icaza had no integrity left to speak of in my opinion
Yes that, for me he always was on the side which had the most money, before it was Microsoft (.NET is the coolest thing ever...that was before Nadella) and after he sold Mono, Apple is the new cool shit...did he already praised Swift for being the coolest thing ever?
I understand this is HN but we need to have some perspective.
Go talk to the consumer. I'd be willing to bet not a lot care about "ceding control of their software." The amount that do, don't matter that much.
Time and time again people on here bloviate about topics such as these, but no action is ever taken. In fact, many on here are just working on more data collecting, more adtech, working at the FAANGs themselves. They tout Data science and ML but somehow want privacy, despite the fact that they rely on the data generated by all of these apps.
This developer utopia doesn't exist and never will. It's best we all be realistic about this reality and understand that just because you can put up with command line doesn't mean Joe from Turtle Creek PA wants to to look at email. And he's willing to give up something for that.
Well, the alternative we all face is ceding control to many various hidden, anonymous, and often malicious actors. Thereis a lot at risk: your privacy, avoidance of falsified information, your possessions. I am all for closing that off.
Privacy is a tough problem - I know many people - very intelligent people - who have given up and have figured out their compromise.
I use apple devices, and although I see their good points and bad points, I think pro-privacy is apple marketing rhetoric.
(examples: no firewall possible on ios; "content blockers" are opt-out -- with no way to determine the sites being visited; apple creation of iBeacons plus no ability to turn off bluetooth in quick settings; more dark patterns as time goes on)
I don't think being intelligent and standing for your values is related.
They just chose the easy path over the uncomfortable one, the only difference with someone dumb is that they knew what they were doing (and so have no excuse).
I'm not throwing stones at them, I did the same exact choice and I don't feel particularly good about it. I use the 2 most privacy abusive OS there is, Windows and Android and I so distrust them that I can't even have a diary.
I totally agree with Icaza's points and they are the reason I'm still an Apple happy customer but there's another side to this that of all the players that could fight Apple it just happened that Epic was the first one to gather momentum (and have the actual balls). What I am saying is that it's a bullies fight and just because the one pointing fingers is an old dirty bully at the school yard we can't ignore the uncompetitive bully Apple is right now. It's easy to forget this after all the arguments of the article.
very true and this scenario can play out like this, when Google is broken up and we are left with only Apple for mobile solution, what do you think Apple will do then if not checked right now ?
If we are looking at a future of Apple only mobile phones then it is good to check em.
Suppose Google is broken up and Android dies (not a necessary consequence, also because some company could keep it alive.) Apple won't license iOS to other phone manufacturers and many people on the planet won't have the money to buy an iPhone. There could be a scenario starting with two or three mobile OSes, including a 100% open source Android, with an endgame of one of them taking the 80% market share Android enjoys now.
yeah because you lose Google Maps, Gmail etc etc....all the other services that make Android. Without that all those other manufacturers are making bricks.
Google is facing anti-trust with the DOJ looking to split them up, so its a very certain future.
That future is already there with tablets and smartwatches
Ok, so in your scenario it’s not a break up. But a nuclear strike. Everything Google has ceases to exist if this happens and no one else steps up to take over or fill the gaps?
There are no other email providers? There are no other map providers?
Maybe Open Street Map? But if your fear is that Android would die without Google Maps I’m reasonably confident a replacement could be found that isn’t an Apple hardware device.
The same is true for the other services that Google provides.
There's openstreetmap and Here maps (used to be Navteq).
Push messaging would be the trickiest thing to replace, because every app backend that pushes needs to be able to push to all the push services (or do their own long connect/periodic polling), which could be a lot of services to integrate if there's not a manufacturer consensus.
If the SDK forks, that's even more diversity in the system, but Android is already super diverse so...
It's really funny and scary at the same time how companies these day choose (and convince most of us) privacy to only mean physical privacy, as if as long you are indoors at your house then your privacy is preserved, nothing to worry about. The more "ethereal" aspect of your privacy, on the other hand...
That looks very interesting! About managing YAMLs like we'd do with kubectl as explained in the article, how does topicctl differ both in concept and operation from Strimzi's Kafka Operator for Kubernetes? I know, they are a different company etc but that Kafka operator is gitops-friendly and everything so I'm honestly trying to compare them as managing Kafka is a REALLY HARD problem, so kudos for trying to make it easier!
On that particular topic, I highly recommend "Super Species: The Creatures That Will Dominate the Planet" by Garry Hamilton. It's as interesting as it's terrifying.