Given that Raft was rederived simply because the authors couldn’t originally understand Paxos, I’m not surprised to see this.

The FDA didn’t push up clinical trial costs, thalidomide did.

Agents increase the velocity of OpenAI and Anthropic; whomever has the best in-house agent moves the quickest.

The talent that was originally driving SpaceX is gone. And I don’t mean Elon’s brain. I mean the real engineers designing the rockets.

A civilization on Mars would not create value. It would be a money incinerator. Mars is a shithole with nothing to offer humanity economically or in quality of life. Quite the opposite, in fact.

None of this is true. Models will soon scale to several million tokens of context. That, combined with the combined experience of millions of feedback cycles, will make software a solved problem for machines, even as humans remain dumb. Yes, even complex software. Complex software is actually better because it is, generally, faster with more features. It’s smarter. Like a jet fighter, the more complex it is, the more capable it is.

They control for that. Sun exposure correlates with decreased mortality (with a dose dependent relationship) for people at the same income level. One of the figures plots it for “moderate income.”

The housing shortage is due to humans breeding and overrunning their habitats. It’s not something to be fixed. It’s badly needed backpressure which keeps the planet livable. Do you want to live in a concrete jungle? Do you want to kill the earth? Do we need any more people?

Selfish influencers are trying to get housing built in “cool” spots, (because they don’t make enough money) rather than wait their turn or make other neighborhoods cool. Ignore them and their campaigns to ruin everything.

A prototype without an explosive warhead? Congrats on doing the easy bits.

For some people, a layout which spares the pinkies is preferable. The BEAKL layouts, for example, are optimized using a hand model which keeps the pinkies as idle as possible. Sometimes this can make all the difference.

The Linux kernel isn’t that complex. It’s mainly device drivers. Linus wrote the first version himself as a hobby, for crying out loud. AIs will be creating custom kernels within five years, from scratch, as customized as you wish. Probably based on BSD, or other liberally licensed code, for legal reasons.

Well the UNIX certification and POSIX comes close. But man pages might be all an AI needs.

GPL licenses are already only a small minority of the total OSS world. But the GPL will die because AI can write equivalent software easily, and it’s more customized to boot. And for that reason OSS will also wither away; there’s little reason to upstream AI changes. Code is cheap and the FSF is a dinosaur.