IMO a lot of interesting stuff is happening in embedded systems. Controlling actual hardware (planes, cars, space ships, audio equipment, medical devices, production equipment etc in real time) is far more interesting and intellectually satisfying than just writing ever more layers of throwaway website code and yawn-inducing business apps.
As someone who's been writing software for a living for more decades than I care to admit, I've lost track of the number of times that I've seen a new crop of bean counters trying to put a new spin on the same old tired and broken idea of measuring productivity by lines of code in one form or another. The only thing that changes is the new name they give it every time.
>> Basically, there's is NOTHING new under the sun in terms of software for many years now...
You are clearly making sweeping assumptions about the entire software industry just based on your own experience of cellphones and web tech, and an incorrect assumption that those two things are all there are in the field.
While I agree with your comments that the tech in those two fields is basically stagnant, trust me there is far more interesting things going on in software than there ever was in web and cell phones.
The council have their own guys working overtime trying to find it while they continue to hold off the owner.
I don't think you can avoid the better camera any more, at least at the top end.
All the major phone manufacturers incorrectly now think that the camera is all everyone cares about, so it's all they prioritize and differentiate on any more.
If any manufacturer came out with a phone that had a crap camera, but had a 3.5mm jack, SD card slot and replaceable battery, my next purchase would be an automatic no-brainer.
>> Do you really want China or Russia to hold all this DNA data?
$1 says they've got it already (and have had for a long time).
Except the last time I checked, Lyle Langly hasn't revolutionized the car and AI industries, put people and more than 7000 satellites into space using his own rockets that also are the first to be reusable and self-land, or bought internet to everywhere in the world, put transport tunnels under LA and Vegas, and gone from nearly broke to the richest person on Forbes billionaire list in maybe 15 years.
That's exactly what your posts are.
If you'd bothered to watch the event instead of just jumping right to ad hominem attacks, you wouldn't have needed to ask.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I totally agree with the inefficiency issues. But Elon isn't looking at a world where individuals maintain cars or even own them.
He also is clearly not interested in people with low enough incomes that they need to care about another $1000/yr on their electricity bill just for eliminating a very minor inconvenience.
>> idiots are going to trash them.
Nah. Just In order to be able to summon one, they will have already collected your credit card details etc. and there will be plenty of cameras in the car.
Pascal is not a high-level language. -- Steven Feiner
