It was definitely a referendum, but when you hear the pundits point out economy, racism, sexism, fairness/EEO, conservatism, liberalism, health... all have one thing in common that point to a referendum on globalization. And explains why election around the world have voted in more far right candidates: nationalization and isolation to provide instant gratification of their constituents. Globalization promised the win-win situation, which the pandemic exposed a lot of flaws in that strategy. Hence we're headed for win-lose or lose-lose outcomes long term.

"code is law" is just a simple contract. contracts can be revoked/broken/violated/changed on how its enforced (hence we all run to gov't)....

The interesting thing about this story is that while it took 12 secs to do, it took a few minutes with full details (that it took 12 secs) to find the perps. This again, follows my intel gathering mantra: "if you can see me...I can see you."

1. Having a [real horse] Mustang: huge thrill, barely has limits, can really hurt yourself.
2. Having a [ICE car] V8 Mustang: slightly less thrilling, some limits.
3. Driven a [basic EV] Mach E: less thrilling, more limits
4. Worked on autonomous EVs: I can sleep while in transit, even more limits

Irony is the best autonomous vehicle is #1.

Even more so, is the physics of thrust in general. Since it's air-driven, thrust is based on mass air flow vs weight. In the video you when the vehicle is close to the ground you don't see the grass moving at all (mind that a kick up of debris). All absent as one would expect the grass to be moving wildly from the air mass being "thrusted" onto the ground like any other VTOL that moves air mass to lift the weight. Instead it's antigravity?

ok, breaking news says he's exempt from military draft. But it would have been ironic if he was deemed to mandatory service and assigned as an intelligence analyst for the GRU. Would the Russian army trust him?

Why spend millions in layoffs when you can just persuade people (fear/panic) to quit on their own? Layoffs costs money and Meta is afterall a social media company and thus know a thing or 2 about social engineering. Google, then-some... That's where "ruthless prioritization" comes in play. Old corporations used to call it "pigeon holing" (putting a employee in a dead end job hoping he'd leave on his own), and I'm sure Meta has put a faster, scalable, socially and more modern spin to it.

Twitter is just today's flavor of /., digg, reddit, FB.

A buyout will just force an evolution. Successful evolution is yet to be determined and history has shown these forced changes more often result in failure (re: see MySpace) . BUT it does open an opportunity, for say, TikTok in being a communication platform to replace twitter, if and only if the leadership recognizes that. and working on "the new feature" as we speak.

Uber also getting out the flying car biz

Have a sis that's been working SARS-Cov1 since 1999 at NIH.

Her response this weekend was, "I have 23 vaccines in my [lab] frig. for SARS. That's great: a company can say they have a vaccine, but the public needs one that really works, 100% of the time" (re: measles). This is just a single trial and it passed... I realized.

She also mentioned herd immunity is hard, for example, Hepatitis has herd immunity, but 4% of the world population still gets it. Covid-19 is at 0.8% infected so far. Yep, sure sets the context we are not even close to herd immunity, and it's already 9+ months.

ok, so they can train AI on drone movements to pilot orientation, locating possible pilot locations. But as drone piloting goes autonomous, or at least more supervisory, this will be useless. Especially if there is no pilot (full autonomous). Easiest way to find a drone currently is RF--Rx/Tx transmission must follow laws of physics. Once you lose that (in the above trends), it become much more difficult. I'm still waiting for the light-sky-blue paint drone, AI systems would love that.

Very cool, thanks for sharing, I remember the good days of streetfire.net: now your format is copied on every underground streetcar youtube "channel". Once youtube settled its legal issues, you guys (UGCs in general) disappeared fairly quickly.

I see VCs haven't changed one bit, maybe cause stewards like Thiels still run them on the same philosophy, just hyper accelerated by Wall St nowadays. Pretty much 90% of what happened to you I too have seen back in the 90s being part of the content management revolution (aka video databases, metadata) of PNI/Cinebase/Excalibur/Siemens/Vignette/Documentum/Bulldog. Exact same process those start ups went through.

Same outcome too.

I think I got a free Toughbook out of it all during the M&A as folks were laid off, reverse splits, and diluted options. Thanks to Wharton's "Professional Management" team out in place (very common coming from that school I noticed in other companies).

Microsoft will likely have moved most of Windows and applications into WSL, and most popular apps will be on the cloud like office.com--and you'll need to pay a subscription.

Inconvenience yes, but both companies will do just fine.

Now when can I get a decent CAD app on Linux?

"Indentation is off, styles are mixed"
Step 1: Select "styles" in settings, select K&R, hit "format source". (eclipse for example). Yeah, if you fail to do step 1 periodically in your code, you already miss his 1st notion.

Writing may initially feel like a great analogy for s/w development, but writing also includes a heavy emphasis on "creativity" and style, which breaks the analogy. Just saying. From my experience, having done a few interviews recently from these furloughs is: use it or lose it... (having been out of hardcore development for 2 yrs). Training is important in these times.

With so many languages and mathematical philosophies behind them nowadays, you also need to stick with one for good code practices. Like talking about dynamically typed in C++ to polymorphism in hard real time--so many choices of tools today.

If you treat cars like a swarm system, yes, vehicles need v2v. We do it on our drone system (p2p mesh network) since jamming and RF bandwidth limitations don't allow functional safety to work if it was centralized (which is very common on wired systems).

Chaos

One of the inspirations for me in pursuing education in Chaos Theory (and applications of course).