Sorry for the irony, but the article is so long, i asked gpt to extract key points.
I think what'd be a stronger point is talking about centralization of the quality models. Modern AI tools are inherently centralized around huge shared infrastructure that gives enormous leverage (== capacity for abuse) to those owning the infrastructure. This is true even if you have strong competition among several players: each of them would converge on some business model and majority of users would not be bothered with long-term consequences if they receive very tangible short-term value.
The tooling is amazing, amount of productivity we unlock is fantastic and it's getting better by the day. But we need to watch out for collateral damage too. The future is somewhere there, but we can steer it towards being more or less hazardous.
Your response was more correct in a professional sense than producing the piece of knowledge you've been asked for. I'd prefer to work with people who value everyone's time and write programs accordingly. If the interviewer was looking for a valuable expert, they were lucky to get you on board.
It's just not cool to have kids. There are many more ways to have fun and status in society, so having kids is either coming as a social burden ("i am expected to by my spouse/relatives"), or a religious thing. Rationally, it's such a pain in the ass to have kids, while you can have some much more fun without them: travel the world, meet people, learn and explore! Clearly, having kids is net cost and suffering.
Yet, those who opt in do have a different opinion. We got two a decade ago, and then a couple years ago through of FOMO that when we are 45 we'd look back and regret missing the window of having another couple of kids. So we did. I'm 39, have four kids, had to get a bigger car, pay the airline tickets through the nose, spend a lot of time on kids' stuff, and love it. My family is the center of the universe and I'm the happiest and wisest dad alive. Everyone else is childish ;-P
These seem like particularly specific excuses. If you are not into having kids, there are many different ways to rationalize that (but why?). If you are into kids, you'd have to overcome all sorts of pain and suffering, car culture is by far not the worst of them.
As a father of four (2+2: third one was born after 8 years since the second one), I thought all the trouble in the world would come and go, but what'll stay is us having a second life with kids when older ones get all independent teenagers. And we are not 40 yet.
The transportation costs are annoying, but worth it.
* boring and straightforward syntax and file structure: no syntax sugar, aliases, formatting freedom that humans cherish, but machines are getting confused, no context-specific syntax.
* explicitness: no hidden global state, shortcuts and UB
exactly my thought. I never made it to Vista. In 2007 I changed WinXP (always used it with the classic grey theme) for OS X Tiger on a MacBook and never went back to Windows since then.
I wonder where a decent alternative will be lurking in the next few years? Apple is losing some grip, but all others are still worse overall.
You don't have to play this game - you can always write within unsafe { ... } like in plain old C or C++. But people do choose to play this game because it helps them to write code that is also correct, where "correct" has an old-school meaning of "actually doing what it is supposed to do and not doing what it's not supposed to".
Magic prefix (similar to byte-order-mark, BOM) is also killing the idea. The reason for success of any standard is the ability to establish consensus while navigating existing constraints. UTF-8 won over codepages, and UTF-16/32 by being purely ASCII-compatible. A magic prefix is killing that compatibility.
That’s a “hot take” that people take as an axiom. What if it isn’t? What is the precise definition of “participating in society”? What level of earning and spending is considered morally good and who’s to decide that? (Meta questions arise when discussing conflicts of interest of the deciders.)
I love how people bring up deflationary spiral as a "peril" while the prerequisite for it is the universal and smashing success of Bitcoin.
The only "problem" Bitcoin poses for economies is for governments to fine-tune their local economies via currency production and related controls. In that sense, we should watch how events unfold in Turkey.
* among major "regular" economies, Turkey has the highest % of people holding crypto (≈20%). Second only to special zones UAE and Singapore (31%, 24%).
* Turkish lira is steadily inflated over the last 30-40 years, well over 10% and recently over 50%.
* Turkey does not have mandate for pricing goods in local currency: you can pay in dollars or euros, along the local lira.
* When you enter Istanbul airport, Every. Single. Gate. is marked with BTCTurk ad, inside and outside - the major crypto exchange in the country.
* Istanbul city market is full of traders who use USDT on Tron.
The experiment of social game "Bitcoin" boils down to this: will the people self-organize the functioning economy with monetary freedom, while the gov loses its grip on it; or will the economy collapse without government's regulation and protective management?
Get married, make a couple of children and a lot of life issues go away — you'll always have something to actually get done ASAP instead of just staring at a todo list and wandering around.
My 23+ year experience in computer science and programming is a zebra of black-or-white moments. For the most time, things are mostly obscure, complicated, dark and daunting. Until suddenly you stumble upon a person who can explain those in simple terms, focus on important bits. You then can put this new knowledge into a well-organized hierarchy in your head and suddenly become wiser and empowered.
"Writing documentation", "talking at conferences", "chatting at a cooler", "writing to a blog" and all the other discussions from twitter to mailing lists - are all about trying to get some ideas and understanding from one head into another, so more people can get elucidated and build further.
And oh my how hard is that. We are lucky to sometimes have enlightenment through great RTFMs.
Sorry for lack of clarity, but i was saying “Keccak” and not “sha3” for that specific reason: it’s a permutation building block suitable for a whole range of constructions - cshake, kangaroo etc. sha3 specifically is an overkill and unnecessary imho.
CShake128 is much better replacement for hmac and sha512 in (zk)proofs, while Kangaroo for things like FDE and massive volumes of data.
That's a valid point. However, modern hardware and crypto algorithms are fast enough that it pays off to have "do it all" protocols, with as little tradeoffs as possible.
Example: Git users do need both corruption protection AND secure authentication. If authentication is not built in, it will have to be built around. Building around is always going to be more costly in the end.
Unfortunately, 20-30 years ago considerations such as "sha1 is shorter + faster" were taken seriously, plus all the crypto that existed back then sucked big time. Remember Snowden scandal in 2013? That, plus Bitcoin and blockchains moving towards mainstream brought about review of TLS, started SHA-3 competition. Many more brains turned to crypto since then and the new era began.