The authors point out that the PL community values formal methods and hard implementation, but not human factor studies and alternative programming approached like spreadsheets. I'm not from the PL community, but my first instinct was other communities such as social science, software engineering, HCI can do those things. PL has to be about building languages.
However, the example that drove the problem home for me was socioPLT. If award winning work on why program languages succeed is not highly successful, then maybe the community should indeed look into incorporating more research approaches.
The points the authors make about lack of community engagement for non-mainstream problems, lack of female creators in books about PLs, and gatekeeping of the term programming language are also convincing.
The linked repo doesn't have an informative Readme. An example showing showing Naja differs from existing tools would help people unfamiliar with Electronic Design Automation, like me.
This I highly unlikely.
Hyperscalers like AWS have custom power delivery, rack organization, redundant networking, etc. which make their instances reliable.
Long running jobs often use checkpoints which require high speed networking and storage, which I don't see an option for. Eg, I cam get EC2 instances with 100gbps networking.
Great job starting the service! But, I think you have ways to go before reaching Hyperscalers level reliability.
It seems like they plan to do hardware-software co-design.
Devices (servers, switches?) and firmware designed specifically for their software stack.
A software stack (drivers, OS) designed specifically for their hardware.
Really interested in seeing where this goes.
I don't know how to feel about this. On one side are the privacy implications.
On the other hand, 16 year old me would have loved this. This is the pervasive computing of sci-fi made real. All information is just a tap away. Control lights or run a compute job using a custom Alexa Skill.
Let me take a shot at answering this.
The idea is that the internet is a social construct. The information it holds is shared knowledge accessible to everyone.
Contrast burning your photos with burning all copies of a book. On the internet, a lot of things exist in the gray area between them.
That makes it difficult to judge if the info that was is private or public.
A one dimensional comparison like good or bad is not how these decisions get made.
Current ARM based chips are good enough for current applications. They come with massive app support and a mature ecosystem.
Given the risk of being kicked out of that ecosystem. The score tips in favor of this new technology.
The USA is one of the few places which confers citizenship based on place of birth. Most countries confer citizenship based on the citizenship of the child's parents.
Cost of a small apartment in NYC is equal to the cost of several acres of farmland. Proportional property taxes would impact both demographics similarly.
I guess it comes to supply and demand.
Other countries want US technology and services.
They don't want US agricultural products as eluded to in the above thread.
Thus, trying to sell stuff others don't want ends up making more noise compared to selling stuff they do want.
The US does this because:
1. National security (US farmers wouldn't grow stuff if nobody bought it, which is a problem if the US ever goes to war. Then, they might suddenly need it.)
2. Vote banks (Rural US happens to be the key in deciding elections and support for laws. Due to the electoral college and each state having 2 senators.)
3. Ideology (The reasons you mentioned. Free market ...)
I agree that the regulation is not perfect. We can do better to accommodate the needs of enthusiasts. But, in the case of brute regulation, I prefer we err on the side of safety vs enthusiast features.
Here in the netherlands, really old cars that fail to meet emission standards have special dispensation to be used on the road for less than 500km a year. Maybe something similar for sports cars would work. As you said, nobody is using their 911 GT3 for 10,000km a year anyway.
Safety regulations, stricter emissions regulations, drive by wire tech, crash zones and everything else petrolheads don't like about cars make them better for commuters.
Even with all these features, the average increase in weight for cars of the same size has been a paltry 23kg. The weight increase of the "average car" comes from people buying SUVs, which people increasingly are.
For a track day car, a cheap modern sports car like a miata, or a 1980s/90s sports car has all the characteristics you want for the price of a modern commuter car. Its just that a commuter cares more about relaxation than road feel. :-)
However, the example that drove the problem home for me was socioPLT. If award winning work on why program languages succeed is not highly successful, then maybe the community should indeed look into incorporating more research approaches.
The points the authors make about lack of community engagement for non-mainstream problems, lack of female creators in books about PLs, and gatekeeping of the term programming language are also convincing.