As someone with a long-time interest in Tim Ferriss I’d say he’ll probably go most places he’s invited out of pure curiosity. He’s also attended TED and has been in many VC spaces so it’s not surprising that someone (maybe even Thiel himself) would invite him
I’d like some confirmation if possible, but my gut says the general internet (and therefore the training data) probably has a lot of sloppy Python code along with a lot of sloppy writing about Python whereas Phoenix has majority good code and well-reasoned writing
Let’s say first that we know (some) users will inevitably agree to let malware compromise their system, no matter the popup or protections
A compromised system that’s transparent:
- Has only one way an executable can be started and, being designed as a “salt flat”, it’s easy to read
- Exposes all I/O and all network requests (to admins), regardless of driver abstractions
In this case, even a young enthusiast can look at a system and immediately see that it’s compromised, remove it’s ability to start or do work, and likely remove it from the system entirely.
The inspiration for this approach is a backlash against the absolute glut of places to hide in current user-focused systems. From multiple startup options, to services, to drivers, and in to the “hidden from the admin” executables that can be compromised it’s an ever-worsening problem that erodes user’s ability to keep their own system secure
For a long time, I’ve believed that the actual solution is to make the system transparent enough that a compromised system is obvious. Imagine playing hide and go seek in the salt flats
Devs and other people who have seen behind the scenes at large companies know that most security is at best shaky and mostly hand-waved
It’s not even really the fault of the people who pushed for these setups, it’s a seemingly simple business decision: build it in a way that looks secure, add some black-box process, and tell the overseers that the reason there are no attacks is because it’s bulletproof, and definitely not because no one has really tried
Then, when someone finally turns their attention to you and walks in: fire whoever needs to be fired, patch that specific hole, maybe spend a bunch of money on a different system, assure the overseers that it’s handled, and move on with business as usual
It’s cheaper in the long-run, it makes stockholders happy, it relieves the bosses and their bosses, and for the most part there are “no security holes”.
> I also suspect the intense vibrations have a similar effect…
My gut says that there are some interesting discoveries waiting around the intersections of frequency of vibration, individual resonant frequency, and duration
Someone really needs to properly do the science on this
I (presumably like the majority) assumed that sleep apnea was at least partially caused by weight gain, but if there is weight gain caused by sleep apnea it’s going to give doctors some new tools
> It's not even quite clear what the article argues against.
I think it can be summed up as “average CPU utilization, which is the common and intuitive first check doesn’t tell you the real story”
I would also suggest that these are “outdated” measurements as common CPU metrics are really designed for moderately multi-threaded, single-foreground-application on bare metal
To your point, someone who deeply understands the stack already knows these are not the metrics to look at, but this is clearly aimed at people who have not (yet) had to dive deep to figure out a scheduling issue
Google search results have been the worst part of every LLM I’ve used. I imagine the LLM specifically designed to use Google search is going to be the worst LLM.
I think you’re underestimating “average users”. If we talk about the median, then probably you’re right, but if we talk about “the group of people clustered around the average” I think there’s a lot of untapped potential, especially in people who assumed data and programming were unknowable/impossible and have therefore been held back by “good” tools like excel
I respect your cutting through to uncover the question behind the question.
There was a little bit of sussing you out as a Windows fanboy, but more I was projecting to understand the future power of AI for people like us who use the most effective tools even if they live on Windows.
I actually kind of doubt that companies will go through the back catalog of excellent tools and remake them (people are quite attached to quirks and there’s typically a small market) so is there a tipping point where we muddle through the inconvenience of “No, not quite like that AI, like this” to finally get the same functionality in a way where we are totally independent of Windows? Or will we possibly never reach that point and instead wait however long it takes for AI to handle all the functionality of all the effective tools? It’s a question in the back of my mind.