Zuckerberg is the face of enshittifcation. He knows what it is and doesn't care.

I looked back at Ray Bradbury the other day, I don't think I've ever heard anyone say anything bad about Fahrenheit 457. Unfortunately there is no author currently who comes close to that aliveness and energy. For a while I started thinking modern authors are just unskilled.

But now I have a different hypothesis. My new hypothesis is modern authors are skilled, but they have a different aim (which they achieve). Instead of being energetic like Bradbury, they are aiming for a feeling that is more like opium. Give the reader a numb feeling, just like you get from doom scrolling, or many online games these days.

And yet, you would be foolish to hire him.

That's why I'm not a member of either party.

I'm not exactly clear what the issue is. Corrupting the CRC at the end of the packet if you didn't want to send it was something that was talked about in the 90s. I don't know if anyone was doing it but it was certainly talked about.

Around that time, maybe a bit later, Eurex introduced discard addresses. This meant that you could start writing the packet onto the wire and if you changed your mind before you got to the destination address of the TCP header, you could write in the discard address instead of the exchange address.

There's a paper somewhere (from Eurex) showing that the tick to trade back in 2017 was 39ns. It's completely obvious from that that people are starting writing the IOC onto the wire around the time the first 39 bytes of the market data tick are received.

Obviously there are other ways of sending valid orders that won't cross the book. For example, instead of writing the discard address into the TCP header, you write a price that is way off the market into the IOC. Obviously this means you can decide later - alternatively, you can start sending earlier.

Musk has two important skills:

1) He's very inspiring. His employees like working for him (tbh it's not hard to be more inspiring than the average CEO, but he manages to pass that low bar, and his employees respond by doing good work).

2) He's good at getting funding, especially government funding.

Both of these are real skills, and they have led to all his success.

"Make America healthy again"; unless it's bad for business.

They're putting it into bonds, or putting it in a bank at the worst. In both cases it pays interest which goes up as inflation goes up. They aren't the ones being hurt by inflation.

That's kind of interesting because APL was strongly associated with remote work (and very very slow modems).

The supply curve and demand curve always meet at a point. The noise is just salespeople trying to increase demand through confusion, but it doesn't change the fundamental mathematical model.

SQL was never referred to as a forth generation language until recently. A lot of revisionism has been done lately, like in this article which has no relation at all to reality: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdev.to%2Fyokwejuste%2Fprog...

Forth generation languages were usually intended to be general use programming languages, the canonical example being Forth.

Reminds me of this code: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fcomm...

iRobot and Amazon say EU approval was the problem. Not sure if they had a specific reason to be selectively truthful and focus on only one of multiple regulatory hurdles; but they don't mention the US.

It also looks like the sale is basically formalizing their plan to gut themselves. Shockingly enough; firing everyone you can and switching to rebadging stuff from an ODM because that's cheaper puts you in "what would you say you do here?" territory pretty quickly.

I recall there being some large funding bills that were disproportionately targeted at red states, but I don't know whether one of them supported solar rollout.
I don't recall the current administration being fans of solar.

Code.org is just an industry advocacy group and lobbyist. Their actions demonstrate that their mission is to make money for tech companies, so they should have their nonprofit status revoked. They're basically just an industry marketing effort.