Luis Villa
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This is the coolest summer of the rest of our lives. I mostly don't care what sci-fi has to say about AI; instead read @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social 's Water Knife and KSR's Ministry for the Future. And then asking yourself what *systemic* change you're making. www.bbc.com/news…
Or maybe stay stable. Jevon's paradox: sometimes when a thing gets much cheaper, we use much more of it. LEDs are the paradigmatic recent example: LEDs reduced electricity use in lighting, but in many uses we just ended up with a lot more lighting. www.npr.org/sections/pla...
In a CRA webinar last week, I commented it is possible that C/C++ are a per se CRA violation, since C/C++ are insecure by design. An attendee replied "but C/C++ is what embedded use" and I said, more or less, "tough". Here's @gregkh.bsky.social on it: www.zdnet.com/article/rus…
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