I think there’s room, we’re just old and stuck in our ways. A bedroom hacker can get access to unimaginable technology for like $10 per month.
The things that AWS, Azure, OpenAI, and friends make available for a smol card swipe would literally break my brain when I was a bedroom hacker and my parents sunk 2 or 3 monthly salaries into a 166Mhz Pentium 1.
> The era of people like Huffman or Carmack or anyone "cracking" things independently seems impossible for the foreseeable future.
Wasn’t Huffman backed by a university? And didn’t Carmack do his best work when id software was printing so much money they literally didn’t know what to do with it all?
PS: many of the large datasets people use for these things are fairly standardized and keep showing up in paper after paper. I assume that means they’re available somewhere.
The things that AWS, Azure, OpenAI, and friends make available for a smol card swipe would literally break my brain when I was a bedroom hacker and my parents sunk 2 or 3 monthly salaries into a 166Mhz Pentium 1.
> The era of people like Huffman or Carmack or anyone "cracking" things independently seems impossible for the foreseeable future.
Wasn’t Huffman backed by a university? And didn’t Carmack do his best work when id software was printing so much money they literally didn’t know what to do with it all?
PS: many of the large datasets people use for these things are fairly standardized and keep showing up in paper after paper. I assume that means they’re available somewhere.