I don't see it as an issue. The bad part of social networks is feeding you never ending crap. If kids want to talk to each other... what's the issue with that? We had phone calls and party lines and passing notes before. (Or letters for those who were into that) They were as much a social network as Google doc comments.
It's the feed that allows them access to public posts that is a big problem. Let's start with children accounts where the feed is restricted to friends / followed accounts and only in chronological order.
As I type this, I realize this is exactly what a lot of us have been saying should be done for adults too. And why is it that all social media either moves towards this nebulous endless feed or actively pushes it. Very telling.
Rust is not an interpreted language like Python. Your comment would make sense if Python code could be compiled into x86 or ARM assembly in the first place.
> Your comment would make sense if Python code could be compiled into x86 or ARM assembly in the first place.
It can actually be compiled (or transpiled) into C code [1] with few limitations, so I can't see why not. It still requires libpython but it should be better than porting the whole interpreter to webassembly.
As far as I could tell, the big pain point was performance -- they were just too slow on median machines during the late 90s/early 00s window they had mindshare.
I actually enjoyed using them to get around a few browser limitations around the mid-to-late 00s, and they seemed feature/performance competitive with Flash unless what you were doing fit the media authoring model closely. But by then people were skeptical about Java and if you had to do anything to get it installed they wouldn't, and the direction was native web.
They were better than Flash (which needed a weirder runtime, and couldn’t interact easily with the DOM, and didn’t have variables until version 3). This is hugely improved over JavaScript at the time (pre-XHR) and had less lock-in than ActiveX.
I spent years working with GWT, it's not nearly as simple as you describe. It's not running "Java" in the browser, it's compiling down (a subset of) Java to Javascript.
That said, GWT was ahead of its time in a lot of ways, but it had warts galore.
I recall around 2010 or so, when a company I worked for was creating a new, rather ambitions, web application. I had to argue against using Java Applets in favor of standard web technology for several components. Thankfully I won that battle.
That web application is still in use, in production, today.
Your didn’t answer my question. If I had an account in SVB, and I put a 100k in it, why would SVB take my 100k and invest it? That was the whole issue with FTX. Investing it whatever asset class, my money shouldn’t have been invested unless I give permission to SVB period.
It’s how literally every bank has worked for all of time. They have to cover interest you are payed for keeping your money at the bank. Where do you think that money comes from? They take the money people deposit, and invest it, either through loans to others, or through other investment vehicles, like treasury bonds in this case. When you put your money in a bank, you are giving them permission to reinvest it somehow. If you just want your money to sit there, your only option is to start stuffing wads of bills under your mattress.
I always wondered if high profile CEOs and shareholders know something substantial of the upcoming future that us leaf nodes are just clueless about. Is it just copy cat or deep info for privileged clubs?
After having an opportunity to talk 1:1 with two of the most revered personalities/founders/ceos in tech, I’ve come to the conclusion that they are as much full of s** as the rest of us. Probably even more.
I know the sample size of 2 is not scientific, but it was enough for me to not have any illusions about the nature of things.
You don’t need “privileged” stuff to get an idea about how the other person thinks about things. Also, I am not talking about some “met at a conference” or “did an interview” kind of a setting, this professional work environments kind of a setting.
CEO tenure has been dropping for years. So what they know is that if they want to get paid in a big way, they need to quickly do things that look tough and improve short-term cash flow, which in turn bump the stock price.
If they wanted to actually be tough, they could ride it out and take slowdowns as a time to really improve internally. As an example, take Toyota, which rose from the decimation of post-war Japan to the world's largest car company by sticking to a no-layoffs policy and using slack times to invest in people, process, and plant.
CEOs are just managers, not philosophers. People thinking they're all knowing demigods is just marketing to try and justify those extremely high salaries. They're no different than your average person.
Were they abnormally liquidating those things at the end of 2021 compared to other years?
Asking because I would expect executives to sell "by the 10s of millions" pretty much every year. Especially since they cannot really sell on a whim (in the US), as executives are legally required to file their stock purchase/sell plans with SEC far ahead of time.
10b5-1 plans do not have to be filed with the SEC.
(The use of a 10b5-1 is also not technically a legal requirement, but is a workaround to allow planned sales even if you become aware of material, non-public information between the time of entering into the plan and the time of the trade.)
You can prove the boss had an intention to sell his stock based on a feeling of future doom (or just greed). What’s tougher to prove is whether he delayed an announcement by a week so one more sale went through before the stock took a hit.
Or speeding up good news so his scheduled sale rides the high.
No, I don't believe that they greatly improved their crystal ball performance since July, when the now-infamous pay packages were still being doled out. Amazon started to tighten the belt a little earlier when it realized that it had too much FC capacity, but it was still rushing to add capacity as recently as July 2021.[1]
I don’t think it’s deep info, or even copycat, except of course that general industry tends to be driven by the same economic waves that roll over us from time to time. When executives expect recession conditions, they try to act proactively. One of the certain places they can quickly cut costs is in headcount.
Tech definitely bloated a bit over the pandemic because of the uncertainty. Pandemic is over, recession is upon us, this is more a normalization in my opinion.
They know what we all already had been knowing, nothing new. But were slow to react.
Everyone had been believing that there will be a huge surge in economic activity post-covid, aka starting from 2022. Therefore over hired in the pandemic to catch the market.
We know that didn't happen. Rather Ukraine war has dampened it further. Now they are hurrying to correct it. They were dragging feet initially, but Musk's successful Twitter layoff triggered another avalanche.
> I always wondered if high profile CEOs and shareholders know something substantial of the upcoming future that us leaf nodes are just clueless about.
If they knew the future, then why did they overhire in the first place?
The plebes want more share of the pie, the fed and elites want more unemployment. Is this a consequence of raising rates, or is it in pursuit of more unemployment?
I think that most car buying is motivated by far far more than delivered value. There's so much status and image wrapped up in cars that thigh there are some who care little about the car, nearly everyone chooses something that fits their perception of themselves.
The reason that there are so many super-expensive pickup trucks on the road is not because people are hauling around things that require a pickup, for example. And when combined with the face that pickup beds are becoming increasingly useless...
Umm, except the cars the average joe buys depreciate in value, while the supercars the rich buy usually apreciate in value, kind of like art, so wouldn't it make more sense that panel gaps are more important for that market?
Does having tighter panel gaps help with the resale value for the average joes?
Supercars absolutely depreciate in value minus select limited releases (which holds true for non-supercars as well). Look at standard Lamborghini Gallardos, Ferrari F430s/458s, and Aston Martins of any model and you will see that some of these cars are worth less than half what their original buyers paid for them.
This isn’t true. Your average super car does not appreciate in value when you consider factors like maintenance and the fact that you have to buy a bunch of other garbage to even be put on the delivery list for a desirable car’s production. For example, actually buying a top spec 911 isn’t feasible if you don’t have a good relationship with your dealer.
Notwithstanding the fact that the market for super cars is nothing like the market for Teslas or 5ers.
their tagline seems to indicate so "The Elastic UI framework (EUI) is a design library in use at Elastic to build internal products that need to share our aesthetics."
"EUI is dual-licensed under Elastic License 2.0 and Server Side Public License, v 1" - so yes, it appears this is not usable for anything serious at all.
Point being, humans are highly adaptive creatures. You have to cut the source.