So where will Musk find that missing information and how will he detect “errors”?

There’s Dave Cutler in the article. They both heard boss music and it wasn’t theirs.

See, Dave Cutler’s level of “boss” for Unix would be Kirk McCusick or Bill Joy.

Yes, this is bullshit.

While some sort of a redesign of part of Linux’s internals I could imagine.

In terms of kernel ABI stability Linux is often criticized even in comparison to BSDs.

And in general its insides are more messy and “naturally grown”, or so I’ve heard (OpenBSD is the only OS whose internals I’ve made myself familiar with sufficiently ; also put some effort for FreeBSD).

So my, eh, alternative opinion would be that something is brewing for Linux like what Digital Unix was for BSD Unix. A hybrid cleaned up kernel, maybe support for different ABIs (like what exists in FreeBSD for Linux and older versions of itself, except maybe more ambitious). Maybe even tackling a more open alternative to NT (itself alternative to VMS and David Cutler being the man who did that) while they’re at it. NT is not a bad thing. Even Windows is not a bad thing. Maybe Wine isn’t enough, or maybe it would be cool to have something possible to make compatible with many Windows device drivers.

At least I hope it’s Linux learning to do EEE and not the other way around.

Though with Bill Gates and Dave Cutler this really seems like a meeting of legends and nothing more. They’re cool people, but I don’t think they want to play global thermonuclear computing war at that age, unlike just global thermonuclear war IRL, this one is more attractive for younger people. Even if it’s about some project being born, I’d expect that to be “just for fun” for everyone involved, they deserve that after all.

Is it more or less efficient than a grass roof?

Ye-es, and if you call your automation “industrial planning\programming\optimization” the way I’ve seen it first in a student book, you won’t be understood at all, despite that literally describing what you are doing.

Probably making every piece of progress part of popular culture wasn’t a good idea.

But that started in the middle of XX century, with various new materials based on oil products being regularly invented.

Events analogous to a “new material” with computers are a bit rare and very removed from the customer. Yet the popular culture demands some show of progress. They don’t see a lot of real progress in UI\UX\web - monopolies and stuff. So - new applications become subjects of such hype.

I remember the P2P hype, that was kinda real. Torrents felt like magic.

I remember the “metaverse” hype, that’s rather old, I didn’t find any satisfaction for that, but probably a group of friends and a Second Life instance could be nice. Minecraft suffices for people today, it’s easier and cool enough.

I also remember “dynamic web” hype in my childhood, webpages were static, you’d press F5 to check new posts on a roleplaying forum. But there were nice-looking, dynamic, cool, and very inconvenient Flash applications here and there. You wanted to have both the cleanness and interop of the Web and the power and wow-factor of such applications. I wanted that too. Now I understand how dumb I was.

The cryptocurrencies hype - it was a legitimate subject of discussions for intelligent people, how do you use cryptography to create a value exchange resilient to oppression, because without exchanging real value freedom is not achievable. That was, unfortunately, in the narrow understanding of the rules where the government can demand something from you, but can’t force you or torture you or steal from you. Thus BTC is not anonymous, intentionally.

There was simultaneously the big data hype, it was discussed as if it’s not Google’s and FB’s pathway to power, but the opposite - finding systemic traits in human societies, probably using that analysis to build a better web, yadda-yadda.

Then that mutated to the AI hype. But that also wasn’t about yelling “we found AI, give us money”, that was about neural nets yielding funny texts and discussions as to whether good enough imitation is real intelligence.

Almost like fashion.

Teaching kids war is good in any case. Teaching kids that war is good is bad.

Unfortunately that’s useless, the people needing to be hit are all kinda distributed over all of Russia, and the punishment is severe.

But teaching children to build tools for modern war is an absolute positive. Possessing an AK is no good for a revolution today anyway, while with small drones you can do a lot.

If you are not ready to use a nuke ever, it stops being a deterrent. Game theory.

But this situation is not the kind where a nuke is used as a deterrent. If Israel was saying they’re sorry and asking for ceasefire, while Iranians would be absolutely destroying what remains of it and not listening, then yes.

Or, if Iran had a nuke and Israelis were succeeding in destroying Iran.

But neither are true.

Air defense, missile defense

I even know of one possible entrance, but the building above it I hate with passion, I’d need a flamethrower.

“Stable” doesn’t mean “good”.

I live in Russia, in Moscow, in a kinda golden (in Stalin’s time) place, so the shelter is right under me, its ventilation shaft exit is near the playground.

The problem is - nobody knows how the hell do you get in.

I do like canned food. I even had a small stockpile in 2022 when I thought things had gotten real and it’s time to prepare. Have eaten through it.

If it becomes a free for all, though, hiding from the physical effects will be easier than hiding from the social ones.

It would mean profit, but it would also mean Putin scared for his life trying to find alternative solutions. Since I’m in Russia, I don’t like the idea. Those solutions would probably mean even more total lockdown of everything.

I’ve recently seen a pic with election results in Germany, and it’s spectacular - one block leading in former FRG, another block leading in former GDR (AfD), and it’s very clean.

If you think about it, “Europe” has lots of political stability. No democratic uncertainty whatsoever. AfD pretends to be that, but really after that map I can’t think so.

And the elites are fine with the way US is choosing. They’ll just be the next on it, tinker a bit with the new stuff for their own convenience, soften some sharp bits.

It’s rather that the rest of the world should unite against the west until it’s too late. Pakistan and DPRK should share their nuclear toys so that everyone had a nuke.

The coalition of anti-western states, mostly totalitarian and not very nice, would in some bits work like Curtis Yarvin’s (I know it’s mostly wrong people dreaming of it) idea of paradise - the right of exit (changing a country among them) would de-facto exist, and every such state having nuclear deterrence would mean that those more attractive for immigrants won’t be pressured to stop, which will mean slow evolutionary change for more liberty.

I personally think that (at some point) open immigration is what made the USA more democratic (except racism). Getting more and more different people of non-elite background willing to build a new life is a powerful source of constant hardly predictable change.

It’s sad that I can’t explain these ideas to people closest to me in their worldview, they are just a bit too conserved in their understanding, and for them I’m picking cannibals over “imperfect civilization” for some abstract benefit. But how is that different from “white man’s burden”, I’m not sure, except “white man’s burden” implied some responsibility for what you’re doing, and Kipling was kinda sad the British empire didn’t find that responsibility in itself. I think it’s the same or worse and the more cynical people understood this earlier.

Nothing like nuking a part of the world you don’t know shit about. They probably think it’s a piece of desert with Disney characters (mostly centered around the capital of Agrabah and capable of hiding) and evil terrorists hurting our good Israel.

US reportedly also forgets the arithmetic of AD and MD efficiency, and the fact that there are countries capable of nuking it in response, and in case it uses a nuke against Iran those will multiply like mushrooms after a rain.

Equating Israel to USA in its right to exist is not swallowing its cock.

They are right. Except one problem still can be solved, the other not so much. Maybe a few centuries after now somebody will think of something. Slow demographic changes and more modern weapons, that stuff.

But that is their dream for the future. Purely automatically managing the populace as some sort of a farm.

It’s an arms race. Like at any other point in history. Between those who think personal dignity and freedom and equality are a mistake of history or a device to keep the herd patient, and that they deserve to rule, and those who don’t.

The good part is that this has already been tried. A fast system with deadlocks is not that different from a slow system with deadlocks. And a big redundant system deterministically degrading in itself is not that different from a smaller less redundant system deterministically degrading in itself. No USSR and no Nazi Germany anymore on the map.

The parts about lying and false pretense of law and democracy are new, but not too much - rulers of Frederic the Great’s time had false pretenses of knightly behavior and following imperial mechanisms. One can even compare 30 years war to our two world wars in the sense of creating a new world order, which was considered impossible to change due to endless horrors following that, but eventually become a farce.

I suppose they shut down mobile internet. That doesn’t make news because wire is normal here.

Also there seem to be tests of DPI and filtering systems now by many ISPs in many places, because apparently Russia is going GFW.

That is apparently going to have competition soon.

But … yeah. Operating via satellites is profitable for sparsely populated areas, operating via wire - for densely populated ones. In addition to that Earth’s orbit is not under anyone’s sovereignty.

Both have their uses, but, I think, in locations in a developed country with old infrastructure because it’s not profitable, - this means there won’t be any.

The sad part is that if, say, I want to have unabused Internet connectivity from Russia, a Starlink terminal is not my solution, cause Elon still wants to be friends with those obnoxious people. And also if it were a solution, a terminal could be triangulated and my ass would meet a soldering iron. Maybe not, but some fines.