it says its an evm clone, so it may not be like solana. Im shocked they didnt go the l2 route like many seem to do. They might pull a bsc with a limited number of validators and just make the stake requirements stupidly high and wink wink the company or entities close to said company, have acquired the majority of said tokens to become a validator and you would need to pay a gazzilion dollars to enter the pool
All he had to do was remove the LIDAR and wait 15-20 years for the tech to catch up. I'm sure Tesla owners don't mind waiting. They're used to it by now.
there's a huge difference between "feature that mostly works and is kinda neat" and "5000 pound robot relies on this to work all the time or people will probably get hurt at minimum" in how much you should trust a feature.
Doesn't really matter if an imgTo3d script gets a face's depth map inverted, kinda problematic if your car doesn't think there's something where there is.
I am the same but for elixir, the beam is awesome & I always wonder why it still hasn't caught on with all the success stories. The actor model just makes programming feel so simple
For me its the complete opposite of simple. I am a fan of BEAM and OTP but im a horrible programmer. I have constant fear of having picked the wrong restart strategy in a supervisor. Or about ghost processes or whatever. I have no mentors and learn everything myself. I have no way of actually checking whether my implementations are good. With my skills id manage to make an Elixir system brittle because its not clear to me what happens at all times.
WhatsApp did what it did and we didn't hire anyone who had experience with OTP until 2013 I think. One person who was very experienced in Erlang showed up for a week and bounced.
We were doing all sorts of things wrong and not idiomatically, but things turned out ok for the most part.
The fun thing with restart strategies is if your process fails quickly, you get into restart escalation, were your supervisor restarts because you restarted too many times, and so on and then beam shuts down. But that happens once or twice and you figure out how to avoid it (I usually put a 1 second sleep at startup in my crashy processes, lol).
Ghost processes are easy-ish to find. erlang:processes() lists all the pids, and then you can use erlang:process_info() to get information about them... We would dump stats on processes to a log once a minute or so, with some filtering to avoid massive log spew. Those kinds of things can be built up over time... the nice thing is the debug shell can see everything, but you do need to learn the things to look for.
> With my skills id manage to make an Elixir system brittle because its not clear to me what happens at all times.
What's so cool about BEAM is you can connect a repl and debug the program as it's running. It's probably the best possible system for discovering what's happening as things are happening.
Same, my personal theory where it excels and overachieves is where there is already really fleshed out and oversaturated developer ecosystems (and experienced developer pool) that organizations have alot of legacy software built on it. I think it will gain momentum as we see more need for distributed LLM agents and tooling pick up. (Or when people need extreme cost savings on front facing apis/endpoints that run simple operations)
yeah the claim is ambiguous because the beam itself is only guaranteed soft real time, leaving it open ended might make ppl think hard real-time especially since its hardware
hola vpn is such an interesting case of a money printer, host a simple vpn and present it as free, give the users datacenter ips that are easy to detect. meanwhile you get their precious residential ip's and print millions a month
Thanks for the great read, so much to unpack from that article the click fraud stuff is to be expected, keeping track of everything that goes through their proxy is also expected, but copying files is crazy and this could unravel to a class action
but with that being said, if you are doing something shady/grey area to get ahead you best give everyone a cut of the pie, especially your blood brother
This is cool, I thought of something similar, didnt know someone implemented it and the swizz like bank note design is neat.
but its still has flaws imo and just makes it a novelty rather than something practical or useful, for example unless the vendor has change, you would have to spend your btc cash denomination as a whole or exchange it for fiat. what if both the vendor & customer didn't have internet access, how would they check if the cash hasn't been used? idk if you can write back to an rfid that may solve some problems
Yep, Apple is great at this. There have been times when random Android phones were ahead feature wise, but this doesn’t cause Apple to lose its customer base, even when Apple releases the same feature 2–4 years later. The same thing happened with smartwatches, Apple entered that industry late, yet the Apple Watch now dominates the market against well established players
Even the iPhone itself. They played around a bit with the Newton and Rokr E1, sure, but for the most part they sat back and let everyone else make all the mistakes first.
I still think US military tech is king, especially their fighter jets. eu countries cancelling or regrets is just geopolitics pandering
fighter jets are unicorns on the same level as chips you cant just procure 3nm chips tomorrow because you want too. I'm not super knowledgeable on them, but its interesting to see how difficult maintaining and making new gens are for example gripens still rely on US engine, china relies on Russian engines etc and the US seems to be always ahead
Perhaps. But the US is less and less capable of producing them. Especially since the tariffs back-and-forth with China that lead to an exports control on rare earth minerals. Even before that, US manufacturers were consistently under-delivering and behind schedule on orders
Not to mention there are key areas that the US is widely considered to be behind on (e.g. hypersonic glide vehicles and drones) compared to the "Second World" powers. And there's been lots of talk—even from within the US—that drones have become more important to modern warfare than manned jets.
When you procure a 3nm chip you expect to keep it working as well as when you bought it, even if you block the management engine for privacy.
When you buy a fighter plane you should expect to not be able to fly for the full duration of a single conflict the manufacturing country disagrees about.
Lack of MDFs does not mean that you can't fly missions. It's an intelligence product that assists with mission planning. That's like saying your car is completely unusable if the builtin maps are a few years out of date.
Ukranian hackers know how to hack John Deere tractors.. hah, downloading files from a Ukranian web forum to install on your F-35 would be very dystopian cyberpunk.
People think jets are things that should work even if they aren't supported by the manufacturer. Javelin and patriot don't work that way? How exactly does someone beside the us manage the hydrazine supplychain without usa logistics?
F-35s parked on the runway because the tangerine clown told LM to withhold this week's software update is a lot less useful than a squadron of 4th gen fighters in the air chock a block full of state-of-the-art missiles.
Do we know this to be true still? There's a lot of new modern equipment that other countries have that have not gone head-to-head against to really know that any more.
