hapax
On This Day In HistoryToday in 1977, 46 years ago: the Cray-1 supercomputer leaves the factory.
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Looking for the joy in computing! Mostly computer stuff, pics of my cat, and my very primitive thoughts about how to sanely build engineering teams and software companies.
Bryan CantrillI passed this billboard on the 101 last night, and I don't know that Silicon Valley history has ever repeated such a small detail so crisply: in the 1990s, Informix (RIP!) famously bought the billboard outside of Oracle's headquarters on the 101 and used it to taunt their competitor. Of note: "You just passed Redwood Shores; so did we." And I am dying to know if SingleStore has a 55-year-old VP of Marketing with a sense of history -- or the opposite.
Tom Lyon ✅
@mhoye "...but: the tool worked, and if there’s one thing in tech that we all know and fear, it’s that there’s nothing quite as permanent as something temporary that works." 🔥🎤🎼🚒
mhoyeBoosts and reposts to other forums are, of course, appreciated.
I hope to see you there.
@mph Nice! Hadn't heard of North St. before, I dig their designs! I agree on the PD v2 pouch; seems a little too focused on photography for my EDC needs. I'm currently rocking the REI Trail 2 sling bag, and it's dope! Tons of space for a charger, inhaler, keys, small pocket knife, and more!
Happy Sun Day! OTD 1982, #SunMicrosystems was incorporated. Here's founder Andy Bechtolsheim with a #SPARCstation-1 motherboard in 1989. #ComputerHistory
Qasim Rashid, Esq.America’s legal system today
I want to practice law:
—You need a 4 year Bachelors, take the LSAT, then a 3 year JD, then pass the BAR, buy malpractice insurance, & total cost is ~$300K
I want to enforce the law:
—Here’s paid 13-week training & a gun
I want to write the law:
—No qualifications needed and a billionaire can buy you a seat
@bcantrill It's funny (in that uncomfy way) that we've made so many scifi stories around humans creating technology that sounds cool but is not thought out and then Things Go Poorly. We've warned ourselves about this! 🤦
I think in computing specifically, we've gotten so abstracted from reality (and so rich) that we've stopped critically analyzing the actions that technology induces in humans. Progress == Good for most people in computing. Few are asking: "Progress towards what??"
LLMs are not a threat to humanity -- humanity is a threat to humanity. The concern should not be for LLMs in and of themselves, but rather the actions that they will induce in humans. This feels obvious?