That makes sense if it's in moderation. An overzealous asker can disproportionately eat up people's time. Context as to why you're asking helps set priorities.

Yeah ofc. I mean as someone who grew up in Guesser Land and got taught that it’s important to be able to read people’s minds, discovering that I can just, you know, ask, felt like a superpower. I don’t think I’m overdoing it.

You have to squint a little and see they mean that most consumer routers don't map inbound unsolicited packets to anything internal unless the user specifically configured it to. Which is basically a firewall.

That's not true in my experience, consumer grade routers will often happily route packets with rfc1918 destination addresses from the WAN to the LAN interface all day. The "firewall" is only that nobody can get packets with those destination addresses to the home router's WAN interface through the internet.

This is because most consumer routers have a firewall, which is separate from the NAT. Creating NAT mappings also creates firewall entries.

Otherwise, the router would happily pass the packet along to any IP address it finds in a packet it receives. That's the job of a router, after all.

Really curious how it's going to kill the need for immigrants in construction, agriculture, food service, hospitality, lawn care, cleaning, building maintenance, etc.

Maybe the idea is all us displaced software folks end up in the fields picking fruit?

> Maybe the idea is all us displaced software folks end up in the fields picking fruit?

Apparently, that's exactly the main idea here. Them and other expendable office workers.

It’s also interesting because the whole SV model assumes demand which goes way down if a genuine AI enters the market and starts cutting into middle class jobs. There aren’t many ads targeting low-wage workers, not nearly enough to support the tech sector.

They either lack that foresight and are completely oblivious of that limitation (the Dunning-Kruger effect), or they're lying shamelessly to manipulate the market in the hopes cashing out in the end, sort of like a pump-and-dump scheme or a pyramid scheme. Based on many of their track records I wouldn't be too surprised if both effects are at play, reinforcing each other.

There is a reason why you are seeing a ton of humanoid robots in development. They just don't have the software to make them viable yet.

They say 20-60ms, users seem to report 30-200ms. Seems very dependent on where you're at.

Consistent 25-35ms to 1.1.1.1. You won't see >60ms unless you're deprioritized, and that's about your choice of plan not about what the network can do.

I would be surprised there are not some amount of oversubscribed geo areas, or remote spots with longer paths, etc.

It does seem good for many, just perhaps not all.

I average 20-25ms at my lake home in Central MN on Starlink Residential lite; very similar to my Comcast Business connection at my house.

It’s crazy to me, frankly.

You can intentionally market the use cases without knowing exactly how they work, though. So it's intentional investment and use case targeting, rather than directly designing for purpose. Though, the market also drives the measures...so they iteratively get better at things you pour money into.

> but the 2nd is also not a pattern I really see apart from in JS codebases.

If you're referring to "one-line logger calls that trigger expensive serialization", it's also common in java.

He had presumably used it for 10 years successfully. Surely he gained some expertise over that time period.

He probably just got a new competitor in the space. Easy to see good returns on online ad spend when all traffic just goes to you by default.

Ad noob here; how would you test this hypothesis?

Or returns gradually went down until it stopped working altogether.

Though, that doesn't really conflict with the story. He increased his ad spend before he figured out it wasn't working. Which would be more $$ for Google.

is super ineffective, indeed. if you need to pay 20$ to get s.o. to pay you 50$ for a service/product, well in all honesty calling people one by one and giving them 10$ is more likely to result in sale.

fast boot, low latency for buttons/controls.

I have a Ford Sync 2.5 system which is a cost reduced hardware downgrade from QNX based Sync 3. I'm sure the OS is doing its best while hobbled by a poor management decision but it has lots of bugs that crop up from what appears to be severe RAM shortage coupled with some gradual memory leaks. I have to reboot it regularly when traveling with Android auto. It's always a crap shoot if my phone will connect.

Sprawling imports of text source in hundreds of files without lazy loading.