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I would not be happy with this trade if I had any $JPM.
They have no moat. So, how do you get to $4B?
I think the models are wrong way too often for relatively simple queries, so unless they give a secret prompt like "be wrong a lot in the free version" to users, it's basically worthless.
I was torturing the hardware and KVM wasn't designed to do that, until about two years ago.
I basically don't trust any virtualization implementation to not have been written by idiots.
In theory, it's great. In practice, if you need to get "support" from someone else, it's not so great anymore, as all these companies have been discovering.
I would use VM technology if whoever wrote it would provide me with a contract saying that if anyone were to find just one program that would crash their VM (while not crashing a real machine) or miscompute, that I would get a billion dollars.
To answer your question: I was smart enough to never use it in the first place.
No.
Real accountability is that the people can torture their leaders when they fail, but that just doesn't happen anymore.
Imagine that this was just a big rock and Trump was sitting on top of the rock like with a group of apes. Also, let's assume that Trump had set fire on the entire banana supply. Do you think the apes would not have picked a different leader immediately?
Rational people would understand that if you make people lose billions that there should be consequences, but someone the world population is more stupid than a bunch of apes.
I don't get why California doesn't just join the European Union and exit the US; it's not like the red neck states like California.
It kind of shows that "democracy" was never real to begin with.
Certainly with Sora 2 level of technology they can just claim whoever they don't like has blown up a federal building while they were asleep. It's not like you can have an alibi when you sleep and everyone sleeps. In a way, this AI nightmare necessitates protocols for protection against false accusations like only being able to open the door exiting a house when three other witnesses are present. There are cryptographic solutions like verified cameras, but almost nobody has those now, not even news crews publish signed videos.
Journalism in war time has no real meaning, because if it's secret information the journalist basically becomes an adversary and at some point it becomes cheaper to kill them. Those waging wars have historically always been corrupt. So, that leaves repeating whatever the Pentagon wants you to know.
Also, calling the US a democracy is like putting lipstick on a pig and saying it's a hot babe.
Perhaps Switzerland still has a democracy, but most kind of suck in various ways (and most importantly, don't do anything to improve their democracies). In a real democracy, there would be continuous improvement with better checks and balances. At some point you start to wonder whether democracy just exists to give people the illusion that their voice means anything. Also, in a real democracy there would be equal opportunity and advertising budget for all political parties. That's just not the case in many democracies.
So, blatantly obvious autocracies are probably worse than our current "democracies", but let's not pretend democracy is a thing right now.
I also have made some software that is proven (meaning from a small 500 line proof kernel) to be correct relative to a trivial implementation (and yes, full correctness is difficult to achieve).
I have even used Plan9 and the silly editor.
I probably have forgotten more than you (or Thompson) has ever known.
Thompson is an amateur, because all of his programs are of "trust me, bro"-quality. Call me when Ken (and all the n00bs from that era) grows up and implements grep in Rocq.
In fact, you can quite easily check this by trying to let an LLM generate a program like grep. It can do that. Now, there also exist programs for which LLMs can't generate code, because it's too complex.
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Adoption is about offering something that is 1) correct 2) easy to install 3) has reasonable performance 4) stable.
Wireguard provides all of those. OpenVPN was not meeting criterium 1 even a few years ago and IMO, if it doesn't work after a decade of development, it's _never_ going to work.
Now, let's look at your comment, which is full of techno mumbo jumbo (don't worry, I know everything you talk about), doesn't even mention half of those.
I think an extremely naive, but popular position is that when someone comes out with some new tool that "works on their machine", that they assume that everyone else believes immediately that they are not just as stupid as everyone that came before them. This was even true for Wireguard, since Wireguard was _not_ bug free either. In fact, one could argue that Wireguard is still an amateur project despite it working stable for some of my systems.
The problem with software like Wireguard is that there is no incentive to actually make bug free software. If software always works and has all the required features, nobody will call the person or company associated with it anymore. When was the last time that the author of "grep" was recognized as a great programmer? Never. Now, I am not saying that grep is free of bugs, but I just took a fairly stable program as an example. An economy for software like SaaS has much better incentives in that regard (even though they often also do not reach bug free status). curl is also an excellent example of bug ridden software that an entire industry is using, while it is written by an amateur (that has no incentive whatsoever to produce something that doesn't need to have bugs fixed).
If humanity had somewhat more of a collective intelligence, a million people would come together and just all paid $100 to implement a wireguard replacement (possibly even using the same protocol) to perfection such that no new implementation would ever be needed and that would adapt to any hardware automatically. Instead we prefer to continue to fuck around with inferior shit all day long.