Are you saying that it’s impossible for the lack of persistence or focus to be problematic in someone’s life?

Not impossible, but I disagree fervently with the notion that that "lack of focus is nothing but wasted time".

Trying things, experimenting, acquiring a diversity of experience in life that eventually builds into something greater than the sum of its parts: that is an extremely undervalued part of living.

no, they are saying that not committing to anything need not be lack of persistence or focus. i have been that person. i am that person. it turns out my goal wasn't to master a specific skill or trade, but to build connections, work with people and help them with whatever they need help with. so my focus was and is on that. it didn't help me build a traditional career, but it led me around the whole world, building up a unique set of experiences and understanding.

This happened to me a couple months ago. My Facebook account was disabled, as well as my instagram account, since it was connected to the Facebook account. No explanation, and no possibility for appeal.

I had the account since it was only available to college students in like 2008. No idea what it could have been, I barely even used it lately.

I tried to make a new account a couple times with different email addresses, but it didn’t let me.

I guess I’m just banned from Meta for life, most likely due to a false positive from AI.

I work at NASA and I review SBIR proposals from time to time. Most proposals are pretty mediocre. Some are physically impossible.

Coherent writing and formatting helps. Clearly explaining what your tech is and what advantages it could offer the funding agency for the listed objectives in their particular topic. You'd be surprised how many companies don't actually make any clear objective case with facts and figures, or look at all from the organization's point of view. Also, keep in mind that the reviewers may not all be deep experts in every possible obscure tech. You don't want to force them to do a ton of research just to understand wtf you're talking about.

Even if you do everything right, you might not get selected for obvious reason. At least at NASA, there always seem to be managers with their own opinions that have some kind of mysterious influence in the background. Plenty of good proposals don't get awarded, so it doesn't necessarily mean there was something wrong with it.

Are you suggesting 85 year olds typically have more wisdom and are less easily fooled by things?

IPv4 + all the other stuff you need to actually make it work in the real world actually seems more complicated than IPv6 to me.

Maybe they’re comparing the minimal implementation on a home network. But even then I’m not sure the claim holds up.

People learned IPv4 when they were younger in a more incremental manner and take it for granted now.

V4 plus one or more layers of NAT and all that junk objectively is more complicated, but it’s the devil people know.

ARP and DHCP really look really dirty whenever I look at them. Like pretty bad designs overall. From more neutral viewpoint it feels that whole stack would be better with something else than these clear hacks.

arp simply breaks down in very large networks aswell.

Think about things like the following: you are a datacenter and are providing connectivity to the internet for your customers. Each customer get a vlan with a specific ip prefix attached to it. You prove the gateway for each customers subnet.

ARP crosses the L2 vs L3 boundary to do succesful address resolution. The problem this creates in large (mainly datacenter) networks is that a router needs to do arp resolution for for a LOT of networks. (i am talking about 100's of networks in past, many thousands with something like an EVPN vxlan).

Why is this a problem? Layer 2 lookups are usually done in the forwarding plane, and ARP resolution is usually a routing engine task. Doing it this way is very expensive compared to the IPV6 way of doing things. (multicast based address resolution).

The router only needs to send out one multicast packet per vlan, instead of doing arp resolution for each specific host in the vlan.

In modern datacenters this is "fixed" by doing arp suppression, which is a whole other level of hackary added on top of it.

Is there broadcast address resolution in V6? I don't think there is. Each packet is still for a specific host. It's because it leverages the layer 2's multicast system though, it can filter the multicast to only hit 1 in 2^24 hosts.

Project managers are right until proven wrong, and engineers are wrong until proven right.

Rickover: Did you do your best? Carter: No, sir. I didn't always do my best. Rickover: Why not?

What makes you think an LLM is internally consistent?

I guess if one color pixel was significantly less efficient, and that color was also overrepresented on the display, then MAYBE changing to grayscale would require slightly less power to display the same intensity. But I don’t think that convoluted scenario probably isn’t what this person was thinking.

Every single example given under “In Chinese, affirmation is often compiled through negation:” sounds completely natural to me, as a midwestern American English speaker.

However the direct affirmations are also acceptable. Maybe the difference is more that both are pretty acceptable in English, but that is less true for Chinese. Or at least the version he speaks.

when the guy is making sentences like "affirmation is often compiled through negation" you know hes just trying to sound clever. the entire premise of the article is bunk, we DO use these patterns in English. He also treats (in that wide eyed western admiration for the orient) the Chinese like a simple monoculture where everyone has the same speech patterns.