The author should start with his own product, which stops working if it doesn't connect to the internet at least every 14 days.

https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/a8ec08e5bbc2be0a32...

Or the fact that he volunteered to work for Twitter, which is the ultimate propaganda recommendation algorithm since Musk took over.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/20/23519922/george-hotz-geo...

>Or the fact that he volunteered to work for Twitter

Worse! He volunteered, then went "Hey anyone want an internship? Fix twitter search, Make the code MIT, and then maybe I'll give you an internship."

...had 0 authority to give anyone an internship btw. Dudebro just wanted free fix.

Yeah cause this niche product is the structural source of the problems he cites.

> Optimizing and doing it with matrices brought it down to 20 minutes

What was the final run time?

11 seconds in colab implementing the basic transformation with reshape, roll, and flatten

4 seconds in google apps script by handling indices in loops instead of rearranging elements

It's not true, my P1S+AMS has never touched the Internet and I was able to set it up fine on an isolated wifi network out of the box.

If you actually believe this, then please reply here with the start and end GPS coordinates of your last driven commute to/from where you live.

Why would I drive? Like some kind of jerk.

Indeed, my guess was Cheech & Chong:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSAOKuO5W8E

I've often told people that programming is like woodworking:

  - jigs are like functions
  - stops are like constants
  - experience teaches you the order of operations, how things fit together
  - woodworkers build a lot of their own tools
  - custom tools are usually made by same stuff the products are
  - both spend time optimizing their workflow
  - wood is quite soft, like software!

    jigs are like functions

Jigs (and power tools that use them) are like co-pilot! I love my hand-tools. I know inevitably it's all on the way out, but I like the hand tools more!

    experience teaches you the order of operations, how things fit together

This is how we can still "beat" co-pilot enabled juniors! You can actually understand the whole system and direct an army of juniors!

    woodworkers build a lot of their own tools

Only if you consider jigs your tool(s). I find that this is not actually the fun part of woodworking. Building a workbench from 2x4s from nothing (well, an old ikea table - or sawhorses w/ a sheet of plywood on top), glue to laminate and some 50+ year old plane from Ebay that took a week+ to de-rust and sharpen and handsaws that needed re-sharpening and de-rusting was very satisfying!

    custom tools are usually made by same stuff the products are

Yesssssir!

    both spend time optimizing their workflow

Absolutely!

    wood is quite soft, like software!

It's amazing how hard it can be to work those cheap 2x4s when you're learning. You kinda don't want to use proper hardwood (-ware) for fear of destroying (bricking) something not so cheap!

You might like Joplin or Logseq, which are open source.

I hope one day the folks at Obsidian will make it FOSS. I don't think it will negatively affect them at all.