Category: Technical Labour

Via Emlyn O’Regan

Via Emlyn O’Regan

Originally shared by Mark Lewis

I read quite a few articles on driverless cars. This is the first one in a while that I have felt really has creative elements to it. They might be pushing the idea a bit too far, but it is a very interesting idea and goes beyond some of my previous thinking in different areas. What I liked most though was how the author points out that the auto industry could produce enough autonomous cars to replace all human-driven cars in a rather short period of time. That’s significant. The timeline for scaling up autonomous ride sharing is one of the things I’ve worried about the most, but apparently, if current production switched over to fully autonomous, it would produce a complete global supply of such cars in a rather short period of time because so many fewer cars are needed if the cars aren’t left sitting in parking lots all the time.

https://hackernoon.com/driverless-hotel-rooms-the-end-of-uber-airbnb-and-human-landlords-e39f92cf16e1

Those in the 18 to 24 age group overwhelmingly started their programming journey in their late teens.

Those in the 18 to 24 age group overwhelmingly started their programming journey in their late teens. 68.2 percent started coding between the ages of 16 to 20.

When you look at older generations, you notice another striking trend: a comparatively larger proportion started programming between the ages of five and ten. 12.2 percent of those aged between 35 and 44 started programming then.

Old fart Gen-Xers started coding as kids instead of late teens.

I’m a bit older than them and started programming later because I had to build my first computer. In those days before you started machine coding you had to learn about CMOS and TTL first.

https://thenextweb.com/dd/2018/01/23/report-80s-kids-started-programming-at-an-earlier-age-than-todays-millennials/

The future of civilization rests with these fine people (who are currently betting against it).

The future of civilization rests with these fine people (who are currently betting against it).

The tone turns somber.

“Sometimes I think about what would happen to the future if a bomb went off at one of our meetings,” Mr. Buttram said.

Mr. Hummer said, “A bomb would set back civilization for years.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/style/bitcoin-millionaires.html

Here are the computer technologies that are no longer safe to use, susceptible to having your information stolen:

Originally shared by Ramin Honary

Here are the computer technologies that are no longer safe to use, susceptible to having your information stolen:

1. Any computer with a RISC architecture CPU that does pre-fetching (susceptible to pre-fetch cache side channel attacks).

2. Any computer with DDR3 memory chips (susceptible to bit banging attacks).

So in other words 99.99999 percent of all computers in use today can be pretty easily hacked by anyone.

Of course, if you use Facebook or Google, you’re voluntarily giving all of your personal information away for free, so carry on I guess.