It's actually the buffering in this case that will get you dinged. The stated 110ms "lag" is probably the minimum time between keystrokes ever. If you have ever recorded data on the mean time between keystrokes you get a nice even distribution but for someone on a KVM it will look very skewed with most being under 110ms and zero below 110ms which is impossible for a normal human at a machine to replicate
Furthermore, there are a number of other side channel attacks here you could use to make things really inconvenient. Something super powerful would-be having a fido2 key such as a YubiKey and recording the mean time to human press keypress. Your average person who is present at the machine will touch the button in a number of seconds. A remote operator in NK will have to summon the homeowner which could take significantly longer.
Another technique you could use is look at the mouse movement data. You would also see the same truncated. distribution, I think a few people have put together a PoC for detecting cheaters in games based on mouse movements.
I do wonder also if the KVM devices they are using support HDCP. Showing media over HDCP on the screen that instructs the user to write an email or make a phone call instantly would be pretty cool.
Metabolism converts sugars and oxygen to carbon dioxide and water. Fire has the same inputs and outputs too! You can think of metabolism as releasing the same energy as fire but with more steps so our bodies can harness and use the energy via various other chemical reactions.
Most of the water from metabolism is released in your breath. Water you pee is mostly water you ingested via drinking and eating.
I used to do Buteyko breathing exercises. The main idea is that over breathing results in a loss of co2 and less co2 in the body results in less oxygen being released from the blood due to the Bohr Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_effect.
No more Google. No more websites. A distributed swarm of ephemeral signed posts. Shared, rebroadcasted.
When you find someone like James and you like them, you follow them. Your local algorithm then prioritizes finding new content from them. You bookmark their author signature.
Like RSS but better. Fully distributed.
Your own local interest graph, but also the power of your peers' interest graphs.
Content is ephemeral but can also live forever if any nodes keep rebroadcasting it. Every post has a unique ID, so you can search for it later in the swarm or some persistent index utility.
The Internet should have become fully p2p. That would have been magical. But platforms stole the limelight just as the majority of the rest of the world got online.
Vitalik touched upon this briefly in an other-wise long and wide-reaching essay. I think its a good treatment of the topic that the author is talking about.
He categorizes the ecosystem broadly into 4 cohorts- [token holders] (which includes investors, speculators, etc.), [pragmatic users] (actual end-users who spend crypto to buy stuff), [intellectuals] (who give the vision and ideology), [builders] (of blockchains, apps, etc.) - These 4 groups come together but with different motivations and there is a gap in understanding between them. Indeed, there is even resistance against trying to reach an understanding - one which plays out in the comments section of every crypto-related post on hn. The author of this twitter-post clearly falls under [intellectual, builder] and has been disillusioned by the speculators from [token-holders]. Yet the [token-holders] are a vital component (as are the other groups) as they fund most of the development and adoption. Ultimately these 4 groups have more in common than not. The challenge going forward is to balance the occasionally conflicting needs of all the 4 groups, which includes checking the excesses of each group, while try to achieve a consensus. (Vitalik provides a nice diagram that maps out what that would look like). Crypto is an experiment in economics and economics is a science as well as a social-science. Anyone looking for a good solution must seek to understand and address the psychology of all the actors involved.
> Many investors focus on the right time to buy stocks because they don’t want to buy near a peak in case of a future market crash. I understand the feeling. With the market near all time highs in early 2017, it can be tempting to hold off until there is a larger negative adjustment in prices.
> The only problem with this approach is the market could go up for a significant period of time before a correction happens.
> For example, if you search “stock market overvalued 2012” on Google you can find plenty of stories discussing how overvalued stocks were in 2012. If you had started waiting for an S&P 500 correction then, you would have missed out on the ~70+% increase in prices from 2012 through early 2017.
And what has the S&P 500 done since 2017? Continuing:
> If I still haven’t convinced you, let me tell you a story. The story is about a man with possibly the worst luck in investing history.[0][1] He made a total of 4 large stock purchases between 1973 and 2007. He bought in 1973 before a 48% decline in stocks, bought in 1987 before a 34% decline, bought in 2000 before the dot com crash, and bought in 2007 before the Great Recession.
> Despite these 4 individual purchases that totaled a little less than $200,000, how did he do? He ended up with a $980,000 profit for a 9% annualized return. What was his secret? He never sold.
> That’s right. Selling out is literally selling out your future wealth. You need to hold on to your assets as you acquire more.
> This is the purpose of capitalism (i.e. acquiring capital). The only time you should sell your investments is for rebalancing (annually/quarterly, etc.) or in retirement. Otherwise, you already know the mantra.
And as Maggiulli shows, trying to buy the dip, even when you know when the dip will occur (which is impossible), gives worse results than simply putting away a little bit every month:
Put away a little every pay cheque, in a diversified low-fee fund (S&P 500, Total Market/Russell 3000), at a comfortable risk profile that allows you to sleep at night (0/20/40% bonds), and try not to pay attention too much about what The Market™ is doing. Most of us are investing for retirement, and if you do the above, you'll probably end up with a decent nest egg.
Save a little for the future, and enjoy the present.
My wife has to eat protein (in her case meat) with carbs. If she eats carbs with no protein she has anxiety. It's so awesome that we are finally studying things like this.
Damn, thanks for your insights. I recently discovered how much better I sleep when fasting. During my fasts I'm taking precise amounts of electrolytes (sodium, magnesium, potassium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_rehydration_therapy). Being off my fasts I'm getting sloppy with my electrolytes intake and here we are: I'm getting the same symptoms you describe. Not severely, but noticeably.
Now I need to find a proper supplement in Germany. Most electrolytes that also have the recommended amounts of glucose contain artificial sweetener which is a big no-go for daily usage for me.
There's no single mastermind. This current wave of authoritarianism around the world is a consequence of not designing the Internet with democratic principles in mind. Online content discovery and moderation mechanisms are centralized and authoritarian in nature. And since most communication nowadays happens on the Internet on large platforms with millions of users (this is especially true after smartphones and social media were invented), the structure of human society in the real world is mirroring the Internet.
This can be solved, though. We have to move moderation and ranking mechanisms to the client-side, especially for search engines and social media. Each person should be able to decide what they post and see, but not what anyone else posts or sees.
It is interesting that most of our modes of interaction with AI is still just textboxes. The only big UX change in that the last three years has been the introduction of the Claude Code / OpenAI Codex tools. They feel amazing to use, like you're working with another independent mind.
I am curious what the user interfaces of AI in the future will be, I think whoever can crack that will create immense value.
While I agree with the larger sentiment, there is a rather substantial amount of diet and nutrition science with the core being quite an agreed upon set of foundational principles.
If I were to summarize:
1. We derive energy from three major macronutrients (protein, fat and carbohydrates)
2. Our body has certain macronutrients it cannot synthesize and NEEDS for healthy functioning (essential fatty acids and essential amino acids)
3. Our bodies are largely energy efficient (by which I mean the processes to produce energy are readily actionable with average hormone levels of insulin/ghrelin/leptin etc.) when consuming carbohydrates, but can turn to other nutrient sources when they are not to be found.
4. Our body composition can be manipulated by manipulating our energy expenditure either via manipulating the caloric content of food or via the preferential production of body tissue from horomonal influence (this is why muscle mass increases when using testosterone even if caloric intake is kept constant but above a certain macronutrient threshold).
5.There are a certain set of micronutrients we need on a continuous basis (the exact amounts of which are up for debate but the ranges seem to be reasonably agreed upon).
6. Our diet influences our gut fauna and this further influences how much nutritional value we get from our diet, it is quite a symbiotic cycle.
7. Barring certain specific horomonal imbalance diseases, everyone's body largely abides by the above principles, (i.e as special as everyone thinks they are, they're probably more average than not when it comes their metabolism).
N=1 but in 2017 I lost over 100 pounds in 8 months by changing to a keto + IF diet and I've kept it off. I lost 10 pounds in 10 days and 20 pounds the first month. At around six weeks I became 'fat-adapted', a long-term metabolic transition to primarily burning fat instead of carbs (glucose) for energy. I didn't start with IF but at around that point I sort of fell into intermittent fasting because it just felt right. I'd heard about IF but never had it as a goal because it seemed impossible since I'd been hungry my whole life. But limiting carbs with keto controlled my blood sugar to the extent I was almost never hungry which made IF trivially easy. So if you're trying IF and struggling with hunger pangs, try managing blood sugar by reducing carb intake.
The combination of Keto+IF worked so well for me, for a while my calorie tracking switched from the usual preventing eating too many calories to ensuring I was getting enough, which was certainly never on my bingo card. After a lifetime of being a slave to hunger it was liberating to suddenly feel effortlessly in control of diet and my relationship with food changed completely. Then at around 90 days my palate shifted, meaning I even lost my taste for carbie foods. If I tried a small bite of something carb-laden that I'd loved my whole life, it didn't even taste particularly good to me anymore. I also became hyper-sensitive to sugar. Sugar-soaked foods just taste poisonously over-sweetened (which they kind of are). A slice of apple now tastes as sweet as I'd ever want, like a dessert that has extra sugar-added.
In the 8th month I reached below my ideal 'dream' weight and even saw abs appear for the first time in my life! I transitioned to maintenance mode but stayed keto because being in a blood sugar controlled state felt so amazing and not just physically but also mentally and emotionally. At around a year I went from strict keto to low carb for life which I still am 8 years later. When I started that was unimaginable. I saw keto as an onerous regimen that I'd endure if it worked and stop the second I wasn't overweight. But during the journey my metabolism, palate and food preferences changed so dramatically, I was basically a different person when I arrived. Those first few months when I was rigorously tracking every calorie in an app and managing intake with measuring cups and a kitchen scale felt like a burden but were actually invaluable skill-building. After a few months all that process became automatic so I didn't need to constantly track and by six months I got to the point where I don't even think about it consciously. That early rigor helped me get so in sync with my body and able to sense where my metabolism is in its natural cycles that now I just eat when necessary and convenient for my schedule. This often ends up being IF but it's not intentional on my part, which makes me think maybe IF patterns evolved in the hunter/gatherer era as part of our natural biological rhythms. Due to habit and carb-laden factory foods I'd never been able to access those rhythms until I made the conscious effort to break the patterns I'd been raised in.
Knowledge of leptin changes this because what you eat does actually matter. The goal should be intermittent fasting, where you eat little-to-no carbs about five consecutive days/week and then plenty of carbs two consecutive days/week. This approach ensures leptin levels in the obese body remain high enough to prevent onset of starvation mode while minimizing glucose levels to promote catabolic action on body fat [1].
The bottom line is: you're welcome to eat your Big Mac and beers, just only two days out of the week.
Also, stress has an important role to play on weight loss. Stress causes your adrenal glands to release cortisol. Cortisol increases glucose levels through gluconeogenesis by making glucose from non-carbohydrate sources, such as proteins from muscles.
Thanks for asking. I'll first explain the process (because I want to highlight why IF matters), and then I'll answer your question directly. It's going to take a little bit to properly elaborate, but I believe it's worth your time to read.
We first need to choose which of the following macronutrients contribute most to weight gain: protein, fat, or carbohydrates. Proteins (or, rather, amino acids) are not known for contributing to body fat in any significant manner. Fat was once thought to be the main contributor when calories--not carbohydrates--became accepted as fattening. However, modern science shows fat has little significant contribution to body fat and that the real contributor to body fat are carbohydrates. The discovery of leptin about 30 years ago finally shows why.
Carbs are sugars. Sugars, such as glucose, are the main source of fuel in the body, as they are eventually synthesized into ATP. Blood glucose levels are regulated by the hormone insulin. Elevated blood glucose levels increases insulin production, whereas low blood glucose decreases insulin production (with glucagon helping stabilize blood glucose levels). High insulin levels promotes anabolism, whereas low insulin levels promotes catabolism. Creating body fat is an anabolic process, whereas burning body fat is a catabolic process. Putting it all together, eating carbs inhibits the essential catabolic processes for burning fat.
While entirely cutting out carbs should be the answer, it's not. Many obese people report failure to lose weight on ketogenic diets. Why? The hormone leptin. See, leptin levels increase with insulin levels. Leptin signals the availability of energy reserves in the body. Adipose tissue (that is, body fat) is the primary producer of leptin. Importantly, leptin levels vary exponentially with body fat. The obese individual's body is so oversaturated with leptin, the body becomes resistant to leptin.
Decreased leptin levels will cause body fat to be burned. On a ketogenic diet, catabolic processes initially cause a reduction in body fat, which then decreases leptin production. Because the obese body has leptin resistance, the leptin production decrease is interpreted by the brain as a severe drop in available energy reserves, causing total energy expenditure to be immediately reduced and placing the body in "starvation mode." At this point, eliminating body fat actually becomes more difficult, as excess carbs become anabolized into body fat due to decreased energy expenditures.
So, to finally get to your question, how do carbs matter with respect to leptin? To lose weight over months and years, an obese person needs to eat carbs to (1) keep their leptin levels stable over the course of each week to prevent the body from entering starvation mode while (2) maximizing the efficacy of catabolic processes. As the body gradually recovers from its leptin resistance (which will likely take time), the body will shed fat without triggering the energy-minimization mode.
In this paradigm, your total energy expenditure determines how fast fat will be burned. According to the book "The Obesity Code", "total energy expenditure is the sum of basal metabolic rate, thermogenic effect of food, nonexercise activity thermogenesis, excess post-exercise oxygen consumption [(EPOC),] and exercise". Of these five factors, EPOC is mostly likely underutilized. A simple 10-minute HIIT routine every other day will regularly drive EPOC, which causes ATP synthesis. When an person isn't eating carbs, the body dips into fat stores to acquire the necessary glucose for ATP synthesis. Note that with this approach, exercise isn't strictly necessary but becomes extremely beneficial to maximize the efficacy of catabolic processes.
Intermittent fasting should work as long as the specific protocol doesn't decrease leptin levels such that the obese body enters starvation mode. In my opinion, the most workable approach for people is to try their best to completely eliminate carbs Monday-Friday, eat all the carbs they want on the weekends, and do the bare minimum of a 10-minutes HIIT routine every other day.
N=1 but I lost over 100 pounds in 8 months by changing to a keto diet with zero exercise (consciously going even more sedentary than I already was) and have kept it off for over eight years now. After I reached my ideal weight I restored exercise to my previous normal level (which is minimal but not absolutely sedentary). After a year I slowly transitioned from strict keto to low carb for life.
I feel great, look good and my health improved dramatically. Before changing I was on meds for pre-diabetes, high blood pressure and poor HDL/Trig along with having bad apnea and tectonic snoring. All resolved after 8 months and still off the meds today. In the prior decade I'd spent a lot of effort and money trying various diets, including medically supervised, but they were hard, stressful and none worked long term. Even though I've never been athletic or remotely a gym-rat, intentionally going sedentary was an unusual choice because I'd always heard "eat less, move more" but exercise made me hungrier. So when I got serious about doing keto hardcore, I decided to pause even the minimal token "faux exercise" like an occasional pleasure bike-ride or short walk on weekends.
Frankly, that occasional, brief exercise probably never did anything in terms of weight loss anyway but it did provide a psychological excuse to slip on diet. So eliminating that excuse and putting all my focus on diet may have been the main benefit of going zero exercise during my weight loss period. After I got below my target 'dream weight', I returned to my usual minimal exercise and since then it's increased even more because now I actually enjoy exercise. It turns out that exercise is a lot more fun when you're not obese and winded after 90 seconds! I think Keto worked for me when other diets hadn't because it's so strict but also brutally simple. I've also always liked the low carb foods like meats and cheeses.
As a significant and long-term success case, I'll share my personal "keys to keto success": 1. Commit to doing it hardcore for at least 30 days. 2. Rigorously track every molecule of food intake in a tracking app for the first month. Yep, get measuring spoons and a kitchen scale for weighing things. Think of it as a cool lab experiment and you're the rat. Get used to cooking at home and bringing lunch to work until you get the hang of the low carb lifestyle. 3. For the first week do not track calories, just limit carbs religiously. Seriously, stuff all the calories you want. Steaks drenched in butter and sour cream, a quarter pound of cheddar, whatever. Why? The first week is the hardest and this makes the transition easier. The calories will be much easier after you get control of your blood sugar by limiting carbs. 4. You MUST supplement electrolytes (sodium & potassium) for at least the first week. "Keto Flu" is real, excruciating and so easy to avoid. I didn't take all the warnings seriously and failed my first attempt at keto in utter misery after just 38 hours. 5. Start on a quiet weekend where you can just focus on this from Fri afternoon to Mon morning. 6. Absolutely, positively DO NOT CHEAT on carbs for the first 30 days. Keto is different because the first 3-ish days of transitioning off carbs are pretty hard. If you cheat, you'll keep having to redo some or all of that transition over and over. It's like crossing a wall of fire. You can get through it fine the first time with focus and planning but you definitely do not want to be wobbling back and forth through it. Keto works because strictly limiting carbs controls blood sugar which reduces hunger making cutting calories much easier. If you need to cheat, cheat on calories not on carbs.
It's not as hard as it sounds. Just get past the first month and it all gets a lot easier. The results come fast. I lost 10 pounds in 10 days and 20 pounds in 30, which provides a lot of motivation! At around six weeks I became 'fat-adapted' which is a long-term metabolic transition to primarily burning fat instead of carbs (glucose) for energy. It felt absolutely amazing in every way - physically, mentally and emotionally, like nothing I'd ever experienced before. I was mentally sharper, physically quicker and emotionally more grounded in a positive mode. Everything just felt and worked better in subtle but tangible, meaningfully real ways. It made me never want to go back to living inside a primarily carb-adapted metabolism. Of course, I hadn't physically craved carbs since the first month and by around 60 days my old habitual eating patterns and reflexes had faded. Then at around 90 days my palate shifted, meaning I even lost my taste for carbie foods. If I tried a small bite of something carb-laden that I'd loved my whole life, it didn't even taste particularly good to me anymore. I also became hyper-sensitive to sugar. Sugar-soaked foods just taste poisonously over-sweetened (which they kind of are). A normal apple now tastes as sweet as I'd ever want, like a dessert that has extra sugar-added.
For most of my life my weight was a metabolic mystery seemingly out of my control. Today, it's hard to even remember what it was like being a slave to my raging blood sugar and constant hunger. Now I feel closely attuned to my body. This makes my weight and appearance an almost trivial conscious choice. Fortunately, going low-carb is a lot easier today than when I started in 2017. There are many more delicious low-carb food choices at the grocery and everyone has heard of keto so it's not as weird. Even Wal-Mart has a selection of keto-breads and, recently, bagels! Standard disclaimer: Every metabolism is different and what worked so effectively for me may not work as well for you.
I'm working for the XWiki and CryptPad projects, which are integrated in openDesk. Here are a couple links / infos that can be interesting to understand the context of openDesk.
The openDesk project comes initially from an initiative of the Ministry of Interior of Germany in 2021, to build the alternative to Office 365. The project was progressively transferred in 2025 to a state-owned organization, the ZenDis (https://zendis.de), which oversees the global development of openDesk.
The source code is mainly available on https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendesk, where you will find mirrors of every project which is bundled into openDesk (Nextcloud, Collabora, Element, Univention, XWiki, Jitsi, OpenXchange, CryptPad, OpenProject, …)
There was also a couple public presentations about openDesk at FOSDEM during the past years :
I have adhd. The only way I can focus, is the keto diet. I encourage you to try a diet of low carb veggies, steak, chicken, nuts, and avocados. It might change your life.
Dopamine detox. Cut caffeine, porn, social media, unnecessary screen time, etc cold Turkey for 7 days. Hard - and temporary- but will give you a glimpse of what your focus COULD look like if you change your lifestyle.
It could be ADHD, or just your regular brain on years of "cheap dopamine" (or vitamin deficiency, or under-stimulating goals, or a dozen other things).
Exercise and periods of extreme boredom followed by some mellow stimulation (a good book, a conversation with an interesting person) never fail me.
I start with "extreme silence mode" - no music in the car, no podcasts, no checking social media. Just silently moving about my day. Tackling tasks if I can and giving myself silent rest in between.
From there, small achievements stack up and start an upwards spiral.
I feel like these articles come up all the time now. The advice is always the same (it's not rocket science), but people are either slowly defeated by their addiction, or they just don't really follow the advice in the first place.
Media (not phone or computer) addiction is the socially acceptable addiction of our time, just like alcohol formerly was. Most of this consumption is completely pointless, depressive and degrades your mental ability to stave off boredom and be creative. So many current problems in the world are caused (alongside inequality and many other causes) with our society-wide acceptance of this media addiction.
Right now, my colleague opposite me is using their phone to dick around on Facebook. They will spend 1 hour to 1.5 hours on it at work today (equivalent to 12% of their salary), with it sat there vibrating on the table every 3 minutes (you need 25 minutes of uninterrupted concentration to get into a flow state). You can see the Pavlov dog mechanism kick in every time it vibrates. This colleague makes tons of mistakes, distracts me and others, and this is deemed acceptable because everybody is in the same position.
It is wild to me that media technology companies achieve the valuations that they do, and only makes sense in a world where a huge portion of the population are hopelessly addicted.
Phones and computers are not the issue. You can have a smartphone, never install social media on it, untick all the notifications, put it in monochrome mode, and lock it down completely. That's how my phone is, and I spend on average less than 10 minutes per day using it.
People need to change their approach to boredom. If you're waiting in a queue, walking somewhere or on public transport, you need to find a way to fill that boredom without using the easy option. That easy option hooks you in, and before you know it you spend 4 hours a day on a phone. Just daydream, think about a project or an idea in your head. It's good for your brain.
If you want to try my phone setup:
- Android phone
- Permanently in monochrome mode, black wallpaper, white icons, minimalistic launcher (app drawer only)
- Zero social media, games, media apps. For hardcore dopamine resistance, uninstall music and podcasts as well. Boredom can be a good thing, and you don't need to fill your day with constant dopamine hits
- Disable built-in versions (like YouTube) in settings. Turn off Google discovery if you use that app
- All notifications disabled except communication (phone, email, message)
- For communication, unsubscribe from any non-urgent emails as soon as you receive them
- Bedtime mode, starting and ending at least 1 hour either side of sleep. Don't use your phone in the first or last hour of the day at all (you won't be using it at this point)
With this setup you get the benefit of a smartphone (useful utilities like maps, translation, web searches, digital tickets), without any further reason to check it. I don't really believe in the idea of going for a dumb (feature) phone because you lose useful utilities.
If you try and persist with this sort of setup for a month, even if you begin giving in after this point, you'll remember how much better things were and that will always provide an easy way back into it should the habit lapse.
Computers are tools for us to do things our brains aren't capable of. They are not things to hijack our lives, otherwise we may as well be simulations.
Not sure what the economic impact would be if everybody left social media, video games, and YouTube en masse tomorrow, considering how much growth the US (and therefore world) economy has seen from a handful of companies that provide the digital drugs.
My working theory is that abuse damages (and neglect stunts) the reward system and we interpret that as ADHD (as good a moniker as any).
Whereas people typically experience micro-rewards during the learning process, for people with ADHD, the reward response is too insufficient to reinforce learning. Without a proper reward system, a healthy learning system can't develop properly.
Some people firehose Will at the problem which may overcome an occasional challenge. That bandaid isn't sustainable, however.
In less poetic terms, the progression I talk about is "copy, choose, create". First, we learn to copy a solution. Later, we know enough solutions that we can choose the best for the situation and copy that one. Finally, we know enough to create our own solutions that are well adapted to the problem.
There's a quote I learned when doing theatre, which I've seen attributed to either the stage magician Doug Henning or possibly Stanislavski, describing the process of art as taking something that's difficult and making it habit, then taking something that's habitual and making it easy, and then taking something that's easy and making it beautiful.
For example, as an actor, you learn your lines by rote (they become habit), then you gain an understanding of the character's motivations (remembering the lines becomes easy, because of course that's what your character would say), then you work to tune your performance so the audience shares in the emotion and unspoken meaning of the lines (that's beautiful/art).
As this relates to software, I think it goes something like: you learn the magic incantation to make the computer do what you want (solving a hard task becomes habit), then you learn why that incantation works (solving it becomes easy), then you figure out better ways to solve the problem, such that the original friction can be removed completely (you find a more beautiful way to solve it).
- You are unable to verify that your ideas are logical and not just feelings (i.e. the feeling of something being logical, the feeling of x and y being related, etc). The confusion between fact, logic and feelings is all so common in ASC
- You are unable to get a third party view on those ideas (language is the only form of telepathy we are capable of)
I don't think it's enterprise deals. I think it's communication at scale, internally. Imagine a company of m employees as a giant m*m matrix of communication slots, with a 1 for regular close communication, a 0 for no communication at all, and a 0.5 for those hallway meetings that we are assured by our CEO's are why RTO is so important (this would be those backchannels if you RTFA).
A small company, (let's say, below Dunbar's Number) has a matrix of almost all 1's just naturally. But as the company grows that matrix gets sparser and sparser- by the time you get to something like Google (180k employees plus roughly that many again contractors) you have almost all 0's with only a few 1's scattered through it. But information still needs to flow through the company, from outside a given two pizza team in, e.g. "build this not that," or from the team out, e.g "this project sucks and needs to die," or from the side, e.g. "Group Digut solved that problem that you are facing, use this package they wrote" or more personal things, e.g. "employee 24601 is awesome and needs more responsibility."
But that information is actually hugely important to the company, in an important sense all of that information is the company. So important that companies formalize the responsibilities of that information flow with managers, and formalize processes for this information to flow, so that they ensure that something is happening for all of those- that's what planning processes and promo packets and the like are all about. They are trying to make the information flow legible- the responsibility of a specific person in a specific way.
Inertia is a thing. Parquet and ORC and all the myriad of other formats all exist with ecosystems and things. For this to succeed they’d have to seed the community with connectors and libraries and hooks into things to make it easy to use.
Plugins for DudckDB for example to read and write to it. Heck if you got Iceberg to use it instead of parquet that could be a win.
Sometimes tech doesn’t win on the merits because of how entrenched existing stuff is and the high cost of switching.
Peter Winkler shares some great variations of this: "Boy Born on Tuesday" (p. xix) and "Men with Sisters" (p. xxii) in "Mathematical Puzzles".
"Mrs. Chance has two children of different ages. At least one of them is a boy born on Tuesday. What is the probability that both of them are boys?"
(note: it is a puzzle, not a biology or data demography problem. so there are 50/50 independence assumptions on gender and uniform day of week assumptions prior to adding the conditioning.)
Douglas Adams on age and relating to technology:
"1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
From 'The Salmon of Doubt' (2002)