Gemini is all over the place for me. Nano Banana produces some great images. Today I asked Gemini to design a graphic based on the first sheet in a Google sheet. It produced a graphic with a summary of the data and a picture of a bed sheet. Nailed it.
For the first time in years I'm working somewhere that doesn't use JIRA or Trello and find myself without a Kanban system. I'm having serious withdrawals. I have limitations on using a non-approved IT system because I use customer data so I vibed a PWA Kanban system. Stores data in browser and only vanilla code. No external dependencies.
I was in the same boat in December. My 2013 MBP was starting to show its age and I was hesitant to go with a new MBP because of the new processors. I ty
I too would be interested to view these models. Coming from a rural background, people in my hometown still have gardens and hunt/fish. We're one, maybe two, generations removed from people producing most of their own food. I don't see how cities deal when they can't refrigerate food and the supply chain is interrupted.
> I don't see how cities deal when they can't refrigerate food and the supply chain is interrupted.
A large majority of people, including all but the youngest children in the developed world are healthy enough to survive just fine on zero calories for a week as long as they have clean water. You wouldn’t have zero calories and that’s probably enough time to start milling animal feed corn and processing other animal feed into something edible by humans. The developed world is well capable of feeding itself even in very bad situations. This is a coordination problem and in catastrophes people do not turn into locusts. They pull together. See WW2 in all combatant nations. I’d expect high mortality among the very young, very old and very sick and well over 90% survival rates four most of the developed world besides those groups.
Yeah, that's what I'm getting at. I don't see how it can fall apart of it's mostly self sustaining. There are still loads of people in my hometown that don't have power. What are they gonna lose if society falls apart? lol
Lots of the local trucks run on vegetable oil so they don't even need a working supply chain for diesel. It'll be an inconvenience but it's no death.
On top of that, a huge amount hunt and fish like you said and have hundreds of pounds of meat for a year or two with only 2-4 deer which breed like locusts.
For sure, a lot of rural people are much closer to and have actual living practical knowledge of farming and hunting. However, I wonder if there are really enough resources to support them. Two concerns, short term and long term.
Short term, depending on the season, it could be over a year before sustainable crops can be grown to eat. Best case, it happens in early spring, and everyone can go immediately till and plant as many acres as possible, presuming they have the seeds. And the stored fuel and sufficient labor to prepare the extra ground, fell trees and turn them to fields, etc. Even then, what is the fastest-maturing crop, 10 weeks? A long few months to live on the scraps in your no-longer-working refrigerator. And if it happens too late in the growing season? yikes, but less bad for those in more temperate climates.
Hunting? If everyone even in small towns started hunting for food, including out of season, most food species would be hunted to local extinction in short order.
Longer term, is there really enough to sustain more than a small population? I recall one rule of thumb of 20+ acres/household just to have wood to heat with (an acre/year, 20 years to regrow). With little tech, we'd pretty quickly be back to 98% of the population doing primarily farming activities.
Cities? Sure, everyone would help each other, but what other things stop working when there is no electricity? Water, refrigeration, fuel pumps, heating systems. The populations of cities are so dependent on just-in-time or constant supplies, I have a hard time seeing how they survive in any numbers unless massive aid can be immediately mobilized and sustained, which would be very tough if all the cities are out of power at once...
Well if us city dwellers will turn into savages due to lack of any food, the first thing we will turn into is go out to those nice farming communities for food. Obviously if your nearest big town is 500-1000km away then you're OK for some time. Maybe.
I remember taking business ethics in college. The professor told us to keep a dirt file on our bosses in case we ever needed to retaliate. He got really upset when I challenged him
on it. I understood his point but I found it extremely ironic.
I'm giving you an upvote. Look around your house and count the number of linux kernels running. My count is 6 that I know about. I haven't seen the actual vulnerable code submitted to know how critical the vulnerabilities are but I believe these grad students are liable both civilly and criminally. Not advocating for mob justice but there needs to be more than a slap on the wrist. For those of us who live and breath software security everyday this is kind of a big deal.
I don't agree this is the way to fix the bigger problem, which is the acceptance that every commit to the kernel is done in good faith. As mentioned in another comment, I believe having these grad students to take a look at the ethical impacts of their research is a way forward. Another would be to somehow cast some blame into their supervisor, which should know more.
I understand that what they did was, and is bad and shouldn't be done. However how many other people do not also purposely submit buggy patches? In the end of the day, this happening just show vulnerabilities of the merging system itself.
I think we disagree on the bigger problem. In my view the bigger problem is the erosion of trust for open source. Over the last 10-ish years there has been a flood of research and marketing around open source software security. I wrote a white paper about it back in 2011. We know there are risks in open source and we know vulnerabilities are created both intentionally and accidentally. We also know open source maintainers are overworked and human. There will be mistakes and we must prepare for them. This is the reason why the fine folks at Sonatype, Snyk, and WhiteSource have jobs.
These grad students wanted to make a splash and went after one of the most important code bases on the planet. It stopped being an ethical problem when the kernel maintainers had to manually search for vulnerabilities. They are using hours that could be used elsewhere. The Linux Foundation is paying Greg Kroah-Hartman to solve this problem, so they have a financial loss due to the actions of these grad students. There's your civil liability. They "knowingly cause(d) the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer" so there's your criminal liability from the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. There's probably criminal liability in the state where they live as well.
The issue isn’t that every commit and committer is treated in good faith. They aren’t.
The issue is that U of Minnesota, and universities in general, had a good standing reputation with the Linux kernel group. Students at the University can still submit patches, but not currently with the strength of institutional credibility standing behind them.
Knowing who to trust and updating your trust when you’re wrong is part of healthy security.
I agree, I think they should be looking at criminal charges. This is the equivalent of getting a job at Ford on the assembly line and then damaging vehicles to see if anyone notices. I've been in software security for 13 years and the "Is Open Source Really Secure" question is so over done. We KNOW there is risk associated with open source.
This is not an absolute rule, but in general I see the path not being Y shaped but P shaped. Even if you stay technical you're going to end up managing something. Could be people, could be a process, could be creative, but your expertise is going to diverge away from writing code on a daily basis. I've been a consultant for about 12 years and even though I'm technical I still end up managing some stuff for clients.
> Running code reviews, making designs, reviewing other designs, evaluating architecture, picking libraries and patterns...
That's got me thinking, how much managing does leadership entails? All of these activities are incredibly valuable, and indeed require technical leadership skills, but what's also challenging is to make sure they are conducted continually and in accordance to defined processes. Is that something incumbent to the technical leader? If not leadership may not "happen" unless there's a manager involved.
I agree it's an important distinction that unfortunately gets conflated at many companies. Most of my experience is in top-down big companies where leadership is a skill, not a position. Maybe when I grow up I can work at a company that makes the distinction.
