Are servers hosted on fediverse open to being indexed by search engines otherwise I doubt it can replace reddit. Reddit did discussion threads , subs, and searchable results from search engines really well. It was a really great version of "forums" . I am not sure fediverse or Discord can do such things.
I was very sad too when it finished. But I think it had one of the best runs and ending possible. I wouldnt have wanted it any other way.
One thing I loved about that era of computing is that it was possible to know the whole computer from the bottom up. I dont think it will now ever be possible.
I realize that you might not see my reply, as it's been over a week, but I agree with you. Approaching my mid-40s, I learned about computers through Atari 8-bit systems. Even just working with Atari BASIC back then, there was so much you could do compared to high-level languages now. We may be in trouble eventually when the hackers of old have passed on, and we're left with the need to move away from current computer architectures due to limitations, and the number of people able to invent and work with low-level tech are few and far between.
Twitter spaces are awful however and are also not easily recorded and can't be used easily on any device. (You need to go to some kind of youtube link from one of the participants to listen to a recording.) Also their twitter talks are more unfocused rants by the participants with little focus. So it's hard to listen to. I'm sure it's more fun for the participants, but not so much for the listeners. You also lose the comfort of consistency of participants.
Some of them have even been delving into some of the participants personal politics as well which is just something I'm not interested in hearing.
We've turned it into a podcast as well, so you should be able to enjoy it wherever you consume podcasts.[0]
While there may be some unfocused rants in there (sorry, I guess?), there's also a lot of extraordinary technical content -- certainly, if anyone else has described their board bringup experiences in as explicit technical detail as we have in [1] and [2], I would love to be pointed to it!
Thanks for the link for a podcast version. That's helpful. I did listen to those two talks earlier and those were probably the most interesting. I did dislike that there seemed to be a constant process of interrupting each other in the middle of someone telling a story so the story became quite fragmented as it took some time to come back to the topic (or the topic was forgotten entirely and never elaborated on after the interruption).
Another thing that ended up being frustrating is repeated references to some image and I had to pause and go digging through people's personal twitter accounts to try and find the image that was being talked about. There seemed to be an assumption that the listener follows all employees personal twitter accounts.
There's also audio quality issues in general as it's not nearly as good a quality of media equipment as was used for the original on the metal podcast. (Maybe it's similarly cheap equipment, but it was better quality before regardless.)
I love those little interruptions. Like when a guest is speaking on a topic and they bring up a name or company of the past. And that segues into another bit of SV lore.
The Oxide Twitter spaces are recorded and distributed as a podcast [1]. If you're not a fan of the content it won't help but it's at least more convenient to consume than through Twitter.
That's such a shame. I've tried listening to those recordings and it's hard to follow without the context of the "Twitter Space" which I'm not even sure what is because I don't use Twitter. The audio quality is also quite grating to listen to.
Would love recommendations for in depth, tech related podcasts that stand on their on, like On The Metal.
IMO the recordings stand just fine on their own. Even when I'm in the Twitter space live, I'm certainly not looking at tweets or anything else that's happening on the screen, unless I want to talk.
We're (obviously!) huge fans of On the Metal[0] too (and the episode you cite with Ken was indeed extraordinary[1]!) -- but we have come to like our Oxide and Friends[2] Twitter Space even more. The reasons why are manifold, and really merit their own long-form piece, but as a few examples of episodes that show why we find it so compelling, see "Tales from the Bringup Lab"[3], "Theranos, Silicon Valley, and the March Madness of Tech Fraud"[4], "Another LPC55 Vulnerability"[5], "The Sidecar Switch"[6], "The Pragmatism of Hubris"[7], "Debugging Methodologies"[8], or "The Books in the Box"[9].
There's tons more where that came from; if you are a fan of On the Metal, I don't think you'll be disappointed -- and it has the added advantage that you join a future conversation!
Yes, that's in the works: we have a website redesign coming up, and this was included in it. So stay tuned!
And the 5 minute announcement on the On the Metal feed is a great idea; thanks for the idea -- and for the kind words.
Finally, I hasten to add: we have a really exciting Space coming up on Monday[0], where we'll be joined by Jon Masters to talk about the importance of integrating hardware and software teams; join us!
It is just one of the legs of diversification. India is also investing heavily into Na-ion batteries. It already has swathes of solar farms and twenty two working nuclear reactors and 13 more in the pipeline .
India will regret the money wasted on the nukes, and mothball them as they turn out to be unable to find bids for power at a price they can afford to offer.
Some will be kept operating at a loss for a while, as ego props.
This is a very poor analogy. The benefit Linux is offering is marginal and even in terms of cost which can be recuperated or rather offset by hiring more professionals .
There was a post some years back on HN. The child had a rare disease and the parents were engineers. Eventually they took up studying medicine and pharmaceutical and started working on the cure them selves. If anyone could link that post I think it will be very helpful. I havent been able to locate that post till now. Maybe those parents can help you out in some way.
