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I suspect it’s such a hidden part of the whole process of using a computer that few repercussions are felt. Not only hidden, but mostly does its job these days
by sliverstorm 9y ago
I suspect it’s such a hidden part of the whole process of using a computer that few repercussions are felt.
Not only hidden, but mostly does its job these days, and has been ignored by everyone so they can get on to writing "Uber but with ML".
There's a shocking amount of stuff like that, made decades ago and still there just because... well, it's still working.
- hinkley 9y agoThe plot of one of Vernor Vinge’s books involves a man who has been in cryo sleep for a couple hundred years. When he wakes up their (essentially) IoT devices are still running his code under layers and layers of abstraction. He promptly hijacks all of them and ultimately uses them to avert a conspiracy (and susbtitite an ethically more defensible one of his own).