You're seeing the same thing with the United States of America's attempt to re-industrialize. You can't just vertically integrate again after outsourcing. Once you outsource a business function, it has to be completely redeveloped in-house from scratch if you want it back. That's because all the process knowledge is lost. It sticks with the employee and doesn't transfer except through apprentice style, hands-on tutelage. That or you go the much slower trial and error route at even greater expense. At larger scales where a whole sector has deskilled, you run into missing supply chains which require you to bootstrap even taller verticals.
I think he overplays his, "No good engineer will want to work at your toaster company." It's not that good engineers will walk (some will but not all), but what would they practice all day? They'll spend all their time implementing product and marketing demands based on what they can source because that's what most of the company now does. They won't be tinkering with production lines, tooling, or fabrication where they would spend their time thinking about how to improve the things that make a more functional toaster. I mean, we had much better toasters in the past. You'll end up retraining your engineers who know how to build a toaster into engineers who know how to source a toaster.
I've dropped my Clownflare "CDN" mirror and plan to move my authoritative DNS off as soon as I find the time to do all the work involved (managing your own DNSSEC is a bit of a pain, but look what taking the lazy way out did). Really sorry for this gross invasion of privacy. If you've been using ve3zsh.ca you weren't impacted by this.
Most interesting to me was the claim that around a fifth of the system needs to be in exploration to prevent monoculture collapse. Their graph showed that at 30% you had 100% surviving diversity. Where exactly where did this data come from? What was the methodology? Why is it so linear? I'm most curious because if it's a robust figure, it should translate to the myriad of systems we have plagued by diversity collapse.
Other than that, a lot of good data points under one roof looking at our monoculture problem across verticals.
I kind of feel bad sharing this from my lecture backlog because it seems every professional YouTube creator is suddenly talking about how AI and compression are related. However, here's a video not in that sphere of influence if you, like me, just really want to know more about the nerdy details involved in compression applications in real, well, applications. Things like using UDP packet lengths as a way of encoding extra zero bytes between packets.
If you're interested in the state of the art, I know Fabrice Bellard released v3.3 of NNCP not too long ago. Just know, it's probably not a good daily driver. It's designed for maximum compression over English text with less regard for the memory and time required. Again, compression is all an intelligence game.
I don't do a lot of animating, but this technique makes it really approachable. I love the game animator's Hippocratic Oath, "First, do no harm to the gameplay."
Can confirm, this is absolutely the way. Run events for communities you're involved with over years. It's totally worth it for all the social benefits it bestows even if it means donating half your PTO or some of your hobby money to make it happen.
