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Gordon Moore has died
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#192How incredible is it, that I'm writing software on a laptop, connected to the internet over wifi, all while being 38,000 feet in the air. And all this enabled by billions of tiny transistors made from sand. And to make this all the more surreal, I'm sitting next to someone who knew him. Thank you Gordon Moore. RIP.
> all while being 38,000 feet in the air I was pushing code while on a transatlantic flight the other day and I got a little overwhelmed with just how cool it was. There I was in a metal tube staying aloft with 2 jet engines, and had wifi at 30k feet while traveling at ~600 mph.
And all of this..all of us..basically coalesced from star dust that will one day again be star dust :)
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not to diminish your list, but notably they're all non scientific, there's a push with Kissinger. (One could see economics as a science) Point being: they only serve the generation who survive them, Moore, will outlive us all, in fact and in legacy. Edit: What I said isn't true, music, movies and arts will outlive us. We have different lists.
> music, movies and arts will outlive us. Will they? Who watches old movies?
Peter Parker for one.
> Hey guys, you ever see that really old movie, The Empire Strikes Back
As a kid I watched many films from my parent's generation. Mary Poppins (1964) or Great Escape (1963) come to mind as being staples every christmas -- Great Escape on boxing day especially
A generation before that people watched "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) for much the same reason.
I've subjected my kids to a few old films from well before they were born, but they were films from my youth -- Bill and Ted, Back to the Future, Men in Black, Muppet Christmas Carol etc. And yes they've seen Star Wars, which was from before I was born (just), but that's an ongoing franchise.
I don't see them watching films from the 1960s like I did though, and I doubt they'll make their kids sit through films from the 90s.
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#194I'm a little curious, is there a reason why the ultra rich, once they've cashed out, create foundations that hand out grants? Is it because they suddenly find themselves wanting to do something good for society with the money or just because that is what everyone in that situation does? Is there a ranking of what foundations have done the most good work? Is that ever evaluated? Anyway rest in peace Gordon Moore, a tr…
They've been through the struggle themselves, and especially in the tech sector, they must've been very interested in their specific field to devote their life to building a large business around it.
Thus when they find themselves with the time and money to support new innovators, they end up handing out grants as that's an easy way to support fundamental research of the sort that they too once did.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just watched Some Like It Hot (1959) a few weeks ago. Great comedy, looks phenomenal in 4K
I watch old ones, too, but always by myself. Nobody else wants to. It's always "eww, black and white!" Often they're right. They'd be much more watchable with an AI that could sharpen the picture and colorize it.
I don’t know. Sometimes poor contrast black and white film does really well for the atmosphere/vibe/whatever the hell you want to call it.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
I sometimes make myself a mental list of famous people who are expected to die soon. The following people will all die in the next few years: Jimmy Carter (98), Henry Kissinger (99), Dick Cheney (82), Pope Francis (86), Paul McCartney (80), John Williams (91), William Shatner (92), and Ali Khamenei (83).
Warren Buffett (92)
And Charlie Munger (99) is still somehow doing press junkets.
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#199Rest in peace. Truly, one of the giants upon whose shoulders we all stand.
Poor guy considering the obesity epidemic.
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#200I qofte dheu i lehte.