I personally think memory management on client/endpoint systems really matters and needs innovation on the algorithmic and OS-design side. There are very big potential gains in reducing memory requirements on mobile/low-power systems. The gap between minimal embedded microcontroller based systems (a la hybrid) and full-fledged OS based systems is getting too big, and there should be potential for a more memory-efficient full OS. For example paging-/swap-algorithms and mechanisms are still quite primitive, and it seems like compressed memory isn't used widely yet. And I believe there is some significant innovation required instead of just adding pieces to the existing designs (as in zswap using part of memory as a compressed swap-space).
I guess what decade the haber process is from depends on whether you date it from its proof of concept or from its application on an industrial scale. The larger point that Nate's list focuses way too much on highly visible things versus for abstract fundamental processes is definitely true. The amount of fundamental medical research that happened in the 2000's due to emerging genetics technology is massive but can't be neatly summarized into one thing. Also agreed that the dude really went of the rails -- certainly during COVID although I'm pretty sure it started before then. I truly don't know what happened -- he had his only analytical biases but he seemed very stably not batshit insane from 2011 to like 2017 at least.
Can I just say as a member of "so-called" Generation X, this thumbnail is the best thumbnail EVAR! 🔥
Gen Z here, what is it referencing? 😂 I don't get it
@@BeepDerpify Mystery Science Theater 3000
Nate seems like he would only reward feature work and ignore maintenance / keep-the-lights-on work if he were a tech manager.
LMAO
I personally think memory management on client/endpoint systems really matters and needs innovation on the algorithmic and OS-design side. There are very big potential gains in reducing memory requirements on mobile/low-power systems. The gap between minimal embedded microcontroller based systems (a la hybrid) and full-fledged OS based systems is getting too big, and there should be potential for a more memory-efficient full OS. For example paging-/swap-algorithms and mechanisms are still quite primitive, and it seems like compressed memory isn't used widely yet.
And I believe there is some significant innovation required instead of just adding pieces to the existing designs (as in zswap using part of memory as a compressed swap-space).
I guess what decade the haber process is from depends on whether you date it from its proof of concept or from its application on an industrial scale. The larger point that Nate's list focuses way too much on highly visible things versus for abstract fundamental processes is definitely true. The amount of fundamental medical research that happened in the 2000's due to emerging genetics technology is massive but can't be neatly summarized into one thing. Also agreed that the dude really went of the rails -- certainly during COVID although I'm pretty sure it started before then. I truly don't know what happened -- he had his only analytical biases but he seemed very stably not batshit insane from 2011 to like 2017 at least.
Luckily, the 2020 decade is not over yet, so that tweet cannot compare its innovations & discoveries vs 1920s which has quantum mechanics in it.