Was surprised Steve Jobs wasn't in there, I thought that was like 6k votes

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Turns out he's rocking the passed away list rather than the has died list. Find your niche and own it, fitting

It's 4.3k actually btw, would be second to Stephen Hawking unless Bram gets a few hundred more votes and takes second place. I'd never have guessed the vim author would get close to the apple founder. Probably the wrong morbid thing to speculate on, but this surprise makes me wonder what legends like Carmack or Gates will get

> Some 43% of professionals were using ChatGPT or other AI tools as of January

That's way higher than I would have thought.

Literally hours after your post I'm reading this: Founder of GrapheneOS Daniel Micay hit with a Swatting Attempt https://nitter.takebackourtech.org/i/status/1650947535500898...

As the article mentions, this is for assisted GPS. I've worked quite a bit with this system on android and implemented (or rather fixed) it for a custom android device. I've also worked with separate Qualcomm modems in the past. They are basically a whole small Linux computer in a package. You supply voltage, antennas, and connect via serial or USB, and then you can send AT commands to control it.

On the one hand it wouldn't surprise me if the Qualcomm modem accesses the network on it's own - it very much wants to be a black box - on the other hand I doubt this story for two reasons:

- WiFi is implemented on the Android side. In all Android implementations I've seen, the WiFi module is part of the SoC or a separate chip, and Android runs the regular wpa_supplicant and so on. The chip cannot see the contents of packages, it only passes the bytes to the MAC (not sure if it is called that with WiFi).

(Now, of course in the case of a SoC the chip could, with driver support, peel back the encryption and inject it's own traffic, just like some IPMIs can share an ethernet connection with the OS. I just have not seen this yet.)

- In Android, it is usually the responsibility of the OS to fetch the AGPS data / almanach. You have a HAL consisting of a proprietary library (.so) that you get from the GPS vendor, some glue code, and a gps.conf. The gps.conf file lists the URLs to get the AGPS data. I'm not sure if the download is performed in the .so or in Java code, but anyway it is totally in the OS and not in the modem, at least in the cases I know. When a custom ROM, even a "degoogled" one, is made, you include a customized kernel and custom drivers, and the AGPS URLs are part of this "driver".

I'm not sure what your use case is that only rust and gonare options, but is unusual.

NIM supports concurrency and is as portable as the c and js it can generate to.

C#/F# work on x86 and arm which covers most targets today. And supports concurrency. And is situationally more performant than go.

I can't speak to the other languages mentioned, but they all seem quite similar to go as well, except for haskell.

Rust is more like c, c++, zig, ada etc.

Java literally has a synchronized keyword and it literally runs on your SIM/bank card, was originally created for DVD players, and runs on every major OS. Plus it used to have 20 years ago as well, but has right now also ways to produce a single native binary.

Rust is a low-level language, quite similar in the target niches to C++, while Go is a managed language with a barely-optimizing compiler for fast compile times, and a GC that prioritizes latency over throughput. They are nothing alike.

So does Java, C#, D, Nim, Haskell, OCaml, and a litany of other languages.