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“Ed occasionally makes a few uniquely good points (I particularly enjoyed some of his takes on OpenAI’s overly dramatic PR misdirections), but the show is unfortunately almost entirely misinformed drivel. A great example of this is the CrowdStrike episode, in which Ed faults managerial cost-cutting for an alleged failure to catch a null-pointer dereference, which he describes as a rookie error. There’s simply no evidence for the cost-cutting claim, and if it were so easy to catch memory errors like null-pointer dereferences in all cases in unsafe programming languages (or if it were so easy to switch everything to safe languages), then the world would be literally hundreds billions of dollars richer. It’s not necessarily Ed’s fault that he didn’t know the specific technical root cause of the CrowdStrike disaster the day after it happened, but it was irresponsible for him to opine about it so confidently yet so wrongly. I also found it quite disturbing how in his conversation with Cory Doctorow and some other guy whose name I forget, the three of them express support without a hint of irony for the proposition that the government should spend large amounts of public money to pursue lawsuits to make consumer products worse for end users so long as doing so nebulously “improves competition”. There are absolutely instances of monopoly abuse in the technology sector (Qualcomm and Nvidia are prime examples), but it’s undoubtedly easier “to compete” against a product that the government has artificially hobbled by making any useful differentiation illegal. So-called “Big Tech” is not monolithic, nor should it be.”
GabrielJC20 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/14/24
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“I appreciate ads pay for podcasts, but this many and all irrelevant is shocking. No point in paying for it when I listen to about 3 a year - just perfecting my skipping forward instead”
keribeal via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
09/13/24
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“I appreciate the critical approach to tech coverage and the host seems well versed on the topic. But he speaks in the cadence of a conservative talking head. He imbues everything with personal insults and moralism. A blow hard is a blow hard regardless of their point.”
katie.267 via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
05/18/24
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“It’s started strong, but now it seems like the same three talking points again and again. Doesn’t seem to be enough content for a twice a week show. That said, the good episodes are really good and it is consistently entertaining.”
Aaron Troye-White via Apple Podcasts ·
Norway ·
08/17/24
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