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by mosura 11mo ago
Software people, especially coming through Rust, are falling into the old trap of believing if code is bug free it is reliable: it isn’t because there is a world of faults outside, including but not limited to the developer intentions. This
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Adobe to acquire digital marketing platform Semrush for $1.9B(theverge.com)
5 points by mosura 11mo ago|1 comments
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by mosura 11mo ago
If laptops really were as ubiquitous as cellphones they would end up regulated the same way.
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by mosura 11mo ago
You are under the erroneous impression IT would be fired for leaking keys and not simply impose a new process that blames everyone else. And this is in Fortune 500 of course.
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by mosura 11mo ago
One notable example was signing keys for builds for distribution actually. And IT had a habit of handing them out to absolutely everyone. Being able to audit who did the signing was done in spite of IT who could, of course, never be persuad
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by mosura 11mo ago
The opposite was/is true. If your cloud box can only be used by two people and IT don’t even know about it then IT can never be persuaded to provide the keys to the rest of the company as they were predisposed to doing. I saw this stuf
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by mosura 11mo ago
No the value was bypassing IT. You no longer needed them to approve a new machine, you just spun it up how you want. Sped things up massively for a while.
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by mosura 11mo ago
This is the kind of opinion you can only hold if you never had to develop for Netscape.
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by mosura 11mo ago
Merely reducing external dependencies causes people to come out in rashes. A large proportion of “developers” enjoy build vs buy arguments far too much.
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Phillips Machine – Monetary National Income Analogue Computer(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by mosura 1y ago|1 comments
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Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division(bbc.com)
379 points by mosura 1y ago|521 comments
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by mosura 1y ago
Not sure the replies to that comment help the cause at all.
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by mosura 1y ago
Look at one of the other comments: > in case people don't read all the way to the end, the important takeaway is "you simply can't afford to do instant global state distribution" This is what people saw as the key tak
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by mosura 1y ago
Someone needs to read about ant colony optimization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization_algori... This blog is not impressive for an infra company.
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by mosura 1y ago
The other commenters in here oblivious to the history of companies like Amazon and Google. Profit is what you have when you have no confidence in how to reinvest what you earn already.
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by mosura 1y ago
I hope they actually stick with this. Swift embedded, for example, is a sort of proof of concept more than viable platform, and you end up battling that more than the problem you are trying to solve. It is a shame because aesthetically Swif
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President Trump Pardons Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao(bbc.com)
89 points by mosura 1y ago|2 comments
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by mosura 1y ago
The relabeling of existing ICBM designs as space rockets is much easier when you have up to date ICBM designs.
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by mosura 1y ago
> I think more likely you would need to get worried if someone got one scalable to hundreds or thousands of logical qubits and then stopped publishing. Consider the likelihood of managing that without alerting the authorities to what is
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by mosura 1y ago
If anyone had made meaningful progress on QC in that time there is no way knowledge of it would be allowed to be public. It is one of those domains where success would land you in a gilded prison.
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by mosura 1y ago
> I'll never buy a nazi car, used or new I don’t see what the Volkswagen Beetle has to do with EV reselling.
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by mosura 1y ago
I can’t help feeling this technology will end up more widely deployed for a related but less wholesome application.
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by mosura 1y ago
> would impose different speed limits on different cars, depending on whether they are affiliated with the road management company or not. With the state as road management company and public transit as state affiliated then the answer i
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by mosura 1y ago
> We lived for a while in a world where reporters cared about the truth about the events they were reporting on. You only lived in a world where you couldn’t tell that they didn’t. All that changed is your awareness of their biases.
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by mosura 1y ago
Religion. The fact there is intense disagreement about what is “obviously true” between countries shows that this is still happening. The beliefs of the masses are simply shaped to suit political interests. Concrete example: “boys should be
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by mosura 1y ago
> most people with some basic education agreed on most things that were obviously true Indoctrination. Part of it is to make you not see it for what it is.
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by mosura 1y ago
How long does this actually take?
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by mosura 1y ago
We never lived in a truth biased world. This whole “post-truth” talking point exists because one power system is concerned about the erosion of their ability to impose their pile of lies on a particular society. It is itself post-truth in n
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by mosura 1y ago
One of the slightly buried stories here is BrowserBase themselves. Great stuff.
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by mosura 1y ago
Sorry I didn’t mean to express doubt they are behind this. What I don’t understand is why the community are so freaked out by this given the incentives are very much for Shopify to ensure it operates properly.

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