nologic01

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by nologic01 3y ago
solving a paradox sometimes requires thinking out of the box repatriation is not the global solution, it applies to mature and large companies the dimension to explore is co-ownership of infrastructure by multiple independent companies, bot
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Worth reading even just for this reminder: "The iterative experimentation that eventually birthed the commercial Internet was delayed until the 1990s not because the technology wasn’t ready - the underlying infrastructure had been inve
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its takes a few seconds parsing all the accounts/folders (as I have an indecent amount of email) but it never had any trouble finding things
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Local copies of all the different webmail accounts and ability to search through that massive information overload in a unified way. What else can one possibly ask? Maybe some local AI to help sort out things just bit more :-) Its a blessin
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surveillance capitalism is not "left leaning". get out of your bubble and start thinking
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Its not just social media. Search is also extremely important. Whether alternatives are open source or commercial it is not so important. Certainly good quality open source solutions would force commercial enterprise to "work for the m
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Some important takeaways, which are nevertheless not surprising: * its not about political affiliation (confidence drop higher in right-leaning groups)[1] * it is about education, the least educated show less confidence drop * it is a
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Today is United Nations day. Which reminds me that the self-appointed techno-optimism Pope has declared Sustainable Development Goals the enemy. I don't know what is brewing in VC land, probably something totally inane like assuming et
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Alas, feels like signaling to support the overheated hype and trillion dollar valuation. Real competition in this space would be really good. The shape of mass computing is inceasingly a tortured collusion game rather than a true market. An
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Quite a few people seem to be using github as a place to put a cv. Social media behaviors are creeping in, slowly but surely. The path from here to "Are you currently hiring?" and "You had so many people looking at your profi
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good quality software (say, based on well designed, documented, tested etc. building blocks) can lower costs and improve speed to delivery in the longer run (less need to refactor, fewer bugs, easy to reuse, extend etc. etc.) the trouble, e
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Security is indeed an important dimension because it holds the key (pun) for ever more important applications. I agree that a more detailed, like-for-like comparison of software qualities across decades needs to be very careful. Application
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your comment made me think that despite the main thrust of my comment, this trajectory is not completely money driven [1]. the incredible journey of the hardware side of technology (cpu speed, memory size, network bandwidth etc) has also pl
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yep. but also mundane and cyclical factors like the much higher cost of money after decades of ZIRP are likely to "encourage" people to do more with less.
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Leaner, cleaner, less buggy, more secure, more performant, longer-lived code is obviously entirely possible. If people managed to do it at the dawn of the information age surely they can do it today, with multiple decades of massive experie
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Its inherent to hierarchical organizations. To get to the top of the pyramid you literally have to step on human bodies. You need both very thick skin and little empathy for others as these are traits that will hold you back. Managing peopl
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It is a powerful tool but like other tools in this space (think e.g., pandas) it needs some serious getting used to, it is not the most intuitive user interface. What was dissapointing last time I used it is arguably not a problem of openre
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In a sense we might think of this fascinating story as a sign that we are past "peak unsustainability". Remaining pristine areas will serve as nuclei for a new period of rewilding and healing the planet while we make smarter use o
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It is anybody's guess what the future will bring, but on past form GPU programming will remain a niche for specific highly-tuned (HPC) applications and mere mortals can focus on somewhat easier multi-core CPU programming instead. The m
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Differential Geometric Processing Unit would do it for me.
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you would need to add alpine.js or something equivalent though. there is nothing wrong with a few core libraries that are long-lived, thoroughly debugged and understood etc.
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Software simply mirrors the development of modern society. Highly complex and relying on countless abstractions to tame that complexity and be able to operate. This design is sort-of working under plain sailing conditions (lots of available
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Its a good question but I suspect the answer depends on your context. I have seen hex grids used a lot in approximating geographic contours. Its possible that for a given number of cells they do better approximations than a regular, but one
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Came here to say the same, but using [Heisenberg's uncertainty principle]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle ) instead :-)
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For people who's first/last name letters fall within a band of ten consequitive letters of the alphabet (any alphabet, despite its origins Pi is surely multi-lingual), one can use the same algorithm to find themselves somewhere in
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The mathematical principles of accounting are explained in an innovative way here [1],[2]. Also look for the book "Algebraic Models for Accounting Systems". Skipping mathematical formulations and going directly for a "compute
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The problem with any new initiative in this space is that it enters a field that is more than well populated. It doesn't matter if existing solutions are less than perfect. Its like walking into a historic European city that has archit
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They point to natural and temporary causes but the effect highlights at least two challenges that will complicate combating climate change: 1) Comprehensive monitoring of local releases into the atmosphere will be required to prevent ugly s
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"The early Apache server was a big hit, but we all knew that the codebase needed a general overhaul and redesign." From the README of the apache_1.3.0 distribution (April 1998) https://archive.apache.org/dist/
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Related: Not a seaweed, but sea fennel (also samphire and official name crithnum maritimum ) is a plant that grows on rocks by the sea and is edible (actually nutritious and quite tasty as salad). https://en.wikipedia.org/w

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