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by taylodl 1y ago
I feel that back in the 80s QNX had already accomplished what Hurd had set out to do ( https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/products/qnx-everywhere ). Blackberry bought QNX decades after its creation but the core architect
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Business favors predictability and consistency. It doesn't matter so much what politicians do so long as the business and financial market is predictable and consistent for long periods of time. Markets have enough volatility without p
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The funny thing is, ARM is European tech - and it's the processor architecture behind most of the world's devices. Linux, also European, runs our network infrastructure and cloud servers. LibreOffice is another European innovation
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Apple critics have been beating this drum for the past 40 years. What's funny in this case is there's no accusation that Nvidia or Microsoft are greedy, even though they're presented as having a higher market cap. The reality
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Okay. I've been developing software for 40 years now. Frameworks became a thing a little over 30 years ago. Industry productivity soared - so much so that that was our last big productivity boost in the industry. There are a myriad
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That's just being silly. We've been using frameworks for over 30 years. I remember the days before frameworks. Software was developed at a pace nobody would tolerate today. They're a productivity boost - a significant produ
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by taylodl 1y ago
I read the index every month just to get a pulse on the industry at large. This month has me wondering what's going on?! - Perl jumped from 25 to 9?! Perl?! Perl's heyday was 20-30 years ago. What has happened to suddenly make it
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Tiobe Index for August 2025(tiobe.com)
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> Prices rose faster for producers than consumers last month, suggesting that U.S. importers may, for now, be eating the cost of Trump’s tariffs rather than passing them on to customers Consumer prices lag producer prices. We can'
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You got DOGE. True, DOGE may not be involved at all - but they had unrestricted access to lots of systems for which they were not properly vetted. They left a smoking gun pointing at themselves. From now on I say they're guilty until p
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Tech debt is a useful fiction - but getting to the author's point, what's important for me to track as tech debt won't be important to you. We'll also have different capacities and priorities for managing that debt. Any
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Correction, you're talking to someone with 40 years of experience building systems that people’s lives and money depend on. This conversation was never exclusively about you as there are plenty of HN readers lurking and learning. This
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by taylodl 1y ago
Not a bot but hey, thanks for the complement? 1. Clients can't expect to cache data forever and it still be correct. Think of what they've been provided is an "access code" to the information they want. That access code
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by taylodl 1y ago
And given that everybody in Trump's orbit has shown themselves to be dumber than a box of rocks, we can expect this to not go well.
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The encryption key in an AES-SIV-based UUIDv7 scheme would indeed become a critical secret, and its compromise could expose creation timestamps. That said, I’d like to clarify a few points: Database Integrity: Losing the encryption key does
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by taylodl 1y ago
There are two sure-fire ways to peddle bad policy: 1. Say it will protect children 2. Say it will create jobs
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by taylodl 1y ago
If your system needs to prevent leakage of creation time - typically due to regulatory or privacy requirements - you can use AES-SIV to encrypt UUIDv7 identifiers. All APIs and URLs would expose only the encrypted form of the ID. When perfo
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by taylodl 1y ago
Now what? Tesla has pivoted: - AI6 inference chip development in conjunction with Samsung that will be in their vehicles, robots, and data centers - Grok, which was developed by Musk's startup xAI and is being embedded in Tesla vehicle
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by taylodl 1y ago
This is business as usual in banana republics around the world. Apple does business all over the world. They deal with this stuff all the time. Americans are just uncomfortable that America is now behaving like the countries they mock.
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Here's the thing - corporate cybersecurity organizations know how to protect their assets from Microsoft's ineptitude, but the organizations paying them don't really care about security, either. All they want is to keep their
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by taylodl 1y ago
> but we should also not let them America is supposed to be a nation of laws, not a nation of political purges. If we start punishing people based on vague suspicions or geopolitical anxieties rather than actual legal violations, we’
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by taylodl 1y ago
Most companies would dream to be "on the ropes" the way Intel is. Why is that? 1. Intel Foundry generated $17.5B in revenue in 2024. Intel's chipmaking abilities are on the path to outproduce both TSMC and Samsung. Microsof
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by taylodl 1y ago
Use UUIDv7 and be done with it. It solves your database indexing problem, too.
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What part of "justice has been served" do you not understand? The Justice Department had every opportunity to impose employment restrictions as part of the plea deal involving Cadence Design Systems. They chose not to. The case is
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by taylodl 1y ago
Now we're introducing the notion of a 1000x employee? I call BS. The 10x employee is a bit of a unicorn, but I have known such people and the biggest thing I've noticed about them is their ability to identify BS work and not wor
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Until you realize in the big picture the US Air Force is saying about the only value the Cybertruck provides is missile target practice. That's not exactly a ringing endorsement.
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There's no alleging. The US Justice Department prosecuted and settled for a plea deal, as is their prerogative. Justice has been served, but our dictator isn't happy.
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Sounds like Trump's Justice Department settled for a plea deal rather than continue prosecution. That's their prerogative, but justice has been served, and Trump can STFU.
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To your point - this is all theater. It's stalling for time until this administration is out of office. Site selection alone could take years , but hey, we pledged! It's business-as-usual in Banana Republics and the multination
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Bingo. Solar isn't competing in a fair playing field. We've been subsidizing energy for decades and people seem to have forgotten that we do so.

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