andreskytt

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by andreskytt 3y ago
Underneath that high-level hand-waving there’s still a pretty simple concept. If I buy T—Bonds, I bloody well expect them to be cashed at maturity. Otherwise, who’d buy them? And I am under no obligation to buy goods and services from the
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by andreskytt 3y ago
Oh, but dear sir, you forgot about the AI!
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by andreskytt 3y ago
Yes, exactly. The gender-driven questions have been replaced by a general (and imho more important) question of how to be a good person. That question, however, is also much more abstract (I can measure my body fat, how do I measure “good”?
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by andreskytt 3y ago
Read Nancy Levesons work on system safety and you’ll see things are not necessarily so
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by andreskytt 3y ago
A very interesting case where the design of the system stems directly from the design of the team designing and building it.
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by andreskytt 3y ago
What Thiel is describing is a feedback loop: more people of x in a region means more people of x in a region simply because they will feel more comfortable among like people. These sorts of mechanisms certainly exist (Forrester on city plan
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by andreskytt 3y ago
Let’s see what the classics say about this. Mr Conway says, that an organization creates a system in its image. Thus, if the system needs to be very distributed, so does the organization. So unless there is a singular monolithic thing built
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by andreskytt 3y ago
Ah, the old shaman argument. The dude living in an essentially black-and-white wasteland up north with months of darkness. He strongly believes in the need to go consult the ancestors, moves in a hypnotic fashion, beats a monotone rythm on
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by andreskytt 3y ago
You did not, in fact, stumble upon information. You stumbled on a person making statements. There’s a difference, especially when lives are at stake.
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by andreskytt 3y ago
People consistently fail to properly assess the system architecture aspects of things. Iphone is not a standalone device but part of a complex system including hardware, software, organizational processes working on the app store etc. The d
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by andreskytt 3y ago
Architecture is not about technology. It’s about how to structure a system to best aid a given organization to achieve its strategic goals.
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by andreskytt 4y ago
And then there’s guys like mr. Rainger ( https://www.raingerfx.com/shop/p/minibar ) just casually inserting an actual pod of liquid into the signal chain to replace a resistor and drive an eq (via its transparency).
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by andreskytt 4y ago
Former head of IT at a tax authority of a small EU nation here. We get 95+ percent of online filing for private income tax (and have for 20 years), of course there is no fee, and you can have your refund on your account in a few hours. The
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by andreskytt 4y ago
FSD is not happening in the sense I mean it but it might in the sense you mean it. I mean “single-lane three-dimensionally-twisty-motorcycles-do-40mph roads covered in literal ice in complete darkness”. Because that’s what a large chunk of
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by andreskytt 4y ago
Firstly. The range does not work for me. I need the car for long drives in the cold winter or hot summer. In the latter case, I need to have a bike on the roof and there is unlikely to be charging where I go to. I do not wish to sit and wai
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by andreskytt 4y ago
I had a really bad chronic headache. Had it for most of my life. Came with bouts of over-eating, sensory overload. In the end there were months with few days below 5 on the pain scale. Nobody could find anything, nothing was wrong, but I wa
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by andreskytt 4y ago
Nope, not at all. Your hardware wallet is useless without the bitcoin trust frameworks and the implicit agreement among many people that these particular bits on your hardware denote anything of value. Both of these are completely beyond yo
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by andreskytt 4y ago
This is not what happens. Trust is moved from institutions to code and math. General public has no chance to evaluate the trustworthiness of either while there is a mechanism to certify the first and not the latter.
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by andreskytt 4y ago
Wait, what? The problem to ve solved is giving people money without PayPal being involved? You guys need SWIFT…
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by andreskytt 4y ago
Ask yourself two questions. Why is it that the things are the way they are? What can I realistically change? Then determine the overlap in these. If there is none, walk away. It makes no sense to go for a rewrite without the underlying caus
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by andreskytt 4y ago
Yes, battery life is good on Garmins. But, amazingly, the UX is even better. The Apple watch does many things well while a Fenix does the sports thing very well. I don’t think I’ve ever owned a watch I’m that happy with from the ux perspect
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by andreskytt 4y ago
Back in the 90s I enjoyed Nethack and Perl sources, had a hard copy of both. Both looked somehow human, with witty remarks and outright quotations from holy texts in case of Nethack.
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by andreskytt 4y ago
Exactly. Anything novel is, by definition, risky. Therefore any and all research has the potential to harm people. What the article says is, that there is an apparently all-knowing group of people, who will decide, where an article lies on
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by andreskytt 4y ago
Managing complexity is the job of an architect. Possibly the only job. Who is the architect of Google? The CEO. Thus, this is a really bad sign: shop-level complexity he is after commonly grows out of organizational complexity (the work of
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by andreskytt 4y ago
Plus, they miss a key point of architecture: sustainability. You might take the 30’ somewhere and draw a high-level model like the ones depicted in the article, but who has time to continuously validate that devs actually follow the bluepri
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by andreskytt 4y ago
And this, kids, is why it was possible to do fun things to computers of other people when their os did not tell the modem to stop accepting incoming bytes when the line was dropped and then picked up again. It just accepted bytes from where
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by andreskytt 4y ago
Some of this feels a bit artificial. Maybe it’s just me but I feel mostly like that at _all_ parties. And I dont’ belong to or mingle with elite in the sense she means. Also, it would seem there’s a simple lack of context: would she have a
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by andreskytt 4y ago
I always recommend to read the classics (in addition to other excellent advice given here). Brooks, for sure, but also Vitruvius is _very_ relevant to designing large software systems. Then jump into the MIT System* ocean: system architectu
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by andreskytt 4y ago
Your hardware might either leak the private key via a non-internet connection (bluetooth, nfc, physical interface, some non-standard protocol). Also, it might use weak crypto to generate the private key (see ROCA vulnerability). Trusting no
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by andreskytt 4y ago
Don’t be discouraged. You appear to be a very goal-oriented systematic person, maybe lacking some reflective skills but what do I know. But life is not systemic and goal-oriented. You kinda can’t force it. The differential equations underly

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