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The Architecture of Open Source Applications(aosabook.org)
2 points by zasz 8d ago|1 comments
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by zasz 8d ago
"Architects look at thousands of buildings during their training, and study critiques of those buildings written by masters. In contrast, most software developers only ever get to know a handful of large programs well—usually programs
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by zasz 9d ago
https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/scienc...
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by zasz 2mo ago
It's worded a bit strongly, but it encourages critical thinking about downloading dependencies, how vetting should work, and where the human factor comes in. I think the top comment was right that some security researchers will audit p
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by zasz 2mo ago
Yeah, the "ancient techniques" thing is a joke.
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by zasz 3mo ago
That and also employees don't have the same power. Employees fundamentally have less autonomy. If you have to work inside someone else's box all the time, you're not going to want to work as hard.
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by zasz 4mo ago
You know the ones bringing most of the violence were the state and private goons hired by capitalists, right?
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by zasz 4mo ago
I buy it that this guy is incredibly important in the history of aerospace engineering and the weapons industry, but the article seems like it's making an overly strong claim that the trajectory of American and Chinese tech development
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by zasz 5mo ago
I visited the office near University Avenue, once, many years ago. I found the freezer full of ice cream, the fragrant gaming room, and the heavily used bunk beds very disturbing. I'm not surprised they encouraged employees to spend on
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by zasz 5mo ago
We had a few smart people in national security, but they're getting fired. The Navy Secretary was just forced out. There's nothing that can help when the problem is upper management.
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by zasz 5mo ago
I clicked through on the link that the article said showed that bromine was impossible to recycle. The abstract says "Here we propose a catalytic strategy that enables the selective and mild-condition conversion of all organobromides p
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by zasz 5mo ago
I mean, yes, they do. It varies, depending on the specific foraging society, since they're not a monolith. Hadza men spend enough time with their children that their T levels drop: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles&
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by zasz 6mo ago
It seems like GPUs with a high utilization rate (60%+) degrade after 1-3 years: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/datacenter-g... Would be interested to know if others have takes on this.
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by zasz 8mo ago
So they would be better people if they didn't care about anything? Maybe, instead of getting mad that Palestinians are getting support that you think normal Iranians should get also, you could be constructive, and offer Americans some
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by zasz 1y ago
You're naive if you think cops won't find a way to hide the footage or simply refuse. They already find plenty of excuses not to release body cam footage: https://www.npr.org/2023/12/31/1222337130&#x
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by zasz 1y ago
Ahaha, by this logic we should just ban vaccines if that's popular.
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by zasz 1y ago
Yeah and the people paying other people to write code won't understand how the code works. AI as currently deployed stands a strong chance of reducing the ranks of the next generation of talented devs.
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by zasz 1y ago
Well, in the literal sense it would be neutral to be transparent, but "political" in the sense that the White House is using means "you're being mean to me."
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by zasz 1y ago
That IS what Biden was trying to do though with the CHIPS Incentive Act. He was trying to onshore production of semiconductors in a partnership with TSMC. Didn't do him any favors, and Harris lost the state of Arizona anyway. Americans
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by zasz 1y ago
That's a fair question. She has no interesting online activity besides that op-ed, so hard to see what else it could be.
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by zasz 2y ago
I too have read Never in Anger, the ethnography mentioned in this blog post, and the way I found it was by reading a survey of egalitarian societies called Hierarchy in the Forest, by Christopher Boehm. Many of the personality traits that t
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by zasz 2y ago
That's false, the average age was 29.4: https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/L... Here are the ages of the senior scientists: Oppenheimer: 38 Teller: 34 Lawrence: 41 Rabi: 44 S
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by zasz 5y ago
There's also this implicit conclusion that venting must not work if the levels of aggression don't change, but the article did say that blood pressure dropped. I thought the paragraphs on venting to friends didn't make much s
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by zasz 5y ago
I don't know about Jeff, but I know Sahar quit working at Facebook over a year ago to work on this instead.
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by zasz 5y ago
My friend's father got pancreatic cancer. His chemotherapy was delayed because the hospital was full of covid patients. Now he's dead. People who get mad about being harangued to take the vaccine are failing to see the whole pictu
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by zasz 5y ago
Did you even read the short story? It's an excellent exploration of gender issues.
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by zasz 5y ago
It's definitely anti-Semitic! He's acting like _all_ Jews are pro-Israel and therefore pro-slaughtering. That kind of stereotyping is bad.
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by zasz 5y ago
My parents went through the Cultural Revolution, which involved being sent to a labor camp for a couple years, having various relatives harassed into committing suicide, and even though everyone in their age cohort experienced equally horri
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by zasz 5y ago
Aren't children supposed to be better at learning new languages than adults, though? There's supposed to be a critical period where language acquisition is much easier.
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by zasz 5y ago
Reservoirs are expensive. The commenter you are replying to was careful to use the phrase "economically plausible."

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