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hamatti.org 1y ago

Blogging is my new favourite refactoring tool

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dascript.org 3y ago

DaScript – high-performance statically typed embeddable scripting language

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www.ft.com 3y ago

Amazon’s big dreams for Alexa fall short

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www.azcentral.com 3y ago

'I was deceived': NFL players raise questions about Prolanthropy

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commoncog.com 3y ago

Working Backwards

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www.theguardian.com 4y ago

Can transhumanism save our species?

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www.theguardian.com 5y ago

Weird dreams train us for the unexpected, says new theory

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www.nextplatform.com 5y ago

Google says the SoC is the new motherboard

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www.theguardian.com 5y ago

Stripe became a vital cog in the digital economy

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arxiv.org 5y ago

Silent Data Corruptions at Scale

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www.theguardian.com 5y ago

‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI

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www.ft.com 5y ago

TikTok to be banned from US app stores from Sunday

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www.telegraph.co.uk 6y ago

Apple wins £11.8bn court fight over Irish tax bill

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www.theguardian.com 6y ago

We're not all going to be working from home, nor should we

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scrapir.org 6y ago

ScrAPIr – Making APIs accessible to non-developers (MIT)

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www.theguardian.com 6y ago

Abolish Silicon Valley – Wendy Liu

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www.theguardian.com 6y ago

MI5 chief asks tech firms for 'exceptional access' to encrypted messages

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venturebeat.com 6y ago

Amazon’s cloud unit has designed a more powerful datacenter chip

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www.theguardian.com 6y ago

Facebook teams up with police to stop streaming of terror attacks

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www.bbc.co.uk 6y ago

Gold toilet stolen in Blenheim Palace burglary

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aws.amazon.com 6y ago

AWS uses automated reasoning to help you achieve security at scale

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www.ft.com 6y ago

Is it time to shed our anonymity online?

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blog.cylab.co 6y ago

Confidential company documents exposed in public sandboxes

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www.ft.com 6y ago

SoftBank ‘operating group’ to forge alliances between its startups

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www.lastweekinaws.com 6y ago

4 Reasons Lyft Is Smart to Pay AWS $300M

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galois.com 6y ago

The Collaborative Web – How Galois Is Organised [pdf]

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www.bbc.co.uk 7y ago

Iran 'seizes British-flagged oil tanker'

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www.ft.com 7y ago

NSO spyware ‘targets Big Tech cloud services’

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www.theguardian.com 7y ago

Silicon Valley’s answer to the housing crises? Charging $1,200 for a bunk bed

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blog.acolyer.org 7y ago

A case for managed and model-less inference serving

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Indeed, one of my favourite things about coding assistants is that I can now get an easy code review on my personal projects, or once I've thought through my approach have it think up alternatives I may not have stumbled on.

I've found it very unsatisfactory (both experience and results) to use them to replace code production. But in terms of augmenting the process - used to critique, explore alternatives, surface information - they're getting really quite handy.

When you reconciled the balance in your bank account / credit card statement against that in your set of accounts, you'd notice the error as the statement balance would be 1000 higher than reflected in your accounts.

Use an internal Q&A / Quora-style tool with good search. Trying to keep little snippets of info like that under useful MECE categories only ever ends in pain & frequent refactoring.

Enterprise-Fu 3 years ago

what is "enterprisey"?

documentation over working software

In the spirit of no true Scotsman, you're not truly enterprise until there is a combination of barely working software and aggressively wrong documentation working in perfect harmony

What are the benefits of ambiguous laws?

That they can deal with the massive amounts of ambiguity & blurred lines / grey areas the world has to offer. Too many of our everyday concepts can’t be expressed rigorously for a formal encoding & determinate decision process - a famous example being obscenity’s famed “I know it when I see it” definition - and many are highly context dependent.

I don't get how this would be seen within banks as any different to the existing endpoint security offerings offering remote attestation that - by the same logic - they would already be mandating customers to use to access banking platforms, because doing otherwise would mean not being "as secure as possible" and getting dinged by the regulators.

Even the cold start and memory benefits could largely be replicated for native code if you write a custom kernel ... people act as if lightweight isolation is fundamentally impossible without a JITted platform

I think when most people refer to this as being "impossible", they mean practically impossible, not dis-allowed by the laws of physics. "First write your custom kernel" is a step only a miniscule proportion of projects can justify.

As to unique capabilities - none of its capabilities are really earth-shattering in and of themselves. But together and combined with the fact the barrier to entry is so much lower than alternatives like custom kernels, it's quite understandable why people see it as bringing something new and exciting to the table.

after a quick email, you can get a huge “discount” to show your boss. Just ignore the fact that you’re still paying 2-3x market value.

This is rampant across a lot of enterprise & mid-large B2B vendors because of purchasing departments getting evaluated on the %discount and not by any measure of value for money / market pricing. If purchasing requires a >20% discount to ok your deal, of course the incentive for the seller is to bump the price accordingly and see it waved through.

In the watermarks documentation it mentions that events arriving after the watermark are dropped. Are there any plans to make this configurable (to disable dropping or trigger exception handling) and/or alertable?

I can think of quite a few use cases (particularly in finance) where we'd want late-arrivals to be recorded and possibly incorporated into later or revised results, not silently dropped on the floor.

That one of the bigger security companies seemingly didn't have MDM screaming bloody murder or outright blocking authentication for an endpoint this out of date is more than a little concerning.

Props to their SIEM for detecting it in the end, but this seems like it could've been detected and remediated a few weeks in (assuming it didn't also have the ability to spoof the iOS version).

Building internal replacements for the subset of functionality you use would be less than half the battle.

Convincing your auditors that those systems were representing your financial position correctly would be hell on earth. Like them or not, auditors know SAP, Oracle and the like - and have well-defined processes & experts to certify them.

There's large amounts of risk and cost on both sides of the equation.

With several orders of magnitude difference in workload / transaction size, and a lot more features in non-financial areas. Most accounting systems can do the bare essentials around inventory management, HR, etc. - but very few can run & form the system of record for, say, operations at the scale of an F500.

Whether it makes sense nowadays to continue stuffing these all into one system centred around the general ledger is left as an exercise to the reader.