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Headlines like this are more pleasant than headlines about how the $100M project to implement SAP is five years behind schedule, how Deloitte has consumed tens of millions of dollars that could have gone to patient care, or that the new ERP system has lead to a total lack of accountability for patient outcomes.

Needs a mode where touching snow counts.

Probably by trying to do it from first principles.

Sounds like a Greg Egan writing prompt.

I’d imagine longer term contracts not renewing or renewing at lower prices / lower volumes.

But can their AI quietly introduce a security exploit into a GitHub project?

I dunno, the new Microsoft / OpenAI computer is named “Stargate,” that’s a pretty solid name.

I was disappointed that the lab assistant is not named.

I’m disappointed it has nothing to do with the logo programming language.

Reusing short English words is a big problem in computer science.

Love seeing real time streaming connecting through to visualization. You make Grafana look really good. Did you run into any limitations there?

Many years ago I had a job interview that included a personality test. I didn’t take the job, for other reasons. But I always wondered what had gone wrong in the past such that a personality test for engineers was in order. I’m now glad to know. I also wonder how many problematic malcontents I would have found had I gone to work there.

Premature denomalization is expensive complexity. Denormalization is a great tool, maybe an under-used tool. But you should wait until there are hot paths before using it.

I think of it as a bunch of bad early implementations that are being used for dubious financial purposes and outright fraud, fueling a bubble. The same could be said for joint stock corporations in the 1600s. Something can be inevitable (maybe it is maybe it isn’t) and the current situation can still be bad.

Someone in the 1600s saying that joint stock companies are terrible, solve a problem that doesn’t really need solving, and are being used to rip off investors and fund unethical colonialism would have been right. It took a while before people used them in good ways. And even today they are questionable.