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The main problem is, those AI generated images are only so jarring because they're so obvious. As time goes on they'll be harder to spot. We're going to need a new way of determini…

I think most of this applies to software engineering generally, not just fintech. For example the parts talking of retries, idempotency, event ordering, etc. This applies to all sy…

> Any shared sense of rigour is just completely torpedoed by the LLM world, particularly the cloud LLM world it seems, and we are reduced to cargo culting. Nobody is any more right…

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Intuitively this feels obvious. Content generated by the model will be shaped by its training, therefore when reading it back it will resonate with that same training and have a po…

This is a speculative piece that is, by the author's own admission, a scenario rather than a prediction. But it's unsettling because it somehow feels more plausible than most thoug…

I think I get the gist of the moral of this story. But I'm not sure I'm fully agreeing with the specifics. The nub is something I've thought about before. My contingency plan for A…

This is true. But, it's also true of assigning tasks to junior developers. You'll get back something which is a bit like what you asked for, but not done exactly how you would have…

Aren't these two points contradictory? Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding. > Rust’s borrow checker is a a pretty powerful tool that helps ensure memory safety during compile time. …

> It daunts me too, and reminds me of the early-days of commercial flight. I hope we'll have a similar "we cannot continue like this moment". The first citation of the words "Softw…

> It daunts me how much software is getting unreliable, but trying to shame people to hold them accountable is naive. > The root of the problem is the uncontrolled complexity of mo…

That isn't what they were saying at the time. Even level-headed forums like Hacker News had a lot of comments (gathering positive votes, although I suspect not all were organic) tr…

The headline says "Bitcoin", the speech which included the anonymity claim said "cryptocurrencies".

> If the government is saying the cost will be £14.5B then they must think only 1.5M people will sign up It's not a government proposal. It's not even a proposal of the opposition,…

Pretty much everything successful now was ridiculed or dismissed in the past, but that doesn't mean everything that was ridiculed or dismissed became successful. And even those thi…

I don't think Apple ever applied throttling to devices prior to the iPhone 6. As you say, old 5Ses would shutdown at 20% (or lower), but it was with the iPhone 6 and later where de…

The tone taken by the financial press towards cryptocurrencies is interesting. They give plenty of press to the sceptics, the warnings from central bankers, etc. But they also give…

It showed the "unknown developer" warning box when running the app, would that have been shown if the app was already authorised to access the keychain?

There is more than one shortwave band, some are more useful than others and there are fairly large gaps between them, so it would feel sparse even if there were a lot of stations: …

They absolutely would do both of those things. A world where Bitcoin was the default currency would rob nations of control over their own monetary policy, which is one of the most …

There's a few in the works, but none live yet that I know of. Also, since they're not yet live I can't vouch for them, but here's an example: https://freetrade.io/

With one-or-two exceptions, what the paper describes is very familiar and sounds like most software teams, but most teams don't achieve Google-like performance/stability/success. T…

Apple appears to be banking on software efficiency gains offsetting the reduction in battery capacity. They've done this with various iPhone and iPad releases several times. But th…