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For those interested in the topic. The system I am more familiar with is Avida https://github.com/devosoft/avida "Digital Evolution Laboratory"

The OP may find the Wikipedia article on the birthday paradox helpful.

Crowd control, psyops, trend analysis. EU is quickly becoming authoritarian and the change is instigated by the sitting parties.

Because we want to run more than just Home Assistant on the same OS? Because traditionally OS and application layers were separated? Because we trust mature Linux distros more when…

Your position is indeed supported by the data presented here: https://ourworldindata.org/rise-of-social-media

Not exactly. It’s not that I can’t see the colors, I just need more contrast to pick up red or green. A grayish green looks the same as plain gray to me. A small bright green dot? …

No, these are not disruptors. Substantial incremental improvements, but part of the larger battle.

"Even though Steve Jobs emphasised iPhone superiority to "Buttons", it is to be expected that the consumer QWERTY category will continue to succeed." Their key mistake.

Early research always had 1.0% in its confidence intervals, which is most likely the right IFR during the first phases. The 0.1%-0.2% was just bad science, taking medians over coun…

People paid him for such nonsense?

Totally agree. Observability is just another dataset and should be modeled, managed and governed as other datasets. Data quality controls should be equal or of higher standard than…

The title should be: “Critical flaw in title causes HN readers to click on mostly irrelevant article.”

I thought this was already well known. A study in 2021 [1] found this relationship. However, it is good to keep people informed because it seems we are letting a potentially severe…

Quite crazy that this major, multi-system outage has been going on for nearly 14 hours now.

For cloud providers, security is their raison d’etre. On the cloud you can have confidentiality, integrity and availability that was unheard of two decades ago.

Security management services balance confidentiality, integrity and availability. Spending more on security means you can have great availability despite the measures on integrity …

If you dive into: [wine, jazz, modern art, craft beer, tennis, …] (pick one), you’d also appreciate it more. Thing is, if I decide not to do that, the impact on my life is relative…

One bad does not legitimize another.

The 'no schema needed' paradigm that persisted within DE is finally replaced with the hard lessons learned in the 70's. Systems die, data stays.

...and shorter variable names.

WhatsApp before acquisition had 55 employees and was well known.

“Full access to everything we need.” == “We have our hands around your…”

Where I’m from, every driver knows how to use these and use them safely.

Interesting, no mention of Scala at all. Did Netflix say goodbye to Scala altogether?