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I was going to rant, but this: > The energy-driven reduction of entropy is easy to demonstrate in simple laboratory experiments, but more to the point, stars, biological population…

In my experience what we have in a lot of places are cultures of anti-competence. In a competence culture, you try to understand your sphere very, very well, including not only the…

> But subscribers to a scientific worldview often make a more ambitious claim: that the best theories are isomorphic with the fundamental nature of the universe. This is not an "ex…

Rabbit MQ is a traditional message broker; you use it when you have lots of messages you don't particularly want/need to be stored persistently, and where you want/need to take adv…

It begs the question to just assume there is a "feudal society" that needs to be "run". For instance, why not have a "first citizen" who is selected to manage internal coordination…

There is a sleight-of-hand in "meritocracy" evinced by the Scott Alexander quote--we ask "who should do surgery, the best surgeon or the worst?" and agree that surgeons should be c…

Meta comment, but I would love for there to be more insight into the sociology of Hacker News. I feel like in the last couple of years we've seen a stark decrease in the frequency …

It seems like there's something deficient in the way we tell the story of the history of software architecture (to the extent we tell a story at all) in terms of the name-brand tec…

... "natural selection" IS the mechanics. The reason it's convincing is you can imagine what would arise, systematically, from imperfect reproduction under forces of selection, NOT…

It's cargo-culting physics to assert that there are a set of "high level" laws in some area without having in hand the reductionist mechanics. This cart-before-the-horse is so perv…

The problem with this way of thinking is, fundamentally, you don't determine what is self-contained . (What you can do is remove unnecessary coupling, but you're doing that anyway.…

It's abstract, but I'll try to get something down. First, look at what happens to the system from the outside, say a web request that leads to a web response. In between, informati…

I think to truly be an event-driven architecture you need to go a step or two further and be data-driven . In other words, the appropriate way to describe your system would not be …

I think if your concept of nihilism holds that Socrates believing that justice is inherently good is nihilistic, it's not a very useful take on nihilism.

I think what the tweet is saying is the engine is actually Cassandra but the node management is shared with DynamoDB?

The content of this whole wing of thinking is "you have to have a brain-like system to have a brain-like thing". Which, fair. But what's crazy-making about it is that people have d…

Added note: I shave peak load for a living. Yes, this article is pretty much misleading end to end, and not taking into account the cost of heating is the keystone. Everyone who th…

For a breakdown of the reasoning behind the project, if you haven't already seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk

I got burned doing 80-90% of the four-person semester-long software engineering lab. I think it boils down very simply: the intra-group dynamics can't be opaque to whatever mechani…