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"This time it's different" is also a refrain we've heard with every new bubble. It shouldn't be surprising that some people want to take a measured, skeptical approach. Even if it …

Kudos to the author for taking responsibility and doing the ethical thing here.

It's not the whole story. The biggest change is actually the internal rules for how downtime was reported, it wasn't actually such a large change in the actual reliability then.

> If they don't want to make a movie properly, why make it at all? Hollywood moves have little to do with art or even entrainment for that matter. They are simply revenue generatin…

Back in the days of spinning rust, we had RAID controller cards with batteries, so that if someone pulled the plug, there would be enough power to keep the drives going until any b…

I would expect to have a method that explicitly stops program execution immediately without further side effects. An unresolved promise that causes other code to be skipped while p…

Solar harvest time.

Finally isn't bullet proof. If you execute a promise in a try block and it happens to end without resolving, the finally block will be never be executed. Fun stuff.

I'm a native English speaker and before your comment, I never noticed that palette, pallet, and palate are different words!

> And the barriers are far more social, organizational and political than they are technical. At the core it's even more of an economic barrier which isn't even unique to capitalis…

The thing is, I'm not even against it. The point of the sarcasm was to say that the most massive projects on which everything is built are in C-flavored languages so the claim that…

We call them blunders mostly because the solutions are so well known. In contrast, the last company I worked for did everything in typescript and the amount of problems caused by c…

I'll await your Rust ports of Windows, Linux and MacOS then. This isn't really a fair take. Keep in mind that C/C++ has been the backbone of the most important software in the worl…

The thing is we have a lot of models which make very accurate predictions most of the time, which are useful for doing some impressive science. But we have no accepted theory of wh…

Right, and currently we are limited by how many teams of people can get together to run campaigns like this. Now imagine that LLM agents make this possible for nearly anyone. One p…

> Cosmos DB's engine translated Gremlin queries into .NET code, enforcing a set of restrictions designed to prevent queries from reaching beyond Gremlin operations. These restricti…

> “I’ve got four bottles of something that I take twice a week sitting here,” Callaghan said. Profits are up! A smashing success!

Interesting perspective and I don't disagree. Though on one hand engineering has always been about building the bridge that barely stands. On the other hand it often feels like we …

For instance, carefully choosing regions close together to show transaction commit times which are not horrible. But if your region distribution is not ideal...

I literally just wrote a blog post which explains the kind of problem they're trying to solve and why any solution is just choosing where the pain is. https://gtowey.blogspot.com/2…

This is a case where "it's not paranoia if they really are out to get you" applies.

I think jdnier nailed the phrases that most stuck out for me. I also agree that I would rather hear your own voice, even if you think it's less polished. The problem is when readin…

I'm conflicted with this article. It does pack a lot of good information in there, and it's a useful comparison of the core difference between PostgreSQL and MySQL. But it still co…