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Hmm. Am I the only one who immediately jumps to the thought that any VC backed "open source" tool is just using open source as a cost of customer acquisition, and will soon find a …

FYI it seems ChatGPT could have answered this for you. > The book you're describing sounds like "Rainbows End" by Vernor Vinge. In this near-future sci-fi novel, set in 2025, one o…

Snowflake uses foundationdb as their metadata store to find files in S3, though I believe the actual queries are run on separate nodes. https://www.snowflake.com/blog/how-foundatio…

The Enabler team type is outward looking, evaluating and bringing new tech and concepts into the business and training other teams. They will collaborate with other teams often in …

Formally verified, bug free software exists. It just costs a LOT to produce, and typically isn't worth it, except for things like cryptographic libraries and life or death systems.…

I think you mean "artists". If they were really artists they wouldn't be afraid of AI.

You know that there's nothing stopping an open source project funded as a not for profit from doing the same thing right? If something is hard, that's an argument for making a stan…

In kotlin you can use backticks to "unkeywordify" a name

Why do you think that collecting evidence from experiments leads to truth though? What about the process gives you certainty? What evidence is important to making progress and what…

My understanding for the reasoning behind this is that they don't want apps to have to ship the runtime stuff to avoid downloads and app sizes getting large. That could be fixed by…

These points are solved by the workers electing an executive or directors who makes those decisions, until the workers are sick of them and replace them in an AGM or an emergency m…

I wonder if this might apply to code as well. All these businesses using AI to write code might find out that they don't actually have any copyright.

Something else I was caught out on recently is cross availability zone traffic, especially for multi AZ kubernetes where the nodes are very chatty. It's possible to get the service…