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Some companies have a commit queue that takes care of actually merging a PR as part of their CI that mitigates this problem.

The article mentions the key problems: - once private information is leaked, it can never be undone - being treated differently by some party because that party had knowledge of pr…

The western economic system cannot deal with lockdowns, and more generally, any kind of stop-the-world scenarios. What will be most important now is how the west will be able to de…

I feel uncomfortable at the ubiquitous, silent assumption that what is marketed as AI is a computer implementation of a brain. I see how the term neuronal network reinforces this b…

I've followed Bitcoin for a while. What seemed to happens there was the deliberate manipulation of the price using all means available (ads, etc.) The result was a few winning big.…

Oh I love the idea that you need to pay to leave a review. This way it becomes harder to fake a large number of reviews.

Could someone explain what this means? I read it as proof that quantum computers cannot compute more functions than Turing machines, is that correct?

This is why the world is acting so sluggishly to climate change.

Tldr: privately funded research is not working. I don't understand why antibiotics research can't be done at (publicly funded) universities?

The German voter is against coal (the young climate concious), against nuclear (the old green party supporters), against wind (everyone when it appears in their backyard), and the …

Let's also talk about why LTS is a dangerous idea: It provides an excuse not to update. Many tech debt traps start with relying on an LTS version of OS or libraries. The philosophy…

That is not the only way technical debt gets introduced. Often, teams cut corners to release a feature earlier/on time, and only make it work for the MVP use case without restructu…

Suárez' work also develops a utopian/dystopian (you decide) vision of society, which is an aspect of science fiction I really enjoy.

Jetstream, and even octane, are not relevant for most users. JavaScript performance is good enough and has been for quite some time. (Server side node is another story) If a websit…

The US sanctions and the effect on Huawei just made it very easy for Chinese companies to justify expenses that increase technological independence, on all levels (not only hardwar…

That is what I would have thought, but apparently the controllers at Boeing thought otherwise.

I don't have a problem with the requirements. I'm just saying that if passing the requirements is so time-consuming and expensive that companies start cutting corners to get around…

It is not pilot training. The root problem is that Boeing and Airbus are currently retrofitting larger engines into old airframes at the cost of pitch stability, when what they sho…

No, they don't. New variants enter the market, such as the 737 MAX, which are easier to certify. Boeing introduced the last new airframe for commercial passenger transport on 2009 …

The elephant in the room is that we made requirements for getting a completely new plain design into the market so expensive and time-consuming, that Boeing cut corners and reused …

This is great! Many dev hours are spend waiting for the compiler, every second counts! The second order effects are even worse. After a minute, the programmer will start thinking a…

That is all fine and good, but is it necessary at all (even if some people are willing to pay for it).

In before "genetically modified microbes induce auto immune disease in cancer patients".

2050 is way too late. Also the discussion doesn't only need to be carbon neutral, but it must be about how to get carbon negative. I hope that the US get behind this ASAP as well, …

I think it is clear that electric is the future, mostly because of better energy efficiency, simpler manufacturing, and falling battery prices. What I don't know is how quickly thi…