Viewing profile — stonewhite

You pay extra for an anti-theft system, turns out it is an unintentional theft system.

Google somehow managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of success with their AI products. They literally forced me and my company out of Antigravity by phasing out AI Ultra subscrip…

If the kid is bright they'll be bored anyway. This is something you cannot avoid, so teaching them to behave in a boring environment is more productive.

Good points. 3rd one reminds me of the Knuth vs McIllroy story about 10+ page pascal vs 6 bash pipes[1] [1]: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg/

This is a good practice to reduce at least some amount of dependency to outside US. Also this is the definition of innovation; making high tech out of low tech.

VS Ramachandran has an interesting talk about mirror neurons, which is a subset of motor neurons. They activate when you perceive anybody else doing something as opposed to only ac…

In the same vein, I find it funny to think about the future archaeologists pondering the relation of the Eiffel towers around the world the same way we do about pyramids. https://e…

NASA part was for an exaggerated example, and it was not a failing of them also. It was the nature of the business, decommissioning the C&C of their old satellites, presuming it to…

I do agree with you on principles, but given those gauntlets being a pinnacle of human achievement for that time, our current pinnacles doesn't seem to last that long and the means…

I find it interesting to ponder about crafting something that can withstand 7 centuries, given what we currently craft (as a software engineer) not even lasting 10 years. Even NASA…

I think the idiosyncratic command names are rooted in the fact that git is designed as a peer to peer distributed system as opposed to how it is generally used right now, the serve…

My motto is "Follow the Dread". If I dread public speaking I should do it, if I dread setting up IPsec VPNs I should do more of it, if I dread working with money and run a business…

Makes me think of the "Impaled with Extreme Prejudice" anime trope. I guess sometimes it is necessary https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImpaledWithExtre...

Features do include Face Unlock if you scroll down enough

Exactly my experience. After 15 years, I became an apple fanboy in 15 days. I still do hate losing my muscle memory on some bash shortcuts, but I'd say it was very much worth it.

Curl more equivalent to cat as a unix tool, making it easier to use in pipes. If your only use case is downloading then wget might look more practical

I believe you are talking about amazon hiring 100000 warehouse workers, not google

While Musk lost some credibility over cryptocurrency related topics, it is important that he manages to repackage these already "thought of" stuff in an almost Steve Jobs sort of f…

That also necessitates a matching network bandwidth as well. It reminds me of the Bugatti Veyron situation, its tires lasting 15 minutes at top speed yet it runs out of fuel in 12.…

I think there are some redacted out parts of the blog. The difficulty with the "Realtime Result Interface" not using HL7 remained unaddressed. I'd like to read about those challeng…

That is the case for Cloudfront certificates globally. For Loadbalancer or other uses, you should just provision your certs in your own region.

A future iteration of this product should be a household item that you use it during your morning routine, even before brushing your teeth. Preventative measures like this should b…

It probably will have something to do with Neo electrocuting Sentries in the "Real World" and the fact that "Real World" is just another matrix.

Tavis Rudd gave an inspiring talk about solving this problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI