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aworks commented on Frank Gehry has died bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/ksajadi

ssttoo · 12 days ago

He also designed a Facebook’s office in Menlo Park. The roof was literally a park, seemingly blending with the bay and you could go for a nice nature stroll mid-day by just going up a flight of stairs. https://arquitecturaviva.com/works/facebook-campus-in-menlo-...

aworks · 12 days ago

Did he design the yellow pedestrian/biker bridge connecting Facebook to the the Bayfront? I recently drove underneath it and it's quite interesting.

aworks commented on Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI stratechery.com/2025/goog... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

aworks · 17 days ago

"the naive approach to moats focuses on the cost of switching; in fact, however, the more important correlation to the strength of a moat is the number of unique purchasers/users."

aworks commented on The axis: the left-right spectrum has a non-ideology problem gelliottmorris.com/p/not-... · Posted by u/aworks

aworks · 18 days ago

Technical point: "While LLMs/AI fall short of many promises made by enthusiasts over the last couple years, we are relying on them for the one thing they are good at: summarizing and analyzing text...The full prompt used in this analysis is given in the footnotes.1"

Posted by u/aworks 18 days ago

The axis: the left-right spectrum has a non-ideology problem gelliottmorris.com/p/not-...

aworks commented on Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modifications to 6k planes bbc.com/news/live/cvg4y6g... · Posted by u/nrhrjrjrjtntbt

loloquwowndueo · 19 days ago

Likely air New Zealand flight 901 which crashed into mount Erebus in Antarctica (not in New Zealand proper) in 1979. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Erebus_disaster

aworks · 19 days ago

Yes, thanks for the identification.

aworks commented on How good engineers write bad code at big companies seangoedecke.com/bad-code... · Posted by u/gfysfm

harrall · 19 days ago

I can find an experienced doctor, plumber, musician or mechanical engineer that was doing it 50 years ago.

I’m not going to find someone that was doing software 50 years ago. And if I do, their experience is completely unrelatable.

aworks · 19 days ago

I worked on compilers and tools starting in 1981. Proprietary compiler technology has disappeared over the decades and the development tools/language/process/compute have changed considerably. But the skills and role of a compiler developer seem similar, although maybe it just means this sub-field of software has matured.

aworks commented on Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modifications to 6k planes bbc.com/news/live/cvg4y6g... · Posted by u/nrhrjrjrjtntbt

gman83 · 19 days ago

As software developers, we should perhaps refrain from criticizing aeronautical engineers' QA standards.

aworks · 19 days ago

Early in my career, I worked for a subcontractor to Boeing Commericial Airplanes. I've worked in Silicon Valley ever since. As a swag, the % of budget spent on verification/validation for flight-critical software was 5x versus my later jobs. Early in the job, we watched a video about some plane that navigated into a mountain in New Zealand. That got my attention.

On the other hand, the software development practices were slow to modernize in many cases e.g. FORTRAN 66 (but eventually with a preprocessor).

aworks commented on China's BEV trucks and the end of diesel's dominance cleantechnica.com/2025/11... · Posted by u/xbmcuser

martinpw · 20 days ago

> The Chinese think in terms of expensive and cheap electricity rather than dirty and clean. The reason they have so much clean energy growth is because it's saving them money.

No. It's for both reasons, cheaper and cleaner. The pollution in cities was absolutely dire and a real health hazard as well as an embarrassment internationally. EVs including scooters and trucks are a large part of the reason the air is cleaner now.

aworks · 20 days ago

When I was in Wuhan, I talked with an engineer who was having his second child. I asked what he thought about raising kids in such bad air pollution. He said at least it is getting better each year.

aworks commented on App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country 404media.co/this-app-lets... · Posted by u/aworks

aworks · a month ago

The ad: "Vigilant Mobile Companion transfers your mobile device into a powerful, secure license plate recognition and facial recognition data collection, analysys and alerting tool -- increasing productivity and insight, anywhere you go."

Posted by u/aworks a month ago

App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country 404media.co/this-app-lets...

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