They have a monolith but struggle with individual subsystem failures bringing down the whole thing. Sounds like they would benefit from Elixir’s isolated, fail-fast architecture.
Readit Newsbrightstep commented on Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith twilio.com/en-us/blog/dev... · Posted by u/birdculture
brightstep commented on Reddit is taking over Google businessinsider.com/why-r... · Posted by u/unclebucknasty
Google’s AI results show “According to a Reddit user…” now, including for things like health / wellness searches. It’s horrifying. Reddit is a cesspool of the commons. It’s an information garbage dump where uninformed people are upvoted by uninformed people. It’s the Yahoo Answers of our day.
That’s true, and it’s still more reliable for useful information than the top results on Google.
> I was being exposed to engineering concepts that just weren't a thing in agency work: unit testing, CI/CD, git hygiene, release management.
As someone who’s worked at an agency that’s grown from twenty engineers to hundreds over the last five years, what? Even when we were small and scrappy we still wrote unit tests…
> Reality is, the AI doctor you CAN visit is better than no visit at all.
Yes, but it’s a problem if this becomes the goal. When the goal should be to allow everyone equitable access to the best healthcare.
I’m afraid that we’ll settle for subpar AI healthcare for the disadvantaged because “it’s better than nothing”.
It won’t be only for the disadvantaged.
brightstep commented on The perils and pleasures of bartending in Antarctica (2017) atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/zdw
Not trying to stir up controversy or detract from the interesting article, but I find the verb "to bartend" and its various tenses to be unwieldy and cumbersome. I greatly prefer to verb "to tend bar" in its stead. Am I weird?
“Tending bar” puts more emphasis on what one might argue is the more important part of the phrase. No one is there for the tender. Consider versus “woodworking”: you want the work, not the hunk of wood.
If "Scientists & Business" develop solutions that unknowingly do harm amd were approved by the FDA, who should be held responsible?
Both. Unknowingly usually means uncaringly. And the FDA clearly has duty to thoroughly test products.
brightstep commented on Strategies for making reproducible research the norm elifesciences.org/article... · Posted by u/Tomte
We need a publicly funded body whose purpose is to issue grants for firms to reproduce scientific findings. A scientific reproduction corps. Extra can be awarded for finding flawed/fraudulent research. This would create a community of organizations that counter-balance industry incentives and instill trust in our scientific process.
brightstep commented on Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses meta.com/smart-glasses/... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
As long as the activation is overt I don't think it's a big issue. Overt as in taking a picture or recording requires the user to do something that is noticeable to the people around them. The wake word is quite obvious; the button on the stem is a bit less, but together with the light I think it's fairly clear something is happening.
Activation via Pegasus spyware will not be overt
brightstep commented on Doing laundry on campus without a phone naveenarun.wordpress.com/... · Posted by u/barbarr
Thirty years ago I would have given anything for a pocket device that could tell me whether any washing machines on campus were empty and ready to use.
Because it sucked to lug my basket of socks and sweaty t-shirts over to laundry block only to find out there was a big queue and my options were either to lug the basket back to my room and try again a random interval later, or leave my backet lying around in the laundry block, at the mercy of who knows what and come back a random interval later.
Would you still have, if you knew the strings that would come attached? Tracking your every move? Enabling governments to surreptitiously snoop on your audio and camera? Constant exposure to experiences designed to addict and immiserate you?
brightstep commented on Doing laundry on campus without a phone naveenarun.wordpress.com/... · Posted by u/barbarr
Sorry, but this story reads like an AI generated text and the subject matter is ridiculous. The person in the text is narrow minded, selfish etc. There are a multitude of reasons public/commercial laundry would want to have an app. If one wants to have it tailored to their old-fashioned ways they have to own their own laundry machine.
It’s not always possible to have a personal laundry machine available. Is it too much to ask that the machines also accept a credit card scanned in-person?