Readit News4 hours/night - Poor executive function, can’t figure out what order to do things in, lose keys and random things, forget to lock doors and not even realize it
6 hours - Mild executive dysfunction, never sure if I locked the door but I did
8 hours - Zero problems
10 hours - I’ve never actually experimented
Substitute "a developer forgot to upload the code to one of the servers" for "the deployment agent errored while downloading the new binary/code onto the server and a bug in the agent prevented the error from being surfaced." Now you have the same failure mode, and the impact happens even faster.
The blame here lies squarely with the developers--the code was written in a non-backwards-compatible way.
My biggest pet peeve is they NO ONE ever does failure modeling.
I swear everyone builds things assuming it will work perfectly. Then when you mention if one part fails, it will completely bring down everything, they’ll say that it’s a 1 in a million chance. Yeah, the problem isn’t that it’s unlikely, it’s that when it does happen, you’ve perfectly designed your system to destroy itself.
Presumably in a smaller society with abundant water, you can wing your pipes because it doesn't really matter. A larger society in a desert? Well, that's way different. Inefficiencies add up too much.
The real trouble is people who just believe in strong rules when really, you should be looking at your specific situation and using your brain.
If we had made Iraq a powerful ally, it would have weakened support for Israel but that whole area of the world is too embroiled in conflict.
Throwing a full programming language in place of a DSL means now you deal with everyone and their mom inventing their own way of doing things.
Unfortunately in the current social media, the choice is between letting the kids wade in cesspool of crap and hope they find some lotuses, or support them in person till they are mature enough.
It’s a hard decision. I made the one above.
Edit: to clarify, if my kid ever comes to me as queer or whatever, I’ll make sure to find in-person connections that can help. Relying on social media still feels a little iffy. I’m really glad you were able to find meaningful connections. I have a feeling not everyone is as lucky as you.
Shit, I talk to other functioning adults in their 20s and 30s and they tell me they too watched the same garbage.
I think you might have rose tinted glasses on to be honest. The Internet was just as wild back then.
Considering they have tens of billions in revenue every year, a lot of people. But what's IBM's niche? I remember they promoted watson a few years back and nothing seems to have come out of that. IBM is such an iconic name in tech but I don't remember them doing anything noteworthy for a long time. At this point IBM is just famous for being famous.
IBM doesn’t market services… they market solutions. You contract with them and they figure out how they build something for you. And it may include Watson.
Apple is the only one even in that market, really. Everybody else is so focused on getting each "segment" of the market they miss the whole picture. Apple wants to slather you in Apple devices so thoroughly you don't need anyone else's electronics, and if you do it all works really well together. Which is why it's so annoying that I still need a Windows box for PC gaming.
Or they do but they’re not very observant idk?
All the effort spent on testing and optimizations for scaling purpose was a waste of time and resources, that could be better spent elsewhere.
I'm not telling one should not care, or code sloppy, but there is a balance where code is just good enough for the purpose. There's a lot of truth in this "don't do premature optimization".
Someone experienced will know how much work a certain approach will take and its capacity.
Sometimes there are quick wins to give like 100x capacity to a system just by doing things slightly differently, but only with experience will you know that.
I like Apple, so I’m really hoping they bring on someone to solve this. Otherwise they’re on track to be the same as every other tasteless tech company.
More on taste and Apple: https://www.readtrung.com/p/steve-jobs-rick-rubin-and-taste
With Jobs gone, it still has a taste but it someone else’s taste.
That said, I think some people have developed their own original taste but some people’s tastes are just an amalgamation of the people around them.