Toots from 2024-04-18
Pollenfall: The PNW micro season between spring and summer when every horizontal surface is cover…
Pollenfall: The PNW micro season between spring and summer when every horizontal surface is covered in pollen.
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“As an industry—and even speaking for myself in particular—we’re not great at preparing j…
“As an industry—and even speaking for myself in particular—we’re not great at preparing junior folks for this inflection point, and I know that this failure causes needless worry—and even burnout—for incredibly talented and promising engineers.”
https://mandymusings.com/posts/why-arent-you-doing-better
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Agree & I wonder how the dialog would be different if we spoke about a demand funnel rather than …
Agree & I wonder how the dialog would be different if we spoke about a demand funnel rather than a supply chain.
“We’ve learned that we know much less about the integrity of our software systems than we thought. We’ve learned that supply chain attacks on open source software can start very far upstream—indeed, at the stream’s source.”
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/attacking-supply-chains-at-the-source/
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“In my opinion, a better basis is state space explosion. Concurrency is hard because concurrent…
“In my opinion, a better basis is state space explosion. Concurrency is hard because concurrent systems can be in a lot of different possible states, and the number of states grows much faster than anyone is prepared for.”
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/what-makes-concurrency-so-hard/
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“All of this is very sad, because it’s not clear which path forward makes sense in this new lan…
“All of this is very sad, because it’s not clear which path forward makes sense in this new landscape for me as a builder if I want to now use Redis in a new project, particularly since neither of the new projects support modules like Redis Search yet.”
https://vickiboykis.com/2024/04/16/redis-is-forked/
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Build the system to grow the solution “This approach requires that you design for evolution, or …
Build the system to grow the solution
“This approach requires that you design for evolution, or said another way, that you treat evolvability as a first-class requirement.”
https://systemsapproach.org/2024/04/15/more-thoughts-on-elegance-and-simplicity/
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“So it’s critical that the AI product manager ensures that the technology is a good match for t…
“So it’s critical that the AI product manager ensures that the technology is a good match for the specific product or solution.
This leads directly to the critical topic of quality assurance. What are acceptable error rates? What are the possible types of mistakes? How will the product handle each type of mistake? Are there ways to mitigate mistakes with the user experience?”
https://www.svpg.com/ai-product-management/?_hsmi=302917262
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“But I find one common thread among the things AI tools are particularly suited to doing: do we e…
“But I find one common thread among the things AI tools are particularly suited to doing: do we even want to be doing these things?”
https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless/
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“And the tendency for people to put too much trust into these tools is among their most serious problems: no amount of warning labels and disclaimers seem to be sufficient to stop people from trying to use them to provide legal advice or sell AI “therapy” services.”
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Confirmed: “While acknowledging the possibility of misuse, it’s imperative to recognize the substantial positive potential of our technique. The benefits – ranging from enhancing educational equity, improving accessibility for individuals with communication challenges, and offering companionship or therapeutic support to those in need …”
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/
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Emotional support video that does double duty illustrating design breakdowns. <https://youtube.c…
Emotional support video that does double duty illustrating design breakdowns.
https://youtube.com/shorts/dMObcjEI50w?feature=shared
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Related: I have no idea why the preview title is in German