Moving Beyond Containers – Introducing Boxer by Daniel Phillips WASM I/O 2025 [video]
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Parity (YC S24) is hiring founding engineers to build an AI SRE (in-person, SF)
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California’s $20 fast-food minimum wage improves pay at small cost to consumers
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Freshpaint (YC S19) is hiring back end and front end engineers (Remote, US only)
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ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation
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These ideas are dr the two books:
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@prologic@twtxt.net and the aim, and end result, is that by reading and learning from it you will prepare yourself to nearly completely avoid accidents. Am I right? 🙂
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A visual flow chart diagram that illustrates how two different but very related concepts can lead to system accidents 👌 Media
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These ideas are dr the two books:
- Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems by Sidney Dekker (2011)
- Engineering a Safer World by Nancy Leveson (2011)
The former I haven’t read. The later I haven’t finished reading 😅
Mathematicians just solved a 125-year-old problem, uniting 3 theories in physics
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The VTech Socratic method
We’ve had a lot of fun with VTech’s computers in the past on this blog. Usually, they’re relatively spartan computers with limited functionality, but they did make something very interesting in the late 80s. The Socrates is their hybrid video game console/computer design from 1988, and today we’ll start tearing into it. ↫ Leaded Solder web log Now we’re in for the good stuff. A weird educational computer/game console/toy thing from the late ’80s, by VTech. I have a massive soft s … ⌘ Read more
Torvalds states the obvious: file systems should be case-sensitive
Apparently, the Bcachefs people are having problems with case-folding, and Linus Torvalds himself is not happy about it. Torvalds holds the only right opinion in this matter, which is that filesystems should obviously be case-sensitive. Case-insensitive names are horribly wrong, and you shouldn’t have done them at all. The problem wasn’t the lack of testing, the problem was implementing it in the fir … ⌘ Read more
The Secretary of Transportation Got Rid of Too Many Workers; Now Needs Them Back
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