Function over form.
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¿Una central nuclear para ilustrar el cambio climático? Muy mal @laSextaTV #crisisclimaarv @OperadorNuclear flipando
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“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.” — John Gall
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Eiji Aonuma says he decided to remake Ocarina of Time in part to help train the younger staff on future Zelda games:
"This year marks the 40th anniversary of the very first Legend of Zelda game. With that in mind, I was thinking about what I should create as the producer of the series. Many of the team members who work alongside me on Legend of Zelda games today have only experienced developing the more recent titles. That led me to wonder, 'Do they truly understand just how significant The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was to the series as a whole?'
Of course, there are team members who vaguely know the game, and those who played it in their childhood days. But I started to wonder how they'd interpret The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time as they go about developing future Legend of Zelda games.
By learning the game structure and development style behind the original The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and by actually rebuilding it as a full remake, it may trigger new insights that they can carry forward into future development. If we could achieve that, I thought it would be incredibly valuable. That’s what led us to the conclusion that now is the right time to revisit The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time once again."
nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/ask…
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“You cannot get a simple system by adding simplicity to a complex system.” — Richard O’Keefe
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Hard to overstate how big of a deal this is.
tl;dr — ANY unpatched Linux server with even a single TCP port exposed to the internet (say for HTTP or SSH) and MPTCP active (default for many Go web servers) is vulnerable to complete takeover.
What a disaster atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98…
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A reminder that Google Maps exists because of a 100-1000X engineer who rewrote all the code in one weekend
And this engineer happens to be the CEO & founder of Sierra and the chairman of OpenAI today @btaylor
Google Maps is now 20 years old
One could pretty easily make the case of Google Maps being one of the greatest applications ever from a price/value perspective
And early Google seemed pretty damn awesome/wild
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ZacOS 9 is a complete Mac OS 8/9-style desktop for Debian Linux, drawn pixel by pixel from scratch. The window manager, Sniffer file browser, menu bar and every control panel were written, so everything looks and behaves alike, down to the scroll arrows.
sourceforge.net/projects/zac…
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The Common Desktop Environment was created by a collaboration of Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu and Hitachi. Used on a selection of commercial UNIXs, it is now available as open-source software for the first time. sourceforge.net/projects/cde…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
CDE has been Open Source under the GNU LGPL license since 2012. This is not new.
web.archive.org/web/2012092223…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_De…
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pronto la generación del six seven entenderá que tendrá que levantarse a las six de la mañana, para trabajar hasta las seven de la tarde,,, y así durante six de seven días a la semana, por six o seven euros la hora, hasta que cumpla six seven años,,,
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The 10-year database architecture cycle:
2015: SQL is obsolete. Schemas are too rigid. Put everything in NoSQL JSON documents.
2018: Wait, we need to join users and orders. Let's write a 400-line nested loop in JavaScript to join them in RAM.
2021: Wait, if the server crashes halfway through the loop, we lose money. We need ACID transactions.
2026: Quietly puts everything back in PostgreSQL and never speaks of it again.
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Sobre el factor humano y seguir el manual: cuando el comandante Sully amerizó en el Hudson al perder los motores y salvar la vida de los 155 pasajeros la NTSB quiso revocar su licencia, quitarle la pensión y demandarlo pues el simulador decía que podía haber vuelto al aeropuerto.
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Shopify kinda did the fix for this in jan 2023. they had a bot go into everyones calendar and wipe every recurring meeting w 3 or more ppl, plus no meetings on wednesdays
month later the COO said they got back 322,000 hours, which he put at about 150 new hires. so the 8 ppl x 30 min math holds up when u do it company wide
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The worst thing of all:
A 30-minute meeting with 8 people isn't 30 minutes.
It's 4 hours of work. Gone.
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Unlike most people on Twitter, I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake people are making is they are asking “how can I use this to automate a smart person’s job”, when they should be asking “what would I do if I had unlimited dumb people”
