Interesting development in the space of laws about age verification in software. Apps and workflows that need age verification should bear the burden of age verification; not the underlying platform.
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The post contains the phrase "of soaring rhetoric" 🤣🤦
Of course, this development reminds me of model driven development, secure-by-design, efforts like SeMA (arxiv.org/abs/2001.10052), and Joydeep Mitra (:
#security #software
Bring Back Idiomatic Design https://lobste.rs/s/5ywxzh #design
Jen Easterly's remark in @wired.com's www.wired.com/story/anthro... is on the mark 🎯 Leaning on Alex Zenla's remark, it may be time to develop and use preventive approaches to apriori eliminate the links that can be strung together into long chain vulnerabilities.
#vulnerability #software #security
With #AI getting good at #hacking, is it time to start spending more time+resource preventing #vulnerabilities instead of curing them? I think, while getting #security correct (e.g., secure-by-design) can be hard, it may be relatively cheaper and easier than finding+curing vulnerabilities in code.
Please consider adding the following:
1) The average income in 30 years assuming current income growth rate.
2) The average income required in 30 years to live comfortably.
"The AI Great Leap Forward"
leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0...
> The mandate today is identical, just swap the nouns. Every company, every function, every individual contributor is expected to close the AI gap. Ship AI features. Build agents. Automate workflows.
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> The Famine Comes Later
Cancer's tumor eating bacteria 😮 Will we have a cure for cancer in the coming decade or two? 🤞 😎
#science #health #medicine #cancer
To me, it is #0: document my findings/knowledge for the future me. Other "purposes" are nice second-order effects.
Agreed :) I think open access helps readers on the fence and readers for whom print copy is expensive. Also, it can help lighten the backpack ;)
Really? In that order?
I suppose the writing style is a reason why I read some books faster than others. Based on what I usually read and how I write, some sentence structures are easier to read and faster to understand than others.
#reading #writing
It would be great if the ebook was made available via open access (say, a late draft PDF) 😃
It would be great if the ebook was made available via open access (say, a late draft PDF) 😃
I think we will see a shift IF mobile app development and maintenance is simpler, easier, and more efficient in the Swift ecosystem than in the KMP ecosystem. Of course, a big if. Also, we have to consider the scale of the multiplatform space when measuring the gains.
KMP has got competition 👀 It will be interesting to see how this change will affect mobile app development space and vice versa 🍿
#kotlin #Mobile #Android #ios #multiplatform
A Good Man
I can't help but wonder "what prompted them to come up with such postulates, conjectures, etc.?" I suppose an ideal situation to say "I'll have whatever they were having." 😀
Recently, I read a post titled "self-cancelling subscription" that was about a buggy subscription system. But, why not make automatic-cancellation a feature? 🤔 For example, Netflix provides an option to automatically cancel/suspend my subscription if I do not use the service for, say, two months.
This six-part post describes typical technical and process rot in orgs when product quality (e.g., security, reliability) and op excellence are incrementally sacrificed in the name of velocity, time-to-market, etc.
#technology #management #techdebt
isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-micros...
🌶️ IIRC "High Output Management" (book) suggests the main purpose of middle managers (MMs) is to facilitate information flow across the company. If it is so at Block, Jack may pull it off in this regard. Also, we will know if and how much MMs at Block were helping with coaching and career dev 👀
When folks and movies suggested that the next big war would be for water, who would have thought it would be for sea water and not for fresh water? 🤦
Interesting development in the Math community. I wonder about the final outcome. Also, how many other academic communities will respond in similar ways to recent events?
#academicsky #mathematics #politics
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
So, is now a good time for new companies to break into the computer component market -- processor, memory, storage -- and disrupt any mono/douplies?
#computers #hardware
www.heise.de/en/news/Proc...
Following terms are synonymous / closely related.
1. Externalities (economics)
2. Collateral Damage (military)
3. Ripple Effect (systems thinking)
4. Second-Order Effect (systems thinking)
@wired.com was a breath of fresh air in 2025. Transparent reporting, level-headed opinions, and pretty good political coverage (for a predominantly tech outlet). None of the I-will-write-cos-I-can crap, e.g., Marc Thiessen 💩 at @washingtonpost.com.
#news
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...
Seems like document versioning meme from academia -- paper_final_last_done_1034PM_03042026.docx.
Consequently, working at multiple companies at the same time becomes even more easy, right? 😂