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@frabjousday The other day, someone on here reframed "pour from an empty cup," as instead, "you can't boil an empty kettle."
Pouring from an empty cup results in nothing happening. Trying to boil an empty kettle will ruin the kettle, then the stove, then it will burn your house down if you keep trying to do it.
Or the concept that when we run out of spoons, we reach for knives.
People who haven't experienced it need to know how *harmful* it is to try to keep going when you have nothing.
So my manifesto was about
> take dependencies only on components with longer planning horizons than you
Chasing trends can get you "tool-stranded" — the thing you're depending on goes away (probably because it's no longer the apple of some executive's eye).
Depending on a hot new toolset is asking for trouble (old man yells at clouds); you're better off using tools that were stable 15 years ago
This is not ONLY about "generative AI" but it is not NOT about generative AI.
Fallacies of Distributed Computing: Automotive Edition
So our 2016 Subaru Outback has been having horrible battery drain issues for a couple years now. We got the attached service bulletin recently that explained the issue.
It turns out that the Data Communications Module that powers Subaru's Starlink service (emergency assistance/safety/etc. service) now causes a battery drain because it is trying to talk to a 3G network that is no longer there, and it just tries its little heart out.
You can bring the car in to get the DCM reprogrammed to not do this anymore which will fix the problem, and they will also cover batteries killed by the issue.
But my favorite part about this is that this happened because they didn't account for the first Fallacy of Distributed Computing:
"The network is reliable".
A bunch of vehicle computers each connecting to a home network sure sounds like distributed computing to me. 🤷🏻♀️
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2024/MC-10251111-0001.pdf
#Subaru #DistributedComputing #Lesbaru #cars
I'm sick of justifying ethical behavior in terms of profit. We use phrases like "adding alt-text brings more customers to your site" or "protected bike lanes increase revenue for local businesses."
You should add alt-text descriptions to images because it helps people.
We need to build bike lanes because it makes cities safer and more accessible.
Reduce carbon emissions because it's the right thing to do! Discussing these things in purely economic terms misses the point.
come chat with us online, your options are:
- unencrypted faang client
- other unencrypted faang client
- other other unencrypted faang client
- encrypted faang client that is likely backdoored
- $20 profile microtransactions and constantly changing UX
- client with optional encryption and requires a phone number
- encrypted by default client that also requires a phone number
- 35 year old protocol lacking a lot of QOL features that people still use for some reason
- 25 year old protocol that nobody can agree on which extensions to use
- "unable to decrypt message"