'All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection, except for the problem of too many layers of indirection' - David Wheeler

Will Dormann It's like when my bank forced me to disable email 2FA (bad, but at least somewhat under my control) and enable SMS 2FA (putting all of the trust in my phone company and the Number Portability Adminstration Center).

South Africa’s government designed a tender for a gas refinery project in such a way that Russia’s sanctioned Gazprombank was the only eligible bidder. And it’s now approved by the state.

If AI is here to help I sure haven’t seen an example of it

YARP is one of the technologies we built that has seen incredible adoption internally at Microsoft and externally also! #dotnet #yarp

Holy forking shirtballs YARP is so cool! A reverse proxy as a configurable package on top of Kestrel? Sign me up!

Maybe I live under a rock, but I feel like this deserves a ton more attention.

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#dotnet

Chris Yelland Sorry sir... you can't use the words Koeberg and 'critical' together... Some of us live way too close to hear those words 😳

It is obscene that so much of our finest talent is mobilized around innovating new ways to appropriate people's personal data or develop algorithms to manipulate people into clicking on more ads, while fundamental social and ecological problems remain unaddressed.

JP Smith responds. Listen #TaxiStrike

When people say things like this it’s never clear if they mean
a) an inability to imagine words in your head or
b) People who can’t stop the constant chatterbox of internal dialogue in their heads

There is a big difference. Which do you mean?

When Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu coined the term 'Rainbow Nation,' it wasn't by accident. Here are the facts;

1) Black people aren't going to run out and kill farmers or white people just because Julius Malema sang a song at FNB Stadium.

2) Farm murders are a horrific reality

The best apps I have developed
1. Hello World
2. Test app
3. Untitled project

This is the sound of the entire field of evolutionary psychology dying
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Clayo Tobias van Schneider Great way of shortening our attention spans even further!

This is the most insane shit I have ever read in my life. Race quotas for water use. What the actual f***.

Geordin Hill-Lewis For the meters - why not give them to households for free if they have at least 5kw solar capacity, pay the household 50c for each kw until the unit is paid back and thereafter the full price. There are so many solar panels available not being utilized once batteries are full.

Following some really interesting data from Backblaze and Secure Data Recovery our own Matt Sarrel does the math and learns that investing in RAID is like investing in data loss. Erasure coding is the way given the failure rate of HDDs. hubs.li/Q01Q6ZWF0

What exactly does Russia do for South Africa either than exporting useless ideology?

@NalediMpungose_ So, the goal was to close businesses from doing business. The plan was for people not to earn an income. Wow.

There is no government in South Africa. Just people occupying positions and calling themselves a government. SMH.