Worth Reading 091126


 


Recognizing that AI is a bubble requires one to apply the right test to the right companies and that requires one to understand the fundamental nature of the bubble in question.

 


Based on the insights from those articles, we now shift attention to which parts of the Internet Route Registry (IRR) landscape can – or cannot – be replaced safely with information from the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) system.

 


While many faults manifest as crashes or exceptions, others are far more subtle to identify. Silent data corruptions (SDCs), also known as silent data errors or silent errors, are violations of data integrity that occur without immediate, observable, and explicit indications.

 


Aligning intended learning outcomes, assessments, and teaching practices with the realities of AI-assisted programming.

 


AI is transforming the role of the junior developer. But as routine tasks become increasingly automated, how will the next generation of software engineers master the craft of maintaining complex systems?

Hedge 318: Parkinson’s Law (and Bastiat)


 
It’s time for Eyvonne, Tom, and Russ to gather round the hedge and talk about various items of interest. In this roundtable, we consider what we can learn about product development from Bastiat, and the various ins and outs of Parkinson’s Law.
 
https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-318.mp3
 
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Worth Reading 090926


 


Information is not meaningful simply because it exists or because it is improbable. It becomes meaningful only if there exists a system that can interpret it and use it to perform a function.

 


At first glance, asking whether Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) make the Internet faster may seem almost provocative at a peering forum. Surely the answer is simply ‘yes’?

 


If you’re dealing with industrial protocols, you’ll certainly have seen Modbus packets in your network. But what are these packets used for, and what data do they contain?

 


Yet I have become increasingly concerned that, in the case of IPv6, we are evaluating the technology almost entirely from the perspective of what it allows networks to do, while giving insufficient attention to what it may allow network operators, corporations and governments to do to their users and if the benefits outweigh the risks.

 


The future of fast food was supposed to look something like this: walk into a restaurant, place an order, and watch a robot assemble your pizza with machine-like precision.

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