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"Some software engineering rules:
No code runs faster than no code.
No code has fewer bugs than no code.
No code uses less memory than no code.
No code is easier to understand than no code."
"This kind of misperception is an example of perceptual constancy, the mechanism that allows you to recognize an object as being the same in different environments, and under very diverse lighting conditions."
"For example, current federal rules require alerts on dashboards if tire pressure runs low. NHTSA said a test would need to be created that shows the vehicle computer is informed of the problem. NHTSA raised the question of whether humans in the vehicles should also be made aware."
"P.S. Normally I don’t go in for making fun of other people’s hard work, but I suspect the people that made this know exactly what they did and are probably dancing in the fat stack of cash Uber paid them to do it."
"SELECT CONCAT(table_schema, '.', table_name),
CONCAT(ROUND(table_rows / 1000000, 2), 'M') rows,
CONCAT(ROUND(data_length / ( 1024 * 1024 * 1024 ), 2), 'G') DATA,
CONCAT(ROUND(index_length / ( 1024 * 1024 * 1024 ), 2), 'G') idx,
CONCAT(ROUND(( data_length + index_length ) / ( 1024 * 1024 * 1024 ), 2), 'G') total_size,
ROUND(index_length / data_length, 2) idxfrac
FROM information_schema.TABLES
ORDER BY data_length + index_length DESC
LIMIT 10;"
What was meant to be a new, decentralised form of money that lacked “systemically important institutions” and “too big to fail” has become something even worse: a system completely controlled by just a handful of people.