Bernardo Salazar

Replacing method calls and module separations with network invocations and service partitioning within a single, coherent team and application is madness in almost all cases.

If AI enables computers to think, computer vision enables them to see, observe and understand.

An ordinary Venezuelan won’t skip a visit to SAIME to renew its passport just because Maduro’s state isn’t legitimate. They won’t ignore a fine or tell a police officer they have no authority because the state they serve is illegitimate. They’ll go to SAIME because only the state can issue a valid passport. They’ll obey the officer because he still... See more

"I'm glad Peter Jackson had a movie to look at—I never did. And certainly there's a lot to learn from watching any movie, both its mistakes and when it works. So he had a little easier time than I did, and a lot better budget."[31]

Understandability is one of the most basic needs of readers of a piece of code. Optimizing for understandability can result in optimizing for everything else on the hierarchy depicted above. Understandable code is code that lends itself well towards being debugged . Code can often be debugged with a test case. Code that’s easy to test is, as often... See more

But in the end, gravity still works, and a balloon can be inflated only so much. The bitcoin bubble is an artifact of market manipulation and has no more economic substance than the Hawk Tuah coin does. The U.S. government may be ripe for plunder, but other nations need to take steps to shield themselves from the impact of rug-pulling on a global... See more

In the world of trend research, we are traditionally taught to be on the lookout for ‘weak signals’ - small, low-frequency indicators that hint at a potential shift in culture. And while scanning for these weak signals is a fundamental part of the process, it’s easy to get stuck in a pattern of only noticing evidence that confirms our preconceived... See more

It’s possible to tell Kubernetes to use the DNS configuration of the host. This is used, for instance, in the CoreDNS pods, since they need to know which resolvers to query for external names. It’s also used by some infrastructure, essential pods, that need to resolve external names but don’t want to depend on the Kubernetes internal DNS to be... See more