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Think Different

O'Reilly

Harley Earl, its VP of marketing, built a ladder of status from Chevrolet to Pontiac to Cadillac and changed automobile designs every year so that the latest model became an object of desire. That is, the future belongs to t hose who are exercising the intelligence and insight that AI itself does not have.

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Evolving Container Security With Linux User Namespaces

The Netflix TechBlog

This, in turn, allows processes to exercise certain privileges without having any privileges in the init user namespace. Most of these encoding tools are designed to interact with the POSIX filesystem API. Kernel subsystems can then proceed to call ns_capable with the specific user namespace that is tied to the resource.

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

These trade-offs have even impacted the way the lowest level building blocks in our computer architectures have been designed. The early GPU systems were very vendor specific and mostly consisted of graphic operators implemented in hardware being able to operate on data streams in parallel. General Purpose GPU programming.

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Safari 16.4 Is An Admission

Alex Russell

This lack of transparency is by design and provides Apple deniability while simultaneously setting low expectations, making them easier to exceed. as an (eventual) exercise of monopolistic power that held the web back for more than a decade? However, aside from the reading of tea leaves, there's no way to know if work is progressing.

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A persistent problem: managing pointers in NVM

The Morning Paper

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. This is left as an exercise for the application developer at present. What about security?

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The Pursuit of Appiness

Alex Russell

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Fast forward a decade, and both the software and hardware situations have changed dramatically. Don't like the consequences?

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Automating chaos experiments in production

The Morning Paper

This is a fascinating paper from members of Netflix’s Resilience Engineering team describing their chaos engineering initiatives: automated controlled experiments designed to verify hypotheses about how the system should behave under gray failure conditions, and to probe for and flush out any weaknesses. Safeguards.

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