A collection of posts by Joe Magerramov

The death rate per mile driven has declined 22-fold since 1950.

Why the banks really hate fintechs that allow businesses to learn your account number easily.

AI is bad enough on its own without giving it god-like powers

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

Have you ever argued with someone who is seriously good at debating? I have. It sucks. You’re constantly thrown off-balance, responding to a point you didn’t expect to. You find yourself defending the weak edges of your argument, while the main thrust gets left behind in the back-and-forth, and you end up losing momentum, confidence, and ultimately, the argument. One of my close friends won international debate competitions for fun while we were at university (he’s now a successful criminal barrister), and he told me that the only trick in the book, once you boil it all down, is to make sure the conversation is framed in your terms. Once that happens, it’s all over bar the shouting.

I found a promising tool and reached out to the founder, ready to invest and partner up. I was met with a wall of silence. It crystallized a feeling I've had for a while: for many, the exit strategy dream is a nightmare for customers who actually care.

Personal website of David R Hagen, scientific software engineer

AWS Senior Principal Engineers, Niko Matsakis and Marc Bowes, take us inside Aurora DSQL's development: scaling write operations without two-phase commit, overcoming garbage collection hurdles, and em...

Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows 11. If you’re wondering why we’re on...

In JDK 25, Strings used as keys in immutable Maps can be much faster.

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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism - Kindle edition by Wynn-Williams, Sarah. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism.