what do you keep it in
Run the offer to completion and you are left with a residue. The residue is the insoluble, the insoluble is where the people are, and the solvent has just changed what it can grip.
The alchemists had a question that killed their whole project, and it is the right one to end on. If it dissolves everything, what do you keep it in?
in your own image
Part three of four in “into solution,” on what software does to a problem when you take the word literally. Each part stands alone. Software is the …
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the last dinosaur
The GPU-mining herd of 2017 went extinct on the same morning in 2022. CoreWeave came through by being small and changing what it ate. It is now $35.6 billion of debt standing on chips its own CEO says are state of the art for eighteen months.
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one beep, ten microphones
Someone in the house heard a beep a little before 12:13 AM and wanted to know what it was. I handed the question to an agent with access to the camera recorder. …
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the multi-organization problem
Ten years of short posts were circling one object: a person who belongs to many organizations at once, with tools that assume one and methods that assume a task. Here is the theory in one place, what three fields and forty years of software actually know about it, whether anyone has solved it, and what a solution needs.
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three games to sell one
Entry three of three in “the dimension problem.” Part one builds the vocabulary; part two runs it against the remake business. This one spends all …
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