Apple Devices & The Reliability Question: A 20+ Year User Retrospective
Apple Devices & The Reliability Question: A 20+ Year User Retrospective
#Debian : Renowned for its #stability and #reliability, this is a free, open-source operating system that receives regular updates and security patches. Thanks to a large community of active and committed developers, Debian is constantly evolving while remaining rock-solid.
A trusted choice for those looking for a robust and secure OS.
In short: Stability, security and community
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Why I Read Code, Not Just Docs.
Many ask what books I read to know so much. Truth? I read a lot.
The Key is to read Iterative on usage: I read & test language updates to stay ahead.
I read JavaDocs from methods to understand my tools.
I dive into source code to see reality.
Marketing slides, old books, outdated websites, foreign benchmarks, YouTube videos, consultants, or sales pitches, code doesn't tell you everything.
That's how I spot: Frameworks abusing ThreadLocals, reflection, synchronised.
"GraalVM-ready" still needing class loading & build on runtime.
Cloud SDK packed with 300+ dependencies.
Memory leaks, vulnerabilities & hidden bloat.
[...]
AI won't save us, it'll just continue the trend.
Resilience. Reliability. Reusability.
Always wrong investments…
If you think bugs, tech debt & maintenance are “normal,” do the world a favor: resign. You’re part of the problem.
MVP/PoC ≠ Done.
It’s a candle - fragile, short-lived.
Real engineering = the light bulb: robust, lasting.
But devs & managers stop at "it works."
Why? Because real engineering demands more.
More thinking. More iterations. More uncomfortable truths.
Product & Tech - Two worlds, but only one is visible.
Mixing them = slower, costlier, dumber.
Resilient systems don’t break.
Reliable systems don’t fail.
Reusable systems don’t get rewritten.
Start building like you mean it.
Update. From @hildabast: "What if We Can’t Rely on PubMed?"
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/what-if-we-cant-rely-on-pubmed/
"#PubMed is incredibly reliable…That said, between the risks of an exodus of key personnel, understaffing, or goodness-knows-what vandalism when a goon squad arrives at NIH, it’s not paranoid any more to think ahead to the once-unthinkable. What would PubMed enshittification look like? Could PubMed go down more often, and for longer? Might services no longer be free? How else could the #quality and #reliability of its services be degraded?"
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We serve organizations of all sizes with this service, which is growing in popularity. We’re now seeking a Senior Site #Reliability #Engineer to join our team!
Alternatives, continuation / clarification
Retrotechtacular: The Tyranny of Large Numbers - Although much diminished now, the public switched telephone network was one of the... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/30/retrotechtacular-the-tyranny-of-large-numbers/ #automatedmanufacturing #retrotechtacular #westernelectric #reliability #carbonfilm #precision #resistor #bell
How can #SBSP be competitive with terrestrial renewables (e.g., #solar, #wind), when the cost of renewables is falling rapidly and given the typically high costs of #launch and space hardware ?
SBSP could serve a complementary role to terrestrial #intermittent renewables, helping to provide #stability and #reliability to the grid. The remaining #energy received at Earth could still be sufficient to make it a worthwhile and economically viable proposition. https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/SOLARIS/FAQ_Frequently_Asked_Questions_on_Space-Based_Solar_Power
Nearly half of EU citizens no longer see US as most important ally, survey shows
A growing number of #EU citizens are distancing themselves from the US, according to a survey by the Bertelsmann Stiftung Foundation on over 26,000 people in the 27-member states.
Around 49% believe #Washington is no longer their most important ally
I need to rant. Maybe I have a few Resilience friends out there who can sympathize.
It's not OK to cut people off from complexity.
First of all, it's insulting. The action infuses itself with distrust. It is some sort of disgusting us-vs-them holdover from like 2005.
Second of all, the dogma of "the developer sits and works on their little piece and knows nothing about what goes on around them" doesn't work anymore. Interactions matter, sharing knowledge matters, working together to understand each other's limitations and where we can find adaptive capacity, that all matters. It's not stuff you can put on a pre-flight checklist or a runbook, it's relationship building.
When we build relationships across the boundaries of the technologies we're building, we learn how to see the interactions between them. If we are only on one side of the equation, we're missing the interaction. And that's where the learning happens, witnessing how the system interacts and updating our mental models.
When we share this activity, we form a more complete picture of the system between a more broadly trained set of people. We discover new ways of doing things because new perspectives are added. Diversity makes these interactions come alive.
So when leaders pull out their managerspeak dialectic and say to me "devs don't need to know anything about the orchestration system" ... that isn't what I'm hearing.
I'm hearing: "Control and simplification is more important than learning."
Alex Ewerlöf diving into reliability metrics and service levels at alphalist CTO Summit.
"above a certain level of reliability ("nines") you cannot even afford to have a human in the loop for on-call"
Here is some related information if you're interested
[IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9201514
[Video - long version] https://youtu.be/mhQmhzj6Zcg/
[Video - short version]https://youtu.be/GJvvXMcR3D4/
I'm looking for a Canadian with expertise in soft errors and their effects on microprocessors and digital memory. This is related to the reliability of embedded control systems.
If you are that person or know someone interested, please send me a private message.
RT @BestRefNet: #Polarization and #reliability of news sources in #Wikipedia: top 5 news outlets reliability class for different political…
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1834675001624248461
The cryptographic code signing identifiers of Little Snitch 6 make your firewall rules more reliable, ensuring that only trusted applications can connect. It’s security you can depend on. Discover more here: https://obdev.at/littlesnitch #Reliability #macOS.
#Journals | #EPJ Applied Physics
"The reliability impact of N doping on the HfO2 charge-trapping layer: a first-principles study"
Fengyu Ye from #WuhanUniversity
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It's time to nationalize NASA's supply chain. No more SpaceX, no more Boeing, etc.
"Shareholder value" is incompatible with safety and reliability.
#Journals | #EPJ Applied Physics
"The reliability impact of N doping on the HfO2 charge-trapping layer: a first-principles study"
Fengyu Ye from #WuhanUniversity
Explore the cutting-edge research in material science and semiconductor technology! https://bit.ly/3WWSf0v
#MaterialScience #Semiconductors #Nanotechnology #Physics #AcademicPublishing #ScientificResearch #HfO2 #OpenAccess #FirstPrinciples #Reliability
#ScienceMastodon
@ScienceScholar @academicsunite
@academicchatter