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Haven’t seen much discussion on this but Facebook’s iOS app is the closest thing to Frankenstein’s monster that a codebase can get to and still be alive.
![After years of iteration, the Facebook codebase does not resemble a typical iOS codebase:
It’s full of C++, Objective-C(++), and Swift.
It has dozens of dynamically loaded libraries (dylibs), and so many classes that they can’t be loaded into Xcode at once.
There is almost zero raw usage of Apple’s SDK — everything has been wrapped or replaced by an in-house abstraction.
The app makes heavy use of code generation, spurred by Buck, our custom build system.
Without heavy caching from our build system, engineers would have to spend an entire workday waiting for the app to build.](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.substack.com%2Fmedia%2FFpKzCoxWYAAassY.jpg)
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Russia was going to freeze and blackout Ukraine into submission -- not to mention cause a grisly winter for the rest of Europe. Now look. Winter is drawing to a close and Ukraine's power is back on with the "stability of the energy infrastructure in Kyiv" more or less restored.… https://t.co/Gu2v6BAE9t
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Paul Adams @BBCPaulAdams
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It says something when Wagner has made staying in a Russian prison the healthy option.
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss
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1. Those hurt by negligent drivers are disproportionately lower income
2. Drivers obscuring their tags are VERY disproportionately drivers w repeated negligent driving records
3. The other group doing this are cops & their families, who don’t believe vehicle laws apply to them
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Just in: Amazon announced RTO starting on 1 May.
Talking with engineers, I sense both surprise and confusion. Confusion on how this week’s all hands did not broach the topic.
Amazon was the one of the longest holdouts on letting ppl work remote, w/o defining any policy so far. https://t.co/KDDrpIWQB0
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Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz
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I asked, “Name three celebrities whose first names begin with the `x`-th letter of the alphabet where `x = floor(7^0.5) + 1`,” but with my entire prompt Base64 encoded.
Bing: “Ah, I see you Base64-encoded a riddle! Let’s see… Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chris Pratt, and Ciara.”
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Significant loss claims from the Ukrainians today; looking more and more that the ‘massive’ Russian offensive that people were taking about is a return, on a larger scale, of the Russian habit of drip feeding forces that into action that we saw earlier in the Donbas
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The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent
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By using a prompt injection attack, it's possible to get Bing Chat to divulge its initial prompt, which is a list of statements that governs how it interacts with people who use the service.
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Trend toward EVs has climate benefits but they are heavier, which makes accidents deadlier.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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My favorite econ paper correlated the unpaid parking tickets of UN diplomats in NYC with the UN corruption index. They have diplomatic immunity so don't need to pay the tickets, but people from low corruption countries paid anyways.
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How do you measure a livable, lovable city? One possibility — 94% of Parisians live less than 5 minutes from a bakery. HT @parisyimby #Paris #15MinuteCities
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One of the maddest online dramas I've ever seen. People love the genre of tweet that goes "I'm the author of this article, and you've misrepresented it" so much that they failed to check if the person in question really WAS the author! Extraordinary.
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Jesse Singal @jessesingal