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Listened to CAP Theorem 23 Years Later with Eric Brewer - Software Engineering Daily by SE Daily 
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The CAP theorem, also known as Brewer’s theorem, is a fundamental principle in distributed systems that states that it is impossible to simultaneously achieve three desirable properties in a distributed data system: Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance. Eric Brewer is the VP of Infrastructure & Google Fellow at Google and he joins us today. This

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Listened to Cup o' Go | 📚 So many Go books, so little time! Plus upcoming security releases, GopherCon ⚡ lightning talks, and interview with Donia Chaiehloudj
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Today we're joined by guest co-host, Adelina Simion! Adelina works at Form3, co-organizer of Women Who Go, London and London Gophers, and is the author of Test-Driven Development in Go.🛡️ Security updates coming August 1:Go 1.20.7 & 1.19.12golang.org/x/image/tiffgolang.org/x/net and...

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Listened to Upstream Podcast - The future of open: What we got wrong about crypto, what we might get right about AI | RSS.com
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Where is open source now and where is it going? The oversaturation of cryptocurrency scams and the community shift in the web3 movement. The data required for machine learning and the balance of rights of use. What do we make of the various states of open source and what comes next? Welcome to the first episode of Upstream podcast! In this week’s episode, Luis Villa chats with Molly White of Web3 is Going Just Great and Stefano Maffuli of the Open Source Initiative about the future of open source and beyond.Links:https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ https://deepdive.opensource.org/ https://opensource.org/ https://ethicalsource.dev/For more stories about open source, subscribe to the Upstream podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, Google Podcasts, YouTube, RSS, or follow along on our website, www.tidelift.com.

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Listened to AI and the 2023 Hollywood Strike with Franchesca Ramsey by Scott Hanselman 
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Franchesca Ramsey is an comedian, writer, actor, producer, activist, and content creator. She's also a proud Union Member of both the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA). She sits down with Scott to talk about the importance of unions, what it means to be a "working actor" and what we can do as consumers of media to support the strike. What does it mean to be a scab? Will AI help or hinder a creative's ability to make living?

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Love that my Meetup account has been (hopefully temporarily?) disabled because - get this - me trying to share my slides with attendees at a Meetup I spoke to has been "classed as spam"

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"every cupboard should be a dishwasher" is an amazingly visionary statement

Listened to So do we like Generics or not? with Roger Peppe & Bryan Boreham (Go Time #286)
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So, do we like generics or not? Some people feared they’d be the end of the language. Others were very hopeful, and had clear use cases, and were thrilled about the feature coming to the language. It was also often touted as the reason a lot of people didn’t adopt Go. So what do we think now? Mat and Kris are joined by...

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Attached: 4 images @TechnicallyRon@Twitter.com: "I took 1 star reviews of #Barbie from furious men on letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler." That last one has to be a guy who doesn't understand why he is so attracted to the Kens. #Feminist #PinkAcidTrip #Gay #AlienatingDangerousAndPerverse https://twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/1683058689224179712

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Listened to Lessons from scaling Spotify: The science of product, taking risky bets, and how AI is already impacting the future of music | Gustav Söderström (Co-President, CPO, and CTO at Spotify) by Lenny Rachitsky 
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Listen now (85 min) | Brought to you by Microsoft Clarity—See how people actually use your product | Eppo—Run reliable, impactful experiments | Eco—Your most rewarding app — Gustav Söderström is the Co-President and Chief Product and Technology Officer at Spotify. He is responsible for Spotify’s global product and technology strategy, overseeing the product, design, data, and engineering teams. Prior to Spotify, he founded 13th Lab, a startup that was later acquired by Facebook’s Oculus. He also served as the Director of Product and Business Development for Yahoo Mobile and founded Kenet Works, a company focused on community software for mobile phones, which was acquired by Yahoo in 2006. In today’s episode, we discuss: