Olreich

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by Olreich 27d ago
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2022/02/28/retries.html Seems that retries are good when the error is rare, and bad when the error is common. Typically outages have you transitioning from "everything is
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by Olreich 27d ago
It's less about "can't afford" and more about "don't want to spend".
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by Olreich 1mo ago
Did you disable cookies or something? Table of Contents sidebar hides and stays hidden across page loads, browser restarts, etc. Appearance sidebar is the same. Appearance sidebar lets you set the article width as well, with the default bei
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by Olreich 9mo ago
But many artists are hallucinating when they envisioned some of their pieces. Who's to say Mozart wasn't on a trip when he created The Marriage of Figaro.
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by Olreich 1y ago
If you need to grab a particular struct's version of the data, you can via `opts.BarService.URL` or `opts.FooService.URL`: https://go.dev/play/p/MUSYJhmoC2D Still worth being careful, but it can be useful whe
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by Olreich 1y ago
There aren’t grid-scale batteries that can handle hundreds of thousands of cycles at an affordable price. If we crack that problem, solar and wind for everything will immediately be the only technology worth deploying for energy in 99% of a
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by Olreich 1y ago
The appeal back then was being able to get all the shows you wanted on a single platform. Netflix had all of Disney, WB, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc. at one point, including strong original content. Going all in on $10/month for all the TV I wa
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by Olreich 1y ago
US students are expected to be able to read 104 characters by the end of 6th grade. While Chinese students are expected to be able to read 20k words by that time. Characters in Chinese can be combined to make more words, and you need around
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by Olreich 1y ago
Current models are lossy databases at this point. Carmack looks like he might be trying to get logical reasoning to work (learning something abstract in one context and applying it to a similar context). That is something that would advance
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by Olreich 1y ago
> But yes, the equivalent of fnmatch should be a separate module and that could be a dependency of glob. Interesting, lets look at fnmatch: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/f... W
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by Olreich 1y ago
You know what’s more fun than having a bad junior write crap code while you point out their mistakes? Writing good code yourself.
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by Olreich 1y ago
None of those listed jobs is actually unskilled labor. Driving a big truck around narrow roads is a skill most don’t have, doing it at speed and running up and down to actually move the heavy packages is a skill most don’t have. Assembling
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by Olreich 1y ago
Sure, but the argument is still that the smartphones aren’t the root cause. It’s the transactional nature of the thing. Can’t fail students because money would go down, so keep passing them as they get better equipped to ignore you and have
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by Olreich 1y ago
Const only saves you most of the time if you have a “const” all the way down the type structure. If I have a type Foo with a field that is a pointer to a mutable value, instantiating a Const Foo just means I’m always pointing at the same mu
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by Olreich 2y ago
Google wants Firefox to remain viable (or at least one other browser) so that they can avoid monopoly issues with Chrome. If they pay Firefox to keep Google as default search engine, they keep 80% of the money they’d get by having those use
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by Olreich 2y ago
As the law stands, they are allowed to lie as much as they want when in uniform, in public, and anything you say or do in response can be held against you in court. The proposed Virginia law forbids that in the case of children who are inte
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by Olreich 2y ago
I do think that game companies have a higher percentage of top-tier programmers. This is both due to pedigree and size of the field. There are some incredible programmers in both big tech and game dev, but big tech has vastly more developer
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by Olreich 2y ago
Kotlin fixes a lot of the verbosity, but its tooling support is shockingly bad compared to Java in VSCode and IntelliJ for me.
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by Olreich 2y ago
He’s stated that he doesn’t think open source helps produce high quality software and attracts a bunch of people that are less interested in building software and more interested in building policy. However, he’s stated many times that he w
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by Olreich 2y ago
Store configs in the program if you can. Store in INI, TOML, or something similarly simple for humans if you must. Never use anything that requires matching syntax as the default (closing tags and matched brackets being the two main ones).
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by Olreich 2y ago
It ran into a pole… I don’t imagine other cars’ safety systems would fail to brake there
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by Olreich 2y ago
How do we guarantee "T3 submitted at T+300ns" reads the rows that are committed by T1 and T2 at T+100ns and T+200ns? I guess the answer is that the minimum transaction time for consistency is 5 minutes? At that point, don't y
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by Olreich 2y ago
It’s literally the mechanics of the vote and how it encourages voting not for your favorite candidate, but the candidate most likely to win that isn’t the worst candidate for you. https://youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
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by Olreich 2y ago
It’s all about accounting for the spend. Wall Street often looks at Capital Expenditures as a sign of growth or at least net neutral, but they view Operating Expenses as negative. If you can reduce your operating expenses by 200k, but incre
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by Olreich 2y ago
This article misses the most important reason to not use Serverless: Cost. It's way more expensive to run serverless than it is to run any other format, even something like AWS Fargate is better than Lambda if you keep your Lambda runn
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by Olreich 2y ago
Tool-chain dependencies are still dependencies. If you need autoconf, cmake, python, perl, and gcc to build, you’ve made yourself a giant pile of garbage to deal with compared to just having a bash script that you spent two days getting int
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by Olreich 2y ago
One group sees the other as a person backpacking with a bespoke gadget for every little thing, wearing a 60lb rucksack while they are wearing a 20lb ultralight pack and have a multi-tool that serves 90% of their needs. One group sees the ot
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by Olreich 2y ago
What’s another dignified option when it reaches terminal?
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by Olreich 2y ago
Yeah they will. Surgeons aren’t in it for the money, they’re in it for the glory. Most doctors, nurses, EMTs, etc. would work for free if they could magically have them and their families taken care of, as evidenced by how much they go well
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by Olreich 2y ago
But the planning change to add a new wing to the building? That can’t be made smaller. What about if a new regulation is put in effect requiring every fire door to have a corresponding fire window next to it? That’s either 3000 little chang

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