Orou

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by Orou 5y ago
Are there any major benefits to using Tailscale over vanilla Wireguard?
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by Orou 5y ago
> This cycle of having a few years where the costs of an approach aren't acknowledged, to a few years where the benefits aren't acknowledged, is very lame. Well said. I do sympathize with some of the criticisms but only insofar
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by Orou 5y ago
> The more hardcore UBI defenders talk about paying Malibu surfers to surf all day, or to write haikus I've been following the UBI space for a long time and I've never seen anyone use this as an example - that's just a str
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by Orou 5y ago
Anyone who's had to parse free-text international addresses can tell you that this is terrible advice. People type things into computers incorrectly all day long . We prompt users to select things like country from dropdowns with good
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by Orou 5y ago
This makes me really curious about how people with legal mononyms (Ye, Cher, etc.) have their taxes filed or medical forms filled out.
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by Orou 5y ago
> always just about 'good enough' to solve the issue at hand I've seen this approach really bite teams that only focus on the cost of implementing application behaviors rather than the long-term costs in terms of mainten
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by Orou 5y ago
You're not missing anything, the argument is for how long this duration should be. The lifetime of the original creator plus $YEARS should be more than long enough for the original work(s) to be made 'canonical'. How is a cor
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by Orou 5y ago
I agree libraries are great when dealing with very specific domain problems (who wants to hand-roll a datetime module?). But there are also a ton of libraries that aren't for such specific domains or which attempt to bridge multiple do
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by Orou 5y ago
Is the interleaving of redis and db transactions atomic?
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by Orou 5y ago
The author of Noria, Jon Gjengset, gave a great talk about the system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s19G6n0UjsM The speeds achieved are impressive but you do not get consistency.
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by Orou 5y ago
I was just reading an article earlier today on the same subject. I thought the "pedagogy" section was interesting when considering if `mut` is the right term to be using for exclusive references. https://docs.rs/dt
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by Orou 5y ago
> I would strongly advise against using python for anything other than PoC/experimental endeavours. I agree with your points, but this seems to lean a bit too far the other way. Yes, Python has plenty of limitations and cases where
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by Orou 5y ago
> it forever mystifies me that it isn't standard I can give a few thoughts on why here: - it doesn't work for collaborative efforts unless everyone is using the same linter or IDE with the same configuration. Not friendly to ed
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by Orou 5y ago
Wholeheartedly agree with this. The problem isn't aliasing, it's lazy aliasing which is more I think what GP was referring to (e.g. emp.id instead of employee.id).
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by Orou 5y ago
> Separation of "developer" and "user" is artificial and more should be done to recognize that. I've seen some company ROI models built in excel that I think would change your mind about this.
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by Orou 5y ago
Most ML requires collecting, cleaning, and transforming datasets into something that a model can train on for a specific domain. Codex and Copilot aren't good examples of this because they are training on terabytes of public code repos
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by Orou 5y ago
This is right on the money. Everyone wants to do new and interesting work on a product, which naturally means changing things even if it isn't really an improvement. No one is going to put "maintained system that wasn't broke
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by Orou 5y ago
If you're used to writing embedded code then I'm not surprised - you want to be able to fully introspect everything that is happening since understanding performance is so important. Syntactic sugar is often better in high-level l
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by Orou 5y ago
Mikovits' claims are bold-faced lies regardless of your opinions on the pandemic. Probably the most hilarious claim from that video was the line: "The controversial article sent shockwaves through the scientific community, as it r
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by Orou 5y ago
Agreed. I'll admit I didn't notice it on first pass and just thought the Jim Morrison bit was sloppy writing, but reading it again it has all the hallmarks of GPT-generated text. It even talks about the etymology of the word &quot
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by Orou 5y ago
> By contrast, most knowledge work today operates with no deliberate structure at all. Instead of carefully constructed processes to get the most out of each person, we just hand out tasks and leave people to organise themselves organica
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by Orou 5y ago
The command line is much more productive for programmers . The entire issue with open source OS adoption is that these systems are not being designed with non-technical users in mind, and their GUIs are lackluster to say the least. I reall
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by Orou 5y ago
I would also vote for "data engineer" (it's my current job title). You very likely don't want a data scientist to be doing a data engineer's job (and they probably don't want to be doing it themselves!). While
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by Orou 5y ago
Genocide was committed on both sides, and from a purely numerical standpoint the Haitian slaves had it worse. Why shouldn't France have been forced to pay back Haiti for the enslavement and genocide that it committed? Or should we just
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by Orou 5y ago
The Haitian revolution ravaged the new nation's economy. The machinery used to process raw materials for Haiti's valuable export products, in particular sugar and coffee, were mostly destroyed in slave uprisings, and they could no
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by Orou 5y ago
Isn't it more intuitive for OP codes though?
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by Orou 5y ago
You could just as easily argue that the owners of the building must be at fault because they have a financial incentive not to repair structural damage for as long as possible. We can also look at this from the lens of outcomes if we lean
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by Orou 5y ago
You can get travel insurance for extended trips. I'm American and I've taken multiple 6-month trips abroad (usually after quitting a job). Backpacking just isn't part of the American culture.
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by Orou 5y ago
Naive question: in Python, isn't this solved by .copy and .deepcopy if you really have to get a copy of an object rather than create a new instance of something? I'm curious where the bad API design is, unless you're saying
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by Orou 5y ago
Legitimate question: how useful is Google trends for understanding interest in a subject for other languages, or in regions where Google's presence is limited (e.g. China)? This seems like a really poor data point when also considering

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