WillDaSilva

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AI Changes the Economics of JIT Compilers(malisper.me)
2 points by WillDaSilva 1mo ago|0 comments
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Mamdani to offer 30% discount on meat and produce at city-owned grocery stores(apnews.com)
7 points by WillDaSilva 2mo ago|4 comments
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by WillDaSilva 2mo ago
In a typical Rust project you organize your project into many crates. I haven't checked, but I'd guess that the vast majority of those dependencies are internal dependencies. After all, this project started by running an automated
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by WillDaSilva 3mo ago
For what it's worth, Immich supports this too. You can create an album (for each event), create a shared link, allow public anonymous uploads for the shared link, and then give the link to everyone at the event, and ask them to upload
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The dead economy theory(owenmcgrann.com)
1359 points by WillDaSilva 4mo ago|1426 comments
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The secrets of the Shinkansen(worksinprogress.news)
159 points by WillDaSilva 5mo ago|156 comments
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Social Media Without Socializing(pluralistic.net)
10 points by WillDaSilva 8mo ago|1 comments
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by WillDaSilva 9mo ago
It's pretty easy these days to spin up a local Postgres container. Might as well use it for prototyping too, and save yourself the hassle of switching later.
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Pre-PEP: Rust for CPython(discuss.python.org)
2 points by WillDaSilva 9mo ago|0 comments
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by WillDaSilva 9mo ago
There's a repository setting you can enable to prevent actions from running unless they have their version pinned to a SHA digest. This setting applies transitively, so while you can't force your dependencies to use SHA pinning fo
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The Right-wing schism over property taxes(progressandpoverty.substack.com)
5 points by WillDaSilva 10mo ago|1 comments
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by WillDaSilva 11mo ago
Pulumi may be what you're looking for. Same concept as Terraform, and many of its provider libraries are just wrappers around Terraform provider libraries, but you can use a variety of common programming languages to declare your desir
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Tech PACS Are Closing in on the Almonds(astralcodexten.com)
1 points by WillDaSilva 11mo ago|0 comments
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Canadian Army launches bold modernization and restructuring initiative(canada.ca)
3 points by WillDaSilva 11mo ago|0 comments
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by WillDaSilva 1y ago
Timezones are not static, and actually change somewhat frequently. A program that converts any given future time to UTC risks becoming incorrect about when that time is due to political changes that affect the timezone the given future time
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by WillDaSilva 1y ago
I was able to get a Pasmo card as an alternative to Suica, and it was rechargable with cash. I also did the same with an Icoca card. I didn't need a Japanese address in either case. I just bought the cards from machines at a couple of
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by WillDaSilva 1y ago
I fully agree. The rate limits are how you control the behaviour of the clients. My suggestion of leaving caching to the clients, which they may want to do in order to avoid hitting the rate limit.
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by WillDaSilva 1y ago
There are times when a cache is appropriate, but I often find that it's more appropriate for the cache to be on the side of whoever is making all the requests. This isn't applicable when that is e.g. millions of different clients
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by WillDaSilva 1y ago
This is exciting to see. I run some latency sensitive code on Lambda with the Node runtime, so cold starts are troublesome. I hope I'll be able to use this one it's in beta or fully released.
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Civil Service: A Victim or a Villain?(250bpm.com)
3 points by WillDaSilva 1y ago|1 comments
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by WillDaSilva 1y ago
Distributing your backup over the spare storage of many other NAS servers is the main idea behind Storj, which provides a remarkably cheap price per TB per month.
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The State of Zero Trust Report 2025 – Tailscale(tailscale.com)
3 points by WillDaSilva 1y ago|1 comments
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by WillDaSilva 1y ago
It is done, albeit rarely due to how expensive and complex an operation it is. My friend's mother moved her house a few kilometers across some farmland. It was a rather large 2 story tall house, with a basement. It had to be moved to a
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$300 Ukrainian drones vs. $100M Russian bombers(gzeromedia.com)
17 points by WillDaSilva 1y ago|1 comments
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by WillDaSilva 1y ago
If they sell their land, then presumably they'd receive a substantial windfall with which they could buy a new cheaper place, or rent. If they don't receive a substantial windfall, then the amount they were paying for the LVT must
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by WillDaSilva 1y ago
Assuming the tax is high enough (or grows over time to become high enough) to offset the negative externalities, and that the money raised is used to offset negative externalities, they're better phrase not as "it's fine to b
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Why did DeepMind solve protein folding?(jakefeala.substack.com)
2 points by WillDaSilva 1y ago|0 comments
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US loses last perfect credit rating amid rising debt(bbc.com)
68 points by WillDaSilva 1y ago|3 comments
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The Ukraine War and the Kill Market(250bpm.substack.com)
3 points by WillDaSilva 1y ago|2 comments
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Autoimmune therapies: an inspiration for anti-aging therapies?(writingruxandrabio.com)
3 points by WillDaSilva 1y ago|0 comments

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