alephu5

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by alephu5 2y ago
I've been interested in this problem space for a couple of years, have tried a whole bunch of products but settled on using cedar policy engine[1] wrapped in some custom code and using the application database and static files to gener
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by alephu5 3y ago
I imagine the people paying the most money have a high tolerance.
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by alephu5 3y ago
You'll also need to befriend some conservative politicians.
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by alephu5 3y ago
I pay $20 a year to develop private projects on source hut with CI and everything else included.
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by alephu5 4y ago
Maximise returns on investment?
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by alephu5 4y ago
I got a 96 and am pleased with that. I have serious concerns about Amazon as a company, they're too big and predatory. I've been using AWS at various companies and have tried to embrace its paradigms but I hate them.
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by alephu5 4y ago
The EU are working on something like this, it's like USDC but backed and exchanged by the European Central Bank. https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/digital_euro/html/index.en.ht...
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by alephu5 4y ago
Grep is a performance sensitive program, it's not unusual to scan through thousands of files and millions of lines so small inefficiencies are noticeable. If you tried this in python it would probably take hours to scan through somethi
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by alephu5 4y ago
Go has these same properties
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by alephu5 4y ago
My ISP gives a dedicated IPv4 to anyone that asks, everyone else goes on CGNAT. Hardly anyone asks so they don't mind.
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by alephu5 4y ago
Terminal user interface
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by alephu5 4y ago
We're just more sensitive to these things, if the decline continues more people will notice.
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by alephu5 4y ago
Have you tried htmlx? It fits this gap quite nicely, it's lets you do AJAX with SSR.
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by alephu5 4y ago
Did you add a typo as a joke?
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by alephu5 4y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if most software in the world has been chugging along unchanged for decades. I suspect future historians in 1000 years will find pieces of ancient code copied around unchanged for centuries.
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by alephu5 4y ago
On a moral level I think it's fair to give them a tax break on this, since they're effectively donating all future company profits to global society through the foundations.
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by alephu5 4y ago
Insulation is your best bet
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by alephu5 4y ago
Sounds like an incentive to invest in R&D.
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by alephu5 5y ago
What could justify citizenship beyond an accident of birth?
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by alephu5 5y ago
Not lazy, sensible. The market has spoken and it wants bloated electron apps with rapid development, rather than performant C/assembly apps that hardly ever change.
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by alephu5 5y ago
The most useful definition (for engineering) is that "code" changes/defines how the program executes. Your YAML shopping list changes your path through the shop, so it is code. For non-trivial programs the configuration space
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by alephu5 5y ago
It makes sense that the CEO should communicate to employees the effects of politics on the company, but it's unreasonable to send this to your customers.
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by alephu5 5y ago
Why Postgres? Why not redis, rabbitMQ or even Kafka itself?
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by alephu5 5y ago
I think it's an advantage because you're more likely to have a good work ethic and understand business then someone from an academic stream.
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by alephu5 5y ago
With an ORM you can leverage the IDE to get field names, types and descriptions by simply typing out the name of the model. In pure SQL you need to memorise the schema, or continuously switch contexts to refer back to it. Another advantage
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by alephu5 5y ago
The point is 10x what? Compared to who? We all know people who code faster than the rest of the team but they always cut corners. Part of the reason that everyone else is slower is because they're trying to work around the under-tested
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by alephu5 5y ago
Would it be progressive to stop eating animals?
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by alephu5 5y ago
Backend: Python (Django) Spring Boot Frontend: Typescript (React + React-native) Kotlin, Java and Swift Quite a good way of getting into mobile development is to start with react-native and learn the native languages by adding modules.
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by alephu5 5y ago
It's not a supply/demand problem, they have enough fuel for everyone but due to a lorry driver shortage deliveries now take ~10 days whereas previously they were within 24h. The shortages are because demand over this type of times
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by alephu5 5y ago
Everyone I know uses YouTube as a de facto reference. They don't read blogs, Wikipedia, news articles or company documentation, rather they look for explainer videos or tutorials. I mention that because I think it overflows into work i

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