alex_smart

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by alex_smart 12d ago
Because simplicity is hard and often the result of careful thought. Anybody can keep piling pile of shit on top of pile of shit which is why that sort of code is so common in our industry.
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by alex_smart 1mo ago
You could just let the driver support something like “LOAD DATA INFILE LOCAL <>” for the same effect.
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by alex_smart 1mo ago
Why would you need this over just using the jdbc driver?
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by alex_smart 2mo ago
Pretty sure that is entirely an unfair comparison. You don't need a connection per thread either. It is common to have web servers handles thousands of requests per second with a connection pool size of 20. As long as the handler threa
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by alex_smart 2mo ago
The /wordpress/ part of url suggests otherwise
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by alex_smart 2mo ago
The problem only arises when you have to worry about persistent state. As soon as you have to worry about that, you have to think about backups, replicas, disaster recovery drills and so on. It is much easier to solve for that can of worms
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by alex_smart 3mo ago
Sorry my brain somehow missed the literal first three words of the oc.
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by alex_smart 3mo ago
Less installed things means smaller security surface area, fewer things to patch when CVEs get discovered etc. Thanks to `kubectl debug`, you don't need to install debugging utilities into your production image.
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by alex_smart 3mo ago
Isn't that the whole point of TCP? Creating a pair of two streams you can read out of and write to out of less reliable network primitives? I am not sure why this is a revelation. Any college level networking course would cover this?!
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by alex_smart 4mo ago
Who uses JWT like this anyway? Typical production architecture would look like - frontend only ever sees an opaque session cookie - bff stores the access token against session and attaches it when calling backend services Yes, storing JWTs
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by alex_smart 4mo ago
> If I’m understanding this correctly You're not. > it starts by raising this question, then argues that it’s kind of a cheap and meaningless punch-down. The cheap and meaningless punch-down in the article is the vibecoding accus
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by alex_smart 4mo ago
Do they really? Do you genuinely that most people asking the "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?" question are those who don't understand that "Level 2 and 3 activities" were the real bottleneck or are they trying
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by alex_smart 4mo ago
That probably explains why I needed an LLM to make sense of it at all.
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by alex_smart 4mo ago
It doesn't help that the article is actually quite poorly written.
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by alex_smart 4mo ago
This is the first time in my life I have ever felt the need of an LLM to understand an article. Even after understanding the overall gist of the article (thanks ChatGPT!), I still can't make head or tail of many sentences and find many
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by alex_smart 4mo ago
Which is where the "emacsification" analogy breaks for me. The reason people who like emacs write their one-off program in emacs is that it is an extraordinarily introspectable and debuggable programming environment. There is no &
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by alex_smart 6mo ago
That is because the terminology (and the keybindings) come from the Emacs tradition, not vim. Most shells come with “vim mode” as well, but at least in my experience, the dual mode editing paradigm of does not feel like a good fit for the s
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by alex_smart 6mo ago
> US has privacy laws in place that will protect you They don't protect us at all. Thanks to Snowden, we all know that the US government has extremely sophisticated and wide-ranging ability to get access to any data we share with Am
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by alex_smart 6mo ago
The original comment was neither false dichotomy nor whataboutism. It was a simple point that the rest of the world is already used to their data being snooped by the US government. So apart from US exceptionalism, there is no particular re
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by alex_smart 6mo ago
Getting snooped on by the US government being so normalized is obviously not propaganda though? Right?
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by alex_smart 6mo ago
You overestimate how much the rest of the world cares about data being sent to “chinese servers”, when all this while our data was being sent to “American servers” anyways.
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by alex_smart 6mo ago
> No print publication on the planet does this At least in India, most popular newspapers actually do this nowadays. Several full page ads including on the front page have become the norm. It is mostly a function of how little the reader
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by alex_smart 7mo ago
It’s worth nothing, to the point it makes people wonder why you even volunteer that information.
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by alex_smart 8mo ago
I know Jenkins is not fashionable these days, but the warnings-ng plugin is perfect for solving this in a tool-independent way. :chefskiss: The way it works is - the underlying linter tool flags all the warnings, and the plugin helps you
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by alex_smart 11mo ago
If that is the case, why did the trial absolve him of all crimes and why did get consecrated as a bishop by the king of Spain?
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by alex_smart 11mo ago
It is also worth noting that he was absolved of all crimes and eventually consecrated as a bishop.
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by alex_smart 11mo ago
India’s problems have nothing to do with population and everything to do with complete collapse of all government institutions.
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by alex_smart 11mo ago
> Browser memories let ChatGPT remember useful details from your web browsing to provide better responses and suggestions, while maintaining privacy and user control. Users can opt-in during setup or in Settings > Personalization >
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by alex_smart 11mo ago
From the article, individual video segments were 2-6 MB in size and SQS and Kinesis have a 1MB limit for individual records so they couldn’t have used either service directly. At least not without breaking their segments into even smaller c
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by alex_smart 11mo ago
It's an omz thing.

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