arkh

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by arkh 7d ago
> The rise in popularity of Laravel making it the de-facto choice of framework within PHP. In the US. > What edge does PHP still have compared to other languages? Horizontal scaling due to the nothing shared architecture: need more pe
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by arkh 27d ago
> if you have thousands of microservices You just replaced ns memory accesses by ms API calls. Just the moment people were starting to maybe start thinking about performances again this train-wreck of power wastefulness had to appear.
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by arkh 27d ago
One of the advantages of an autocracy: you don't need people's approval every 5 years so you can plan for decades. When you're right it is awesome. When you're wrong, well that's what the army is for.
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by arkh 1mo ago
There is also some indirect bonus: if people's healthcare is not tied to their employer then it's easier to look for a new one. Also if the system is done well, then many companies would lose the incentives they currently have for
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by arkh 1mo ago
Called visual snow. Many people who suffer from it also have tinnitus. And they're not "floaters" but look like old school TV statics. Easier to see over plain color (blue sky, night time etc.). https://en.wikipedi
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by arkh 2mo ago
> the internet was being built around non-fiction I guess you don't tread the same internet waters. https://www.royalroad.com/home https://archiveofourown.org/ and the good old link rings like http
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by arkh 2mo ago
> Don't reinvent a type system I'd like to add: stay away from using arrays and user defined types. They feel like a good idea at first, but will become a problem when using fetched data in your code. And another miss, if you&#
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by arkh 2mo ago
> “you can’t do crimes on our servers”, “you can’t host malware on our servers” So most of the cryptocurrency projects.
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by arkh 2mo ago
> I'll spin up a "quality pass" agent that will make sure all tests/lint etc. pass Why would you need an agent more than one time to create a script then use one command to launch it? What's the added value of th
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by arkh 2mo ago
I'd like to add: pgbench? Why not HammerDB?
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by arkh 2mo ago
> The next one is likely to be a doozy The US, EU, China are teetering on the edge of a crisis. Russia is well on its way. I feel like 2008 was just a warmup to what may be coming.
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by arkh 3mo ago
Personally: forums are mostly about one subject, have a community and you have to invest some time learning the lay of the land to get the most out of it, get some reputation. Reddit? It's just drive-by commenting. I get points? Cool.
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by arkh 3mo ago
> The CCP is darkside material. And which country has "Black Sites" peppered around the world to detain and interrogate people they don't like?
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by arkh 3mo ago
> What else can you do? Educate the parents maybe?
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by arkh 3mo ago
> we expected people we hire to know what they are doing I feel this is a generational thing. Many baby-boomer parents never took the time to teach their children any skill. They thought they learnt it by osmosis I guess. Their generatio
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by arkh 3mo ago
It's fucking laughable to see people complain about what they did and still do. Using illicitly extracted data? That's all main LLM playbook. Onslaught of bots? Ask where the bots almost DOSing most internet sites for the last cou
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by arkh 3mo ago
In 2001 France had Copains d'avant https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copains_d%27avant for school based networking. So not a new idea
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by arkh 3mo ago
> Then what would you use for seasonal storage? Like Germany: coal and the energy provided by the rest of the EU. So Nordic countries hydro and nuclear, and some French nuclear. While lobbying to make all those interconnections increase
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by arkh 3mo ago
> I don't understand the online obsession with nuclear power in spite of all the evidence that it's simply not economical. Independence from China and the US. Once you have your reactor engineering set and can churn them like C
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by arkh 3mo ago
Just got my morning coffee and read "genai" like some elusive Japanese person's name. So, can Genai san do his job?
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by arkh 3mo ago
> Phase three (2015 to now): the tech industry as grift-adjacent. I'm gonna disagree on the timeline and maybe get some flak for it: phase 3 was 1995-2000ish. When the first advertisement script and web analytics were born and disse
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by arkh 3mo ago
That's because there is no Antimemetics Division.
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by arkh 4mo ago
Anecdotally: an endocrinologist diagnosed me a macroprolactinoma just by seeing me entering for a consult about another problem. "You're here for a prolactinoma?" "Nope" "I'd like to get this blood work do
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by arkh 4mo ago
Originally pensions were created so people who could not work would not be destitute. The fact it became an all-inclusive all-year-round vacation reward is an anomaly which is getting corrected. Too bad for us we're the generations hol
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by arkh 4mo ago
My theory is: when it started being a bad thing to have any cash reserve. With some reserve on the side, a company can survive bad times and not fire people. This is the kind of behavior employee will appreciate and make some diehard loyal.
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by arkh 4mo ago
Mistral is entering the "let's extract has much money from EU taxpayers as we can" phase of European tech company which did not get bought by a US one. They'll end like Dailymotion, just a zombie company.
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by arkh 4mo ago
What's crazy is the glee when saying that. It's like "fuck those uppity low class people who managed to move up socially thanks to an in-demand job requiring some skill". Now we're back to only who you know, skills
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by arkh 4mo ago
> What's the defense? Prosecuting every one of those blackmailers. If this kind of crime starts going into the "you're gonna get caught and jailed 100%" category, less people will try it.
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by arkh 4mo ago
Reminds me how windows 98 allowed using a HTML page as background. Said HTML could include videos.
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by arkh 4mo ago
> Where are these hyper productive small companies running laps around bigger ones right now? Getting bought by the bigger companies as it is currently the goal of most start-up since no one cares about monopolies and anti competitive be

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