brickteacup

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by brickteacup 2y ago
> Multiple clients racing can't be fixed. Really? You can't think of a single way for multiple clients to operate on the same data without racing? (Here's a hint if you're still having trouble: https://gith
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by brickteacup 2y ago
"Expecting basic programming ability" isn't elitism, sorry
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by brickteacup 2y ago
I actually can't tell whether you're serious... The article mentions an `append` operation which is obviously not commutative; does that imply memcached needs a separate "appendable" string type? Of course not. Memcached
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by brickteacup 2y ago
hate speech is still protected speech
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by brickteacup 3y ago
Yes, bytes from a *logical* stream need to be delivered in order. But in HTTP2 (3) multiple logical streams are multiplexed on top of one physical TCP (QUIC) connection. In the HTTP2 case this means that a dropped segment from logical strea
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by brickteacup 3y ago
> The point is that in some cases the name of the project might itself be considered sensitive in some way probably better to solve that problem by just giving projects easy-to-remember codenames. that's what intelligence agencies a
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by brickteacup 3y ago
I agree. Actually everyone I don't like should be classified as a terrorist and denied any sort of due process or civil rights. It's fine as long as we only do it to really really bad people who make us very very mad.
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by brickteacup 3y ago
it's irrelevant whether they're "cryptographically" random, all that matters is that account IDs are not controlled by the user and therefore have no logical relation to any access-control policies the user may wish to i
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by brickteacup 3y ago
That's only for data into AWS though, not data out
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by brickteacup 3y ago
Yes we all know it's possible to lie with statistics. What are your criticisms of this article in particular ? If you don't have any then you're just baselessly casting aspersions.
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by brickteacup 3y ago
No? You don't need parallelism to guarantee global progress as long as the scheduler has the ability to preempt tasks. Of course coroutines (as opposed to e.g. userspace threads) can't really be preempted, which is the issue here.
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by brickteacup 3y ago
> These are where the news site makes their content available to scrapers and then paywalls humans. This is where the news site is trying take advantage of search engines to get you to clink on their SERP, and then make you pay. In a lot
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by brickteacup 3y ago
> extremely weird conclusion I agree, it's so weird that people who devote time, effort, and resources to the production of articles or books somehow think they're entitled to be compensated for the use of those products! Wha
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by brickteacup 3y ago
your social credit score has been increased by 100 points. thank you for your service comrade!
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by brickteacup 3y ago
> but it seems more unreasonable to expect anything different from the oligarchy oh my god when the demand for a scarce resource outstrips supply, prices go up. this is high school microecon, not some conspiracy by tHe oLiGaRcHy
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by brickteacup 3y ago
If only there were some sort of a system for translating human readable names to network addresses...
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by brickteacup 3y ago
Not to mention the absurd fact that accessing (IPv4) AWS APIs from a private subnet requires paying for either a NAT gateway or an interface endpoint (we got bitten by sending a ton of Kinesis traffic through a NAT gateway once)
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by brickteacup 3y ago
They didn't, though, they made it available to be looked at alongside advertisements . HN users just love twisting themselves in circles to justify their belief that they're somehow entitled to consume content from private websit
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by brickteacup 3y ago
something something when a metric becomes a target it ceases to be a good metric
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by brickteacup 3y ago
> On Facebook if you want to reach your entire audience you need to pay them Yeah, it's a private business, if you want to use them to reach people you need to pay. What exactly is wrong with that? > regular methods of discovery
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by brickteacup 3y ago
> doesn’t entitle them to my attention if you're looking at someone's website then yes they are entitled to your attention. what gave you the idea that you're entitled to consume for free content that other people payed to
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by brickteacup 3y ago
> ML systems do not guarantee valid output no one said this has to be an LLM or whatever. you could have a compiler that just uses ML-based cost heuristics. iirc some research has already been done in this direction
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by brickteacup 3y ago
> Yet I’m powerless to do anything about it. it's called a chargeback. the worst they can do is ban you from their platform
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by brickteacup 3y ago
> Pretty exorbitant pricing good, clearly no one is going to start implementing IPv6 until using IPv4 begins to hurt
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by brickteacup 3y ago
he didn't read the article at all and just wants to rant about his favorite pet issue ofc
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by brickteacup 3y ago
will do, just invent the AGI first
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by brickteacup 3y ago
yes but nobody pronounces it like that...
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by brickteacup 3y ago
you realize that you can just ignore links you don't find interesting instead of complaining, right? that's what everyone else does. HN is not your own personal link curator
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by brickteacup 3y ago
not really, it is in fact generating lies automatically
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by brickteacup 3y ago
Well you see, war rape is actually not a women's rights issue. After all, women aren't raped because they're women, they're raped because they're women from the opposing side . It's completely different! (Befo

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