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by bryik 22d ago
Then I don't understand how you can say "The US was much more economically free in the 1800s than now".
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by bryik 22d ago
> The US was much more economically free in the 1800s than now Not much economic freedom for slaves or for Indians forced off their land (e.g. illegal seizure of the Black Hills by the US government [0], the Cherokee in Georgia, etc). Pr
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by bryik 3mo ago
> They never went back to pre-supply shock prices. What do you mean? 2011: 2 TB HDD for $79.99 ($0.0000400 / MB). 2012: 2 TB HDD for $157.27 ($0.0000786 / MB). 2014: 4 TB HDD for $109 ($0.0000367 / MB) 2024: 8 TB HDD for $
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by bryik 2y ago
Don't forget the classic film On the Waterfront . Considered one of the greatest movies ever made and adapted from "Crime on the Waterfront," a 24-article series by the New York Sun's Malcolm Johnson that received the s
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by bryik 3y ago
Interesting post on a library I've used a lot. > Requests has always had modules intended for its use and only its use. At some point, we tried to document them for ourselves and that led to people using them externally and then fil
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by bryik 3y ago
A couple years ago I worked on an internal tool for the regulatory division of an agriculture company that involved mapping endangered species boundaries. The Environmental Protection Agency requires the company review potential impact of a
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by bryik 3y ago
Create React App is in a strange, pseudo-death state. - It is not listed as an option for starting a new project in the React docs[0]. - The last release was April 12, 2022. - The last time I created a new project with CRA, it printed a con
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by bryik 3y ago
I think you're right that static typing reduces bugs, but I am not convinced the reduction is significant or meaningful. If static typing has a significant effect, then why is the existing research so weak and inconclusive? I don'
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by bryik 3y ago
If "type bugs are an obvious thing and happen all the time" and "static Typing reduces type related bugs" then it should be easy to demonstrate this empirically. However, "a review of all the available literature (u
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by bryik 3y ago
> In the 1970s/80s, an hour of minimum wage could afford you about 7 big macs. Now, it will not even buy you one. The cost of a Big Mac in 1986 was $1.6 according to the Economist's Big Mac Index dataset[0]. The minimum wage in
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by bryik 3y ago
I worked in a government office where only unionized IT workers were allowed to move computer equipment. My boss gave me his old monitor after upgrading and I had to wait until after hours to move it. This was around 2018. So the electrical
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by bryik 3y ago
This was before my time, but I believe the WS-* series of specifications is an example. > Like with the original J2EE spec, which sought to complicate the basic mechanics of connecting databases via HTML to the internet, this new avalanc
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by bryik 3y ago
That's surprising! Wasn't it Philip Wadler who said "The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well." http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml&#x2F
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by bryik 3y ago
> but now we've got JSON Schema, Swagger/OpenAPI, Zod, etc etc. You don't have to use any of those.
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by bryik 4y ago
I don't think that's a fair characterization of the "Start a New React Project" page [0]. Next.js is the first option listed and is described as a way to "create React apps of any size—from a mostly static blog to a
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by bryik 4y ago
Has GPS ever experienced a major outage in its ~30 years of operation?
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by bryik 4y ago
Two interesting statistics that may be relevant: Homeless per 10k rate [0] Japan: 0.3 USA: 17.6 Rate of intentional homicide victims per 100,000 inhabitants [1] Japan: 0.3 USA: 6.3 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by bryik 4y ago
To anyone interested in this topic, I highly recommend "Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union" by Vladislav M. Zubok. This comment reminded me of one of my notes: Near the end of the book, George HW Bush tries to convince the US
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by bryik 4y ago
Weird, if true. Diablo Immortal is rated M (17+) [0], the gambling age in the Netherlands is 18 [1]. 0 - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blizzard.d... 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by bryik 5y ago
Disappointed to hear this. My first job out of university (and the job I still work today!) came through StackOverflow Jobs. I've only received ~three approaches through StackOverflow Jobs in the past two years, but each was relevant a
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by bryik 5y ago
> "Alcohol has been classified as a Group 1 carcinogen (carcinogenic to humans) for decades by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. It's right up there with tobacco and asbestos." Other Group 1 carcinogens [0]:
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by bryik 5y ago
Exactly. I think it is reasonable to ask candidates to demonstrate basic programming competency, but "gotcha" questions are terrible. Consider the interview question: "Write a function that can detect a cycle in a linked list
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by bryik 5y ago
Does that fit with the philosophy of htmx? It looks to me like htmlx expects a server?
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by bryik 5y ago
> CPU is cheap, network speeds are fast and increasing and microservices are a mess. Is CPU cheap? I can literally host a static site or SPA on GitHub Pages for free. Where can I get free CPU time for an htmlx application?
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by bryik 5y ago
> Shipments are still lower than pre pandemic That is contradicted by the headline and the data in the article. GPU shipments were 10.5 million units in Q3 2018 and 12.7 million units in Q3 2021.
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by bryik 5y ago
> Wires are often free. Do you have a citation for this? The articles I found online suggest fees are almost universal, with only a single bank (Fidelity) offering true $0 wire transfer fees to all customers [0]. 0 - https://w
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by bryik 5y ago
Probably not the right one, but "The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer"[0] sounds like a similar idea which goes from a Freshman Haskell programmer's simple factorial to the abstract heights of a Post-doc Haskell programmer,
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by bryik 5y ago
Also a Tachyons fan. I looked at TailwindCSS, but stopped at the installation section. The recommended path to get it working with Create-React-App is to install a bunch of JS packages (PostCSS, autoprefixer) and to layer on another tool ov
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by bryik 5y ago
> And reddit is not dynamic enough to encourage relationship formation. What do you mean by "dynamic"? I think the reason it can be hard to make friends on reddit (and other social media) is because friendships require repeated
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by bryik 5y ago
According to Backblaze's calculator[0], it would cost $4,800/yr to store 80TB on Backblaze B2 and you're storing it for $60/yr. Cases like these are why unlimited storage plans don't make sense... Also it irks me th

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