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by ezrast 6mo ago
Setting aside the notion that a site presenting live-editability as its entire core premise is "pretending to be static", do the actual folks at Wikimedia, who have been running a top 10 website successfully for many years, and wh
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by ezrast 7mo ago
Gotta hand it to 'em though - posting this less than a month after the Matrix boondoggle certainly is, uh, audacious.
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by ezrast 1y ago
High volume and inorganic traffic patterns. Wikimedia wrote about it here: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-th...
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by ezrast 1y ago
Another article that, by the third sentence, namedrops seven different AWS services they want to build their app on and then spends the rest of the argument pretending like that ecosystem has zero in-built complexity. My friend, each one of
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by ezrast 1y ago
EDIT: I originally had an escalatory reply here but have thought better of it. Trying again but without being an asshole: yeah, what you describe is one way miscommunications can happen. They can also happen in other ways that may be the en
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by ezrast 1y ago
Without wanting to be unkind, this author misunderstands the purpose of the exercise, which is to demonstrate to another human being that you can write code that meets the company's standards (as in, would pass PR review), not to ship
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by ezrast 2y ago
You can't programatically detect novel BS any more than you can programatically detect viruses or spam. You can only add the fingerprints of known badness into an ever-growing database. Viruses and spam are antagonistic to well-resourc
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by ezrast 2y ago
The whole point of systemic incentives is that there is no conspiracy. Nobody wants a DDOS and every large provider will have people genuinely working to avoid them. But every time there is an opportunity to allocate resources, the team th
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by ezrast 2y ago
Whelp, looks like I'm today's Poe's Law poster child. ;)
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by ezrast 2y ago
This seems like a distinction without a difference, since we can never positively categorize any unobserved phenomenon as impossible (vs merely unobservable). To me, it seems ontologically cleaner to treat existence and observability as the
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by ezrast 2y ago
What does "impossible" mean to you if not that a thing and it's consequences can never be observed?
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by ezrast 2y ago
It's not really a problem in practice (and I love Ruby), but it's still wild to me that they made the parser do this: $ irb irb(main):001:0> def foo(x=70) = x => :foo irb(main):002:0> i = 2 => 2
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by ezrast 2y ago
I'd call that reading poorly-supported enough to be incorrect. The report establishes that waypoint names are changed somewhat frequently for reasons that are largely left to mystery, but can include "a basketball player I like di
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by ezrast 2y ago
Think of all the algebra problems you got in school where the solution started with "get all the x's on the same side of the equation." You then applied a bunch of rules like "you can do anything to one side of the equal
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by ezrast 3y ago
There's no reason the tax needs to directly reflect the environmental impact. We figure out an amount that is enough to change corporate behavior without bankrupting them, maybe with some kind of sliding scale to put more responsibilit
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by ezrast 3y ago
It had done all that by 2010, no? The real hype was about what would come after. I don't think the thesis of most Bitcoin critics is that the math and social engineering involved aren't interesting.
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by ezrast 3y ago
> Also, with this comment I hope to get some pushback More of a push forward, really: if error-handling guarantees are what's driving you away from dynamically typed langauges, Go is pretty much the worst place you can land that isn
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by ezrast 3y ago
Without meaning to detract from your point, "no one" is a bit hyperbolic. Elixir, Gleam, Caramel, and LFE all compile to BEAM, and Akka looks like a decent attempt at porting the VM semantics to JVM and .NET.
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by ezrast 3y ago
I think it makes more sense to look at it through the lens of labor distribution. Money is abstract and cyclical and can be inflated and deflated by policy, which makes it complicated to draw conclusions about. But money is ultimately used
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by ezrast 3y ago
The alternatives aren't frictionless either; many items from that image are not specific to Kubernetes. I personally find AWS API's frustrating to use, so even if I were running a one-person shop (and was bound to AWS for some rea
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by ezrast 3y ago
Because it works, the infra folks you hired already know how to use it, the API is slightly less awful than working with AWS directly, and your manifests are kinda sorta portable in case you need to switch hosting providers for some reason.
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by ezrast 3y ago
Implementation-wise, yes, but the interface you're exposing is indistinguishable from that of a parser. For all your consumers know, you could be storing the username as a sequence of a 254-valued enum (one for each byte, except the an
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by ezrast 3y ago
No, it's like saying you the employee are a separate entity from the company you work for. To say that Boeing is increasing profits suggests that they are raising prices, doing more business, and/or cutting costs. The article link
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by ezrast 3y ago
Not in all theory - Modern Monetary Theory[1] posits that if you control a mint, your money is effectively infinite and cannot be meaningfully increased. As such, some taxation truly does serve only as a money sink (but a necessary one that
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by ezrast 3y ago
What's better is largely unknowable if you're not collecting statistics to measure the impact of policy changes.
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by ezrast 3y ago
I think what they mean is: if you see a line like `import git.example.com/foo/bar/baz`, that could be package `baz` inside module `git.example.com/foo/bar`, or it could be package `bar/baz` inside module `git.e
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by ezrast 3y ago
Yeah, but it costs eight dollars to join.
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by ezrast 3y ago
The grammatical term for this is - perhaps surprisingly, for this crowd - "parallelism".
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by ezrast 3y ago
The "relevant From trait implementations" are the ones defined on the value wrapped by the Option or Result.
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by ezrast 4y ago
I've no horse in this race (not a homeowner), but Technology Connections has made a series of videos advocating heat pumps, most recently this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVLLNjSLJTQ The gist is that heat pump

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