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by jcrites 2y ago
I think this is ultimately true, in a sense, but the challenge is correctly handling all of the edge-cases. It's a challenging problem tantamount to the self-driving car problem. It happens by humans over VHF because a lot of unpredict
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by jcrites 2y ago
Doesn't the budget to pay these people already exist? They are current employees, after all. Their terminations will still shrink the budget, just not as soon as a termination without a severance package. Maybe there are some legal d
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by jcrites 2y ago
True, but you can say `new Object[capacity]` and cast it to type `T[]`.
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by jcrites 2y ago
Looking at the source, I don't think there's an actual need for the constructor to take a `Class<T>` type. It's used internally to initialize an array [1]: this.entries = (T[]) Array.newInstance(type, capacity);
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by jcrites 2y ago
True, but accusing him of a violation privately, to him, is not defamation. Accusing him publicly is still probably not defamation. Whether he violated certain terms of service is something that would ultimately need to be decided by a cour
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by jcrites 2y ago
Let me take a shot at explaining continuations. In normal programming, functions "return" their values. In Continuation Passing Style (CPS), functions never return. Instead, they take another function as input; and instead of retu
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by jcrites 2y ago
Could that also be because he reviewed the papers first and made sure they were in a suitable state to publish? Or you think it really was just the name alone, and if you had published without him they would not have been accepted?
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by jcrites 2y ago
I think they're saying that you should provide some example use-cases for how someone would use your service. High-level use-cases that involve solving problems for a business. For what it's worth, I am already familiar with this
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by jcrites 2y ago
From context, I would infer that this means they are not changing the Java language itself. It’s a feature expressed through the existing language, like as a library feature. I could be wrong though.
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by jcrites 2y ago
The single best metric I've found for scaling things like this is the percent of concurrent capacity that's in use. I wrote about this in a previous HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277046 Scalin
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by jcrites 2y ago
For what it's worth, I disagree. I think it would be difficult to design a language more elegant than Rust while accomplishing the same goals. Maybe those goals aren't ones that everyone cares about, and that's OK. It's
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by jcrites 2y ago
Could you elaborate? I'm interested.
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by jcrites 2y ago
For servers, I think the single most important statistic to monitor is percent of concurrent capacity in use, that is, the percent of your thread pool or task pool that's processing requests. If you could only monitor one metric, this
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by jcrites 2y ago
> Having DNS records leak could actually provide potential information on things you'd rather not have public. This is true, but using a regular domain name as your root does not require you to actually publish those DNS records on
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by jcrites 2y ago
Are there any good reasons to use a TLD like .internal for private-use applications, rather than just a regular gTLD like .com? It's nice that this is available, but if I was building a new system today that was internal, I'd use
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by jcrites 2y ago
Many log aggregation stores are not optimized for performing row-level updates or deletes like this. In my experience, the majority of log aggregation stores are immutable and support primarily time-based retention only. (Though perhaps one
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by jcrites 2y ago
Yes, you're right. Multiple people in the thread needed to be reminded of this. I wrote my comment in reply to you since you seemed to be the most active, and several of your replies were the most recent at the time I was responding.
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by jcrites 2y ago
Please consider presenting the evidence without the personal swipes, and please consider reviewing the HN Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously;
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by jcrites 2y ago
That's workable for many situations which only require data "storage", but the moment when you require cloud-side data "processing" too, the situation changes. I would agree that if you have no use-case for cloud-si
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by jcrites 2y ago
Please take a moment to review the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > Please respond to th
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by jcrites 2y ago
I'm just interpreting the context (guessing) but it sounds like his presence in the CODEOWNERS file means that he's being added to PRs automatically, and without people clearly asking for or wanting his input on them specifically.
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by jcrites 2y ago
Just reasoning about this from first principles, but intuitively, the more dimensions you have, the more likely that you are to find a gradient in some dimension. In an N-dimensional space, a local minimum needs to be a minimum in all N dim
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by jcrites 2y ago
The problem that this standard solves isn't a math problem. It's an engineering problem of defining (adding) UUID formats that are suitable for use in database keys (and some other things). Previous proposals had disadvantages for
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by jcrites 2y ago
They seem better geared for usage in databases as primary keys, specifically UUID versions 6 and onwards: > Motivation. One area in which UUIDs have gained popularity is database keys. This stems from the increasingly distributed nature
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by jcrites 2y ago
Why wouldn't the "script" be all of the necedssary commands to create the entire database? If any migration was necessary to transform one table structure to another, that wouldn't be useful to keep around long term, nor
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by jcrites 2y ago
Is this an Ender's Game reference? If so, I believe the quote is "the enemy's gate is down". https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-enemys-gate-is-down-real...
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by jcrites 2y ago
Hmmm, I don't agree. They do seem to understand some things. I asked ChatGPT the other day how fast an object would be traveling if "dropped" from the Earth with no orbital velocity, by the time it reached the sun. It broug
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by jcrites 3y ago
True, but modern CAPTCHA rate limiting is not easily bypassed, and a lot of the solutions are free. Together with cookies, you can show the captcha only to visitors that are not already recognized in some way, giving them a limited number o
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by jcrites 3y ago
For domesticated cats and dogs, being inside the home is their natural environment (or can be, to varying degrees). I've owned cats and dogs. I can let them outside and leave the door open, and they may go outside to explore or play
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by jcrites 3y ago
I do think it is interesting to explore, compare, and contrast the operating modes and limitations of our minds. Like you, I can also vary volume and tone of an imagined voice. I can make it arbitrarily loud, but there does seem to be a lim

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