karolinepauls

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by karolinepauls 22d ago
It statrs with "At the same tiem" so it's consistent.
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by karolinepauls 22d ago
I am aware that the purpose of an overwhelming majority of companies is to earn money. Does auto-playing their own video with audio increase revenue? It's not an ad someone is paying for.
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by karolinepauls 28d ago
This is completely off topic but I'm shocked that zdnet autoplayed a video with audio on after I opened the page and scrolled down a little. Incredible that we still have websites whose primary purpose isn't playing audio automati
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by karolinepauls 4mo ago
s/everything is/everything seems to me/
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by karolinepauls 7mo ago
As demonstrated, crisps are more valuable to the society than art.
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by karolinepauls 9mo ago
That's too reductive. Vacuum full isn't just slow, it exclusively locks the table for the duration of the vacuum and is basically a no-go when the database is in use.
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by karolinepauls 9mo ago
And make sure your `random_page_cost` is about 1.1 if running on an SSD or if >~98% of your hot pages fit in memory. Rather than 4 by default which makes the planner afraid of using indexes.
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by karolinepauls 9mo ago
Two things - the word "idles" and the nature of CPython's allocator which generally doesn't return memory to the OS but reuses it internally. So you cannot really "spike" memory usage, only grow it.
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by karolinepauls 9mo ago
> Python: ~60% waste (Mostly sized for startup spikes, then idles empty). I understand we're talking about CPU in case of Python and memory for Java and Go. While anxious overprovisioning of memory is understandable, doing the same
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by karolinepauls 10mo ago
I wonder what would happen if someone evolved a circuit on a large number of FPGAs from different batches. Each of the FPGAs would receive the same input in each iteration but the output function would be biased to expose the worst-behaving
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by karolinepauls 11mo ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=base64+decode+Y3VybCAtc0wgL...
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by karolinepauls 1y ago
Sorry not to have made this clear: I am not a frontend developer. I'm a backend/infra developer who's forced to work on a React app abandoned by a frontend developer who incorporated their own wrappers-of-wrappers-of-wrappers
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Ask HN: Are there any non-SPA front end developers left?
11 points by karolinepauls 1y ago|13 comments
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by karolinepauls 1y ago
Good riddance indeed. The last 30 years of software teaching basically trained developers to produce complexity for its own sake, while calling it engineering. I'm not sufficiently full of myself to link to my own writing (yet) but I&#
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by karolinepauls 1y ago
Phages don't devour bacteria, they get inside and hijack them, like viruses tend to do with cells.
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by karolinepauls 1y ago
I was responding to as single comment. I do not have a responsibility to respond to the whole thread. I'm going to include it again, in full: > A forest or wetland is a carbon sink only in the growth phase. In a long-term equilibriu
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by karolinepauls 1y ago
The parent comment I'm responding to is literally: > A forest or wetland is a carbon sink only in the growth phase. In a long-term equilibrium, it's carbon-neutral, like biofuels. To which I'm stating that forests and wetl
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by karolinepauls 1y ago
The root of good faith conversation is that we don't latch on fuzzy meanings of words like "comparison" but try to understand which precise meaning should apply. The result of subtraction is a difference. In my mind this is t
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by karolinepauls 1y ago
`kg of fuel per metre` is division, not comparison. You can divide different units by each other. It isn't guaranteed to always make sense but it's very useful.
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by karolinepauls 1y ago
It's always been like "you cannot compare values of different units" to me. Maybe we should start saying "you cannot compare kilograms to metres".
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by karolinepauls 1y ago
It's as ridiculous as the comparison of the most recent 12k years of the holocene to the age of plant life on the Earth. As for using lumber for timber, when eventually disposed it would have to be turned into charcoal rather than burn
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by karolinepauls 1y ago
The world is more complicated than a 17th century lab experiment in combustion. Forests sequester carbon through forest fires producing charcoal. Humans could actually cut down old trees, dry them, and convert them to charcoal later used fo
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by karolinepauls 1y ago
I'll go further and elsewhere at once: APIs should not present nested objects but normalised data. It enables clients to easily to lay out their display structure independently of API resource schemas and eases out tricks like diffing
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by karolinepauls 1y ago
Sadly, the minorities (in the Anglosphere at least) don't deliver at either "think" or "independently". Their counterculture is as countercultural as joining a church. Just another way to fit in. Be be slightly diff
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by karolinepauls 1y ago
I've heard of good experiences using a 3rd party QA company (for frontend-heavy changes) and had pretty OK experiences doing it in-house with subject experts (though testing backend changes, so pretty much "either it works or it d
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by karolinepauls 1y ago
The way loosely-defined "we" call(ed) things in different periods of time isn't a good basis for conclusions, especially in topics in which there was basically no good science 50 years ago.
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by karolinepauls 1y ago
Location: London, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Maybe Technologies: Python (mostly Flask/FastAPI+SQLAlchemy, browser automation), Postgres, Clojure, FP, frontend (JS/cljs, React/re-frame), DevOps (Terraform,
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by karolinepauls 1y ago
> Your software will still be a mess Your software will still be a mess but a mess you can work with. Not a horror beyond comprehension. We should aim for workable mess. This is from experience working with both procedural/functiona
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by karolinepauls 1y ago
5. Find a better data source
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by karolinepauls 1y ago
Because not everyone wants to be a part of the asyncio trend. Asyncio in Python is a poor feature that splits the language's ecosystem into 2 mutually-incompatible worlds, something Python only gets away with because it's too big

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