kiitos

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by kiitos 10mo ago
1h of downtime per month means you're delivering at best two 9s of availability. again that may be fine for lots of applications but it's trivial scale, and certainly a couple orders of magnitude below what aws and cloudflare prov
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by kiitos 10mo ago
> You're going to have down time for migrations unless you're very clever with your schema and/or replicas. probably worth stating these kinds of design considerations/assumptions up-front i'm sure lots of applic
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by kiitos 10mo ago
and that your application doesn't need to be resilient to host or network faults
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by kiitos 10mo ago
"setting a field to true" clearly means `x.field = value` and not `x.field.Set(value)`
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by kiitos 10mo ago
> I have been writing production applications in Go for a few years now. sorry, what? https://gaultier.github.io/blog/a_million_ways_to_data_race_... this code is obviously wrong, fractally wrong why would you cre
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by kiitos 10mo ago
> setting a field to true from potentially multiple threads can be a completely meaningful operation e.g. if you only care about if ANY of the threads have finished execution. this only works when the language defines a memory model wher
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by kiitos 10mo ago
the distinction between "concurrent use" and "concurrent modification" in go is in no way subtle there is this whole demographic of folks, including the OP author, who seem to believe that they can start writing go progr
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by kiitos 10mo ago
"running into memory issues" doesn't relate to memory safety as a property
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by kiitos 10mo ago
> Matrix wants to be an encrypted IRC or Slack matrix's users want it to be a decentralized/encrypted irc/slack, but unfortunately matrix's maintainers believe their mandate is to build a next-gen tcp/ip (or
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by kiitos 10mo ago
https://www.promptfoo.dev/blog/grok-4-political-bias/ > Grok is more right leaning than most other AIs, but it's still left of center. https://github.com/promptfoo/promptfoo/tree&
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by kiitos 10mo ago
this is an overly simplistic and somewhat reductive perspective on a pretty fundamental concept/primitive > they were designed to turn single-threaded code into multi-threaded not really > usually a single point of contention qui
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by kiitos 10mo ago
what? stone ages? god forbid someone prioritize concrete user experience over abstract interoperability
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by kiitos 10mo ago
I think you're wildly over-indexing on a statistically insignificant number of users and their expectations
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by kiitos 10mo ago
you're just affirming the consequent here, listing various properties of pgp as requirements in practice, few, if any, of your enumerated "wants" are valuable enough to outweigh their costs to complexity this should be pretty
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by kiitos 10mo ago
why would apple do this? it's all cost and no benefit. companies actually can build and ship stuff that isn't inter-operable with the world, this is Actually Good for user experience
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by kiitos 10mo ago
much more than that -- more often than not, IME
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by kiitos 10mo ago
my point with memory safety is that it is not a single well defined concept so if you wanna talk about it you at least gotta say which definition you're using
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by kiitos 10mo ago
probably should define memory safety before using it as an evaluation criterion otherwise, not sure who the audience of this piece is supposed to be, but it's written in a pretty combative tone, which will not be persuasive to anyone w
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by kiitos 10mo ago
dunno about the rest of your post but phonobar is legit, it's tiny but it has a dance floor and regularly hosts top-tier talent
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by kiitos 11mo ago
i think what the author is characterizing as "free software" is probably better described as "software with bad UX"
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by kiitos 11mo ago
woof vlcn-io/cr-sqlite definitely built by someone who doesn't understand the fundamentals of the space > As of cr-sqlite 0.15, the CRDT for an existing row being update is this: (1) Biggest col_version wins col_version is defi
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by kiitos 11mo ago
> Is this incorrect? yep because "life-saving" isn't a single well-defined boolean condition that can be determined by ER staff as part of triage > I can't imagine a hospital waiting for an insurance company's
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by kiitos 11mo ago
take the L, it's ok
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by kiitos 11mo ago
> There are three basic types of “boxes and lines” (as I derisively refer to them) diagrams: the point of a boxes-and-lines diagram is to express relationships between components at a single layer/level of abstraction the best metri
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by kiitos 11mo ago
this article is confusing, it appears to conflate graphviz (an umbrella term/tool that collects a set of layout engines and output formats) with both dot (a specific layout engine) and sstangl/iongraph (a specific tool that transf
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by kiitos 11mo ago
the double-spend problem is unrelated to account-association (KYC, etc.) problems, solving the former doesn't solve the latter the core problem with keypair-based systems is that people will lose their private keys, and that has to be
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by kiitos 11mo ago
> industry-standard quality control ... proven approach proven for the private market(s) != proven (or even acceptable) for governments do the risk analysis. what happens when an industry-standard quality control measure fails in whateve
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by kiitos 11mo ago
and for citizens who are living abroad and cannot appear in person in any district? (which includes but is not limited to active duty military?) how do they vote? (hint: the answer is mail-in ballots)
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by kiitos 11mo ago
> To solve problems. Coding is the means to an end, not the end itself. solving problems is an outcome of programming, not the purpose of programming
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by kiitos 11mo ago
> abolish mail-in ballots how then should voters who are not physically present in their voting district cast their votes?

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