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by quinnirill 1y ago
This is quite common prey animal behavior. Larger predators have a harder time adapting to rapid turns made just as the jaws/claws are about to snap shut.
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by quinnirill 1y ago
In general: yes. But I’ve certainly had to use swathes of screwdrivers that are worse at being screwdrivers than my Swiss army knife is. Same I believe applies here: there’s a relation, but it’s nuanced. The same screwdriver is a better scr
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by quinnirill 1y ago
IMO at least on PC, BFV was occasionally a really good shooter, but it was a constant back and forth between updates that ruined the entire game and new swathes of cheaters on the latest exploit not caught by the anti-cheat, until eventuall
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by quinnirill 1y ago
Google and/or IMDb don’t count as discovery apps or not hosting the content?
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by quinnirill 1y ago
It’s not necessarily punishment, e.g. leaving an abusive partner is in most cases about self-preservation, and if intended as a punishment, very ineffective at that. That said, I think a lot of people who end up at the receiving end of it d
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by quinnirill 1y ago
What does db.safe do though? How does it know what is the safe way of escaping at that point of the SQL? It will have no idea whether it’s going inside a string, if it’s in a field name position, denotes a value or a table name. To illustra
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by quinnirill 1y ago
Assuming a driving culture where other people won’t instantly insert themselves into the empty space in between, yes, it’s the exact same speed. I’d very much like that.
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by quinnirill 2y ago
If all the endpoints share the same resource constraints and traffic patterns, sure you can just scale up the monolith. Even otherwise, yes, you sure still can, just like you can write the service in bash if that’s how you want to spend mon
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by quinnirill 2y ago
That’s assuming the divested Chrome would then proceed to lose its gigantic market share and thus the mind-boggling proceeds from defaulting to Google as the search engine. They might even be able to afford a bigger development team, if nee
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by quinnirill 2y ago
Having teams is exactly the wrong reason to have micro services, having endpoints with different traffic patterns and resource/scaling constraints is exactly the correct reason.
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by quinnirill 2y ago
Yeah, I agree in spirit but I think the answer is more ”it depends” than something where you should feel bad or something if you deviate from it. If washDishes also sends a bunch of metrics/diagnostics or updates a database of your fav
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by quinnirill 2y ago
Then what does the function that calls the split functions get called? foo_and_bar_and_qoo? And if they’re called only under some conditions?
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by quinnirill 2y ago
It’s also not the same kind of stress. I’ve interviewed many a candidate who were sweating and/or shaking at some point of the interview (with heavy reassurance and me trying to to steer the conversation towards and area where they fee
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by quinnirill 2y ago
Pizza code? Central components are mostly clearly distinguishable and glued together in a fairly consistent manner.
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by quinnirill 2y ago
And it’s not just ancestors! One thing that blew me away after moving from Finland to Germany was that while willows in Finland are predominantly shrubs or bushes, and maples are trees, in Germany willows grow to be trees, but maples mostly
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by quinnirill 2y ago
For sure, zero disagreement there! Just pointing out my personal observation that most people seem to not really do that. In myself, overthinking is a quality I value very highly in some situations while also being one of the highest contri
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by quinnirill 2y ago
As someone having experienced (and of course still experiencing) similar struggles as a person with ADHD, the Heureka moment for me was realizing that the difference is I'm overthinking it. In quite a lot of the situations, there'
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by quinnirill 2y ago
Seeing a modern foresting machine in action was one of the most daunting experiences of my life. Making an AI drive it is pointless, it’s already at such high productivity that the transportation is a much more meaningful bottleneck now. I
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by quinnirill 2y ago
Surprisingly, it’s also present in live sports, see for example this article (in Finnish) about sounds in winter sports broadcasts: https://yle.fi/aihe/a/20-10005843
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by quinnirill 2y ago
Makes me wonder if there should be an open source test suite for numerical routines, i.e. just a big table (in JSON or something) of inputs, transformations and expected outputs, so new projects could get easily started with a fairly robust
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by quinnirill 2y ago
Mad LoCs, dude, gotta make alotta lines, that’s what productivity is!
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by quinnirill 2y ago
Sorry to get a bit nerdy here, but in JS, neither pass by value nor pass by reference make sense as it’s not defined by the spec and much less followed by the implementations. Strings can be pointers to buffers or ropes, numbers can be valu
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by quinnirill 2y ago
I largely agree with you and share your sentiments. However, in software there’s plenty of standard bearers distracting us from the real issues by trying to push for things like having CI break when you spelled something ”colour” instead of
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by quinnirill 2y ago
Pokatokaino is indeed not a Finnish word, but contains multiple: Pokat - slang for sunglasses, Kato - slang version of katso (look), Toka - slang version of toinen (ordinal second), Kaino - timid/coy. Finnish has umlauts though, so qui
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by quinnirill 3y ago
Yep, it can be done right. I’ve been in a team where we had more services than people yet most of the services were just chugging along with little to no maintenance (thanks to most being in a monorepo with few dependencies so the spam of d
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by quinnirill 4y ago
This reminded me of one of those things that will probably bother me forever: while I was getting my license, I was taught to always reverse into parking spots, and one time we were practising parking in a mall parking lot, in my overconfid
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by quinnirill 4y ago
It’s less likely that the parking spot itself is occupied by a pedestrian (and it’s easier to verify that before reversing into it) than for the area you drive out of it into to have pedestrians heading in and out of their vehicles, and goi
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MPMC – message broadcast with go generics(pkg.go.dev)
3 points by quinnirill 4y ago|0 comments
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Par – parallel slice operations with go generics(pkg.go.dev)
4 points by quinnirill 4y ago|0 comments
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by quinnirill 6y ago
If you unintentionally destroy property and have to pay for it, you’re in debt. We even have a concept of life debt. Some debt is intentional, some incidental. Most technical debt I’ve seen was not intentional, just a well meaning design th

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