simplotek

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by simplotek 3y ago
> Being an OAuth 'provider' (emphasis) is not open source Being an OAuth provider is precisely what everyone expects from a self-described "open source authentication service". If Supertokens does not support that out
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by simplotek 3y ago
> My personal pet (non scientific) theory is that repeated infections over-sensitize the immune system, almost like an allergic reaction or something. There have been a few variants that have a markedly change in their ability to spread
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by simplotek 3y ago
You are oblivious to the point of this approach. Scaling has nothing to do with it. It has everything to do with not imposing useless and detrimental constraints that buys you nothing but problems. You specify interfaces, and keep implement
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by simplotek 3y ago
> How can you get any work done like this? People get work done by knowing what they're doing, which I'm not sure you are able to tell. There is plenty of literature that explains quite thoroughly the process of software archit
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Should both my service and Galactus have full, individual copies of this data structure? Yes. I recommend you read "Domain-driven design" by Eric Evans, specially the part explaining the concept of a bounded context. > Al
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by simplotek 3y ago
> They recommended I use "modern infrastructure" which means Docker. It looks to me they recommended to never consider Datadog for anything whatsoever, ever again.
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by simplotek 3y ago
> but I agree, this is not something that i've ever considered when filtering CVs. As a proficient LaTeX user, this is the stupidest take I ever saw on resume tips. I mean, your skills and experience do not vary with the document sy
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by simplotek 3y ago
> LaTeX for your resume?! If someone sumgly sends me a .TEX (...) I'm not sure you got it right. You still have a LaTeX doc if you compile it to generate a PDF. LaTeX can have a very unique and peculiar look and feel that pops up to
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by simplotek 3y ago
It seems you are confused. You're pointing out observations from the very onset of the COVID pandemic, which were immediately adopted as policy. This is stuff that precedes other policies like placing ICU patients prone/lying face
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by simplotek 3y ago
> That's only true if you are limited to two options What other options do you think there are? And consider that you're already talking about people which are fainting and suffocating.
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Early COVID-19 research found that most patients with optimum levels of vitamin D did not require ICU or breathing assistance and survived the infection. Some sources point out that only 10-20% cases of covid are admitted to intensive
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by simplotek 3y ago
How teams interact is a function of the team/org, not the software architecture. What microservices easily provide in this scenario that is far harder to pull off with a monolith is that with microservices the service owners are able t
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by simplotek 3y ago
> If team A needs a new endpoint from team B, what would a typical dialogue look like under microservices and a modular monolith, respectively?
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Also, does ccache work with MSVC? Technically it works, but it requires some work. You need to pass off ccache's executable as the target compiler, and you need to configure the settings in all vsproj files to allow calls to the c
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Maybe, but after the next CEO comes in, those groups would be reorganised anyway :-/ That's perfectly fine, because microservices excel in that scenario: just hand over the keys to the repo and the pipelines, and you're
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by simplotek 3y ago
> (...) like using microservices on a system that gets 1k users a day. This sort of specious reasoning just shows how pervasive is the fundamental misunderstanding of the whole point of microservices. Microservices solve organizational p
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by simplotek 3y ago
> But they should consider whether this matches the size/scope of the problem being solved In professional software development projects, specially legacy projects, often times the complexity is not justified by the problem. There i
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Okay, so your microservices are each very simple, but that made the interactions and resource provisioning very complex. What was the net gain? The main misconception about microservices is that people miss why they exist and what prob
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by simplotek 3y ago
> I hadn't considered it as a build speed optimization, though that seems somewhat obvious in hindsight. Some build systems like cmake already support unity builds, as this is a popular strategy to speed up builds. Nevertheless, if
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Another nice feature of unity builds is that I don't need to declare functions twice and keep the declarations synced. What exactly leads you to have multiple declarations in sync, and thus creating the to "keep [multiple] de
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by simplotek 3y ago
> But this also reduces the opportunity to parallelize compilation across multiple files because they have been concatenated into fewer build units (...) Irrelevant. There is always significant overhead in handling multiple translation u
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by simplotek 3y ago
"probable cause" means the same thing as "associated with", but establishes a specific hypothesis and stresses the fact that it is yet to be verified.
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by simplotek 3y ago
> It's a breakthrough but this research doesn't establish the claim in the title of the article. What claim would that be? The only claims made in the article was that a) it's a breakthrough, and b) "Researchers say c
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by simplotek 3y ago
Isn't "isomorphic javascript" a buzzword referring to a server-side rendering technique? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphic_JavaScript
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by simplotek 3y ago
> For instance, a major selling point of Node was running JS on both the client and server so you can write the code once. What? No. The whole point of Node was a) being able to leverage javascript's concurrency model to write async
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Every time you increase compliance through force (...) Enough with this disingenuous bullshit. Public health officials specified basic public health measures to fight a pandemic, like washing your hands, practice social distancing, and
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by simplotek 3y ago
What are you talking about? OP did not mentioned any example remotely involving Guantanamo bay. Are you trying to move the goalpost out of ignorance or cynicism?
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by simplotek 3y ago
> The US police are killing people all the time. Your comment sounds awfully disingenuous. I seriously doubt you do not see the huge difference between implementing official policies of extrajudicial imprisonments and having a random per
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by simplotek 3y ago
Enough with this bullshit. This brand of disingenuous whining reads like someone complaining the police pull them over for no reason when they were actually crossing a red light, and they still have the gall to play the victim card.
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Generated lexers are still worth it but handwritten RD won on the parsing front. Packrat parsers make a very compelling case. I'm not sure the debate is over.

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