simplotek

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by simplotek 3y ago
> (...) but languages with a better standard library seem less affected by dependency hell. Let's ignore the hand-waving over what "better standard library" means. Dependency hell has zero to do with standard libraries, an
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by simplotek 3y ago
> The post literally says that they could hit only 5% of the expected workload with their server less architecture, so IMO it is still quite negative. Emphasis on "their server less architecture". Sometimes good tools are used
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by simplotek 3y ago
> I'd be surprised if this doesn't get taken down as it casts AWS lambda in an unfavorable light (and rightly so). The article mostly lays the blame on step functions. Also, lambdas are portrayed as event handlers that don&#x27
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by simplotek 3y ago
> This is JS. Dependency hell is par for the course. Is there any programming language that does not suffer from dependency hell?
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by simplotek 3y ago
> In this case, nothing particularly meaningful or useful You're either playing dumb or weren't able to understand what was in the code. IHelloWorldString is an abstraction over the way the string was implemented, IPrintStrateg
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Why not give the user the option? The users affected by this case were at the tip of a very long tail of unsupported user agents. Those who want to circumvent the issue can either upgrade or resort to tricks like faking user agents. Th
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by simplotek 3y ago
It sounds like it's plain old tracking, but pushed and owned by Google through it's control over Chrome.
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Honest question, why is the privacy sandbox user hostile? From the horse's mouth, "privacy sandbox" is explicitly designed "to build thriving digital businesses." https://privacysandbox.com/intl
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by simplotek 3y ago
> The fix? as simple as changing the browser's user agent to look like Android/Chrome. I'm not defending Google here, but once I worked for a company whose web support strategy consisted of explicitly supporting a specific
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by simplotek 3y ago
> it's merely adding a bunch of public methods (and interfaces) What do the interfaces represent?
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by simplotek 3y ago
> How is gold plating the same as YAGNI? They're opposites, no? No, gold plating and YAGNI are two faces of the same abstraction coin.
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by simplotek 3y ago
> I think ORMs fit that bill. For some reason they were (are?) incredibly popular, but I don't think they stood the test of time. I don't think there is any truth at all to this personal belief. In some domains it's unthin
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by simplotek 3y ago
> The wrong abstractions can lead to coupling and complexity. This comes to the old quote: * "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Albert Einstein. Abstractions undoubtedly add complexity that quickly becomes u
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by simplotek 3y ago
Related discussion * Writing a RPC from scratch (2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35782902
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Implementing remote procedure calls – Birrel and Nelson (1981) [pdf](web.eecs.umich.edu)
32 points by simplotek 3y ago|1 comments
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by simplotek 3y ago
Thanks for mentioning the Fnatic Rush G1 keyboard. It sounds interesting, but it doesn't seem to be featured in their site anymore. https://fnatic.com/collections/keyboards From the looks of their product page, I&
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by simplotek 3y ago
By "covers" you mean "glances over". It means nothing if you just add a footnote mentioning the existence of failure modes.
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by simplotek 3y ago
> I've been too afraid of asking on Reddit. I'd love a split keyboard with an integrated trackball (...) I'd already be happy if there were mechanical keyboards out there that offered USB passthrough to connect things like
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by simplotek 3y ago
> The above is correct. Additionally, they even mention natural gas as a viable alternative in the abstract: It isn't, and you clearly failed to read the paper because you're oblivious to its context. The "alternative&quot
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World Health Organization: Household air pollution(who.int)
1 points by simplotek 3y ago|0 comments
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Not once have I ever felt ill or victimized because I had to cook on gas. Your comment reads like someone swearing smoking has no health impact because they never felt ill or victimized for smoking. Meanwhile, even the World Health Org
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Your logic makes no sense. Make laws requiring landlords to properly vent gas stoves, not ban them altogether. Read the article. Health concerns are an issue, buy they are not the reason why New York is banning natural gas in new const
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by simplotek 3y ago
> What's the purpose of an outright ban then? Why not just ban it from rental properties? Read the newspiece before posting questions that you would have the answer to if you had read the first paragraph.
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by simplotek 3y ago
> First, obviously regulation is a conspiracy. It will is a coordinated activity by multiple individuals. Your comment goes way beyond being wrong. You clearly do not know a) what a conspiracy is, b) how standards and regulations are spe
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Of course it has, that’s what editions are. They really aren't. Editions are just a mechanism to allow Rust developers to push backwards-incompatible changes as opt-in features. I repeat, Rust hasn't even went through its fir
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by simplotek 3y ago
> If you buy a home and want it to have a gas stove, why is it the state government's place to say that you can't do so, for your own health? This is the wrong question to be made. You should ask what should be the safety stand
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Honestly, in the last 13 years, many mainstream languages have gone through similar churn. JavaScript has gone through more than most, to be sure, but nobody complains about Rust or C# nearly so much. Rust appeared 7 years ago. Rust di
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by simplotek 3y ago
> I agree. Private class fields seem totally unnecessary when you can simply "hide" functions and variables in a local scope and not export/expose it. This is not true. Private members are a part of a class interface, whil
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Really, what good reason is there to have data and behavior bound to the same object? Behavior is the interface/messages supported by the object, and data is an implementation detail that should not leak. What's wrong with th
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by simplotek 3y ago
> They do: the test emails were never rejected, but never arrived in the test gmail account either. Not in spam, not in all mail, not in the inbox. And that's fine because that's exactly what SPF/DKIM were designed to do.

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