snicker7

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by snicker7 10mo ago
Message queues (e.g. SQS) are inappropriate for tracking long-running tasks/workflows. This is due to the operational requirements such as: - Checking the status of a task (queued, pending, failed, cancelled, completed) - Cancelling a
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AWS: Operational issue – Multiple services (N. Virginia)(health.aws.amazon.com)
4 points by snicker7 11mo ago|0 comments
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by snicker7 1y ago
We literally had a major us-east-1 incident on AWS today. Only thing we can do is sit on our butts and wait for it to end so that we can clean up. This happens every few months. I am unimpressed with the the "thousands of engineers&quo
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by snicker7 2y ago
It may be worthwhile to understand where dynamic typing is helpful since this gets mentioned a lot. Python and other dynamic languages are increasingly reliant on static type checkers.
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by snicker7 2y ago
An interpreter is an optimization barrier relative to native composition.
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by snicker7 2y ago
Imagine being the dev competing game Y and seeing the changelog.
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by snicker7 2y ago
Not looking to apply, but can I DM you when the E train is late again?
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Neopets HTML Guide(neopets.com)
4 points by snicker7 2y ago|1 comments
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by snicker7 2y ago
The Neopets HTML Guide [1] remains the best beginner’s guide to Web development. [1] https://www.neopets.com/help/html1.phtml
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by snicker7 2y ago
I believe the problem is the lack of proper dependency indexing at PyPI. The SAT solvers used by poetry or pdm or uv often have to download multiple versions of the same dependencies to find a solution.
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by snicker7 2y ago
Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics by Arnold is a good introductory book.
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by snicker7 2y ago
The point is not to spend time frantically fixing code at 3 AM.
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by snicker7 2y ago
Why not dual license with AGPL?
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by snicker7 2y ago
This API is very similar to DynamoDB, which is basically a hash table of B-trees. My experience is that this architecture can lead to very chatty applications if you have a rich data model (eg a graph).
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by snicker7 2y ago
“Stuck making obsolete parts” sounds great. Guaranteed revenue without needing to stay competitive.
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by snicker7 2y ago
How does the DX compare against AWS step functions? My experience is that it is very difficult to “unit test” step workflows.
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by snicker7 2y ago
It turns out that DBs were invented to solve hard problems with state management. When people moved away from DBs (at least transactional relational DBs) they had to rediscover all the old problems. Tech is cyclical.
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by snicker7 2y ago
OR if the primary key is exported out of the DB, i.e. for constructing URLs.
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by snicker7 3y ago
SICP. Lectures are on YouTube.
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by snicker7 3y ago
What’s interesting about this paper is that, with some very generic mathematical assumptions, only Galilean and special relativity are permissible.
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by snicker7 3y ago
I find managing the AWS API Gateway to be too cumbersome. We use a proxy lambda that handles authentication and has routing logic to other lambdas (or SQS | State Machine).
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by snicker7 3y ago
Why would I prefer a winsorized mean over a median?
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by snicker7 3y ago
$1B? Imagine if even 1% of that went into LibreOffice funding.
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by snicker7 3y ago
YAML was a mistake. Couldn’t count how many issues I and my colleagues encountered due to white space misalignment.
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Julia Ranks First in Data Processing Microbenchmark(github.com)
1 points by snicker7 3y ago|0 comments
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by snicker7 3y ago
Wouldn’t you get similar performance by just loading the file to ramdisk?
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by snicker7 3y ago
I wonder how this is is actually simpler than an a managed queue, say SQS.
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by snicker7 3y ago
Python is especially bad wrt to accessibility.
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by snicker7 3y ago
Spec, not library. Otherwise, no chance of having many-lang adoption.
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Most Charitable Countries 2023(worldpopulationreview.com)
1 points by snicker7 3y ago|0 comments

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