Areading314

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by Areading314 4y ago
Very accurate. The dysfunction of congress led to a much slower economic recovery after the GFC due to sequestration and partisan debt ceiling games. Then went far the other way with huge tax cuts, huge spending, followed by even more spend
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by Areading314 4y ago
Here is a potential rephrased version of the original post, written in a witty and informal style: "Yo, AI-generated answers on Stack Overflow sound like a real bummer. First of all, the quality might suck compared to human-written ans
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by Areading314 4y ago
OK I'm genuinely curious now.. wouldn't the fact that a computation has taken place mean that energy has been used to do work (non-heat)? My intuition tells me that it would not be possible to simultaneously use energy 100% to gen
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by Areading314 4y ago
If you think of a computer as a heat engine.. some energy goes to heat, and some goes into doing "work". For analyzing the efficiency of a computer as a heater you have to subtract out the "work" which would be the hashi
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by Areading314 4y ago
Its less efficient than a heater because some energy is wasted computing hashes
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by Areading314 4y ago
Startups are for learning, bigcos are for earning
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by Areading314 4y ago
Doesn't QUIC still run over TCP? I thought it was a replacement for HTTP not TCP (Edit: looks like it replaces TCP and HTTP)
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by Areading314 4y ago
Heres an example of an improvement to sending large files over long distances -- Tsunami protocol. It tries to get a best of both worlds to limit the detrimental effect of synchronous roundtrips in the TCP protocol for file transfers: http
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by Areading314 4y ago
It needs something like -- has anyone told a TCP joke in this vicinity in the last 10 seconds? If so I will tell the joke at a slower rate
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by Areading314 4y ago
If the bugs are all your doing, I agree. But many times the developers working on a project are maintaining code that was written years ago before they even joined the company, by other devs that had totally different incentives.
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by Areading314 4y ago
It's especially dumb _after_ buying a company to be acting like the developers are so incompetent across the board that they could be judged on this criteria. Elon just bought all this IP -- now he's going to make extremely rash d
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by Areading314 4y ago
CSS variables, test frameworks, are good tools for catching bugs -- but at the end of the day the goal is that the code should work and be easily maintainable. Best practices help you do that, but theres many instances of a code base full o
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by Areading314 4y ago
fixing bugs is more important than trivial stuff like swagger, css variables, or adding new test frameworks. Function over form
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by Areading314 4y ago
Fixing bugs is part of the job. If you care about the product you work on, you have to fix the bugs and not whine about who originally wrote the code.
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by Areading314 4y ago
I think theres a middle ground. There is clearly a lot of benefit for having the people building the app experiencing the pain of users using the app. I also think that exposure is a great learning opportunity for engineers. But for certain
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by Areading314 4y ago
AWS is one tool but its a lot like the proprietary computing ecosystems that have existed for a long time (remember the Micro$oft days?). It offers convenience in return for lock in and very high margins. Theres no clear answer but its defi
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by Areading314 4y ago
Not really. Most of the time setting up a segregated network architecture is actually easier than dealing with encrypted database connections -- certificate management is by nature dynamic vs. the static nature of a secure network
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by Areading314 4y ago
I would expect most databases that are listening to public internet connections are doing so by accident
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by Areading314 4y ago
You are both unprofessional and violating the law by discriminating against people based on legally protected parameters, like having children or not. Furthermore you're posting this on HN like an absolute fool. This is great evidence
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by Areading314 4y ago
one of the most cringe things I'll see in "high performance" code is ad hoc syscalls in the middle of loops and such. it should be much more obvious imo in environments like python notebooks that these less scalable operation
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by Areading314 4y ago
Klarna generated $1.42 billion revenue in 2021, a 32 percent year-on-year increase. A majority of Klarna’s income comes from interchange, processing and merchant fees. As Klarna has expanded its BNPL offering, its losses have increased. It
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by Areading314 4y ago
Do not use C++ for a rest API. I would recommend using common boring tech, and ignore the "magic bullet" promises of languages like elixir. I find in my personal projects using python backend (flask or django), with a postgres dat
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by Areading314 4y ago
Doesn't malloc return a pointer? Sounds unsafe
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by Areading314 4y ago
poor
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by Areading314 4y ago
Ironic since I always thought one of the coolest features in perl was taint analysis, which allows keeping track of all unparsed user input: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/perl-taint-method/#:~:text=Tai... .
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by Areading314 4y ago
This is a classic SQL injection bug/security flaw
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by Areading314 4y ago
Enjoyable and thought provoking. Thanks Neal!
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by Areading314 4y ago
From the quotes here it seems like Mark's leadership is well aligned with the values of his business.
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by Areading314 4y ago
Pizza was also one of the first "real" purchases made with crypto/bitcoin: https://www.coindesk.com/learn/what-is-bitcoin-pizza-day/
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by Areading314 4y ago
Renewables are not a viable solution to energy needs on their own. It is not possible to heat houses or power a grid during low-wind periods in winter or at northern latitudes for sustained periods (weeks to months) with wind and solar. Nuc

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