BlackFly

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by BlackFly 3y ago
How else are you going to manage dependent options of an algorithm but to inject the dependency inside of its configuration? Say in rust, you have some struct backing a trait. But your implementation of the trait can also have a variety of
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by BlackFly 3y ago
If you ever need to encode something and expect people to type it out... I recommend using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32 instead. Nothing more frustrating than realizing that (because of bad fonts often) that I
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by BlackFly 3y ago
I was hoping for something on metric spaces, I was completely wrong but not disappointed. Great post. Edit: Arguably there is a weird kind of metric in that, so not completely wrong I guess...
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by BlackFly 3y ago
Everyone has heard the multi processing advocacy already. Actor model isn't a perfect answer to all concurrency questions. Some people would prefer a pure python connection pool to pgbouncer.
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by BlackFly 3y ago
I agree that novel technical choices are often conflated with innovation over eagerly. My experience is that in learning the lesson that these things are different many people over correct and assume that novel technical choices are only ev
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by BlackFly 3y ago
The person you responded to is using a different definition of popular than you are. Popular: 1. Widely liked or appreciated. 3. Of, representing, or carried on by the people at large. In the phrase, "use popular tech because it is pop
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by BlackFly 3y ago
I share your feeling. It feels like design almost became a goal in and of itself due to the fact that--for some users--a good design will be a decisive factor in making a purchase. This is much more measurable than user satisfaction and eff
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by BlackFly 3y ago
I think the preamble to the legislation sort of goes over it. I remember a section talking about marketing and it seemed to imply that businesses have a legitimate interest to market their own products to their own customers. For example,
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by BlackFly 3y ago
Yes, just like passwords need to be rotated at some point. Of course in 2023 people have already reconsidered what the practical effect on security of that policy was as opposed to the theoretical effect. Perhaps client certificate rotation
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by BlackFly 3y ago
The same thing: you fine them. That's what happens when you find melamine in baby formula, so I don't see why it would be different for software? Even with physical products there are open questions on whether the impact of the fi
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by BlackFly 3y ago
Yes, I agree. Empowering humans to fix problems. It seems to me attempting to prevent people from making problems just creates more problems than it solves. Computers do things quickly with terrible (non-existent) judgement.
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by BlackFly 3y ago
If you want a constructive take on the problem this rant is aimed at (I'm rant happy too, so don't take that description pejoratively), read "No silver bullet" by Fred Brooks, written in 1986. The problem hasn't rea
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by BlackFly 3y ago
What does it mean to be greater than the sum of your parts? It is more than just alignment, everybody moving in the same direction: that would just be a well directed sum.Once upon a time, management talked about alignment because just bein
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by BlackFly 3y ago
As a society, we have learned to forbid manufacturers from selling for mass consumption products without divulging what those products generally contain. As a society, why would we allow people to sell for mass execution software without di
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by BlackFly 3y ago
It is good news, but these things always make me wonder: what kind of death increased? I see there was a two year increase in the expected life span in the USA over the last two decades, so probably people are indeed living longer but death
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by BlackFly 3y ago
You are missing my point. It is entirely possible that GR is a complete theory of gravity. The final fate of collapse could be merely a simple singularity. There is absolutely no evidence to the contrary and, if general relativity is correc
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by BlackFly 3y ago
Haha, yes I have had similar experience with people focusing on asymptomatics. I think you are correct, these arguments could be good for a junior, but definitely not an obstinate one.
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by BlackFly 3y ago
Yes, due to the causal structure, but you can also refer to the singularities. The simulation of black hole mergers can be carried out both by excision method and moving puncture method. The existence of black swans does not disprove white
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by BlackFly 3y ago
The problem is he has presented strawman arguments. If you are genuinely arguing with someone who believes performance never matters, stop arguing, you won't change that person's mind. Generally you will be arguing with a person w
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by BlackFly 3y ago
To me, this is the real answer. Gravity is not a force, it is a constraint on the shape of the universe. It is geometry.
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by BlackFly 3y ago
The lodge I was staying at had lighting, fed from a generator. Electricity in remote areas is ubiquitous in the 21st century.
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by BlackFly 3y ago
> But near the center of a black hole or in the first moments of the universe, Einstein’s equations break. Not really. The formation and continuous description of a singularity is somewhat unique in physics, but general relativity contin
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by BlackFly 3y ago
Kaluza-Klein theory is a geometric unification of general relativity and electromagnetism. A description of electricity as a curvature of a fifth dimension. https://en.m.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kaluza%E2%80%93Klein_theory
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by BlackFly 3y ago
Except that the radius of curvature in that case depends on the charge and mass of the particle, but all particles follow the same trajectory in a gravitational field. The trajectory is a geodesic, a non-Euclidean generalization of a straig
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by BlackFly 3y ago
I would often use static factory methods as well (next to the other patterns given in the JEP itself), but it breaks the usual convention of using new, so it adds a bit of cognitive load to learning an API where you expect to be able to use
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by BlackFly 3y ago
This is extremely common worldwide. I've observed it in rural Nova Scotia, the Netherlands, and the Peruvian rainforest. I'm sure it happens elsewhere, but those are the places I have made note of it. I think the spiders have not
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by BlackFly 4y ago
Throughout human history, children were seen as supportive to the labor of the parents. I recall reading articles recently that were pointing out that this cultural change in attitude towards children may be what is driving declining birthr
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by BlackFly 4y ago
Well, "US pay transparency laws result in worker discontent," is just not what one should imply from a causal stand point. "US pay transparency laws result in workers realizing that their employers are trying to underpay them
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by BlackFly 4y ago
For me, the terminal experience on MacOS is uncanny valley because of the BSD implementations: $ ls tmp -al ls: -al: No such file or directory This is the ls example, but all the utilities I would reach for on a linux behave like
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by BlackFly 4y ago
I doubt it, since they already did that journey long ago and are now adding virtual threads next to ordinary threads that replaced the original green threads. If you put your long running work into the virtual kind of threadpool, a timing s

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