DrDroop

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by DrDroop 3y ago
Why does Cory Doctorow hate us so much, and why do we let him get away with this? We invite him to be the speaker at prestigious conferences, give him the keynote slot, just so we can all hear him lecture us on the evils of the companies we
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Y Combinator's Future in the Software Slowdown(brief.bismarckanalysis.com)
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by DrDroop 3y ago
Man, you should read the original thread where memcopy was brought up as another example why netcat is a bad baseline for a network protocol and I was like, yea no that part at least sort of makes sense because that is the baseline. Sometim
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by DrDroop 3y ago
I know of a DSP Engineer that used memcpy as a baseline to compare the speed of a sound filter. I think it is a good measure for first principle thinking. There are other things wrong with the talk, it takes way too long to get to the point
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by DrDroop 3y ago
I would go even further and say that REST is BS Most people understand REST as a format for URLs and a particular semantics for HTTP methods. While it can be perfectly ok to design an api like person?id=123. This is the way that Postgrest d
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by DrDroop 3y ago
Most CEO have stock options so in theory they have skin in the game. This however does not make them rational or competent actors. Maybe skin in the game isn't all that it is being made out to be, it is probably necessary but not suffi
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by DrDroop 3y ago
I don't think I'd enjoy writing COBOL but array programming is actually fun to do. The experience is very refreshing compared to the verbose clean-code Software Engineering orthodoxy that seems all prevailing these days. A languag
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by DrDroop 3y ago
One more thing, I suspect you can also find these in proof/axiom systems.
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by DrDroop 3y ago
Yes, coordination is a common theme among them. Another way of looking at it is that these systems all have a partial ordering but no full ordering, like a game of rock paper scissors. This is something that shows up all around us, space ti
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by DrDroop 3y ago
Sorry don't have much time to explain, but in economics and other social sciences there are many situations where there needs to be made a tradeoff between three things, so called trilemmas. I already gave the example of voting in a de
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by DrDroop 3y ago
CAP shows up in lots of places, my favourite is arrow's impossibility theorem.
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by DrDroop 3y ago
Fascinating, I've never thought about cold blooded animals this way. From reading wikipedia there seem to be different ways in which an animal can be cold blooded.
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by DrDroop 3y ago
Why do they need more food when it gets warmer, I would expect the opposite, do they need to run airco for some reason?
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by DrDroop 3y ago
This feels like self-pity. One can easily turn this argument on its head. What if operations people are the once that enable a bad situation to persist? As someone who prefers to create new things over maintaining old ones, I sometimes thin
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by DrDroop 3y ago
This man is a villain hiding in plain sight, I used to find the things he says interesting, I even read his book on game theory and learned a lot from it but the more I watched him talk in his pompous style the more I his malignant narcissi
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by DrDroop 3y ago
This is far outside of my area of competence, but I have always had a hard time understanding/imagining what people mean when they say string theory uses extra dimensions but that those are rolled up or tiny. Like, I know about project
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by DrDroop 3y ago
I've been working on a startup idea that involves a lot of scraping and I've thought about a general data market before but I came to the same conclusion that it is way too hard. I just use one of the many captcha solving services
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by DrDroop 3y ago
I've done a little bit of postgres work with the help of pgrx and I can recommend it as a platform to build data solutions. Another great resource has been the CMU channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CMUDatabaseGroup
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by DrDroop 3y ago
I would not call a world where software is less regulated then is proposed a "libertarian hellhole".
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by DrDroop 3y ago
Non did it better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff-sx0SEO5Q&list=PL1a38XXThq...
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by DrDroop 3y ago
What the author is suggesting is something very similar to hyper-dom-expressions[1] as they are used in Solid.js. I've tried using those because they look like a nice vanilla JS solution. What might not be obvious from the start is tha
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by DrDroop 3y ago
Some GA libraries[1][2] define types for the different kind of objects (grades), although they are time consuming to implement and fixed in the number of dimensions they describe. But you are right that the most implementation combine all g
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by DrDroop 3y ago
I've lived as a foreigner in a big metropole in Australia and I fell that all places that I could go where tourist traps. Simple life hacks like buying groceries for a week was impossible, the closest cheap grocery store was too much o
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by DrDroop 3y ago
I think the point of the article was that to be valuable as an engineer you have to do things like "making tough decisions, dealing with stakeholders, incomplete and poorly conceived requirements". My problem is that a lot of peop
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by DrDroop 3y ago
I would like to work in a place where communication is a two way thing.
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by DrDroop 3y ago
This is the reason why I am trying to move away from being a software engineer. I don't like to complain but it is honestly degrading how SE are treated in some places. I've been on teams with 4 project managers/analysts and
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by DrDroop 3y ago
I didn't know you could do this in excel but it reminded me of the converge adverb in k: https://xpqz.github.io/kbook/Adverbs.html#converge-f-f
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by DrDroop 3y ago
It is also super powerful technique when using the closure of a function as a way to encapsulate logic and state. A good example is this implementation of a json parser in js[1]. Attempt at lifting the lexer functions or state out of the fu
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by DrDroop 3y ago
I never heard of this either, seems like very speculative stuff, but interesting non the less: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/24773/contributions/110484/att... No idea what this tower of light is they kee
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by DrDroop 3y ago
I also know people that spend 40k euro a month to run the database of their rails app on the biggest instance they can find on aws. The traffic is seasonal and the workload is mostly one way payment traffic. But hey, they are still making m

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