Misdicorl

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by Misdicorl 8mo ago
Your place of last resort with kafka is simply to replay the message back to the same kafka topic since you know it's up. In a simple single consumer setup just throw a retry count on the message and increment it to get monitoring&#x2F
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by Misdicorl 1y ago
One way to measure this that isn't moral judgements is the ecological depth of an environment. If one part of the system is destroyed (e.g. a blight on plant A) how devastating to the rest of the system will that be? One of the hallmar
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by Misdicorl 1y ago
The story I've heard is that general motors down fall began when they stopped writing loans for other car manufacturers. They used to under write basically every car loan in the US. I've never looked into how truthful it is, but i
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by Misdicorl 1y ago
I'll throw my hat in the ring for "disagree". Few kinds of work have such clear and unambiguous results as optimization work (its now X% faster!). Few kinds of work have such incredible and detailed tools to guide your hand i
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by Misdicorl 1y ago
Sometimes the vibes are wrong, and things go haywire. This is why zero tolerance policies have to be instituted in schools. That doesnt mean the general idea is wrong. Strict adherence to written law will always fail justice. The world is t
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by Misdicorl 1y ago
Would be really interesting to see what it does with clearly wrong EXIF data
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by Misdicorl 1y ago
Yeah I'd say kafka is not a great technology if your median and 99ths (or 999ths if volume is large enough) are wildly different which sounds like your situation. I use kafka in contexts where 99ths going awry usually aren't key d
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by Misdicorl 1y ago
Follow on: If you're using kafka to publish messages to multiple consumers, this is even worse as now you're infecting every consumer with data processing issues from every other consumer. Bad juju
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by Misdicorl 1y ago
I suppose it depends on your message volume. To me, processing 100k messages and then getting a page however long later as the broker (or whatever) falls apart sounds much worse than head of line blocking and seeing the problem directly in
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by Misdicorl 1y ago
And now imagine how easy dealing with email spam would be if the marginal fiscal cost was not 0 like physical spam. All the technology and tools available and less than 1% of the viable spam surface area
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by Misdicorl 1y ago
> the goal should be to ensure that anyone who wants to do a thing can, with as few third party requirements as possible. This is a good starting point, but if you have no barriers then you get abuse problems which is why email is terrib
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by Misdicorl 2y ago
It wouldn't, but it might preclude using (future) optimizations that forgo those de-optimization hooks?
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by Misdicorl 2y ago
I suppose serializing the JVM state itself to avoid the cold start problem might take advantage of this?
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by Misdicorl 2y ago
The past decade is a difficult framing to ask the question in. Notable breakthrough results are usually understood in hindsight and a decade just isn't a lot of time for that context and understanding to develop. Science also doesn&#x2
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by Misdicorl 2y ago
Ignoring inexperience/incompetence as a reason (which, admittedly, is a likely root cause) domain fuzziness is often a good explanation here. If you aren't extremely familiar with a domain and know the shape of solution you need a
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by Misdicorl 2y ago
You didn't understand the original claim which is that because Pi has an infinite decimal representation, every subsequence of it has a repeat
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by Misdicorl 2y ago
This isn't true as you can build an infinite sequence that never repeats. An example sequence in binary is (the number of 0s between each 1 increases by 1 every time) 01001000100001...
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by Misdicorl 2y ago
The goal can't be to solve every desperation case. But if the program wouldn't allow individuals living in dangerous and exploitative situations to confidently leave them (financially) Id argue the program was a failure
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by Misdicorl 2y ago
True. It would be nice to decouple it from children and expand its scope of economic impact dramatically.
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by Misdicorl 2y ago
$1000/month is $12,000/year. Thats far far below poverty levels. It needs to be enough that people can choose to supplement in order to engage with luxury consumption. If people are forced to supplement to just survive, then w
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by Misdicorl 2y ago
If UBI is encoded as a negative tax rate at low income levels, it no longer really makes sense to talk about it as applying to all income levels equally. It naturally gets distributed as 1) A check (issued by Social Security service?) if in
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by Misdicorl 2y ago
Very much agreed that there should be no cliffs. Every dollar earned should at minimum increase your usable cash flow by at least X amount no matter where you are in the income distribution and other tax incentive phase space
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by Misdicorl 2y ago
My personal position is to abolish the minimum wage and update the tax scale with negative tax rates that support a reasonable quality of life at all income levels. The market will find its own balance for what a true minimum wage is in tha
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by Misdicorl 3y ago
> but any user that thinks their media decode libraries will be bulletproof libs free of vulnerabilities are nuts. Sure. And its a high bar to challenge the same or better vulnerability profile that the established players have. But a &q
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by Misdicorl 3y ago
That advice has context. Do not roll your own if the feature is not your core product offering . So don't roll crypto if you're not selling crypto. If it is your core offering (and media decoding is absolutely a core offering of
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by Misdicorl 3y ago
But it rather isn't. The temperature keeps going up as you add more fire. And then it stops going up even if you add more fire. That point is the temperature of interest and was from the very start. It isn't hard to find. It isn&#
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by Misdicorl 3y ago
If the discussion was about boiling pasta water I'd be on board (e.g. a discussion of the every day). But it's wearing the clothing of science and so falls flat (for me). None of the details turn out to matter for the real technic
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by Misdicorl 3y ago
Every time this is posted I want to rebut the water boiling portion. It's finally time. The author gets the details of boiling water wrong. He commits a fairly common error: using his experience of a practical and common phenomena to m
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by Misdicorl 3y ago
This is unlikely. There are many many theories of how dark matter could be accounted for with ordinary matter that we simply can't detect because our telescopes/etc aren't good enough. Not all of these theories are completely
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by Misdicorl 3y ago
I've vacillated a couple times on whether to respond to you, but apparently you've poked me in a place I can't just ignore and move on from. My goodness you are a sanctimonious asshole. We are disagreeing about how to express

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