NBJack

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by NBJack 3y ago
FWIW, this has been one of the worst seasons for mobile phone sales in a decade. [1] It may be telling if the latest from Apple will change that or not. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/17/global-smartphone-ma
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by NBJack 3y ago
"That circle"? You make it sound like an exclusive club for the elite. This isn't supposed to be a popularity contest. Linus' attitude is very material. Kernel leadership sets the stage for other contributors to do the
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by NBJack 3y ago
It isn't sustainable, and it's a sign of bad leadership waiting for the proverbial (or literal) "hit by a truck" principle to show up. You are correct in that it is the maintainers's choice. No doubt about it. But n
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by NBJack 3y ago
I'd argue that almost every historical figure becomes a meme at some point, even through the lens of many robust historical accounts. We don't usually care about the details of their lives, and that detail is often lost when infor
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by NBJack 3y ago
This is interesting, but is it that surprising? Many of these models are fairly large (usually measured in GB, as the article rightly points out). But how would this use of space fair against a dictionary of the N most common sequences seen
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by NBJack 3y ago
I think your concerns are correct. I realize expecting everything to fit into a favorite IDE is a bit much, but anecdotally it helps me a lot in a new or rarely used language. Assists, muscle memory finding things, autocomplete, etc. really
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by NBJack 3y ago
As a programmer new to the language, this is a fantastic resource. I don't know how many hours I've already lost to some of the finer gotchas of the language. After being seeped in Java and its idiosyncrasies for so long, how humb
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by NBJack 3y ago
If there's one thing I never felt I properly learned in comp sci, it's proofs. I sucked at them, and I'm grateful I don't need them as part of my job. That said, are there any good resources that can teach me how to reas
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by NBJack 3y ago
This gets messy at larger scales, both as teams grow and software grows. Resetting to a know failsafe works as long ask the risk of someone changing a backend service (or, multiple services) at the same time is low. Once it isn't, y
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by NBJack 3y ago
Were they also by chance considered accelerators for encrypted traffic? I'm not privy to details, but I recall once when a mandate was issued to a Java platform to remove an outdated encryption protocol (mandated by Amazon Infosec). Th
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by NBJack 3y ago
I believe XML has it baked directly into the official spec. JSONSchema is great, but I wouldn't call it a standard yet, and anecdotally I haven't seen it as often as I'd like in use (i.e. I either need to run kubectl --dry-ru
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by NBJack 3y ago
Ah, kinda. Yes, they existed, but they frequently didn't have many of the more standard features like autocomplete (particularly on both sides of a new tag) and on-the-fly structure parsing that makes much of the painful parts easier t
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by NBJack 3y ago
The painful part is when it implodes. Look at Facebook before and after the ad money dried up. [1] then [2] It's all fun and games until the investors aren't happy. Nvidia is enjoying a strong cash influx of demand due in no small
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by NBJack 3y ago
We can pontificate on how to define the scope of a system here. I will only state that, from the perspective of a consumer, you could consider this a Service on which the interface of find flight, book flight, etc. would appear to be the sa
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by NBJack 3y ago
Yup. Somebody at MSFT trying to min/max their way towards their next promotion.
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by NBJack 3y ago
Yes. It would cascade into: Changes in how ATCs operate Changes in how pilots operate Changes in how airplanes receive these instructions (including the flight software itself, safety systems, etc.) Changes in how airplanes are tested Chang
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by NBJack 3y ago
There is the rub. Readable for what purpose? Aesthetics? And why? It is meaningless in their example. And what do they mean with communication? Reading it aloud? If the URL is too long to stick in a tweet or message, there are plenty of URL
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by NBJack 3y ago
Agreed. Decorative URL slugs have been successfully used by everything from blogs to Amazon itself for over a decade. If anything, that should be the focus here. Short URLs aren't much of a help, especially when short is relative on so
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by NBJack 3y ago
I am not surprised. That platform was a neat concept, but wow, the nesting and resource consumption was atrocious. There was potential there, yet the implementation in Java made IMHO some fundamentaly flawed assertions about small objects.
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by NBJack 3y ago
I suspect it grew into that. Amazon has been around for almost 30 years. That's a long time to incrementally change a service ecosystem.
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by NBJack 3y ago
Back in The Day, rumor had it the detail page hosting/rendering would easily max out a single machine after only a handful of queries per second. I regrettably can't verify the truth of that, or if it still holds, but there is a L
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by NBJack 3y ago
I might be misunderstanding what you consider one, but in my experience a bash script driving curl is great for some types of API or front-end load testing. However, it won't necessarily help you know how your system will behave if S3
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by NBJack 3y ago
Air currents have a purpose, and I actually believe large scale wind farming will have negative impacts on climate. Not to mention the impact on birds killed by the things. I would even go as far to say nuclear energy has less of an impact
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by NBJack 3y ago
Oh, man, the nostalgia. I remember borrowing this. It taught me the basics, mode 13h, direct memory access (0xA0000000 anyone?), palette swaps, the works. I remember getting a wave file extract from Duke Nukem 3D playing in my primitive cyc
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by NBJack 3y ago
This is the first I've heard of it after reading and researching on the net for a long time for a myriad of comp sci topics. Perhaps I'm just part of the 10,000 today, but I am surprisingly having trouble finding it being recommen
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by NBJack 3y ago
It definitely feels like Amazon had some intern project that generated 'spatial catpchas' (prove you are human by picking the stacked blue boxes) and decided to re-use it for every icon.
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by NBJack 3y ago
Congrats, you just described Amazon as a whole. If anything, it is art imitating life.
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by NBJack 3y ago
Let's also pick some broad high level categories and vary the border design and color too. Boom. Instantly better. Someone should make a Chrome plug in for this...
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by NBJack 3y ago
Kind of. It's only supported via an embedded Lambda code block written in a version of NodeJS that will expire in about two months. Also, please exercise caution with your targets file. We have had a few customers complain that it&#x27
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by NBJack 3y ago
I'm not sure I follow. Knowledge based retrieval of what exactly? Outdated docs and dilapidated code? Aging internal wikis and chat histories erased for legal reasons? Everyone also seems to overlook how much time and resources it take

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