Scubabear68

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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
I think categorizing around 90% (from the cited link) as “nearly every” is accurate. The sixties were over 50 years ago, I know as I am a child of the sixties :-) Given how necessary driving is to living in nearly all of America, and that a
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
No. Python’s issue is that it is incredibly slow in use cases that surprise average developers. It is incredibly slow at very basic stuff, like calling a function or accessing a dictionary. If Python didn’t have such an enormous number of p
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
I think you misread your cited article. It does not say only around 10% could easily out their hands on a birth certificate. It says “9% don’t have proof of citizenship readily available” while traveling. It properly indicates nearly every
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
Same here. Was using Java in the alpha/beta/gamma days. Have built a lot with it. Would not use it for command line tooling by default, only if it happened to be the simplest option (like maybe a library or something does nearly e
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
From the article: > It has been proven numerous times already that strcpy in source code is like a honey pot for generating hallucinated vulnerability claims This closing thought in the article really stood out to me. Why even bother to
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
This omits the fact that Musk has slashed costs in critical areas of Tesla cars, notably in relying only on visual sensors. They abandoned the hardware most promising to help enable self-driving.
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
The main thing I read was the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman. It requires even more suspension of disbelief than a usual sci fi / fantasy combo, but was worth it for the characters and laughs and “where will he take this
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
I have no idea who you are. I know who Rob Pike is. Rob is not strutting around with no clothes, he literally has decades upon decades of contributions to the industry.
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
I think Rob gets a pass, yes, due to his extensive contributions to software. And he is allowed to work for google and still rage against AI. Life is complicated and complex. Deal with it.
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
Nope. As a trivial example, someone with celiac’s disease is not going to value your gluten ridden bread very high.
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
Gold is a VERY unique metal and its value comes directly from that. Particularly the complete lack of oxidation, I'm sure it was seen as absolutely magic that it would not tarnish while every other metal known at the time would oxidize
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
All I have to say is this post warmed my heart. I'm sure people here associate him with Go lang and Google, but I will always associate him with Bell Labs and Unix and The Practice of Programming, and overall the amazing contributions
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
Reading this I feel like I live on another planet. I recognize this guy seems to only be dealing with FAANG type companies, but the disconnect from my own reality is so vast it’s hard to reconcile. I have never worked anywhere with the L4&#
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
When I was about 12 I got an old TV in my room which I of course decided to take apart to figure out how it worked. I was VERY smart and of course unplugged the TV before doing anything. My flat head screwdriver brushed against the wrong te
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
Nope. Becoming well known even in a smallish circle of a few hundred or thousand people will likely immediately lead to stalkers and crazies coming out after you. My theory is they are directly drawn to people who make some sort of splash,
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
My interpretation is that this had little to do with specifics of RFCs, and everything to do with the verbal culture described. I don’t care what format you use in terms of both process and also literal format. Just write shit down.
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
I think you are confusing limitations of Java at the time with something else. Interfaces everywhere and single implementation classes has nothing at all to do with Microservices or SOA.
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
Please don’t fall into the Fowler-said-so trap. Just because he says something does not mean Fowler “formalized the term”. Martin wrote about every topic under the sun, and he loved renaming and or redefining things to fit his world view, a
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
Loved your sentence at the end about tar -cvf. Every generation seems to have to learn the lesson about batching small inputs together to keep throughput up.
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
In my experience this is best done as an out of band flow in the background eg one of the zillion services that collect and aggregate logs.
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
I wish the article had stuck with the technical topic at hand and left out the embellishment. In particular the opening piece talking about what is happening outside the exchange. What happens outside the exchange really doesn’t matter. The
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
I don’t understand why you would have a logging microservice vs just having a library that provides logging that is used wherever you need logging.
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
Wherever Robert Heinlein is right now, he is shaking his head sadly. Told ya so......
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by Scubabear68 10mo ago
I moved largely away from Microsoft products in 2010 personally, and 2015 or so professionally. Just came back to them last year for a client. What I am seeing are two really disturbing patterns: 1) really, really bad stuff that has been th
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
If they are not actually trading, they are almost certainly getting a lot wrong and I would not trust this one bit.
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
This article resonates strongly. I am consulting right now to a group that has enormous struggles technically, but they are all self-inflicted wounds that come down to people and process. Management claims to want to understand and fix the
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
Agree. Those parameters are incredibly artificial bullshit.
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
This will probably get me voted into oblivion, but reading your posts here, I wonder how you would do if accommodations were taken away from you entirely in your elite university. Maybe I am completely wrong, but I suspect rather strongly y
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
I am aware, my daughter has Dyslexia. But this is not a thread about elementary school accommodations, it is about university level accommodations. The question is why the author implies he needs the same or similar accommodations at 20ish
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
So you are a long way from Kindergarten to an elite university. I mention this because it is odd to me that you picked your 4 to 5 year old self to validate why you are getting accommodations in your teens/twenties at a self-described

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