Scubabear68

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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
Digging around, OK that makes sense. But even in the context of C and C++, there are often more ways the compiler can't help you than ways it can. The most common are on function calls involving array operations and pointers, but a lot
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
I liked the idea behind this post, but really the author fairly widely missed the mark in my opinion. The extent to which you can "fool the optimizer" is highly dependent on the language and the code you're talking about. Pyt
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
Here in NJ, I live in a small town of around 7,000 or so. We have a Township Committee form of government, five committee people with one nominally as Mayor (but really the same as everyone else). They get a yearly stipend of around $5,000
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
I agree that blind trusts don't fix everything, but it is a start. The situation right now isn't just corrupting, congress-critters are labeled as idiots by their own if they don't actively take advantage of "perks"
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
Oh please. Anyone looking to actually do something interesting with a piece of land is going to have to a much higher resolution map of the site, not use the extreme zoom and on a map covering a huge area. Or they may even go rogue and visi
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
As a child of the 70s and 80s, Snoopy was a very big deal, but Peanuts was kind of secondary. I remember around 2nd grade or so Snoopy Joe Cool was a big deal and I had the t shirts and thermos and lunchbox. There are of course the Peanuts
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
Thanks to the author, I needed this today. Yes, it’s weird and eclectic and not at all mainstream, but those of us like that got to stick together!
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
In the United States, males are known to be as stupid as a box of rocks when it comes to any sort of moving vehicle. Male cyclists are much more prone to be doing 40mph wheelies down a blind hill in the middle of the road than woman. Don&#x
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
They hide it because you won't choose them if you were aware that it's Yet Another Wrapper around someone else's service.
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
You setup a payment flow and it took you less than a day, and you are upset? I don't understand.
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
“Well your payments platform doesn’t actually do payments, but the developer experience of doing nothing was flawless!” Sorry for the snark, but been in payments a long time, and seen too much of this nonsense.
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
This was exactly my thought. Poverty reporting has gotten very weird. While housing, food, etc costs are rising, I still also see teenagers and their parents who I know are very poorly off with $400 sneakers, wearing AirPod Pros and gettin
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
This isn’t even pseudo science. What was described in the article sounded more like answers to questions on the game show Jeopardy.
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
Obama and the Democrats were surprisingly heavy on surveillance and curtailing rights during Obama’s Presidency. So you can include them in the “reupped it over and over”.
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
To be fair, the current Republican Party bears almost no resemblance to the "classic" Republican Party of....10 years ago. The Newt and the Tea Party started the slide, normalizing hatred and bombast and FU-politics, and MAGA perf
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
I got into Perl in the early 90s in the Perl4 days, watched the very weird but necessary Perl5 come into focus, then I saw Larry and the community in the 2000s get stars in their eyes and just throw it all away for the dream of Perl6. The r
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
It is still worthwhile to try to troubleshoot something like a washing machine these days before calling someone to service it, or buying new. We just had a ~8 year old washer start dying with an error code, with digging it turned out it wa
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
This. Exactly this. The answer isn’t some fancy security software or screening, it is much simpler: no software, period. The bulk of school should be learning in a classroom, computers are not required. They can and should be allowed in lim
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
There is a reason C++ devs and only C++ devs have nightmares of diamond inheritance. Oh the damage that language has done to a generation, but at least it is largely passed us now.
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
I'm really confused by your response. Divulging where you've lived for the past 10+ years, having agents contacting your references, etc for "Secret" is not very onerous or difficult. Given that, your subsequent statemen
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
Getting locked up in jail will do wonders to cure people of this and many other things. However, the side effects are very severe.
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
For me, the big miss with Postgres Aurora RDS was costs. We had some queries that did a fair amount of I/O in a way that would not normally be a problem, but in the Aurora Postgres RDS world that I/O was crazy expensive. A couple
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
This is a really good observation, and matches something I had to learn painfully over 30 years ago. At a Wall Street bank, we were trying to really push the limits with some middleware, and my mentor at the time very quietly suggested &quo
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
> Cybertrucks are for pioneers. Well, here in NJ at least, Cybertrucks are not for pioneers, but inevitably for wealth signaling of mostly clueless people to show they have cash to throw away. There are of course many wealth signaling ca
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
From what I recall, one of the hazards of long term space travel is that nearly any material will start sublimating atoms in the hard vacuum of space, with things like cosmic rays adding to the woes. Some over time it will start deteriorat
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
That's a nice narrative but very revisionist. Microservices came about because Netflix and soon some other FAANGS found they were so big that it made sense to make single-function "micro"-services. They literally chose to mas
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
Sorry, you lost me at "hence the name". Microservices was originally envisioned to literally create the smallest possible service you could, with canonical Netflix use cases being literally only one or two endpoints per microservi
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
I know one place that did all of their transactional payment flow through lambdas. There were about 20 lambdas in the critical auth path, and they regularly hit the AWS per-global-account limits. Another place did all their image processing
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by Scubabear68 11mo ago
I think the big problem no one speaks about is the name "microservices" was incredibly poorly named. Your design goal should not be "create the smallest service you can to satisfy the 'micro' label". Your desig
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by Scubabear68 1y ago
Somewhat related, one of my thoughts was “what if these concierge doctors just keep running tests until they find something, anything, to justify their fees”?

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