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by abraae 6y ago
Organizing an insurrection is expressing yourself peacefully?
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In New Zealand in the late 1960s.
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by abraae 6y ago
747s != Widgets. Huge natural barriers to competition.
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by abraae 6y ago
When I was a kid, a single phone line was shared between 3 or so homes. If you picked up the phone and heard the neighbors talking, you said sorry and hung up and waited for a while before trying again. When the phone rang, the ring was mor
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by abraae 6y ago
All good questions, but irrelevant to the point you are refuting. With a public health system, medical care is tied to the country's wealth - not to any individual. In my country, a government body negotiates with the drug companies on
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by abraae 6y ago
Sad that this rings a GDPR bell in my mind.
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That's heaps for my application, which is remote monitoring of traps for exotic pests. By law such traps must be checked once per day, which requires only a single bit each 24 hours (trap triggered or not).
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by abraae 6y ago
Yeah, I also want filters, refinement, user preferences. etc. And I want it to be social - I want to search using the same filters that Tim Bray uses. Or I want to use the filters that the people use who in aggregate tend to click through t
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by abraae 6y ago
I cannot imagine building auth into a system now without using Keycloak. It's a comprehensive platform for sure, which makes for some pretty intense concepts and documentation. But once you lay your hands on a suitable tutorial it&#x27
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by abraae 6y ago
You've made it fairly clear which camp you are in by the framing of your "falsehoods". Masks primarily protect others, so whether they protect you is a secondary question. And no-one (with any credibility) is really stating a
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by abraae 6y ago
Planting trees does. Indirectly by combatting climate change, which has proportionally negative impacts on poorer countries.
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by abraae 6y ago
Everything in life is about risk vs reward. Platform lock in is a risk. The reward is faster time to market, thus making more money earlier, thus having more means to ameliorate your risks.
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by abraae 6y ago
Oracle (and DB2) have had multiple nodes for decades, with support for referential integrity and transactions across nodes. I guess perhaps you are talking about geographically distributed nodes that have slow pipes between them? But in any
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by abraae 6y ago
Yeah, no shit, it's hard to get things like referential integrity and transactions working at scale, it takes many genius engineers and many years. A better title would be: Feature Casualties of Large Databases (except for old-fashione
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by abraae 6y ago
Fairly easily gamed though with some sort of IoT taps.
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I hope that every one of them is the kind of employee that Gives A Shit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25229291
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by abraae 6y ago
> You have plastic insulator around your electricity wires to prevent you getting electric shock. Is that a fix or a workaround? Because a fix would be to actually have continuous current at max 12V as power lines. But that's not ec
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by abraae 6y ago
We have a great permaculture farm near us, they run classes, tours etc. (Apparently a popular joke in the permaculture world is that the only way to make money off permaculture is to run permaculture courses). Everything I've seen ther
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by abraae 6y ago
Treating APIs as the same as GUIs means introducing discoverability, the primary advantage of GUIs over e.g command line. Discoverability in an API would normally imply HATEOAS / hypermedia, the altar at which REST zealots worship. But
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by abraae 6y ago
Not the same. Stealing books from a bookshop - ILLEGAL. Pumping CO2 into the air and contributing to the global ecosystem's destruction - LEGAL.
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by abraae 6y ago
I don't think "least invasive" should be the only criteria. In our case, we choose the opposite way to you, i.e to have the DIEP reconstruction. Yes it's a lot more invasive, but also: A) the results are more natural (mo
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by abraae 6y ago
To REST purists, APIs must use HATEOAS to be considered REST.
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by abraae 6y ago
I edit /etc/hosts to block access to all my common time wasters, wapo, hn, etc. Sometimes I weaken and uncomment then all and binge for a bit. But for some reason it works better for me than just trying not to go to those websites
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by abraae 6y ago
Adding poorly performing code is a bit like pissing in a swimming pool. A little bit is ok. If you have to. But too much of it and there's no way back other than draining the pool and starting again.
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by abraae 6y ago
I found my 8 year old playing hypixel. I know jack about Minecraft, so I couldn't understand how come he was having some kind of chat dialog with someone. The only thing I've ever shown him on his Fedora laptop was how to log in,
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by abraae 6y ago
I dunno. That time the user spends waiting for the sluggish website downloading gigabytes of html is time they maybe don't spend reaching for that apple that was air freighted across the world to reach their fridge. Flippant but I doub
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by abraae 6y ago
Cool but the price bracket is kind of high. I've been using these lately - esp32, with a tiny display, wifi, bluetooth, 2 buttons, adc pounds etc - currently showing as $7 US. It's astonishing to me that I can buy a dual core comp
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by abraae 6y ago
If you find yourself working at a place where it's frowned on to use words like cocktail, cocky or cockroach.... then it might be time to find somewhere less stultifying.
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by abraae 6y ago
Funny. We just built it new platform in gwt. It's an unashamedly retro approach but there's a lot to be said from using Java on the front end as well as the back. Productivity was really high.
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by abraae 6y ago
Sounds fascinating, I'd love to see some examples.

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