abraxas

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by abraxas 5y ago
It hasn't been well planned or well executed. Just look at all the posts in this thread of people complaining about being locked out of their accounts for very dubk reasons. The Live account system is well known to be a fucking mess no
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by abraxas 5y ago
Microsoft literally makes little children cry. God I hate that company and its practices. They have not changed since the nineties, not one bit.
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by abraxas 5y ago
Colour Maximite 2
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by abraxas 5y ago
Corba was a spec that had a number of implementations. Some Orbs were great while others were crap. Unlike DCOM however it was an open standard. For some reason at some point it was declared highly uncool. And now is being reinvented hard y
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by abraxas 5y ago
> AWS has been rock solid AWS is a hodgepodge of stellar, middling and some downright crap services. I think their strategy is to make a million flowers bloom and see what takes root. Unfortunately it's hard to tell at first sight w
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by abraxas 5y ago
Yeah, it's like everyone fell in love with the X/Athena widgets all of a sudden. I'd never have guessed that after all these years we'd go back to UIs looking like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by abraxas 5y ago
There will likely be other ways of resetting the state of memory.
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If RAM and storage become one and the same the way you store your data in memory is how you store your data permanently. The state of your application becomes your data storage. Or at least in theory it could.
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by abraxas 5y ago
This vs Typescript or Flow or ReScript... as always the JS ecosystem offers an embarrassment of riches. The problem that this one solves seems to be that every other JS type system is delivered by a transpiler, a technique that the JS world
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by abraxas 5y ago
I think technology like this should force us to rethink how we do stuff at a fundamental level. Does the concept of treating "storage hardware" and "compute hardware" even make sense in this world? We should probably sta
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by abraxas 5y ago
I sincerely doubt all that layered complexity helps push features faster. I left a next.js React job a couple of months ago where the team spent 90% of the time dicking around with the setup and wrangling with dependency issues instead of d
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by abraxas 5y ago
I have one. Unfortunately mine dries out like crazy. I had it for a year and already had a major nozzle issue. And that despite being judicious about printing at least a couple of full color pages every week.
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by abraxas 5y ago
I can downvote comments but not stories. Is there a karma threshold for downvoting stories? EDIT:Ugh, sorry about this comment. Looks like I somehow posted it under the wrong story. No clue how this happened. Looks like I'm unable to d
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by abraxas 5y ago
Crypto currency is an instantiation of Bostrom's paperclip maximizer running on a hybrid human/machine topology.
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by abraxas 5y ago
Yeah, I think we're actually more or less in agreement, at least in part. But I do believe that there is a phenomenal sense of "being an atom" or even "being a subatomic particle" and it's the absolutely most b
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by abraxas 5y ago
The universe is probably conscious at some base level. All conscious agents existing within it are kind of short lived threads within its VM. Death may or may not be a transition from the localized to the global state of awareness. But I&#x
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by abraxas 5y ago
Thank Apple for fucking up the term Retina Display. It used to mean something very specific until the marketing department at Apple overheard it. Same happened earlier to "real time".
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by abraxas 5y ago
Yeah, I can't get aboard the Stephenson train either. I tried and failed to finish Seveneves for the same reason. I can't believe someone managed to make an end of the world novel this boring.
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by abraxas 5y ago
Very nice form factor but the DPI is just not there for me. At this resolution and screen size we're talking merely 140PPI. I refuse to work on anything below 200 with 250+ being more in the tolerable range. Fuzzy text bothers me a lot
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by abraxas 5y ago
Nice high spectrum lamps can alleviate a lot of the lighting issues with cubicles. Yeah the fluorescent lamps hanging from the ceiling are shit but it's nothing that can't be fixed with a nice high CRI uplight.
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by abraxas 5y ago
Could start with not making them such awful places to work by getting rid of those awful open floor plans. Want people back in offices? How about building some rather than having big cattle herd areas where every sound and germ travels for
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by abraxas 5y ago
I have an unorthodox suggestion. Get her a Colour Maximite II and print her a spiral bound manual that you can download for it. CMMII comes with a very comprehensive version of Basic and is about the best teaching tool for programming that
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by abraxas 5y ago
I doubt you can judge the blast radius. Say your little service just changed how it parsed backticks. Now that innocuous change may affect none of the immediately connected microservices but another services three hops away relied on the ol
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by abraxas 5y ago
But with CH they don't get that sweet sweet vendor lock in like with Dynamo or Kinesis.
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Oftentimes however with microservices it's the tail wagging the dog. Microservices architectures become such a burden that they strain the capacity of the existing team which leads to more hiring which thanks to Conway's law leads
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by abraxas 5y ago
The Java space though unloved but the younger crowd is still super strong and Spring Boot gives all those competing platforms a run for their money leveraging the enormous JVM ecosystem. Java may not be the most concise of languages but I t
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by abraxas 5y ago
This is basically a way of saying: to hell with those "package managers". It's a sentiment that I'm actually in agreement with. I've been coding mostly in Java for the past 22 years. Somewhere around 2010 Maven beca
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There can be only one: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
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Depends on your language. But Effective Java is not a bad one if Java is the language you use.
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by abraxas 5y ago
Very nice work. It makes a ton of sense to host it in Webassembly. Makes for a good experience by letting kids program stuff that they can see in the web without overwhelming them with JavaScript and DOM. I'll be following this one clo

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