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by afc 4y ago
He offers two facts that I think explain this well enough: > Additionally, they chose to keep Protobuf as the default wire format, but allow other encodings too. And: > Since streaming is a primary feature of gRPC, we often will not k
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by afc 4y ago
This resonates very strongly with me. Well said. Thank you for writing it.
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by afc 4y ago
Hmm, feels like confirmation bias? I haven't noticed any recent increase of purple myself. I suppose it could also be a regional/country thing, hmm.
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by afc 4y ago
> But, I’m explaining all this to clarify one salient point: an empty reservoir isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Well, yeah, just like an empty battery isn't necessarily a bad thing; it means it has been used, which is probably better
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by afc 4y ago
I'm not in academia, I'm in the industry, and I find the claim very accurate. Sure, my ol' peers are around (sure, the sentence is false in the strict/pedantic sense), but the vast majority of people around me changed in
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by afc 4y ago
Yeah, and I know someone who got rich by buying the lottery. Anecdotal evidence doesn't really prove anything, does it?
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by afc 4y ago
Yeah, agree; I find it very interesting how the article keeps coming back to the point that this should be done _in the cities_, that even a relaxing hike through nature just ... would be something entirely different. They even have the quo
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by afc 4y ago
Also, uh, "flanieren": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flanieren
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by afc 4y ago
> The largest cities are all within 100 km of each other. They're not. Zurich is 225km from Lausanne and 125km from Bern. Geneva is 254km from Basel, 371km from Lugano, 265km from Lucerne and 277km from Zurich. I think the opposite
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by afc 4y ago
I love the simplicity of this formulation. It's very obvious in retrospect. Thanks for your comment. I'll steal this.
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by afc 4y ago
Agree. I've maintained some widely used libraries at Google for over a decade (the larger one getting invoked from over 5e9 qps at peak) and I'm very grateful for the build-everything-from-head practice (and short build horizons).
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by afc 4y ago
Well said. This feels terrible: just silently ignore logical errors (where some code expects but doesn't receive a fully constructed object) and ... keep going. I'd rather take a crash (that way I'll know soon that I have a b
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by afc 4y ago
> The clearest evidence of this [that some x-ist statements may be true] is that whether a statement is considered x-ist often depends on who said it. Truth doesn't work that way. The same statement can't be true when one perso
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by afc 5y ago
> However I think a lot of that narcissism is confidence [...] Funny, I see it as the entire opposite: very extreme insecurity, the need to constantly remind us that, yes, truly, he was there, he pioneered this, it _is_ amazing and aweso
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by afc 5y ago
German somewhat has (e.g., you write "ue" instead of "ü", "ss" for "ß", as in "suess"), but Spanish certainly hasn't. Saying that Spanish can be written in us-ascii is about the same as
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by afc 5y ago
I agree with you, that claim also gave me pause. And image can be worth more than a thousand words; taking that proverb at face value, it's hard to argue that you should spend the thousand words when an image would convey the same info
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by afc 5y ago
> Discovering that the car you ordered is a pizza is not something you just... abort and undo/ redo. It's: wtf did you do? My age is "pizza", your name is the function "not", your account balance is a databa
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by afc 5y ago
> When type errors occur in production, the end result is the program crashing, nothing you can do about it. Uh, you can catch the type error and recover (e.g., as with any other runtime failures, fail the incoming request that triggered
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by afc 5y ago
Where did you get your cameras? Would you recommend them to a fellow cyclist?
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by afc 5y ago
Since when have you been waiting? What will you do in twenty years if it hasn't burst by then? And in forty? Continue to wait?
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by afc 5y ago
Maybe I'm very lucky, but that's not my experience in the corporate world. I think there's a lot of 2nd effects and feedback loops that favor cooperative behaviors and strongly penalize jerks, at least in the medium/long
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by afc 5y ago
> 1.5% in 3 days. That's not even an annualized figure. If annualized it would be 1.5%/3*365=122% Your formula for annualized interest rate is incorrect. Interest compounds. 1.5% in 3 days is 612% annualized, not 122%, a large
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by afc 5y ago
I think it's just you, probably recency bias. I recall the days of Gmail being globally down for hours, more than once (3 times, IIRC), back in 2009.
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by afc 5y ago
Thanks for sharing the quote. Funny that this was written by a professor of the University of Wisconsin and dealt pretty directly with the killing of wolves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_like_a_mountain is an
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by afc 5y ago
Yeah, agree. Almost the entire article is spun telling only one part of the story, and only towards the very end do they, at least, reveal the other side, which shows that the student published a racist cartoon, and that it was just some ra
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by afc 5y ago
Yeah, great idea: rather than worry about how to deal with software bugs, just never have bugs...
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by afc 5y ago
Anecdotal evidence, but my experience with IG ads was very different. I ordered stuff (mostly clothing) a few times (4 or 5) from IG ads and was very disappointed with the quality and service every single time. I now refuse to fall for IG
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by afc 5y ago
> English Wikipedia gets about 250M page views per day, which is only about 3,000 per second. If they used an efficient language instead of PHP, that's well within the capability of a single modern server! This type of comment betra
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by afc 5y ago
I was reading a few of your comments in this thread and just figured I'd point out, as candidly as I can, that you come across as extremely biased against cryptocurrencies, using very manipulative language to advance your position (e.g
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by afc 6y ago
Congratulations on your kids' accomplishments. That sounds really great!

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