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by akkartik 6y ago
This gets said a lot, but it's not internally consistent. If you are forced to piss off the people who love you, perhaps you shouldn't call it "growing". Call it "a pivot". You're taking a flyer for the _p
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by akkartik 6y ago
You misunderstand; I'm not saying cloud functions will disappear. My claim is that the _details_ of how cloud functions work will gradually mutate in strange and subtle ways you can't anticipate today, in a manner akin to the way
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by akkartik 6y ago
I favorited your comment, but I'll be curious to see how rosy your outlook is in say 10 years time. My prediction: all the use cases you're using it for are not the ones that it's designed for (i.e. which pay AWS's bills
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by akkartik 6y ago
Notice that grandparent comment explicitly carved out production servers. If you can't tolerate downtime while you're being upgraded, you're production.
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by akkartik 6y ago
You've probably seen Jonathan Blow's talk on the subject: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk I'm super interested in the subject: https://github.com/akkartik/mu . In the framework of
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by akkartik 6y ago
Vim only got Termdebug in May 2018. What were you using in the decades before it?
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by akkartik 6y ago
Here's a sample of the music created by Electronicos Fantasticos: https://twitter.com/electronicos_f/status/129645474790234931...
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Ei Wada, Musician (Open Reel Ensemble, Electronicos Fantasticos)(youtube.com)
1 points by akkartik 6y ago|1 comments
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by akkartik 6y ago
Wonderful to see an archeologist here!
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by akkartik 6y ago
dataflow's comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24019778#24025779 ) seems to answer this, and https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/5759/code-obf... elaborates: FOSS licenses
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by akkartik 6y ago
Do similar questions come up even for the current snapshot? Are you required to provide comments? Meaningful type and variable names?
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by akkartik 6y ago
It still seems useful to consider how security and compatibility add complexity to our software stacks, even if the causal chain of networking -> security -> compatibility isn't right.
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by akkartik 6y ago
Compatibility might contribute?
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by akkartik 6y ago
Your list is interesting because of how it overlaps with yet reframes mine (from http://akkartik.name/about ): A. Backwards compatibility considerations. Early mistakes in the design of an interface are often perpetuated ind
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Weird Shell – Structural Regular Expressions Unix Shell Made in Rust(git.sr.ht)
44 points by akkartik 6y ago|6 comments
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by akkartik 6y ago
A nice thread about it from 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8566217
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by akkartik 6y ago
It's a strange interpretation only if you focus on just the vocal minority that talks about formal requirements. Here are two quotes by Hillel Wayne ( https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/why-dont-people-use-formal-...
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by akkartik 6y ago
I've never understood why people like this paper. Over the years I've evolved a bite-sized rebuttal, if anybody wants to fight me: The authors' "ideal world" is one where computation has no cost, but social structur
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by akkartik 6y ago
More on the environmental effects of airpods: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neaz3d/airpods-are-a-trag... That they're unreliable is just the icing on this sandwich.
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‘The Most Ignorant and Unfit’: What Made America’s Worst Ever Leader?(nybooks.com)
1 points by akkartik 6y ago|0 comments
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by akkartik 6y ago
Very cool idea. Issues I noticed (without intending to discourage this sort of brainstorming in any way): 1. You can either define a function scattered across multiple cells in a single row, or gathered all in one cell. But as is, it doesn&
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by akkartik 6y ago
You're assuming that an extra step always implies a usability penalty, but that's not true. "Usability can be described as the capacity of a system to provide a condition for its users to perform the tasks safely, effectivel
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by akkartik 6y ago
This resonates so hard it hurts. And yet, part of the problem here lies in the very tempting framing. "God machine" implies something that can do everything you can but better. That's very far cry from the truth. In reality w
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by akkartik 6y ago
I had no idea Doug McIlroy had a website!
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by akkartik 6y ago
Most of them, I hope! It's a pretty standard OPML file.
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by akkartik 6y ago
High-volume sites are not a good use case for RSS. We already have various social ways to filter. Like the site you're on. I think RSS should be for high-quality niche sites where you care about every single post. I subscribe to 200+ f
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by akkartik 6y ago
This story got me to read up on the Monster group, watch the linked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsSeoGpiWsw and understand at least the basic definitions involved. My newbie take: in the realm of group theory it's
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by akkartik 7y ago
Lovely stories hamstrung by the perceived need for a moral.
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by akkartik 7y ago
3 million years for Mercury, by my calculations and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsidal_precession#Calculation
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by akkartik 7y ago
Anybody know what the precession period is for Mercury and this star? How long does it take for the orbit to return to some starting orientation?

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