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by antod 3y ago
That's just at the codebase end of it. But at the infra end of it, it's a different story. AWS is suited towards a very different scale of development effort than Deno currently is. The effort required from scratch to securely and
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by antod 3y ago
For those interested... The waves do dissipate, but the dissipation and attenuation is what makes the best waves. In the storm the waves are huge and messy with all kinds of frequencies interfering with each other. Attenuation means the hig
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by antod 3y ago
Yeah, I've worked in structural engineering with real chartered professional engineers. Most of that work was relying on rules of thumb and bodging in hacks to fit around too small customer budgets, changing requirements, contractors t
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by antod 3y ago
Not trying to rub it in further, but approx 900/400 can be had in NZ for about 85AUD even in relatively small rural towns (with higher speed options in more populated areas).
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by antod 3y ago
I think my first exposure to it was on Slashdot, and I suspect that time wasn't its first post (pun intended).
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by antod 3y ago
As a manager in a startup recently acquired by a large finance company - yes.
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by antod 3y ago
Are they taking into account the side benefit of fossil fuels? The more you use them, the less you need to worry about the cold in the future. It's like a two birds with one stone thing.
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by antod 3y ago
If you installed ActivePerl or ActivePython (remember those?), IE would also let you use them in the browser too with Active Scripting. It was an ActiveX thing, so only for IE.
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by antod 3y ago
I doubt MS was even aware of PHP 1.x when they released ASP back in 1996. Hardly anyone else was aware of PHP before 3.x either. By the time I found it, PHP 3.x/4.x was such an improvement over classic ASP / VBScript, that I think
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by antod 3y ago
I think what happened was that a lot of UIs were really bad in the 90s. A bunch of books were research and written pointing out the problems, people made an effort to fix them, and UX became a skillset. But it seemed like the trends that we
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by antod 3y ago
I had completely forgotten about RIMMs. Probably because I went out of my way to avoid them at the time - I can't really remember the details of why now though :) One thing struck me on that review though - 128MB RAM would've been
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by antod 3y ago
I think skoonspruit (forgot the spelling) is the main one that still stuck in casual use decades later for my family. It's the rare fountain thing a saliva gland makes eg when yawning. There was another one for a group of cars all doin
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by antod 3y ago
Yeah kubespray was awful. Random results, no idempotency, slow, fragile, hard to upgrade k8s. We had much better luck just scripting kubeadm over ssh orchestration tooling.
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by antod 3y ago
I think it was Outlook Express rather than Outlook that supported NNTP. The early version of OE was even called "Internet Mail and News" or something like that.
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by antod 3y ago
> How many generations does a population have to live in a new area before they adapt sufficiently so that the native plants don't give them allergic rhinitis? Assuming it is even hereditary, presumably it would also have to fact
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by antod 3y ago
The bathed in a suffusion of blue phase. (or should that be purple?)
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by antod 3y ago
Maybe someone holding their phone upside down?
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by antod 3y ago
Call it "transformation" and you can sell both.
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by antod 3y ago
I (nowhere near California, but living in a seismic zone) was wondering how news worthy a 5.1 was until I saw the very shallow depth you posted. Yeah, you'll really feel that one if you're nearby.
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by antod 3y ago
> When Debian's APT network package manager happened, that was pretty new and unusual. Imagine hearing about a package, typing a shell command, and Debian probably had the package, and it was installing. I think a lot of people wh
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by antod 3y ago
That mirrors my first Linux/Unix experiences in the late 90s. Except for a short go at OpenBSD for firewalling between trying Redhat 5.0 and ending up on Debian. Debian just felt so much more "right" to me than Redhat did bac
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by antod 3y ago
The future of being "prompt engineers" horrifies me. Prompt Engineering makes me think of Search Engine Optimisation as if it was a form of "Engineering". What I mean is that you are positioning yourself based on your &q
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by antod 3y ago
Not so much "garbage in, garbage out" but "anything in, garbage out". It's just the garbage out is getting amazingly close to non garbage.
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by antod 3y ago
>* Artificial Inteligence implies that its intelligent and currently, its not* There could be a wide range of interpretation of the words in that phrase. And every argument along these lines usually involves people with different interpr
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by antod 3y ago
> What's great about writing is that readers can go at their own pace. 100%, and you can skim it so that your pace subconsciously varies depending on how relevant or complex that section is.
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by antod 3y ago
I sometimes pine for Aldus Photostyler and its clone tool.
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by antod 3y ago
For some time specifying utf8 got you utf8mb3 rather than uft8mb4. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/charset-unicode-utf8...
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by antod 3y ago
The mysql replication story was the big thing for me in the early/mid 2000s. Back then postgres replication seemed like every option was a brittle/incomplete 3rd party hack with different sets of tradeoffs. Postgres also had a rep
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by antod 3y ago
But these factors were also in place for their distro ascendency too, so you probably can't blame the factors. If anything, long term success itself is more likely to explain eventual hubris, complacency then decline. I still use Ubunt
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by antod 3y ago
I wonder what lead to JRuby attracting support while Jython not? I know the Jython creator went on to other things (was it eg IronPython for dotnet?). I suppose it was the inverse with dotnet - eg IronPython surviving while IronRuby seems d

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