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by api 10y ago
I'm really quite astounded that there haven't been more huge cloud hacks. I guess hypervisor authors and cloud providers have taken security seriously enough.
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by api 10y ago
The people at Docker are excellent at marketing. There is very little that's new in Docker. It really just wrappers a lot of core Linux functionality around namespaces and fine grained permissions. The core functionality of Docker ca
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by api 10y ago
> At some point there is no marginal return for adding complexity, or the return on maintaining the complexity becomes negative, so the complexity is no longer worth maintaining. Collapse. This also seems to happen to software, which is
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by api 10y ago
I don't know about today, but a few years ago I tried to set it up and found it to be an uninstallable massive ball of twine and chewing gum. It was shockingly clunky. I can't imagine running something like that in production. I s
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by api 10y ago
Capitalism should have as many words for wealth as the Inuit purportedly have for snow.
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by api 10y ago
This sounds a lot like the Valley angel investor system.
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by api 10y ago
The new mining... This would basically make Bitcoin Keynesian, since coin stored in wallets would now decay with a given probability. So you would have to invest it at least a little to beat the decay (shrinkage) rate.
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by api 10y ago
Oops... misread. It is from 2017.
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by api 10y ago
I disagree about the limitations of software parallelism. The article is correct that many existing algorithms like ray tracing or apps like web rendering have inherent limits to parallelization, but there exist a large number of "emba
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by api 10y ago
I read a great rundown once on /r/space about how Antarctica actually is in many ways less hospitable than Mars, at least in winter. I find that rather amazing.
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by api 10y ago
Whew... that was close. They almost arrived.
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by api 10y ago
Electron is a sub-optimal solution to the fact that desktop development today is horrible . You either have to write your app twice (or three times if you want Linux) or use Qt, which limits you to either C++ or this weird langauge/ec
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by api 10y ago
TL;DR: Intel is still faster for single-threaded tasks, but the AMD with all its cores and threads demolishes on parallel work loads. It doesn't lag far behind on single threaded performance either, so overall it's a big winner un
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by api 10y ago
This is the liberal approach. Environmentalists of the shame, guilt, and moralizing school are reactionaries. They want to deprive people of what they want in the name of high ideals and return to an idyllic time of purity in the past (that
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by api 10y ago
That has been the rhetoric since the 1960s. That is the rhetoric that is obviously not working. I call this the "abstinence based" approach to solving environmental problems. Guilt and shame and preach people into denying their &q
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by api 10y ago
Local only with no cloud support. Hallelujah.
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by api 10y ago
That desire comes from three places: 1. Minimize cognitive load by minimizing the number of things you have to learn. 2. Minimize deployment complexity and dependencies. 3. Complexity is just evil I'm general. Linear increases in compl
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by api 10y ago
The thing to do is threshold dose, don't increase the dose, and take holidays for long enough to allow recalibration. It's simple if you understand the control system mechanisms at work. By threshold dose I mean take no more than
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by api 10y ago
There's another thing he doesn't seem to mention: the problem in all learning systems of converging on and then getting stuck in local maxima. Perhaps when things get stuck it is in fact rational to be irrational-- to strategicall
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by api 10y ago
Yes on the first one, and a big nope on the second for now. I passionately loathe Rube Goldberg machine deployments and am the kind of engineer who constantly asks "do we really need that?". I love exterminating complexity. But ma
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by api 10y ago
Yes but here's the problem. Consider common scenarios like: Master goes down. Slave takes over. Master comes back. Slave goes down 10 minutes later. Repeat. This is common in e.g. multi data center replication and is often due to trans
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by api 10y ago
The feature I'd really love is master selection with Raft or similar and automatic query redirection to the master for all write queries (and maybe for reads with a query keyword). That would make it very easy and robust to cluster pg
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by api 10y ago
I've been saying this for years, so happy to see someone else pick up on this idea. I personally see it as a slow disruptor heading up the next true personal (as in I-own-my-own-device) computing revolution.
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by api 10y ago
Thank God. That thing is and always was an abomination.
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by api 10y ago
Are there any good analyses out there of what telemetry OSX sends? I did find this which is interesting and helpful: https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide
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by api 10y ago
API Blueprint is much, much cleaner: https://apiblueprint.org Here's a renderer: https://github.com/danielgtaylor/aglio It's less feature-rich than Swagger but the format is much less of a nightma
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by api 10y ago
I'm really, really surprised you said thinner/lighter. I have a few years old MacBook Pro and it's already plenty thin and light for a "Pro" laptop. A lot of the other things you list are in direct conflict with thi
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by api 10y ago
I'm not convinced GDP is what we want per se. It's a secondary indicator of what we want, but it's also possible to boost GDP by inflating asset, debt, and investment bubbles, and otherwise moving money around un-productively
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by api 10y ago
Cloud-to-butt keeps delivering.
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by api 10y ago
There was another article on academic incentives today that referenced a wonderful quote: "When a measure is used as a target, it ceases to be a good measure." My impression is that economics as a whole does not understand this. W

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