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by arinlen 4y ago
> The PPP was the Paycheck Protection Plan. > It was not sold as a stimulus, it was to allow businesss to pay furloughed employees (in a bizarre ill-thought-out privately-run unemployment insurance scheme) to continue to pay ongoing e
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by arinlen 4y ago
> WTF does that even mean?!?? What "integrity" is Cloudflare checking? Who are they to dictate what browsers are permitted to access websites or not? If I'm a paying customer of Cloudflare, and I pay them to not only deliv
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Examples I witnessed are friends who never lost their job got like an extra $8k (couple working with two kids). So they bought stuff with it. And what's wrong with that? Aren't we talking about an economic stimulus program? W
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by arinlen 4y ago
> College students who weren't planning to have any income anyway before Covid hit. And that's at least still a relatively "legitimate" payout compared to the screw-ups like sending money to prisoners [0]. Where exact
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> Huge quantities of COVID money were pumped into companies that absolutely did not need it (...) Since when is revenue and profit dictated by anyone's sense of fairness? That's an awfully moralistic and judgemental take on eve
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> - Covid stimulus going to people who didn't need it Could you please elaborate? I think the way the US did it's COVID stimulus was outstanding and very close to the ideal way to actually address people's potential needs.
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by arinlen 4y ago
> The Eiffel Tower was built as a temporary display for the World's Fair. It was very much intentionally designed to impress other designers; that was kind of the point I'm not sure I got the point across. The whole point is
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by arinlen 4y ago
> I increasingly subscribe to the thesis that many designers and design teams design primarily in an effort to impress other designers. They don't have to use the things. They often don't even really care if the things work at
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by arinlen 4y ago
> I'be build pretty much the same thing using an esp32 an 3d printed enclosure and a small custom pcb. You can connect via websocket from a browser and upload images, text, ect. This is why HN is so special. Not only is the submis
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by arinlen 4y ago
> You're missing that part where soft contribution is dropped. Is it really, though? Chatting over Slack can help everyone involved as it cuts down on meetings or even the need to focus synchronously on someone else's issue, an
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by arinlen 4y ago
> But how does someone take advantage of it without changing their current behavior: write an entire paragraph and do 2 line breaks. I don't understand your question. Markdown's syntax already requires 2+ newlines to define a p
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by arinlen 4y ago
> It's the unlimited traffic..... what other hosts offer unlimited traffic? Hetzner. The ones selling the same processor with double the ram for 1/3 of IONOS' offering. I thought this was understood as Hetzner is widely kn
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Overall, I think remote work can be great, but I've personally seen many who see it as an excuse to drop the useful interpersonal interactions and just do "their work", often in less time than would have been budgeted in
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by arinlen 4y ago
From what I've gathered, that server is far more expensive than the same offering from competing cloud providers. Keep in mind that 0.20€/hour corresponds to around 4.8€/day and over 140€/month. While IONOS offers AMD Ry
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by arinlen 4y ago
> But not for most markdown files, at least how I use it. I only start new line when I reach a new paragraph, and I think this is normal for most people who ever write something in markdown. Markdown treats lines separated with a single
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Why does having a fulfilling social life mean I can’t have a fulfilling work life too? Those who already have fulfilling social lives don't point out their shot at having a fulfilling work life as their justification to return to
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> I genuinely believe many people who prefer working in an office versus at home have unfulfilling social lives or bad home lives. The social dynamics, competition, in physical offices fills the void in their lives. Also seems like most
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by arinlen 4y ago
> I have similar logic, but reach an almost opposite conclusion. I genuinely believe many people who prefer working at home rather than an office have unfulfilling work lives and struggle to form meaningful friendships/relationships
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by arinlen 4y ago
The arguments in the Twitter thread sound terribly silly. I mean, the tech bubble burst because NFTs are down? And because crypto is down? Are we expected to believe the world runs on NFTs and crypto pump-and-dumps?
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by arinlen 4y ago
> I don’t think OP isn’t asking for sympathy but empathy? Is this the name of the game ? Unless you believe a company like Plaid is entitled to a monopoly and should be free from any semblance of competition, I don't see a problem w
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by arinlen 4y ago
> One morning you flip on your laptop and see a headline that one of your customers (and competitors) launched a new service that directly competes with yours. What's wrong with that?
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Take a look at this. I repeat: client-side caching is not a problem, even with GraphQL. The technical problems regarding GraphQL's blockers to caching lies in server-side caching. For server-side caching, the only answer that Grap
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Seriously? The signature for dgemm is (...) The signature of gemm is trivial if you're aware of the basics of handling dense row-major/column-major matrices. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us&#x2F
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by arinlen 4y ago
> see https://www.apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/performance ... Sorry, that doesn't cut it at all. Far from it. Being able to cache a response is not the same thing as optimizing queries that hit
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by arinlen 4y ago
> It's just a GET request. Same as REST. I'm not sure you understand the problem at all. Are you actually able to show an example or not? Because changing the HTTP verb doesn't magically change the problem, and passing qu
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Checkout Relay.js: https://relay.dev/ Relay is a GraphQL client. That's the irrelevant side of caching, because that can be trivially implemented by an intern, specially given GraphQL's official copout of c
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by arinlen 4y ago
> It looks like you are fixated on caching in GraphQL, but that's unnecessary Oh so one of the most basic feature of any API, one which has a direct impact on scalability and motivates entire product lines and businesses like CDNs,
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Why look at results when you can look at analysis! The problem with this mindless cargo culting around frameworks and tech stacks is that these cultists look at business results and somehow believe that they have anything to do with ar
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by arinlen 4y ago
> You can execute GraphQL queries via GET and set a cache up for it like REST. Does it, though? It seems it really doesn't, nor was GraphQL designed with HTTP caching in mind. The only references to caching in GraphQL are vague hand
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by arinlen 4y ago
> GraphQL is a great experience when you consume it and the service fulfills your query needs. Because you just ask stuff and you get them. It's really cool. How about caching? It feels like GraphQL tries to win some (arguable) fl

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