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by arinlen 4y ago
> Is it really a good idea to take all the brains out of Russia? What would be left? Criminals and nuclear weapons? Is this a good outcome? For the past decades, it already felt that the main exports from Russia were a) fossil fuels, b)
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by arinlen 4y ago
> That's only true when all the abstractions you need have already been implemented by others. Not really. More often than not, any framework already ships with far more features than the ones you'll be using, with the added be
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by arinlen 4y ago
> To say that programmers shouldn't write pure code without an existing framework (...) That's not what's been argued. The overall thesis is that developers end up using higher-level abstractions, and between wasting time
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Look at what happened to the MacBook Pro, losing most of its ports and the thinness causing them to put a much worse keyboard in it that caused massive problems. Sacrificing a bit of thinness and going back on those changes with the ne
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Is there a compelling reason why a criminal shouldn't be able to buy a house? Buying real estate, like art, is a classical strategy to launder money. I suspect you're confusing the meaning of criminal as being "that guy
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Wouldn’t really call it a “basic principle”: as with anything else, it really depends on what you assume your audience knows (and you will need to make assumptions about that). Directed acyclic graphs are a basic computer science topic
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by arinlen 4y ago
> While your passion for the project and excitement at its prospects are clear (and I've very much enjoyed following along), this comment makes it sound you've opened a yak barbershop inside this poor support department. Perhap
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Claiming Boring is only a marketing company is not accurate. Even the first maschine they used was modified. No, stating that the Boring Company is a marketing company that bought a COTS is an accurate statement. The Boring Company did
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by arinlen 4y ago
> I’ve never heard of DAG, yet it’s used as if it’s commonplace. DAG, as in direct acyclic graph, is indeed a basic concept of computer science. But indeed the author could do a better job with the text. One of the very basic principles
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by arinlen 4y ago
> What a weirdly bold and provably untrue claim. Not really. Given the context is clearly AWS, it's Well-Architected Framework is centered on AWS Lambdas. https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected&#x2
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by arinlen 4y ago
> There should be a better way to figure out what my execution environment looks like than trial and error. To be fair, once you start to be bothered with how many threads you get, I'd argue you are already way outside of AWS Lambda
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by arinlen 4y ago
> There's an example too, but this could use more emphasis. To be fair, handling lambda cold start is AWS lambda 101, and initialization is the starting point. I'd say that the only people not aware of this is those who are jus
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by arinlen 4y ago
Please add "March 2016" for context. The cloud world changes from one month to the other, let alone half a dozen years.
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Trains are great, but are losing out to trucks (...) They really aren't. It's already known that there's a distance and throughpot threshold where roadway and railway make more sense. The main blocker on the ralway side
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by arinlen 4y ago
> And how do you get the content once you have the URL? I don't understand your question. If you have the URL, you just GET it, like any regular URL? Is there something that I'm missing?
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by arinlen 4y ago
> This reminds me of when they opened the Gotthard Base Tunnel maybe 5 years ago. (...) It takes an incredibly prosperous and stable place to make achieve that increment of improvement. And this feels like more of that same story. If sho
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Ventilating well enough to cope with electric motors sounds much less demanding than coping with having both combusion engines and humans in the tunnel. You will always have humans in the tunnel. How do you plan to perform inspections,
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by arinlen 4y ago
> https://www.cst.ch/en/what-is-cst/ makes it sound as if they're trying to build small-diameter tunnels like the Boring Company, but using the strengths of the format much more cleverly. This is ancient t
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by arinlen 4y ago
> To clarify I'm not asking about HN itself but articles linked from HN. I might not have a clear picture of what you're looking for, but items of type "story" returned by the HN API do have a URL field, which I belie
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by arinlen 4y ago
HN does have a REST API which is quite easy to use. https://github.com/HackerNews/API I'm not sure what rate limiting policy is in place, but in theory you can start with a request for maxitem and from that point
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Even with the best free health care and enormous social safety nets, losing your health to the point that you can't work would be a lifestyle change for anyone anywhere due to lost income. OP mentioned "health-relared expense
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Easier said than done, and I find this is bad advice. You don't really know how much runway you have in front of you and in a situation where you may have very limited income, your best bet is to save as much as possible. Also you
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by arinlen 4y ago
> One thing that I think could be updated in the 12F approach is the use of env vars for config, especially secrets. The 12F section on config already mentions quite prominently the use of config files. Taken from https://12fa
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Bigotry is a piece of jargon meaning “those who hate them”. What else do you call somebody burning a religious book for the sole purpose of generating a response? Would you prefer fascist? Nihilistic performance artist? Regardless of w
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Disrespect these immigrants. Burn their holy book, call them terrorises when they demonstrate legally. Then talk about “integration failure”. Can you please provide your best example of how any immigrant was "disrespected"? K
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by arinlen 4y ago
> So what? Just buy what I prefer now. And that's perfectly fine. Just don't try to justify buying grossly overpriced luxury goods due to whimsical personal tastes as a health and safety requirement. Disclaimer: I own and use a
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by arinlen 5y ago
I'm not talking about macOS's green button. That doesn't maximize windows: it creates a dedicated workspace which might have one or two windows. I've referred to macOS's "maximize window" feature, which yo
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by arinlen 5y ago
> To whom? To everyone. My point is that no one was born with an optimal keyboard feel and a crave for a particular type of clickiness. Most of the talk around mechanical keyboards always refer to acquired tastes, without any considerati
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by arinlen 5y ago
> Mech keyboards and obsession with them are purely a luxury, hobby thing I agree. The fact that your typical keycap set typically sells for more than some full blown keyboards is already a clear tell. However, I'd add that some pro
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by arinlen 5y ago
> Feel is subjective, but it does matter, and it's something worth exploring for people who spend 8+ hours every day using a keyboard. It can also have important impacts on ergonomics. Does this level of detail regarding feel really

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