arinlen

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by arinlen 4y ago
> You are confused about what the Overton window describes. It's not "picking and choosing what to talk about due to limited airtime". Look it up. Not really. Before trying to accuse anyone of being confused, please try
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> As with all academics that gain fame, and then step outside their field of expertise, he started to look a tad stupid. Chomsky's political opinions aren't stupid per se, they are simply his personal opinions. What's in
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> Ethnic cleansing? Never mind that Russians and Ukrainians have the same ethnicity, what is this supposed to mean? They really don't. Even ignoring the fact that it's idiotic to talk about a single Russian ethnicity given th
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> It is one option, if you are attacked, you just surrender and probably save a lot of lives. This take is profoundly disingenuous. Russia is targeting civilians and razing Ukrainian cities and settlements, conducting forced deportatio
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> I picked a random video with Chomsky [1] about the topic and he calls the invasion a criminal act against international law in his first sentence. Noam Chomsky described Russia's invasion of Ukraine as "criminal", by a
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> He’s an academic,I don’t think he “supports” like it’s a ball team. Noam Chomsky is "an academic" in the field of linguistics and cognitive science. Outside of academia he's an activist, and one which is very vocal in
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> Why the US, who lied about nonexistent WMDs to murder 1 million Iraqis for profit is not 'monstrous' and Soviet Union, who (...) You need to be extremely disingenuous to choose to describe the Soviet Union as a job provider
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> Can someone, anyone, please explain to me why Facebook is not a publisher? Facebook either disseminates posts from their users and/or links to sites operated by third-parties. Claiming that Facebook is a publisher makes as much
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> Yes, that guy pressed the button even though he should have known there are consequences to that. You are only complaining that an heuristic outputted a result you don't like. That's not a bug nor a problem. It's just
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> The television stations and newspapers back in the day absolutely maintained the Overton window and constructed narratives that supported the the ruling class. To call this "content curation" is ignorant at best. It's
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> What I'm saying is that this is a heuristic, not an algorithm, and that you should blame Facebook, not "the algorithm" Anyone who ever had any direct contact with implementing heuristics would call bullshit on this tak
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> It is not that Truth is impossible to find, rather that undeceiving the self is difficult. I feel that people are misrepresenting the issue. What they seek is not the objective truth. This is about politics, and the goal is to impose
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> I wouldn’t call people lazy for being unable or unwilling to find out the objective reality. I'd frame it differently. Everyone has their personal lives to deal with, as well as their personal interests. Everyone has their prior
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> The video makes it quite clear that he has a degree, soooo, clearly he's not doing stupid shit on YouTube. You clearly never had the pleasure of discovering ElectroBOOM. https://youtube.com/c/Electroboom
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> Sure, here's one of the larger ones: https://handworks.co/ Not to rain on anyone's parade, but that event is about hammers just as much as embedded programming is about C.
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> Today it would probably be a PowerPoint presentation, but the point stands: Expert has been an overused and overloaded term for far longer than 10x, and other than specifying a focus ("video encoding expert" or similar) it i
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> Software is not really random. Software fails in unforeseen ways, as the goal is for it to not fail but fails anyway. I'm not sure what point you tried to make > Mostly, they all fail or none of them fail. No, not really. T
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> I think about the way the West reacted to the decades (...) Your take reads like a terribly far fetched non-sequitur. You have right now Russia, a regime which has been invested in multiple invasion and annexation episodes in the pre
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by arinlen 4y ago
> I actually liked swarm, but it lost. "lost" is too strong of a word. To me Docker swarm mode still holds the upper hand in terms of deployment ease and simplicity. If anyone just wants to bolt together a couple of nodes wit
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> What's the actual savings if you now just have additional complexity (...) You don't. You get less complexity, actually. Even with Docker, a Docker stack in Docker swarm mode is that simpler and easier to maintain and to mo
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> foreach serviceX.servers as server { ssh user@ip "cd service-x-project-dir && git pull && ./deploy.sh && service serviceX reload" } Do you honestly think this sort of thing, hand-waving included
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> I don't think it has anything to do with Ukraine, Russia, human rights, etc. How do you rationalize Russia threatening to invade neighboring countries, such as Poland and Romania and all Baltic states, not to mention all the thr
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> But it’s been my experience over the last several jobs that many orgs are throwing mission critical workloads and hinging a lot of people’s productivity onto <INSERT_TECH_STACK_HERE> and asking operators and engineers to ostensi
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> look forward to the day that we never have to hear about Kubernetes again. How do you expect to deploy services in a cluster of multiple nodes communicating over a private software-defined network, then?
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> What does kubernetes do that docker, AWS, Nomad, et al don't? Most of your comparisons are at best apples-to-oranges. For example, AWS also offers a managed Kubernetes service, which makes your comparison meaningless and just a
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I'm sure that checking what advice John Carmack posted on Twitter on how to avoid distracrions already counts as a distraction.
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> I'm old enough to remember the same complaints about Apache, and nginx being the simpler alternative. Nginx is still far simpler than Apache. It just so happens that subsequent projects picked specific usecases to work on their
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> Also, philosophically, I guess, a "distributed" systems starts at "two machines". People opening a page in a browser that sends requests to a server is already a distributed system. A monolith sending requests to
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> explain how Big Tech has even bigger problems, before explainig how you can fix Big Tech problems with Big Tech budgets and headcound (...) What do you have to say about the fact that the career goals of those interested in this sort
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> As in, "we have a PHP monolith used by all of 12 people in the accounting department, and for some reason we've been tasked with making it run on multiple machines ("for redundancy" or something) by next month. I

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