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by arkh 3y ago
What I'd like to see is some kind of "ongoing" or dossier for news. So when an errata or new development happen, even years later, you get a notification and can update your knowledge. Specifically for things like "futur
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by arkh 3y ago
Because for most people, the edge case trips are holiday ones. Which a lot of people tend to have at the same time: so try renting a vehicle when everyone needs one.
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by arkh 3y ago
> How do we feed the peak power demand to these tiny towns? Like petrol station: charge some reservoir batteries during off hours and then you're able to discharge this energy fast. The problem then is the energy density of batterie
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by arkh 3y ago
I'd like to see it speed tested against an instance of Postgres using the file Foreign Data Wrapper https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/file-fdw.html CREATE EXTENSION file_fdw; CREATE SERVER sta
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by arkh 3y ago
Gemini protocol using :// again. I feel like more people should watch Dylan Beattle's "The Web that Never Was" presentation. > gem:my.domain.com/hello
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by arkh 3y ago
I started with emacs. I love the buffer / windowing system and the on-the-fly macros. Also being able to do everything with the keyboard. But the time spent getting multimode up or good autocomplete when you can simply fire up somethin
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by arkh 3y ago
> Judging from how indifferent and unhelpful retail workers, waiters, and such were Did you start your interaction with a "Bonjour" at least? "Customer is king" is not something in France, so you want to be polite wit
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by arkh 4y ago
Read or read again Mythical Man Month. Realize it has been written almost 50 years ago.
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by arkh 4y ago
Best example of "good practice" becoming a hassle: the "interface for everything" habit. Even when the majority of those interfaces have only one implementation.
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by arkh 4y ago
What they call slack is called reserve in military. People who can be deployed to help a failing front or to capitalize on an opportunity.
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by arkh 4y ago
Maybe Wave (with a desktop app this time) could be tried again.
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by arkh 4y ago
> I’m sick of people escaping writing documentation First level of documentation would be specifications. Which can then be used to write tests. But in many, many shops "Agile" means "we don't do specs anymore, woohoo
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by arkh 4y ago
> I don’t really understand the fascination Decent sci-fi not written by a White heterosexual male. And for the first volume, a description of the Chinese revolution lot of people prefer to hide.
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by arkh 4y ago
I prefer "simple is not easy".
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by arkh 4y ago
Someone must have read a blog post about microservice and decided it would look good on their resume.
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by arkh 4y ago
We could already try for sports in Earth Orbit. 0-G sport, 3D terrain: the inflatable habitat projects could be a way to get some big enclosure.
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by arkh 4y ago
Reading this makes me appreciate the preparatory school / competitive exams / Engineering school system. You could have some hard teachers netting you some 5/20 average grade and it would have no bearing on your school entry
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by arkh 4y ago
> The rationale behind Latinx is that it covers both Latino and Latina The real rationale is one of imperialism: everyone should use a non gendered language. Like English, things would be so much more simple if everyone used English. So
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by arkh 4y ago
> Immortality If your body is not damaged enough. It would mean a lot of people would become really risk averse. If generalized it would fossilize a society really fast.
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by arkh 4y ago
Or using N-word, C-word, R-word as insults. I mean, this list already did a 180 on: > Instead of African-American > Consider using Black
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by arkh 4y ago
To go farther: tests should not break during a refactoring. They're here to let you know if your refactoring broke something. They should even be green when you decide to scratch your software to rewrite it in another language. Code co
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by arkh 4y ago
> many others became millionaires or billionaires believing into it Yeah, being first in a Ponzi scheme tend to work well for some people. For every winner in cryptocurrency there are losers as cryptocurrencies are a zero-sum game.
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by arkh 4y ago
> At the moment, that request might still be handled by a microservice written by the old staff that does the right thing. That's being optimistic. The old microservice was written before GDPR took effect. When data management was &
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by arkh 4y ago
> how do you deliver them all within 3 seconds Hire The Flash then it's "just" a traveling salesman problem which is left to solve by the reader.
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by arkh 4y ago
> Am I an outlier by just wanting the dumbest possible system for my phone to connect to and run CarPlay on? That's one thing I like with my Up!. The infotainment system is a simple phone holder with USB to power it.
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by arkh 4y ago
> Marginal parking lots shouldn't be built, only the ones that are truly needed. Well, in France there are not enough parking spots already. Office buildings with less than a spot per 10 workers are the norm. Most old housing in cit
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by arkh 4y ago
> If I were a French taxpayer who just paid €10B to nationalize EDF, I would absolutely ask why you’d prioritize nuclear. Because we have Spain and Germany next to us going for full wind and solar. Let's see how it goes and use thei
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by arkh 4y ago
> Some people diagnose and troubleshoot by starting simple -- this is especially true if they've been roped into an incident in progress and no one has caught them up. Is it plugged in? Is it turned on? Have you power cycled it? Hav
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by arkh 4y ago
When estimating tasks difficulty, every time we hear the word "just" it gets bumped one more level. Experience tells that this small word always hide a world of hurt and not thought out edge cases or legacy code.
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by arkh 4y ago
> I for one don't care about privacy that much, and that's how most consumers are. So you would not mind sharing your credit card infos. Or your social security number if you're in the US? Also I bet you like going around

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