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by arter4 3y ago
>Does a once in 40 years mistake justify carrying an app around that does god knows what else, and the extra expense and hassle of a fridge that might or might not spy on you? >Do we need to therefore instrument our stoves, ovens, bat
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by arter4 3y ago
Ok, but if it's interactive I can open a fridge, take a picture of it and upload it to ChatGPT. You wouldn't need a smart fridge for that. You would need a smart fridge if you wanted to directly connect the fridge with ChatGPT. Wh
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by arter4 3y ago
Exactly. This would turn a fridge into yet another thing serving ads. No thanks.
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by arter4 3y ago
I'm not saying it is not useful, nor am I making a point about "survival" (also because people have survived long before fridges were even a thing). I'm saying it can be useful, but only very rarely.
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by arter4 3y ago
>you could have GPT vision interpret it and offer you recipes or what is missing What is missing and what I should buy are different things. If my fridge has yogurt, bacon and some hamburgers, you might say "well, you are missing eg
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by arter4 3y ago
Yes, but how often do you experience power outages or other things that lead to weird temperature changes? I think in the last 15 years it only happened to me once. And how often does a fridge door open on its own? Most people don't ne
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by arter4 3y ago
I wouldn't call syscall (and strace) knowledge, "hardware knowledge". It's mostly about OS knowledge. You can go a long way with strace without knowing how a PCI bus work or other hardware details. Which brings me to ano
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by arter4 3y ago
Sure, but that's because they can delegate to lower management tiers. When a ticket reaches your average IT guy, they can't usually delegate it to a lower tier employee unless there are formal support tiers, like L1 and L2, and
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by arter4 3y ago
Yes, I agree. I'm not a luddite per se - heck, I make a living out of making stuff talk to one another on a network. But I don't get the appeal, from a customer standpoint, of having all physical objects talk to you or to the Inte
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by arter4 3y ago
Agree. There are so many ways WAF rules can unintentionally block legitimate traffic. From very long URLs (is that a DoS attempt?), to special characters in a POST with a file upload (is that = part of a SQL injection attempt or is that jus
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by arter4 3y ago
Agree. What (legitimate) use case does Javascript inside an SVG address?
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by arter4 3y ago
So even the Lamport bakery algorithm requires memory barriers, because modern processors can reorder instructions? Does this mean that modern CPU architectures necessarily require hardware-supported atomic instructions for proper concurrenc
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by arter4 3y ago
>You need an acquire memory barrier after acquiring a lock to make sure that any loads and stores inside the critical section do not get reordered to before the lock was grabbed. What do you mean? That loads and stores inside a critical
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by arter4 3y ago
I mean from an aesthetic standpoint. People interested in disk details and prices may not care that much about material design, responsiveness and carousel with disk pictures. They want to get what they want. For that kind of audience, the
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by arter4 3y ago
>to do its magic ...which is what, exactly?
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by arter4 3y ago
Look, I'm no businessman, but clearly if you manage to attract the right audience and find a way to get paid, you make money. People asking for disk prices probably have looser standards in terms of UX. That's why it works. Backli
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by arter4 3y ago
Of course, the two instances rule is for stateless components. For stateful systems you want at least three. But even then, you'd be surprised by how much stuff you can run on 2-3 decently sized virtual machines and a load balancer.
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by arter4 3y ago
Scalability is adapting the characteristics of your instances to demand increase or decrease. You can adapt the number of instances (horizontal) or adapt the CPU, RAM, I/O characteristics of every single instance (vertical). A basic ru
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by arter4 3y ago
Between bots and the Reddit/HN hug of death, if you ever do this don't ever advertise your website (to avoid getting DoS'd) and put some firewall in front.
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by arter4 3y ago
>well, there is the 'scrum guide' so its not surprise imo [0] It sure has a book (in fact, many books), but that doesn't mean it should be treated as the <enter favorite holy book, if any>. Before ITIL4, ITIL v3 (a f
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by arter4 3y ago
Agile, as in fast, periodic cycles of gathering requirements, design, implementation and release, is a good idea, especially when this matches your scenario. In my limited experience, Scrum usually comes with a bunch of people who think Scr
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by arter4 3y ago
Link seems to be behind a paywall. From what I have read, yes, Google layoffs are coming from the top (where else would they come from?), and it is an annual tradition. Having never worked in a FAANG, I wonder if this cyclical behavior is d
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by arter4 3y ago
The average number of people in a car is probably somewhere between 1 and 2, but if a group of people who know each other have to go from A to B, it is reasonable that they may try to get in a single car. If nothing else, because parking in
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by arter4 3y ago
As much as I hate to admit it (especially because I'm not a tech lead), these are good principles, but implementing them is not always straightforward. You should probably strive to empower your team and provide support for individual
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by arter4 3y ago
I'm curious. If your website has a sitemap.xml, do search engines crawl other resources anyway? And why?
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by arter4 3y ago
I'm curious about how this performs with more complex queries, like joins across five tables. Also, does the training phase actually involve writing SELECT queries by hand? In the age of ORMs and so on, many people have probably forgot
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by arter4 3y ago
In your experience, how does this kind of approach behave with asynchronous dependencies? Let's say you start from a codebase with three portions (call them services, modules, whatever): A, B, C, D. A sends a (synchronous) remote proce
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by arter4 3y ago
I have read the paper, although maybe not deeply enough. It is an interesting idea, but I'm not sure I'm fully convinced. Sure, you can parse remote calls and package imports to find dependencies. But this assumes applications are
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by arter4 3y ago
>The Semantic Web failed for the same reason: Humans click on ads but computers don't. Do you have any source to dig deeper on this aspect? I never heard about this correlation. Then again, I'm no semantic web expert.
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by arter4 3y ago
Especially when you are a nation state.

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