azlev

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by azlev 3y ago
Slack is an expensive software. I expect performance and yet, I can't find messages, I have a hard time to use slack and run IDEs at the same time, they change the interface and I lost 2-3 days until adapt. If I could save some bucks r
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by azlev 3y ago
I wouldn't word that way. Delete records is how SQL works. Also it's wiser to move old information to a separate database instead of paying maintenance costs of old or dead records. There are a lot of gotchas in keep old data, lik
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by azlev 3y ago
Hash collision?
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by azlev 3y ago
Not sure if USA needs lower regulation. Many (most) successful healthcare systems are in high regulated countries. Less regulation can solve competition problems. Is this the USA problem? I don't know.
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by azlev 3y ago
I don't like this solution because it will cost me money and time to setup myself a modem that can handle properly ipv6 or switch to a more expensive provider. Send the bill to end users is not what should be done. All this ipv6 endeav
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by azlev 3y ago
I worked 10+ years in a web hosting company. PHP was chosen not because it was easy, it's because most people just use a CMS or something in PHP. Keep a shared host secure, PHP or something else was not an easy task, most people instal
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by azlev 3y ago
At work we use Django migrations. It helps. But the core of schema evolution is backward compatibility. To reach this goal, code review is necessary. Here we never drop columns, only add new colunms, also never change column types. When it
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by azlev 3y ago
Ancillary data: https://linux.die.net/man/3/cmsg
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by azlev 3y ago
Not every hydroelectric project is zero carbon. Big lakes inside amazon forests (as an example, I'm brazilian) cause a huge carbon footprint due devastation, rotten submerse wood, and also bring uncertains. Also, those damns were desig
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by azlev 3y ago
Deleting old articles ease the burden to manage it. There are infrastructure costs and manage costs.
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by azlev 3y ago
I still remember the fireball in the trailer and I'm counting days to play the original one.
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by azlev 3y ago
Not sure if you agree, but I think ipv6 is fine, the transition is a disaster.
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by azlev 3y ago
> that this skill is marketable That's the hardest part to me. How do I know that? Looking at others consultants?
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by azlev 3y ago
It's an huge company with mixed incentives. Not everyone is align whatever their alignment is.
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by azlev 3y ago
What's not clear to me is that newer software is safer or just less tested. Although it's possible that newer versions are more secure, I couldn't find evidence of it yet. (Links are welcome).
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What the US can learn from affirmative action at universities in Brazil(theconversation.com)
22 points by azlev 3y ago|31 comments
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by azlev 3y ago
What's the definition of a classic video game?
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by azlev 3y ago
I remember the world before ORM (all queries inside data access objects) and it was not a great time to programming. While I understand that ORMs have problems, I don't want to craft all SQL by hand and make myself a SQL builder becaus
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by azlev 3y ago
I think the simple / complex design discussion is the classic tradeoff discussion without a right answer.
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by azlev 3y ago
Total Apollo workforce: 400,000. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190617-apollo-in-50-num...
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by azlev 4y ago
Some people like, some people hate, that's why we have multiple languages to choose.
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by azlev 4y ago
Telemetry and logs are distinct. It makes sense to gather metrics and it makes sense to catch sporadic messages of what's going on in details.
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by azlev 4y ago
Same manufacturers in different country. I can't see a big change here.
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by azlev 4y ago
You can have all of this without giving up data.
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by azlev 4y ago
You are not giving up privacy to a prosperous society, you are just giving up privacy. I couldn't find evidence that mass surveillance is good a society.
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by azlev 4y ago
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/access-d... We do lack trustful information.
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by azlev 5y ago
And what happens when the biggest nickel producer in the world needs to buy nickel from someone (non-existent) else? That's not about short squeeze, that's about the market almost ceasing to exist because market is far from perfec
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by azlev 5y ago
Hello! Interesting explanation. I just want to note that both Oracle and SQL Server use READ COMMITTED as default too, so most people get the same isolation level. Anyway this is something that surprises most of juniors devs.
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by azlev 5y ago
Well, those kind of revelations are kind of frequent :-). I think the gov just should rule out lead and let top players decide what to do. But there was an economic incentive to use TEL, so the free market prioritized profits.