ben509

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by ben509 6y ago
The people can live without your search engine, because there are other ways to find content. It's hard enough to mount resistance against a repressive regime when it is blanketed with propaganda. When companies like Google and Apple o
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Allow audio uploads and you can deal with slander, too!
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Tips are fundamentally broken. If you didn't know about tips, and someone offered you a job and said, "I'll pay you crap wages, but you can ask the customers for more money. Don't worry, they'll pay or their friends
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by ben509 6y ago
All DI libraries can be ripped out and replaced with a bog standard main method, and it doesn't even require much skill. Most of what it's doing for you is stuff like "foo = new Foo(); bar = new Bar(foo, 33);" So there&#
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by ben509 6y ago
Reasons Google would not want the financial status quo: 1. It tends to retard technical progress. 2. They have to make deals with entrenched incumbents to do finance. 3. There's nothing stopping a hedge fund manipulating Alphabet&#x2
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Of course you're censoring them. You would also be censoring people if you ran an upscale restaurant with a dress code and standards of behavior, or if you didn't let them post ads on the walls. As long as you make your rules clea
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I'd argue that's not object-oriented programming. You are using Python's class mechanism, but that's where the OOness ends. The types themselves are immutable value types, carrying no state and reacting to no messages, a
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I think OO caught on because it encourages people to organize their thoughts, and good structure alone brings a tremendous improvement in code. I think the reaction to it is more the "everything is mutable" approach most OO langua
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I don't see how that helps you persist a tracking ID. If you generate a random URL, you'll always get a cache miss. If you use a static URL, you'll know if you have a new session or not, but that doesn't tell you what th
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by ben509 6y ago
Predictably bad won't result in a sudden spike in IO usage that brings down a production system. This is why Oracle has SQL profiles.
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by ben509 6y ago
Sticky Ducky is a nice plugin for that.
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I run Wipr on Safari. It's quite cheap, and since I don't use Safari as my main browser, the fact that there's nothing to configure is a bonus. It was also easier to install it on my parents' computers than to convince t
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by ben509 6y ago
Fair point re webhooks, though you could ask the owners for it. The atom solution is nicer, and I'd probably do it even if I owned the project, but it's still just polling. It always bugs me that everything distributed inevitably
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Good call out, though I'd put it under the umbrella of expensive, since someone banning or throttling you is a symptom of it.
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by ben509 6y ago
Yes, it uses polling. The only problem is the standard one for polling: it's either expensive or slow. > The function app hosts the scheduled process that at the specified time retrieves the list of files from the storage account (1
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by ben509 6y ago
I mean that fundamentally the deserializer has lookup function and it's going to lookup anything it's told to. You're right, some languages are worse about this, e.g. Python's pickle will perform arbitrary code execution
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by ben509 6y ago
What's the story for deletion? Is that done through something like merge(record, delete_token) -> delete_token?
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by ben509 6y ago
If JSON is transported through any intermediate processor, you have to assume they're translating them to floats and back again. If you treat them as arbitrary decimals, you have to expect that data is being silently corrupted. And thi
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I've tried this approach, and it's not great. You either have to pack a lot of noisy information in the JSON for the deserializer to work reliably, or you kludge it to try and guess, and then you find yourself designing your data
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by ben509 6y ago
The author understates the problem. Many half-baked solutions handle serializing, but don't consider how you're going to deserialize data. And if you do anything with numbers, you may need to guard against intermediate processors
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by ben509 6y ago
Because nobody wants it. You probably could run GraalPython, which is Python 3 and Jython, which is 2.7, since they both run inside a JVM.[1] There'd be no interop between the languages, though. To get that in Graal, you'd have to
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But they may not be able to do it well enough that it will be notably better than an AI. Scaling manual labor can't work indefinitely due to the scarcity of talent. Keep in mind that while a human being is very good at categorizing thi
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All the partisan boards I've seen, left and right, all plainly labeled themselves as such. If you're going to be a place for like-minded people, that's a selling point. It doesn't make a lot of business sense to say, &qu
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The entire premise of a republic is that power is checked and balanced. The aim is not to represent the "will of the people", because the will of a majority is frequently to oppress a minority. The EC was more than a compromise, i
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The real problem is that Parler sincerely wanted to start a free speech platform, and this is another data point that the idea, while well intentioned, doesn't work. It's a just-world fallacy: because free speech is a good and jus
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Barnes and Frey didn't read the contract closely. Uncivil Law is a friend of theirs and he goes over the contract here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhWDKx9myI0&t=6187s He's a conservative lawyer, so he doe
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> Amazon can easily fund developers, they just didn't because they didn't have to. Disclaimer: worked at AWS. Yes, Amazon has a vast number of engineers. They also have a vast need for engineers. So they have to make a business
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Well, all memory operations must be translated by an MMU. So can the MMU be a distributed beast that lives in the CPU, the memory and the IO?
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I'd want something like this and the more compact language. Classic regex syntax has a similar problem as purely expression-based languages: it's hard to clearly delineate between smaller and larger scale structures. Sometimes,
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by ben509 6y ago
Thanks!

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