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by biorach 3y ago
> IDK how you think this is abusive I'm not the person you're replying to I don't think "abusive" is quite the right word for your tone. > you're clearly one of the folks who was a problem if that's
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by biorach 3y ago
> why the redesign was necessary and what it would give them they couldn’t get with the old design Revenue. Well, that's what they hoped. At the expense of user experience. Enshittification, but without the lock-in, which ended pred
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by biorach 3y ago
In that article? I'm not seeing that.
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by biorach 3y ago
It's pretty clear from the article that the issues Digg had were not caused by choice of language.
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by biorach 3y ago
Forget code review. This is one of their most important endpoints. They had severe issues for 4 weeks. Did no one not even glance over the code and spot this glaring screw-up?
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by biorach 3y ago
Still... did no one with even moderate Python experience even glance at this very important endpoint at any stage during those 4 weeks? Like I say, this is the kind of thing that jumps out of the screen for an experienced developer.
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by biorach 3y ago
Nah, this has been very well known since decades and is very easy to spot.
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by biorach 3y ago
> Our API server was a Python Tornado service... and one of the most frequently accessed endpoint was used to retrieve user by their name or id. Because it supported retrieval by either name or id, it set default values for both paramete
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by biorach 3y ago
> SQLite is not a good choice if you want to access a DB over the network from different hosts or even from many processes on the same host That's a bit like saying that a family car is not suited for heavy goods transport.
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by biorach 3y ago
> Yea, but does it scale? Yes, for 100 users maybe. But you have 100 000 small sqlite db:s If it's a case of 1 node per customer (node being vm, lambda, cloudflare worker, whatever) then there should be no limit. Maybe you're
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by biorach 3y ago
you're confusing allowing community contribution with offloading documentation altogether
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by biorach 3y ago
That's a wagonway, the wagons would have been pulled by horses. Steam powered railways were only widely deployed from the 1830's
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by biorach 3y ago
What you're describing sounds suboptimal rather than disastrous
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by biorach 3y ago
> an immensely talented developer who would spam unnecessary patterns all over the codebase He may have been talented but unnecessary patterns are the hallmarks of a bad programmer
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by biorach 3y ago
Nope, those are not the smartest developers. Those are the cleverest developers. The best developers solve the hard problems without writing the worst code.
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by biorach 3y ago
If the app's workload is quite similar to whatever benchmark showed the 8x improvement, then yes. Otherwise, i.e. in the real world, it's very unlikely to be that much. High throughout workloads should see improvement, but each
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by biorach 3y ago
Thanks for the clear-headed and undramatic summary. This whole discussion has been full of emotional over-reaction
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by biorach 3y ago
> every single time we find, read about, or are recommended something cool it always ends with "oh by the way this only works on X not Wayland". Eh, what? That's not at all common
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by biorach 3y ago
Yet another nutrition study. here's a counterpoint: > Nutrition has made no progress. It has discovered no stable facts. Everything nutritionists have said, they have said the opposite ten or twenty years later (if not much sooner).
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by biorach 3y ago
Oh right!
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by biorach 3y ago
it's a sequencer!
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by biorach 3y ago
> assuming that the particular alligators in question aren’t too heavy, they are definitely capable of climbing trees, and they actually do this pretty frequently. That's terrifying
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by biorach 3y ago
Let's cut through your bullshit You said > none of her work seems particularly interested in technology Here is a very representative quote from her PhD thesis which you clearly did not really look up > Augmenting Existing Adapta
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Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech’s biases(theguardian.com)
29 points by biorach 3y ago|70 comments
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by biorach 3y ago
Middle managers are a dime a dozen. However a good technical lead - who can contribute to the engineering team's discussions _and_ lead the team are very very hard to find.
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by biorach 3y ago
> For example, a bunch of 7 dimensional objects that can only be stacked a certain way. That's a ridiculous example.
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by biorach 3y ago
But now you have to explain why the same is not true of a human. Just saying a human has a 'mental representation' and a 'mind' is not explaining anything
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by biorach 3y ago
> Now ChatGPT is pretty much Skinner’s work come to life. I'm pretty sure that is based on a misunderstanding of Skinner, ChatGPT, or both
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by biorach 3y ago
> Perhaps I have not worked in a large code bases to understand the problems Basically, yes. In a large codebase the steps in your example could well be separated by thousands of lines of code, with much branching, or perhaps complica
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by biorach 3y ago
Wow

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