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by bpicolo 2y ago
Do you all forget the web pre chrome? Google and Chrome forced browser vendors to do better by standards in the first place. Google’s stewardship forced browser vendors to compete like never before.
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by bpicolo 2y ago
> repositories that were once public but later made private Or maybe the post needs a better title
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by bpicolo 2y ago
Honestly that kind of makes the word "clean" seem like a good fit to me. I can't say that measuring the cleanliness of my house is objective.
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by bpicolo 2y ago
I realize it's a rhetorical question, but pretty much everybody in the arts? I'd be very surprised to find a professional musician that doesn't play as a hobby.
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by bpicolo 2y ago
> forced to adopt the coding style and practices of that legacy project Let's keep going with this SQL-injection prone legacy framework, with zero automated tests for the entire codebase! I've hit that, for real. Sometimes you
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by bpicolo 2y ago
If failed cells cause immediate re-routing to other cells, you get a lot of fun new cascading failure scenarios to think about.
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by bpicolo 2y ago
Reminds me of the Lego Universe anecdotes from a decade ago https://www.managingcommunities.com/2015/06/04/lego-universe...
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by bpicolo 2y ago
An engineer that thinks it knows everything (but doesn't) and can't self-correct is about the worst combo I can think of.
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by bpicolo 2y ago
Players are a lot better than they were two decades ago.
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by bpicolo 2y ago
Naxx has already been cleared hardcore: https://www.pcgamer.com/wow-classic-hardcore-squad-clutches-... The servers came out in 2023.
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by bpicolo 2y ago
Bots were the majority of traffic for content sites before LLMs took off, too.
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by bpicolo 2y ago
> 27% use or look at their phone while driving The other 73% aren't admitting it. When I've driven down the street, seeing someone not on their phone is a rarity.
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by bpicolo 2y ago
Doesn't seem easy at all if you've trained people, and they have practiced, on software and not on paper. Mistakes can be fatal.
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by bpicolo 2y ago
SQLite is open-source but not open-contribution – they don't accept contributions of that sort. They follow "cathedral" style development and invented a whole alternative to git for that purpose https://fossil-scm.
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by bpicolo 2y ago
> can solve it with a low level common IR Wouldn't that basically just be a query plan? The language is the easy part. Determining the optimal query plan based on rough statistics about the data and the DBs ability to go about that
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by bpicolo 2y ago
Server can store session state
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by bpicolo 2y ago
Good to know. Good proto tooling is still high value :)
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by bpicolo 2y ago
I think this is a good pragmatic default. The use case for the alternative is much more rare.
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by bpicolo 2y ago
They seem to have pivoted from protobuf tools to kafka alternatives. I don't think bufstream is OSS (yet). Or at least, they have very much de-emphasized their original offering on their site.
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by bpicolo 2y ago
You overwrite the entire array. Replacement is a safe, idempotent operation. If you're concerned about concurrency for array updates, you'll usually need a form of concurrency control whether the database supports partial updates
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by bpicolo 2y ago
This is the visualization tool they use. They generate the data that feeds into that visualization
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by bpicolo 2y ago
"Most" is a strong phrase. Some financial institutions are taking it the opposite direction, like Fidelity which only allows a completely different partner now (Akoya).
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by bpicolo 2y ago
Good ol local disk
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by bpicolo 2y ago
The library is out in the world. Audit at will. Have you seen Filippo's credentials? He's overwhelmingly qualified for this. https://github.com/FiloSottile > Today, I maintain the cryptography packages that shi
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by bpicolo 2y ago
Looks like a shrimp
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by bpicolo 2y ago
Does annotating `main` with no_panic do the trick? How much does that tend to affect compile times, do you know?
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by bpicolo 2y ago
I liked it. It's ok for some of the internet to be for fun.
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by bpicolo 2y ago
> What other criteria would apply? Many companies have processes that require 2 or more humans in the loop for sensitive prod data.
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by bpicolo 2y ago
Back when GraphQL started being around, I prototyped a proxy server that accepted a JSON dsl to resolve a series of calls to a backend JSON/REST API, so that the chain of calls would be batched up closer to the server. Worked pretty we
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by bpicolo 2y ago
They document exactly that https://github.com/microsoft/go/tree/microsoft/main/eng/doc/...

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