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by breatheoften 5y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it's not largely driven by personal profit motive/asset exposure of the decision maker class ... executives, boards, and upper management at such companies are nearly uniformly composed of wealthy i
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by breatheoften 5y ago
I could imagine a wealth tax movement getting strong enough and that or the threat of it might eventually be able to change things ... :fingers crossed: Or maybe if the trend of folks no longer working continues for long enough with enough
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by breatheoften 5y ago
At first glance -- async/await mitigates a lot of my least favorite things about orm dsl's -- namely that it can be difficult to tell when the orm framework is actually going to generate a db round trip without being familiar with
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by breatheoften 5y ago
I use the fish shell and have for several years now. A few years back I did a startup with a friend -- a cross platform mobile product but with a mess of complex open-source c++ dependencies (which we forked and customized often) -- and we
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by breatheoften 5y ago
I hope they also sent the participants through new mazes after training while asking them not to echolocate -- just to help determine that they weren't getting better at sightless maze walking for some other reason (like greater sensit
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by breatheoften 5y ago
Isn't that one of the big justifications for not bundling the standard library? It seems to me like not shipping the std library with the runtime is potentially one of the biggest language innovations we've seen in awhile because
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by breatheoften 6y ago
Who are the people behind fly? It looks to me like the first thing I've seen in awhile that actually might be "a better heroku". Anybody out there using it? Anybody who was happy with heroku for mostly everything other than
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by breatheoften 6y ago
Some manner of pluggable STM protocol to define a standard programming model on top of conflict detection would be pretty nice tho imo. Features like postgres's serialized transaction isolation -- which as a non expert I think of as ba
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by breatheoften 6y ago
That's a very interesting and well-done experiment! I definitely learned something -- and I buy the argument that there is a way to tie a figure 8 that makes it less likely or significantly less likely to be difficult to untie ... But
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by breatheoften 6y ago
This is a good selection of climbing knots. I went down a rabbit hole recently surveying the "current internet wisdom" regarding the use of the double bowline with fisherman as a tie in knot for the climber ... To recap briefly --
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by breatheoften 6y ago
Bad status pages are a very bad sign in my opinion. I had to use the IBM cloud for a project once upon a time and the status monitoring was almost always wrong ... I really hope that as customers we can succeed in making "excellent sta
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by breatheoften 6y ago
There are all sorts of annoyances that can manifest differently in different parts of the world when doing various forms of browser automation from different parts of the world. Different cdn behaviors and differences in the way bot detecti
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by breatheoften 6y ago
Surprising to me -- I used puppeteer last year for a couple of projects and found it to be extremely pleasant to use -- almost fun even! You can just pick it up and most of the api seemed relatively straightforward. I found it a little an
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by breatheoften 6y ago
why do people think function coloring is bad? In my experience it's a very good thing ... An async function call is a massively different abstraction than a sync function call ... think about what logic is allowed to live on the other
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by breatheoften 6y ago
I don't understand how anyone thinks Exchange can still be used ... just setting it up without obviously choosing any obviously insecure settings somewhere in the stack while also trying to support the actual needs of a diverse set of
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by breatheoften 6y ago
I participated in an ecological impact study off the coast of guam once upon a time and we pulled a couple of these up from the sea floor in deep sea traps ... the amount of slime covering the back deck was truly astonishing ... they also
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by breatheoften 6y ago
I wonder how much Chapter 11 actually makes sense as a response to something like Covid versus a swift and merciless Chapter 7 and then rebooting the business once theaters are viable again. Assuming that a Chapter 7+then+future_reboot was
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by breatheoften 6y ago
Wow if this actually is expected behavior then the backlash the first time this hits someone prominent in political space is definitely going to produce the regulations that you point to as currently non-existent ...
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by breatheoften 6y ago
I think heterogeneous computing is actually coming this time. Increasing binary size requirements wherever portability is required will be an intended sacrifice toward that aim (but for app store based distributions - the only place requir
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by breatheoften 6y ago
How about a little sphere or oriented volume that magnetically levitates out of its cubby when the device is powered on -- and maybe the field could be varied to simulate different amounts of resistance ...
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by breatheoften 6y ago
Another comment regarding the click and drag behavior. One thing I would definitely expect a recent migrant to apple trackpads to experience as negative would be "force click". The apple trackpads sense force in some analogue way
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by breatheoften 6y ago
Debugging code running in the production environment with access to production resources and production versions of external services is extremely useful and not always impossible to arrange -- I think it's a reasonable expectation for
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by breatheoften 6y ago
ruby has enumerators which are quite a bit like pythons generators -- i actually think they are easier to reason about and do complicated things with -- although i learned python a long time ago and haven't tried to use generators for
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by breatheoften 6y ago
Seems like the way to go ... maybe even 3 layers of memory -- core local memory, memory that provides shared reader and writer consistency, and memory that provides shared reader, single writer consistency (for ownership transfers). Maybe
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by breatheoften 6y ago
rsync is hard on networks??????????? Is there any truth to this? I find it hard to believe -- most of the time rsync is tunneled over ssh which seems well enough abstracted from an optimal traffic generation mechanism that i would seriousl
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by breatheoften 6y ago
B. I've been contemplating a mechanism based on mandatory minimum paid vacation days per year - fed provides free access to the money, corps borrow it or whatever to earn some interest -- but corps must pay employees a minimum days of
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by breatheoften 6y ago
Does that just mean that less capital is required to back the pool -- or is it a statement about morality?
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by breatheoften 6y ago
This is a rather beautiful idea -- and sounds to be rather beautiful in implementation. Taiwan really is a special place if you've ever had the good fortune to visit. I used to go to Kaohsiung repeatedly over the years when I did Ocea
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by breatheoften 6y ago
There was a really interesting episode of the mindscape podcast[0] recently which discusses a system in Planaria where the expression of the way the worm grows (with one head or two) is found to be encoded in an electronic structure within
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by breatheoften 6y ago
Was it camera angle that made it appear to be so perfectly flat (top and bottom of rocket at same altitude) when it was in free fall or was that actually the target free fall orientation?

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