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by cdogl 4y ago
Not if the market provides incentives to curtail, which it does with negative pricing. If other energy sources can curtail enough at the same price, they’ll do it. Otherwise nuclear will. The costs you’re alluding to can’t be avoided, but t
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by cdogl 4y ago
There hasn’t been a “wholesale massive move of the entire” games industry to subscription services. Game Pass is big, but the market is gigantic and diverse.
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by cdogl 4y ago
Indeed. The Australian public service has been thoroughly hollowed out. For a couple of decades the incentives for talent have dried up. You can get a reading of this by watching a Senate Estimates session where senior Canberra bureaucrats
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by cdogl 4y ago
Brutalism is an interesting architectural movement, but speaking as someone who lives in a city that has human-scale architecture, lots of trees and lots of eclectic housing, I understand Europeans who don’t want their cities dominated by r
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by cdogl 4y ago
This idea peaked in 2002. Second Life fills a valuable niche, and I’m glad it exists, but most people prefer videogames.
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by cdogl 4y ago
A large part of the workforce makes a living maintaining and extending systems, not building them. In fact, I call that success.
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by cdogl 4y ago
I agree with the sentiment of your post, but: > Hell, Facebook — presumably the poster child for the react ecosystem and certainly with the resources to do everything right — is still introducing nav-state related bugs. This doesn't
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by cdogl 4y ago
It was a strange argument in the first place. If Luxembourg and Malta can be in the EU, why not Scotland? Hard to imagine them being refused.
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by cdogl 4y ago
The definition of "democracy" is not subject to your broad, sweeping, unfalsifiable judgments about human nature and other peoples' apparent ignorance. (Presumably the author and reader are excluded from this, through some l
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by cdogl 4y ago
The web uses port 443 for HTTPS, so this example is unlikely to be an issue. Having said that, there are weird and wonderful corporate and government proxy configurations out there that do wacky things. My guess is that their entire system
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by cdogl 4y ago
I’ll defer to experts on the network-layer problems but im not sure what you see as the problem with converging on HTTP. It’s awkward and inelegant, but as an a backend application developer I never feel like it gets in my way.
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by cdogl 4y ago
Isn’t it? The vast majority of people in the developed world have enough money for food and housing, and the powers that be work fiercely - if ineptly - to protect that. I’m not writing off the influence of power and wealth, but this sentim
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by cdogl 4y ago
I think that’s important, because the examples you give aren’t entirely unrelated to turnkey tyranny. The abuse of these systems for personal gain by bad actors goes hand in hand with their political instrumentalisation. See East Germany, e
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by cdogl 4y ago
It’s difficult for me to see how 2022 is worse than 1816 all things considered.
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by cdogl 4y ago
This seems to select for people who have a balance of insight on the issues themselves and on the whims of the public - whether by data, experience or a hunch. Is that something meaningful or helpful to home in on? I’m not convinced..
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by cdogl 5y ago
Wonderfully put. I would add that we need to see things for their scale and proportion. Yes, the simple walled web is bigger than ever. So is the hacker community, and this website (so far as I can tell), Reddit (for all its faults), etc.
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by cdogl 5y ago
I met some amazing Google engineers - network and SRE peope - early in my career and idolised them for a long time. Recently I got to work with Google on the commercial side and I was shocked by the incompetence, apathy and fear. No idea wh
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by cdogl 5y ago
Perhaps the strategic decisions of one the largest and one of the most complex organisations in human history cannot be explained by simple reference to undergraduate microeconomics
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by cdogl 5y ago
That does sound great, but realistically any application needs to be able to recover from a crash anyway - so even with this support from the OS, you just have a new code path to support. Might be nice for users, but it certainly doesn’t si
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by cdogl 5y ago
I suspect this is highly subjective. I learned git when I barely understood programming. Figured out the basics and went from there. It’s never gotten in my way. I don’t deny it’s been confusing at times, but I’ve used svn and hg and had a
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by cdogl 5y ago
This sounds very intense and it'd certainly turn me off games. I hope this doesn't read as condescending, but have you considered trying some games that aren't based on that feedback loop? Like grand strategy or management ga
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by cdogl 5y ago
I don't think this is a helpful comparison. The impact of climate change can be predicted (to whatever degree of accuracy) because of how sophisticated the hard sciences have become. However sympathetic one might be of any critique of
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by cdogl 5y ago
I'm sympathetic to this argument, but the fact that the blog posts, discussions, tweet threads etc. under issue are publicly viewable (that's the web!) doesn't imply an obligation that members of the debate perform for the pu
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by cdogl 5y ago
We use terraform for our AWS infrastructure, but also for Datadog, PagerDuty, etc. That's where it starts to shine: consistent infrastructure as code across all your (provider-supported) vendors.
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by cdogl 5y ago
> If you choose a) you don't really get to avoid b), since something still has to bootstrap your Kubernetes nodes themselves Not quite true if you use a managed K8S offering - and it seems a self-managed cluster is something to be a
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by cdogl 5y ago
Though we're now in a situation where lots of software (see: Word and Excel) is painfully slow even on high-end desktop hardware.
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by cdogl 5y ago
+1. A Deepness in the Sky is one of the most underrated works of speculative fiction that I've read. It is a masterwork of plotting and character work. A Fire Upon the Deep has some great ideas and some characters that have stuck with
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by cdogl 5y ago
Thanks for this informed comment. A timely reminder to me to read TFA, because I took parent comment at face value on first reading.
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by cdogl 5y ago
Not every problem can be solved with contractors. Many products and systems need long term owners and maintainers and people involved need to be part of a team. That team culture is precious and the red flags can be hard to discern which is
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by cdogl 5y ago
If your claim is true - that removing the GIL would harm the vast majority of programs - that speaks to some deep-seated quality and architecture issues in CPython. I happen to agree. I love Python, but the limits of its implementation sent

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