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by chipdart 2y ago
> And voila! Just like that, you now have 2 systems to maintain, support and debug. It's even worse, the "new" system is a layered mess where logic is spread across multiple systems and services, and is bound to accommodat
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by chipdart 2y ago
> The post you're replying to is describing a straightforward implementation of the strangler pattern. I'm not sure you are aware the strangler pattern is completely irrelevant to the problem of shutting down old versions of AP
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Roll out your new API, and replace your old API's implementation with a proxy that calls through to the new API. I don't think you understood the problem you're commenting on. The problem is not that you have a new fancy
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Cute, but, I question the value I came here just to say that. What an half-baked idea. It might be trivial to mindlessly bolt on response headers, but if the goal is that the mechanism needs to be impactful and have consequences then t
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by chipdart 2y ago
> I don't know how you arrive at this conclusion. I am well aware of this fact because I've researched the topic and I can state it without any degree if uncertainty. The only and resources there are scattered loose notes and p
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by chipdart 2y ago
I don't think so. For instance, one basic technique in low-latency C++ is running specific code periodically even with no-op parameters just to keep it warm in the cache. It's one thing to claim that you can cherry pick some direc
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by chipdart 2y ago
> I felt that C++ has a lot of bad publicity and if I want anyone to trust/try my code I would have to rebuild it in rust. C++ gets bad publicity only from evangelists of the flavour of the month of self-described "successor of
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Fairly trivial base introduction to the subject. Might be, but low-latency C++, in spite of being a field on its own, is a desert of information. The best resources available at the moment on low-latency C++ are a hand full of lectures
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by chipdart 2y ago
> As a junior programmer, it made the language harder to learn. Can you elaborate on your opinion? I mean, I don't think that argument makes any sense. You're talking about an optional feature that, under very specific circumst
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Just to further illustrate what I'm saying, are you really trying to say that (...) If you read what I wrote you'll notice I was pointing out the absurdity of claiming that being forced to write each and every single factory
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by chipdart 2y ago
> In my personal experience, Reddit has become mainstream in the past few months/years. Even my completely non-tech friends use it, having not even heard about it 1-2 years ago. Since the moderator revolt, I've noticed an incre
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Your post starts with the flawed assumption that you have to define constructors in Rust (...) I did not. Read what I wrote.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> You're mistaken. Rust does not require you to define all constructors. Rust does not have constructors. I don't think you managed to understand what I actually said, and consequently you wrote a whole wall of text that's
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by chipdart 2y ago
> It’s been a while now, and at least in my experience so far Go and Rusts choice of not having special constructors really simplifies a lot. This take makes no sense. Think about it: you're saying that not having the compiler do an
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by chipdart 2y ago
> I big improvement would be making default initialization explicit Actually initializing your instances, which is what's expected of every single instantiation, is enough to not experience any problem. This also means that if you w
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Edit: this response is a bit dismissive but honestly my main beef with this article is that its conclusion is just straight up wrong. That's my take as well. The blogger clearly went way out of his way to find something to whine a
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Horrific. I think you're whining about something that doesn't pose any problem to anyone with any passing experience in software development. The examples in the blog post boil down to far-fetched cases devised to trigger cor
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by chipdart 2y ago
I recommend you read up on te history of the Berlin airlift so that you have a chance of forming an inforned opinion grounded on reality.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> In most modern ML circles “regression” analysis refers to the prediction of continuous variables (...) You're voicing very opinionated takes while showing considerable ignorance on the topic. Classification problems are solved wit
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Classification models break down to regression problems under the hood, but regression metrics are not good tools to evaluate the efficacy of classification models. You're simply wrong. Regression is a tried and true classificatio
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by chipdart 2y ago
> This is a obscure to me but people like Finkelstein and Chomsky point out the aftermath of WWII, where Russia was excluded by the other Western countries from the spoils of war and so forth, was a critical juncture that set back Russia
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by chipdart 2y ago
> China is primarily after the money, because thousands of Chinese drones are also used by Ukraine, the small FPV ones. I don't think so. China has not been shy in setting paralels between Ukraine and Taiwan, and how they are using
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by chipdart 2y ago
> A ten point gap is not a swing state, that’s big. No, it isn't. Your "ten point gap" is something like a 5% delta. That's below the confidence level of some polls.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Why are we using a tool from regression to analyze a classification problem? Because classification is a regression problem. Think about it for a second. You want to put together a tool to tell which class an input belongs to. You have
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by chipdart 2y ago
> And what do you recommend? Start ww3 before Russia does? I'm not sure if you noticed that Russia already started WW3 if it's path of escalation doesn't stop with a clear defeat of its invasion of Ukraine. Even their talk
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by chipdart 2y ago
To me the true story is how all of a sudden these news outlets started dumping this sort of content targeting Biden while somehow turning a blind eye to Trump's long history of dementia, whose symptoms take daily center stage in his ca
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Unfortunely it is built on top of WinUI 3, with all the warts it entails. I'm not sure that's relevant. The whole point of React Native is that you do not touch the underlying framework. Instead of churning out XAML, you just
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by chipdart 2y ago
> marshall cline's c++ mini-faq (...) Published in 1994. Literally 30 years ago, years before there was even anything resembling a C++ standard. I'm not sure why you thought it's relevant.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> How do you manage a 15 million LOC desktop app originating from the late 90s which contains chunks of win32 native, ATL, MFC, custom GDI+ wrappers all sorts? You're complaining about your personal legacy "chunks of win32 nati
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by chipdart 2y ago
> My experience maintaining old codebases is that you are just as hard-pressed to find a justification to write code to use new language features, or even to take the time to upgrade the language and compiler version. That's perfect

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