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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
WiP implementation of CloudFormation bindings in OCaml, with the intent of being able to programatically generate CloudFormation JSON in OCaml (similar to CDK).
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
It is crucial because new loans generate growth and economic activity. The economy would seize up and enter a deep recession if regular savers stashed their money in 100% reserve ratio bank. (Many would if there was no government-backed d
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
Awesome to know with my limited exploit analysis experience that NOP sleds are still a thing
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
Compared to languages that have a single implementation, have multiple commercial and open source implementations in reasonable states of continuous development seems like a good place to be.
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
When you look at Elm with similar projects, like Melange or Rescript, they’re all “dead” in the sense that they aren’t the moving targets that most people expect of the Javascript ecosystem. That said, they are still under active developmen
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
There's an alarmist aspect to this article, but there is no doubt that things like ChatGPT will be used to produce an enormous amount of garbage texts that will flood into and destroy the value of content-driven sites like news, recipe
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
I think treating PartiQL as syntactic sugar is the mature approach - no one is under any delusions then as to how the database works. I mostly use it for ad hoc stuff whenever I need to get at something quickly. The SDK interface is horribl
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
(Author here) I agree: ORMs as I would traditionally think of them, like Hibernate are very mismatched to SQL databases. In this case, Prisma describes itself as an ORM but it maps more like a KV table description with join conditions (I’m
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API Mismatch: Why bolting SQL onto noSQL is a bad idea(chrisarmstrong.dev)
26 points by chris_armstrong 4y ago|17 comments
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
It seems like since MacOS X become free that it has succumb more and more to the pressure of a regular release cycle, instead of less, which is the opposite of what you’d expect for an unpaid product. Why does Apple feel the need to relea
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
What's extremely funny about this is that Amazon, Alphabet and Meta are all very much oriented around advertising and data collection (with a bit of product on the side, as a treat to users), and Apple is now ready join the same party
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
That’s really minimal, even for x11: it doesn’t even do reparenting and setting up window borders or xdamage/xfixes compositing
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
Surely this is a "Ship of Theseus" type of problem i.e. to achieve this longevity you have to continue maintaining it until it is no longer (philosophically) the server you began with. Keep its software and configuration practices
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
Everyone talking about the algorithm being slow instead of wondering why an app needs to do this in the first place. At the very least, this isn’t hugely useful, and if it was, why can’t it rely on a OS level file search cache to help it?
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
Yeah there's definitely some interesting stuff in the other blog posts, but oh boy, am I left begging for a narrative
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
This article is weird linking together many unrelated strands of thought. Like linking reactive programming to “reactive” UIs, when really they mean UIs that are forgiving to their users instead of breaking down. Or how by coding on the web
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
In addition to serverless meaning that you don’t have to worry about the compute layer, I take it to mean also: • I don’t need to manage the infrastructure for each of the services I depend on • My compute and other services are billed base
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
I should have been more nuanced on right sizing: if you have a large fleet of servers with homogeneous specs ir workloads, it can be very much worthwhile. The problem with rightsizing is the amount of planning and testing that needs to go i
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
Managing cloud cost is much easier if you target it from the beginning. Having worked in this space, the things that work are mostly centred on making it easier to attribute the source of costs, proactively exploring your bill on multiple d
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
Highlighting specific instances where the working class engaged in learning, when this was clearly not the case generally, is highly disingenuous. I’d also say that having universities mostly or wholly funded by the state does not remove th
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
Credentialism has developed in the crucible of the job market as a response to a high number of job seekers chasing a small pool of desirable jobs. Those that can afford to study longest for the most credentials wins. (I’m not denying that
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
The pleasure of learning in and of itself was always the privilege of a class in society that did not need to worry about educating itself for the purposes of work. The only thing that is different now is that purchasing an education has be
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
Cameras facilitate making 'the body' a commodity in a way they couldn't in the past i.e. cameras, and the ability to share photos with others are both ubiquitous now.
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
I thought the article touched on an important point: the reluctance to be nude in public is the commodification of bodies (through photography, social media, plastic surgery, porn), where effectively people drawing a line where they did not
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
"content" is just calling it what it is - the producer does something (writing) in exchange for money which has an output (content) that valuable to the consumer (publisher). It's self-serving complaining about your publisher
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
Quite the contrary: the author intended to do away with the abstraction over indexes that SQL engines provide, so that the developer can code against them directly
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
This would be the main reason for joining a union (legal support and resume or contract advice) as a developer. Research their public profiles: my impression is that some are very much in the “employee advocacy” space (providing enterprise
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
True, the problem can be confined to many overtouristed districts, not the entire city, but small places seem to suffer much more
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
My impression (based on their Readne) is that the author did this not necessarily for readability, but to remove the abstraction that the database engine provides in the form of the query planner. The developer is then responsible for selec
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by chris_armstrong 4y ago
Only the big cities (eg Paris or London) preserve a sense of a city both maintaining a connection with their past but also still lived in

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