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by chrsig 4y ago
The best way to ensure your employees wont be honest or transparent with you is to not be honest or transparent with them. Or maybe to put it a bit more harshly: You're not important enough to be hiding details Be open, honest, and
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by chrsig 4y ago
I'm not discounting that the GC had an overwhelming amount of work to do. My comment wasn't intended to convey that the go gc is somehow more efficient, but rather that I'm thankful for the tradeoffs they've made priorit
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by chrsig 4y ago
do discoveries need to be ground breaking in order to be interesting?
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by chrsig 4y ago
as someone that's worked with a similar workload (edit: in terms of write volume, not persistent chat messages), it's an incredibly annoying volume. Too high for simple solutions, not big enough for large scale solutions.
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by chrsig 4y ago
> Nothing was surprising, we got exactly what we expected. Such a satisfying feeling in the engineering world. > We noticed Cassandra was running 10 second “stop-the-world” GC constantly but we had no idea why. This makes me very than
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by chrsig 4y ago
Don't compare yourselves to others, compare yourself to your past self. Comparisons to others will either make you think poorly of yourself or make you think poorly of others. Some general tips that I've found useful to make myse
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by chrsig 4y ago
This was my experience when I had a gigabit connection. I could download games from steam as fast as my ssd would write it. Which was pretty awesome, but I'm not often pushing that sort of bandwidth. The counter argument being that wi
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by chrsig 4y ago
This strikes me as solving the wrong problem. It's not as useful to be able to derive a table from selected columns -- the desire is to complete columns from a table. It's both more intuitive and helps the user more than once.
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by chrsig 4y ago
do you mean to say it wouldn't be libre software, due to the commercial use restriction?
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by chrsig 4y ago
Yeah. I've personally been on a mission to throw 'bad', 'worse', 'good', 'better', and words to those effects out the window. They're meaningless and lazy at best. They need to be defined
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by chrsig 4y ago
Its existence is very welcome by me. If you're ever writing a ray tracer as a hobby project, the thought of having to find IORs/metalness/albedo for a material is pretty intimidating. Sure if you're doing something in
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by chrsig 4y ago
It definitely can be used like that successfully. Generally there's long term impacts of internalized shame like that though, which can bring about lots of anxiety and depression. I've been trying to find positive reframes for th
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by chrsig 4y ago
That's kind of arguing against yourself though. here's a more cynical take: - " only google can do these huge experiments, and we've blessed the world by sharing our discoveries, so we can have confidence that our pro
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by chrsig 4y ago
> it's just a (premature) optimization and thus its removal results in a reasonable fallback, which is simply not using that particular optimization this is a salient point. if it's just an optimization and not implementing i
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by chrsig 4y ago
> however it’s collectively considered a bad idea and no one uses it No one uses it going forward. I'd hate to venture a guess at how many existing sites there are that use xhtml. Browsers are still expected to parse and render th
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by chrsig 4y ago
an HTTP/2.1 doesn't stop HTTP/2 from existing, it just creates another standard.
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by chrsig 4y ago
this really strikes me as evidence that something is wrong with the http standardization process. we should know if something's a good idea before immortalizing it in a standard. It may be removed from chrome, but it's still in t
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by chrsig 4y ago
of course not -- silly expectation to be able to. I'd have to dig up the packet they sent for any exact details, it had a bunch of fine print about stuff like access and what not.
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by chrsig 4y ago
My wife and I bought one for our cat as a gag. We hope they plant a tree. Even if they don't, it's brought me enough amusement to be worth it.
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by chrsig 4y ago
Perhaps your sphere is expanding? They've been widely regarded as some of the industry's best IDE creators for many many years
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by chrsig 4y ago
it's under a subheading of > Docker Compose Best Practices for Development
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by chrsig 4y ago
I'd call it more likely a form a neurosis than a cop-out. It can be hard to resist some analysis paralysis when faced with an incredibly broad problem. There's a strong urge to find one solution to cover all cases. Trying to do
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by chrsig 4y ago
is sqlite.com a dynamic site? it seems like it's static html
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by chrsig 4y ago
> The problem with this stupid website is I (or no one else) couldn’t even properly reply to you due to censorship. You know you're welcome to make your own community, right? You're not actually being censored, you're j
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by chrsig 4y ago
> You’re doing the same thing now. My wife does call me her favorite hypocrite :) My statement was certainly an oversimplified assessment. > Valid, level-headed criticism This is a good clarification to make, thank you. Ultimately th
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by chrsig 4y ago
> More than just failing, though, I think the lesson is learning to tolerate failure, and learning from it so that you can try again. This is the real trick. From my own personal experience: I went through a period of intolerance to fail
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by chrsig 4y ago
You're complaining that you can't shit on other people. I'm complaining that people don't shit on themselves.
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by chrsig 4y ago
I used the word blessed somewhat tongue-in-cheek. I'm not sure I would call it an advantage, rather just a different set of experiences than a large majority of the tech world.
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if you started replying there, you might have untreated ADHD
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by chrsig 4y ago
> The culture of “we are awesome” has dominated most internal communications for the last couple of years, including in 2022. We all believed that we were awesome and would continue growing and winning. This is the big thing that drives

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