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by cle 6y ago
Side note: AWS STS has had regional endpoints for years. The global endpoint is vestigial at this point. I didn't glean anything special about Google's endpoint that requires it to be globalized like this, but I can't really
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by cle 6y ago
This is basically what writing a Python script is. Python code is compiled into Python bytecode and interpreted by the Python VM, after all. (I know what you mean by VM, but I don't think the distinction is very important here, you get
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by cle 6y ago
Blaming bad developers and hoping for them to try harder isn't going to make anything better. I totally agree that patterns are important and useful, I just think that the way they're presented and over-emphasized is net-harmful,
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by cle 6y ago
The problem is that you can preach this over and over but some people will still use them mindlessly in every possible scenario, because it's easy and feels good. I think we've done a poor job as an industry of beating new develop
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by cle 6y ago
I'd rather just see the idea of Proper Noun Design Patterns die, in my experience they've done more harm than good by not emphasizing their tradeoffs. My struggles with over-eager developers turning everything into a smorgasbord o
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by cle 6y ago
Personally I think C isn’t useful to know topically. It really only became useful once I had a basic grasp on computer architecture, assembly language, and operating systems. Then suddenly its use made a lot more sense to me. If you’re not
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by cle 6y ago
Docker doesn’t add anything as a dependency, you do. Use “FROM scratch” if you want to run a process with nothing but the Linux kernel. You won’t even get libc.
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by cle 6y ago
Blue Origin was founded two years before SpaceX.
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by cle 6y ago
I thought this was a dead horse, but you are not the customer.
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by cle 6y ago
I have run into that Messages fat-finger-delete multiple times, it is infuriating! I still don't know what the key combination is, but IIRC the confirmation defaults to "Delete" when enter or space are pressed, which are...qu
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by cle 6y ago
This was actually very helpful, lots of good leads to follow up on. I appreciate the time you took to write this up. If you have the time, would you mind reaching out to me at hncle@protonmail.com?
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by cle 6y ago
I have an HP EliteBook which has a built-in modem and a micro-SIM slot.
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by cle 6y ago
Could you elaborate on what those protocols are, how they help, what their weaknesses are, and what work remains? I'm really curious to learn more about this area. (Even just a link summarizing this would be awesome.)
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by cle 6y ago
What version of coreutils? Try comparing the behavior of cp on macOS vs. a modern Linux distribution. They are very different. I'm not saying Python isn't without its problems too. I don't even like using Python that much for
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by cle 6y ago
I don't understand what you're arguing here. You don't run sed, awk, and jq directly, you run them via Bash, your preferred scripting language that can execute arbitrary, sophisticated code. Personally I don't use Pyth
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by cle 6y ago
> with zero external dependencies I am very skeptical of this claim...in practice I've found it to rarely be the case. Usually shell scripts have more dependencies, and even worse, they are implicit since Bash provides no mechani
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by cle 6y ago
You can do sed/awk/jq trivially in Python with no dependencies, other than Python itself. Which is a fewer number of dependencies than a script gluing together sed+awk+jq, each of those being a dependency managed implicitly by you
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by cle 6y ago
I don't know if it'd be a bad thing or not, was just wondering out loud. I could see reasonable arguments for both sides of that issue.
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by cle 6y ago
One of the most frustrating things about HN for me these days is going into the comments to read more about the content of an article, and instead being bombarded by people nitpicking the design of it.
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by cle 6y ago
Would this mean Apple would need to sell M1 chips for non-macOS use?
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by cle 6y ago
What happened was that folks realized that the technology isn't enough--you need to build communities around the technology. Docker for example includes a bunch of features to help build a strong community of Docker users (image standa
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by cle 6y ago
One of the big reasons for this that I've seen is that it's easier to measure "coverage" with unit tests. Many managers and engineers like things that are easier to measure, even if they're measuring the wrong thing
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by cle 6y ago
Of course it has practical implications and is harder to predict, but neither of those are what this conversation is about.
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by cle 6y ago
But that's an even weaker rhetorical strategy. You're asking people to admit that they're susceptible to psychological manipulation. It's akin to asking them to admit "I'm weak and have no control over my belie
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by cle 6y ago
Nobody is claiming that it isn’t well-defined nor unimportant.
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by cle 6y ago
You’re missing the point. The two are alike in that something significant is happening that you as the programmer did not explicitly tell it to do. The specific mechanism really isn’t an important distinction here.
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by cle 6y ago
I think a misunderstood part of Emacs is that this is exactly what it is—-it’s just glue, but instead of being in a command-oriented environment, it’s in an editor-oriented environment. You run the same Unix tools but glue their results tog
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by cle 6y ago
That kind of reductionist argument can be made for any kind of software development...we're all just plumbing bits around at the end of the day. If you're a web dev, you're plugging web tech, if you're a backend dev it&#
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by cle 6y ago
It's never this simple. You have to decide what subset to use, understand how that subset could interact with the avoided language features, have a strong team culture that can agree on the subset and have the discipline to commit, und
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by cle 6y ago
I’m sorry did I claim that they thrived because they were Muslim? I like it because many people in my culture see Muslims as a single homogeneous race of evil, destructive people, and a lot of the discourse reflects that. That kind of categ

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