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931.
by cle 7y ago
They both matter. Confusing syntax can lead to just as many bugs as confusing semantics. (I'm not arguing that they weren't bikeshedding...)
932.
by cle 7y ago
I agree with most of this. If you have non-trivial message handling logic in a production system, you probably shouldn't use SQS directly to drive your work. Your SQS handling logic should be simple and reliable. In most cases, if t
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by cle 7y ago
As always, it depends on your use cases. The data management and API footprint story is way simpler with SQS than with a relational database, and you don't have to worry about all the scaling complexity that comes with relational data
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by cle 7y ago
Thanks! Meta-observation: to me, nothing in economics or finance is "blindingly obvious". Many economic phenomena seem obvious but in reality are way more complex than could be represented by any model that I could understand.
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by cle 7y ago
> The real problem is that housing cannot be both affordable and a financial instrument. Can you elaborate on this? I don't know much about financial instruments and would like to know why these two are mutually exclusive.
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by cle 7y ago
Laws have a tendency not to stop dictators. They are the law. In reality laws are only as powerful as their enforcement, and if there is no will to enforce, like what happens during transitions to dictatorships, then they’ll just be ignore
937.
by cle 7y ago
Ugh this is such passive aggressive behavior. Just tell him no, and why, so he can communicate clearly with his customer.
938.
by cle 7y ago
Here's the real JSONPath: https://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/ This submission is for PostgreSQL's "JSON Path", which is very similar to the original JSONPath. I'm surprised, and disap
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by cle 7y ago
Awesome! I love to see data driven analysis like this. I don’t really agree with some of the conclusions though, such as: > Contrary to the common belief that message passing is less error-prone, more blocking bugs in our studied Go ap
940.
by cle 7y ago
There were multiple failures here, and not just with Hertz. How on Earth did someone spend 2 weeks in jail on this? This was a bug so they clearly had no evidence except their word. The actions of the police here warrant just as much scr
941.
by cle 7y ago
I strongly agree with this. From TFA: > Putting too many elements into a limited amount of space is like trying to listen to three different songs at once. It’s hard to understand what is being said. In some situations, putting more i
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by cle 7y ago
What do you think is going to happen with that capital?
943.
by cle 7y ago
> Ultimately, the public has very little control over what these companies do with this data, so there's a perverse mismatch of incentives here. That's what I'm getting at. See for example: https://stratechery.c
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by cle 7y ago
Did they say that the data never leaves the device? Just because it's local inference doesn't mean it doesn't leave the device. They have a strong incentive to call home with the transcripts/metadata to improve their m
945.
by cle 7y ago
I find this to be throwing around pretty shallow platitudes. Winning/losing is not binary, it is a continuum. There are degrees of losing. If you lose hard enough, you will not be able to leverage it for a win later. And you might
946.
by cle 7y ago
> The potential disparity between the value of personal data and what users receive in return creates space for governments to seek reimbursement on society’s behalf. Is there a way to leverage competition to reduce this disparity instea
947.
by cle 7y ago
Because it's faster and works with spotty/no reception? (I'm just guessing because I can't find details on this stuff by wading through the feed.) Also, just because it's doing local inference doesn't mean it w
948.
by cle 7y ago
> Except that you cannot easily chain calls that return errors, or it isn't really that hard to accidentally ignore errors because of shadowing or overwriting the variable you're storing your errors in. Or the fact that using a
949.
by cle 7y ago
Go's error handling is essentially the same as Error/Either/StatusOr (returning errors as values). Re: exceptions, there are a lot of people, myself included, who do not view exceptions as "advancements", but as set
950.
by cle 7y ago
Can you elaborate on the major developments in error handling in the last 30 years?
951.
by cle 7y ago
What does the workflow versioning story look like? This is one of the most frustrating parts of SWF that Step Functions + Lambda has effectively solved for us.
952.
by cle 8y ago
Agree, at the moment Lambda doesn't quite make it for directly calling RDS DBs, because of the connection problem and because your DB should be in a VPC, which has horrendous cold start implications for Lambda (it needs to attach an EN
953.
by cle 8y ago
Very rarely have I gotten deep enough into a project and not had to pop open the hood. How the lower level abstraction implements things is often important and often leaves you with no practical choice but to depend on implementation detai
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by cle 8y ago
see "Comparison With Other Scripting Languages"
955.
by cle 8y ago
I don't understand why everyone assumes the DC move is for lobbying or government influence. I always assumed it's just a business move, the DC area has a high supply of security-cleared engineers and AWS is pushing into GovCloud
956.
by cle 8y ago
Why don't you take a look at the link? It has a page specifically addressing these questions: https://jsonnet.org/articles/comparisons.html
957.
by cle 8y ago
I’m not convinced yet (and neither am I convinced of Tesla’s claims). You can’t make strong causal claims from observational studies. Run a real experiment and I’ll take these claims more seriously. (For example, there are a ton of potent
958.
by cle 8y ago
AWS CDK: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cdk
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by cle 8y ago
There are cases when JSON is really unreadable. Multi line strings, strings with lots of escaping, etc. There are a lot of other formats that solve these problems (eg YAML, which certainly has other unrelated problems). There are trade of
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by cle 8y ago
Config files are almost never self explanatory. Comments should be describing why things are configured like they are—how would you do this without comments?

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