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by cletus 4y ago
Hi! I love your content. On the subject of Garry though, there's a lot of credible evidence to the contrary (eg [1][2]). [1]: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23blockedbygarrytan&src=hashta... [2]: https://
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Some more detail [1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32639125
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I've been following a guy on Tiktok who talks a lot about this and is very active in fighting NIMBYism through California. I can't remember his name but IIRC he's a Google employee. It's crazy the amount of NIMBYism out
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> I don't think that was a decision made by the mods, I think that's policy created by SO. There was little to no direction from the top, at least at that time. Mods were just self-appointed community members who organized in s
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100% this. It's very much in the spirit of "the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy". There's no better way for someone to justify their existence than creating problems but appearing
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Several reasons: 1. Finding dependencies with tooling now requires parsing code. Luckily Go's syntax is relatively simple and doesn't have conditional includes like C++ does but it'd be better if you could simply inspect a de
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I was glad to see Go get generics. Not because it was super-important but rather so we didn't have to hear about it anymore. I think exceptions are a false economy so I have no real issue with Go's error handling. It could be clea
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As always, whenever we have something like this people get overexcited for terraforming Mars. Or even living on Mars. First, terraforming. This is such a monumentally massive task that it is almost beyond comprehension. The distribution of
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I haven't worked at a startup. I have worked at two FAANGs (F+G). So I can't speak to the actual experience of this but when considering options, startups, particuarly very early stage startups, seemed like such a terrible value p
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Finding a good static site generator wasn't really the author's point. It was more for the fun of writing something in Rust. But I appreciate the link to Zola. I haven't looked in this space for awhile and it looks good.
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I enjoyed this post. The premise is a good one, as in for fun. A lot of these "I wrote X in Y" go on some spree of questionable assertions but "because I wanted to" is intellectually honest and understandable. I agree wi
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It's always fascinating to read people's takes on Stephenson's corpus. For me, Cryptonomicon to this day remains one of my most favorite books of all time. It harkens back to Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to t
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I can't help but think of The Onion's take on Wikipedia [1]. It's more accurate to say that this AI is fact-checking citations. There are lots of ways you can skew or fabircate information on Wikipedia. One well known way is
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People may not realize just how many barriers are put in the way of this kind of thing happening and at every level of government you have skilled and experienced actors trying to make sure it doesn't happen. The obvious one is states
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The biggest failure here is Google's continued refusal to segment their services and this has been a problem since at least the Google+ days, which is more than a decade ago at this point . During Google+, Google controversially insti
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I agree Rust's error handling is better and you can criticize some decisions in Go's error handling. I mean it also has these weird hybrid exception-like things (ie panics). But the main point is that Go (and Rust) moved away from
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I honestly think exceptions will go down in history as a design mistake. Newer languages (eg Rust, Go) doesn't have them. Exceptions make it incredibly difficult to be able to follow program flow. Most of the time you just log an excep
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Once again, companies blaming strategic problems on ICs rather than real culprit: leadership. Or, rather, the lack thereof. Having worked at both Google and Facebook I can tell you it's contradictory because in some cases you have an e
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Facebook's oncall compensation is really simple: it's zero. Having also worked at Google, I found this situation ridiculous. Facebook treats oncall as something you're just expected to do on top of everything else you'r
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That affirms my point: you have complete control over the front end.
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My usual experiene is that people use GraphQL wrong. GraphQL's primary use case is to homogenize access to a bunch of heteregenous backend services. If you find yourself just taking your Postgres database and creating a 1:1 mapping bet
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So I like Apple a lot. Given there are only two choices of phone (iOS or Android), IMHO Apple is way better than Google in terms of privacy. Apple sent shockwaves through the ad industry by making third-party ad cookies opt-in [1]. This h
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> The entire tradition of thought around natural law and limits on the legitimate scope of the state have simply disappeared in Australia so far as I can tell Counterpoint: this is usually code for "the government did something I di
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This is a weird article because you can't talk about the structure of the Windows Registry without talking about INI files [1]. Example: [owner] name = John Doe organization = Acme Widgets Inc. Some comments on the pos
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> Unlike Twitter, TikTok doesn’t need a critical mass of famous or influential people to use it for its content to prove engaging. I would go further: celebrities often treat Tiktok as just another distribution channel and they seem to f
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The ability for another molecule (probably another protein) to "react" or interact with the protein depends not only on the chemistry but also the shape. An otherwise compatible sequence of atoms might not be able to react because
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Disclaimer: Ex-Facebooker. The first thing to know about Facebook is that they view the social media landscape in two dimensions: format and audience size. Format here means text -> audio -> video. So if you look at the match up betwe
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This is just a bad analysis. You have to go to the comments to find relevant terms like "Dyson swarm" and "Kardashev scale". The worst mistake is limiting energy collection to what hits the Earth. Here is (IMHO) the like
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I've experienced this as well and it's a sign of a really bad amanger (IME). No manager should give you any resistance to giving away free money from the company to their team. If they ever do you know where their loyalties lie: w
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The deeper you go into the stack, the more reliable things tend to get, the more mature those systems tend to be and the more likely they are supported by SRE who take things very seriously. So if you're having an issue with Spanner, f

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