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by cookiecaper 6y ago
Step back and take an honest look, and in the vast majority of systems, it's hard to deny that stored functions and/or procedures are one of the most powerful tools in the toolbox. If anything, they're widely under utilized.
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
The reality is that since 99% of email users are "post-Outlook", one must "top post" or the others on the mail assume it's blank and just skip over it -- even if you "top post" a message about how you&#x27
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
FYI -- I tried this in a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 LXC container and it failed spectacularly. There's a weird interaction between the NOFILE security limit (`ulimit -n`), Java 8, and Linux-based containers (noted on both LXC and Docker). If N
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
They don't have to be mutually exclusive, do they? You can surely learn some things from large-scale telemetry collection that you can't learn from user studies (e.g., semi-representative "in the wild" performance metric
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
Yeah. It seems like everyone is hopping aboard that bandwagon and doesn't remember a world before 2009. For $1M, you can get yourself a very beefy server farm. AWS accounts still take management and a team of people that need to mainta
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
Counter-Strike predates Steam by at least a few years. There was a time that game servers were fully independent and you could use third-party game browsers or even just go port scanning to find 'em.
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
Generally true, but we both know that it's not so simple, and I'm surprised HN took this bait so readily. With JS, you have to worry way less about hardware-specific builds, platform-specific linking implications, differing syst
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
JavaScript is the only thing that you can really run on any semi-modern device. TVs, phones, laptops, desktops, servers, the only thing you can expect to execute on all of them is JavaScript. If you write your core libraries in JavaScript,
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
I hope that Bryan isn't going to make that mistake. Love it or hate it (personally I definitely lean toward "hate it"), BigCloud is here to stay.
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
Which isn't an accident, to be fair. AWS pricing is deceptive on purpose , with many cross-dependencies that each have their own price points, exclusions, and caveats. Only this many cents to use this thing, which, heh, I guess it req
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
The problem is exactly the opposite of authoritarianism. People don't believe that any person can be trusted with authority, so it was all transferred into the dead letter of a massively generalized district-wide policy which, of cours
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
Yeah, you see this everywhere -- "filter bubbles" and all that. People have been trained to expect protection from anything that even vaguely intrudes on their own sense of self-righteousness, and consider this breach the failing
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
More than that, once some entity is in power, language policing and other types of arbitrary rulemaking are widely-deployed to allow the power broker to quickly expose troublemakers and wrongthinkers. Failure to adhere to arbitrary vocabula
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
The technical underpinnings of the internet are decentralized well enough. The reality is that these aren't technical problems, and any technical workaround will ultimately become circular. We have to come up with the necessary legal a
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Ueli: A Keystroke Launcher for Windows and macOS(github.com)
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
Also, depending on how long ago this was, may not have been as bad as it sounds -- MyISAM doesn't support foreign keys, and it was the default all the way until MySQL 5.5 in 2010.
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
Most kernel devs have Intel processors, and anecdotally, it does seem like you see more AMD-specific patches coming in the changelogs as people with the chips get new kernel versions and find new breakages. Another side effect of Intel&#x27
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
It's a win from the implementation side because you can support all three use cases with one format, reducing code duplication and at least hypothetically leveraging the same improvements across the three use cases with no additional e
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
Become a student of psychology. If you're coming from an IC->management role for the first time, expect your worldview to be broken, and let it happen so you don't have to have a spectacular flame-out to allow it to reset (happ
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
Yeah, it's a tad hyperbolic, but mainly with regard to the proximity. It's likely that more competitive employers will not be in walking range, especially not in this week's weather! ;) It also depends on how long you've
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
The market here in Utah is bananas . I could walk down the street and get a 30-60% raise easy. Indeed there have been a few layoffs in the last month or so, but the companies aren't really a surprise and the market is still blazing. N
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
Do we really trust that a politician who finds them helpful is not going to overlook certain misconduct that is politically beneficial (e.g., suppressing the statements of their major opponents)? It's certainly not a forgone conclusion
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
It's relevant in this case because the premise of the first comment is that this administration is particularly and uniquely unqualified to perform an investigation. It's comparative by nature, and therefore information about the
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
fwiw, I appreciated it. I just wrote this in a separate forum: > don't miss out on this chance to see Elon Musk's secret plans for world domination before he goes full megalomaniacal evil Iron Man, when we can still naively lo
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
Yeah, this isn't science fiction or conspiracy theory anymore. Several high-profile cold cases have gone hot as police have been trawling the datasets submitted to 23AndMe et al and investigating the family trees of persons whose DNA i
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
> If you think that there's some kind of connection between the (alleged) illusory nature of consciousness and practical issues of workplace politics, then you've probably gone off on an enormous tangent. Yeah, I absolutely d
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
> curiously, none of them want to do this. How do you know? If you ask someone whether they're harboring murderous intent, they're obviously going to say they aren't. Most people that actually commit murder will go on
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
If you've got beef with someone, take it up with them while they're living . Once they're dead, you missed your chance. If Baker thought he was damaging the org, it was her legal duty to protect its interests and terminate h
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
Not Brendan, but I don't think anyone doubts that Brave would break from the Chromium homogeneity if it were practical to do so. Production-quality browser engines are not basement projects. Even Google waited until they were the big k
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by cookiecaper 7y ago
> And what if the deceased's actions DID cause damage (e.g. Brendan Eich and Gervase Markham)? Wouldn't that count as provocation? No -- employees cause damage all the live long day. There's nothing unusual about that. F

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