crabbone

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901.
by crabbone 3y ago
I doubt that. As someone who was enthusiastic about AI before neural networks rose to prominence, I only shake my head when I hear people ascribe all sorts of properties of intelligence to the particular trend in AI that is in vogue today.
902.
by crabbone 3y ago
I'm talking about QA, not end-users. "very very difficult" on what scale? How many "verys" before it gets really hard? Again, the proof is in the pudding. You take a language that doesn't make any special eff
903.
by crabbone 3y ago
Concentrating on NPEs and stuff like sum times is misunderstanding the problems with software quality to the point of misunderstanding the magnitude of impact of different flaws. Working tightly with QA for over ten years by now, I can assu
904.
by crabbone 3y ago
Well, here's a problem with your approach. Say you are a startup in storage niche. Well, big companies aren't going to try using you because you need to have like 10+ years of proven work record before they even consider trying.
905.
by crabbone 3y ago
Why forks? -- There are a lot of decisions made by the upstream that are... let's put it mildly, "opinionated" (but really, just idiotic). But you cannot argue with majority or whoever leads the project. So, many times you d
906.
by crabbone 3y ago
I didn't argue for moving to Linux. My argument is that we need redundancy . If one system has a huge failure like this one -- we shouldn't find ourselves being hostages of this system. Similarly, I'm not against Microsoft
907.
by crabbone 3y ago
This would sound like ChatGPT if I didn't know better... All of your arguments are "made up" arguments, they contradict themselves or each other or assume some very unlikely situations, especially on behalf of what the post y
908.
by crabbone 3y ago
I worked for a shop that made Flash games for Symbian phones (i.e. old Nokias). That's a lot more resource-constrained environment than any of iPhone or Android ever were. And it ran fine, if you knew what you were doing. When Androi
909.
by crabbone 3y ago
Yes, whoops.
910.
by crabbone 3y ago
To the best of my knowledge, Wittgenstein lived with Russel for quite some time and was a very influential force in writing the Principa. I believe I saw a lot of prototypes of the modern logical symbols in his Traktatus. I also believe th
911.
by crabbone 3y ago
> People choose with their wallets You are very naive if you believe that. This can only work if people can meet the following requirements: * People are rational and will always or at least statistically enough times will make the best
912.
by crabbone 3y ago
> comparing yaml use to murdering people? Where do you see me comparing YAML to murdering people? Please read that place again. I compare murdering people to the inconvenience of having to wait in a queue.
913.
by crabbone 3y ago
For the purpose of full disclosure: I worked at Elastifile, some time before and after acquisition. In terms of development of Kubernetes, I have nothing to do with it. We might have been among the early adopters, but that's about it
914.
by crabbone 3y ago
The argument was much more simple: popular doesn't mean good (for whatever metric you are using to measure it). No need to look for reasons why something bad is also good. That's not the point. Hitler was a vegetarian and had
915.
by crabbone 3y ago
Not really... people made these claims without any testing, as per usual. I was on Adobe's community advisory board at the time of the iPhone fight against Flash and I'd work with all sorts of things that were supposed to be for t
916.
by crabbone 3y ago
Oh, yeah, thanks for the refresher. It's been a while!
917.
by crabbone 3y ago
A lot of math symbols are accidental and owe their existence to circumstances of writing, book publishing, typewriter or later computer keyboard. Very few have any kind of history that helps understand their meaning. Just a few examples: &
918.
by crabbone 3y ago
OK, here's one example I could find: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=crabbone&next=365190...
919.
by crabbone 3y ago
> You're not bringing any arguments yourself. You'd need to search through my post history. The arguments are long and numerous. I'm not sure I want to repeat myself again. I promise to do the search part though. So, i
920.
by crabbone 3y ago
There was a combination of reasons. XML has plenty of problems of its own which legitimately generated a lot of hate for the format. JSON, at least superficially, didn't have many of those because it lacked (and still lacks) a lot of
921.
by crabbone 3y ago
Yeah... this is like saying that murdering all people in line to buy ice-cream and waiting for your turn to buy ice-cream have pros and cons: either you get to buy ice-cream faster, but some people die, or you have to wait, but nobody dies.
922.
by crabbone 3y ago
Mmm... no? StackOverflow is powered by voting. Not all forums work like that (it was a questionable choice at the time StackOverflow started). I've been a moderator on a couple of ForumBB kind of forums and the idea of karma points w
923.
by crabbone 3y ago
Long time ago, when ActionScript was a thing, there was this one snippet in ActionScript documentation that illustrated how to deal with events dispatching, handling etc. In order to illustrate the concept the official documentation provid
924.
by crabbone 3y ago
Why? What do I stand to gain from using this? Marginal speed improvement in some cases and a lot of headache trying to debug it in other cases? docker-compose offers an alternative . It doesn't offer any genuinely new functionality.
925.
by crabbone 3y ago
That's a contradiction. You cannot release a software that you didn't release. :) If you release it, it has to start with version one. Zero is for non-released versions.
926.
by crabbone 3y ago
Well, that's even worse in some sense... now I cannot properly debug it when it breaks... I still see no reason to use it.
927.
by crabbone 3y ago
Yeah... no. This kind of automatic intelligence based on very simple statistical methods is at best annoying and at most harmful. If I had to run such a system and had access to this functionality, my first response would be to disable and
928.
by crabbone 3y ago
Are you sure he was actually Mossad, not some 8200? Israel has mandatory conscription, and 8200 (the army intelligence division) is a very common source for hi-tech companies in security sector.
929.
by crabbone 3y ago
This one: https://pypi.org/project/docker-compose/
930.
by crabbone 3y ago
But I can do that with Shell too. Convenience may depend on how well you know either tool, but I claim that if Python is unnecessary for this task (and you cannot escape having a Shell), then why bother with Python? The gain, if any, seem

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