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by crdrost 4y ago
As fuel for thought, consider that when python was being upgraded from 2 to 3, shipping lots and lots and lots of new features, and breaking several old ones, there were many libraries which supported both versions. Some of them may have fu
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by crdrost 4y ago
That definition of strong coupling is in fact standard. Like if you ask people why they don't want strong coupling they tell you exactly that when you change a strongly coupled thing you induce bugs far away from the thing you changed,
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by crdrost 4y ago
I agree that we need to at least name nanoservices -- microservices that are "too small". Like surely we can all agree that if your current microservices were 100x smaller, so that each handled exactly one property of whatever
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by crdrost 4y ago
They almost get to this with some of their lighting demos -- the real joyous experience with this sort of lighting effect is to turn on a tiny bit of fog "dust" in some sort of big spacious building like a cathedral, and see the s
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by crdrost 4y ago
That's totally fair but the tooling is still not where you'd like it. In theory, there's no reason that you shouldn't be able to backtrace from the website to the filesystem. If you can do that, then your "it reload
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by crdrost 4y ago
> If you wanted to go about proving (even to yourself) that you are not, say, an extremely advanced ML algorithm running on a system that provided synthetic inputs in the form of your senses, how would you go about it? Well, since an ext
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by crdrost 4y ago
The metaproblem is that you're thinking of this as a systems problem, the people who irk you are thinking of it as isolated—an isolated closed-box test, no less. Like, most people in this discussion would not think of mental-health the
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by crdrost 4y ago
So the whole topic is not terribly hard to understand. When you see return f(x', y', z') in some function g, then g's stack frame just describes a forwarding proxy, “let me take the value returned by f and hand
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by crdrost 4y ago
A nice talk at kubecon last year spoke about visualizing protocols and more complex multi-party exchanges. The suggestion it made was to look across module boundaries or microservice boundaries, while making a particular request. So I go to
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by crdrost 4y ago
For real. I’m with the Romans, 18 might be the age we let you drink but you shouldn't consider yourself an adult until at least 25. If you're 28 and worried you've wasted anything... Wow.. you're literally only in your
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by crdrost 4y ago
This is one of the most famous burnout stories, hah > Then I had another thought: Physics disgusts me a little bit now, but I used to enjoy doing physics. Why did I enjoy it? I used to play with it. I used to do whatever I felt like d
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by crdrost 4y ago
I mean there's no great way, the list of tools you might deploy is very long though: (1) Don't solve the problem, trust the user to figure it out. This is the default (update rows and if the data updates underneath someone then to
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by crdrost 4y ago
That is a fascinating use of idempotence, bravo!
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by crdrost 4y ago
Hi, Shabang! Good on you for asking this question. If you are looking for a sign that you are not conceited, asking “am I too conceited?” is a great first signal that you are not. You ask how you can get feedback when you intimidate others
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by crdrost 4y ago
Hi, Shabang! Good on you for asking this question. If you are looking for a sign that you are not conceited, asking “am I too conceited?” is a great first signal that you are not. You ask how you can get feedback when you intimidate others
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by crdrost 4y ago
What works for me: 1. Breathe. Panic attacks for me require deep breaths, drinking a bottle of water, drinking a cup of tea/coffee, or other familiar comforting experiences. Buzzword to Google here is «parasympsthetic nervous system».
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by crdrost 4y ago
The “notability” criterion on Wikipedia is remarkably slippery. In theory, it is objective. There should be no real question about it. It is a synonym for something like “evidenceable,” “researchable,” or “verifiable.” Something is ‘notable
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by crdrost 4y ago
If you want an altogether nerdier name maybe call it Wittgenstein syndrome? Drury reports a conversation with the famed philosopher: > So the next day when we were alone I asked Wittgenstein to tell me more about Kierkegaard. Wittgenstei
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by crdrost 4y ago
Yes and it's even worse than you think... The characters are not even raw characters, they are “boxed” into data structures and then the linked-list code guards them with a “thunk,” so “If I have computed this char return the cached ch
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by crdrost 4y ago
For those who are wondering, the best description I have seen is on wikiwikiweb, https://wiki.c2.com/?TransactionProcessingMonitor The essential idea is apparently to have a central server which does not know your applicati
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by crdrost 4y ago
Oh wow. That is really not very much pain, as described. I have to say, I never thought that the benefit of Haskell having a horrible native string type would be "you can just upgrade strings like any other dependency," which is r
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by crdrost 4y ago
There's a footnote somewhere in there, I think to the effect that what later came to be called m-expressions were originally called f-expressions? Hence the weird terminology.
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by crdrost 4y ago
I mean in the broadest sense that's a cultural question and most big online platforms have decided that it is their place—Facebook and Twitter in particular—because of pressures from the public. In a much, much narrower sense, we are
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by crdrost 4y ago
I just want to point out that this attitude is actually strictly rational. Suppose you have a credit card that is not yet at its limit, and you are not accumulating late fees... you can buy a $200 TV in exchange for paying $5/mo in per
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by crdrost 5y ago
If the objection were to parenthood, which is to say if nurtureboard or parentboard were similarly offensive, then I agree this would have been a stupid stupid choice. The problem is that you had a motherboard and daughter boards, those wer
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by crdrost 5y ago
There's a whole database, Datomic, that works roughly this way -- not the UDP multicast but the idea of having a slightly more nuanced consistency/availability/partition tolerance tradeoff by having a thin transaction organiz
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by crdrost 5y ago
I feel like they just had an odd look to them, they are a KF94 design recertified as N95. But if you find them comfy when they make a good seal, that's what counts. Some of the comfort may also be the breathability, Auras have a pretty
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by crdrost 5y ago
I fell so hard for Morrowind and then Oblivion just wasn't engaging at all, felt like I never got anywhere, I certainly didn't get into any of the main quest like I would have liked. But yeah the graphics are awful and enabling th
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by crdrost 5y ago
I only think I see one thing that stands out... > For example, instead of using using the term "Bachelor" or "Bachelorette", this term can be replaced with the word gender-neutral word "Baccalaureate". Thi
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by crdrost 5y ago
They might be the least gameable, but this is kind of a “bare minimum” for diversity/equity practices. It is the cheapest way to get little bit of reliable signal. Because let's be clear about the standardized test situation. Test

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