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by dap 3y ago
It's weird to me that people talk about UUIDv4 as bad for databases because of locality. This behavior can be good or bad, depending on what you're doing. Sure, UUIDv4 is worse if you're using it to locate a bunch of relate
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by dap 3y ago
> > The litmus test for panic! vs. Result<T,E> is not rarity of occurrence, it's whether the condition represents a programming bug or a recoverable error. > Because that exact same conceptual separation worked so well f
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GitHub reporting intermittent errors for Git operations(githubstatus.com)
2 points by dap 4y ago|0 comments
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by dap 4y ago
> If operating with the best model you have is intuitive and not logical, then everything in science it intuitive and not logical, so we might have to redefine your use of "logical" to be more useful. Fair enough. The reason I
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by dap 4y ago
> It's absolutely not backwards. But it is. The best population-level guidance (now) is early exposure. We told people to do the opposite. The result was a lot more kids with anaphylaxis-level allergy. (I don't know if this
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by dap 4y ago
I still can’t get over that the official guidelines for years were the opposite of this, and it seems to have led to a tremendous increase in severe peanut allergy. I get that public health organizations have to make recommendations in the
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by dap 4y ago
Not special treatment? The FDIC has been doing this for recent bank failures: https://www.americanbanker.com/opinion/will-fdic-keep-protec...
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by dap 4y ago
You can take phenomenal photos with just about any camera. Also: many photos basically require higher quality or specialized equipment. These statements are not contradictory. And they are actionable: as a beginner, it’s useful to develop g
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by dap 4y ago
As a parent of two young kids in daycare, this feels very disconnected from reality. The most glaring issue is the discussion of childcare providers as though they're totally fungible. Now, I have no idea how representative my experi
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by dap 4y ago
This doesn't match my experience. We've got two young kids. Both went to daycare from an early age (6 months or so). It's been great for everyone. I think there's pretty significant upside to the kids to spending tim
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by dap 4y ago
It's great you don't have trouble. I don't have that confidence yet. I've been using a plant id app to check when I see it and I've gotten it wrong both ways. https://www.verywellfit.com/poison-oak
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by dap 4y ago
Sorry to hear that. That sounds rough. I want this quiz, but for poison oak. There's so much blackberry and other stuff in the bay area that looks awfully similar. I'd rather learn how to reliably identify it than be afraid of
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by dap 4y ago
I’m not sure, but what about the space program in the 1960s?
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by dap 4y ago
What I was trying to get at with the (silly) example is that the time-to-first-execution of a working program on good input might be much faster with something like JS, but the time to have a debugged version that fails gracefully (and clea
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by dap 4y ago
Feel free to weigh my data point as you see fit or ignore it altogether. It differs from the OP’s (which is why I thought it worth mentioning) and their experience is just as valid. To answer your question, I’ve spent the last three years
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by dap 4y ago
I think most of the things that people feel slow them down about using Rust are cases where the language is forcing you to be kind of pedantic about types (and other invariants encoded in the type system). I totally get that. But the idea
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by dap 4y ago
This doesn't match my experience. It took some time to get up to speed, but at this point it's much faster for me to write something in Rust than in other languages that I'm proficient in that are ostensibly faster to develo
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by dap 4y ago
I do get what you're saying. And yes, a credential leak is not _equivalent_ to a compromise. And yes, if you're doing things well, it won't be. (Although I think most people would say one of your layers of defense is breac
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by dap 4y ago
>> Leakage of credentials sure has led to quite a few compromises. > No. > As per my post above, they "led to compromise" because lazy syadmins have been too inept to RTFM and make full use of IAM. You're contradi
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For decades, fear and failure in the hunt for an RSV vaccine. Now, success(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by dap 4y ago|0 comments
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by dap 4y ago
What advantages are you thinking of? The obvious one is that you might want to stream the response rather than construct it in-memory at once. But as I read the parent (and as I've used similar interfaces in Rust), you don't hav
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by dap 4y ago
These primitives can be used to tell you when you're talking to a machine that has not been compromised with a UEFI rootkit.
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by dap 4y ago
It's not necessarily "you" vs. "someone else". You could be one person with two computers and want one computer to be able to attest to the other computer something about its software. (Imagine it's not two c
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TCP Puzzlers (2016)(davepacheco.net)
1 points by dap 4y ago|0 comments
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by dap 4y ago
True Grit Angels in the Outfield
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by dap 4y ago
(edit: sorry, I misread your comment earlier) > That example sounds to me a lot like a university taking on things they shouldn’t need to do, but have to because there’s nothing else to take them on. "should" is pretty load-bea
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by dap 4y ago
> If Charles State spends a million dollars trying to attract Bob, Derek U spends a million and a half, and Bob decides to go to Derek U, Charles State has wasted a million dollars. Furthermore, the fancy new aquatics complex at Derek U
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by dap 4y ago
> The money is going into a bottomless pit of administrative and bureaucratic overhead. Universities are caught up in a zero-sum competition for the top students (and athletes). To attract these students they invest in massive infrastruc
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by dap 4y ago
> Isn’t this in some ways just growing up and directly having experience with the intricacies of a big system? From what I've read, I don't think so. The underlying considerations may not have changed. But societal awareness
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by dap 4y ago
Ugh, that does sound really frustrating. Certainly, people bring up too many overpaid administrators a lot. It's a compelling story too because it's got a well-defined bad guy. I've not seen much depth to the analysis thoug

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