darkmarmot

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1. 31.▲
   by darkmarmot 3y ago

   He's saying that tidally locked bodies are products of simple physics and you can't extrapolate deeper meanings from them.
2. 32.▲
   by darkmarmot 3y ago

   With nanoplastics, ocean acidification, global heating, rising sea levels, falling crop yields and the related Holocene extinction at work, I think AI is going to have to play a serious game of catchup.
3. 33.▲
   by darkmarmot 3y ago

   Religion is a helluva drug.
4. 34.▲
   by darkmarmot 3y ago

   It's a tiny fraction of what we already emit -- above the tropopause and, you know, weather? The primary concern is related to ozone damage.
5. 35.▲
   by darkmarmot 3y ago

   As someone who went to school for this, no. Mammals evolved to survive colder conditions. Going hotter and with higher CO2 is not going to be awesome for our biology.
6. 36.▲
   by darkmarmot 3y ago

   Especially since human brains suffer significant cognitive effects above 1,000ppm.
7. 37.▲
   by darkmarmot 3y ago

   I have NEVER met a recruiter that seemed technically savvy at even the most minimal level. That's kind of astounding.
8. 38.▲
   by darkmarmot 3y ago

   Many systems have lots of leaders to handle concurrency. Ours has millions of them for instance.
9. 39.▲
   by darkmarmot 3y ago

   Better: shows like "The Boys" at least provide a gruesome window into "realistic" superhero behavior in a corporate hellscape.
10. 40.▲
    by darkmarmot 3y ago

    We use it across multiple versions of our software running in the same cluster. As long as you dark launch API changes, it's not much of an issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ0CvjAJXz4 (Doh, just realized I was r
11. 41.▲
    by darkmarmot 3y ago

    Well, you can focus on doing 1x and browsing the web most of the time! :)
12. 42.▲
    by darkmarmot 3y ago

    Have you tried doing this with distributed computing? It's not very feasible...
13. 43.▲
    by darkmarmot 3y ago

    Laws that preclude the existence of billionaires...
14. 44.▲
    by darkmarmot 3y ago

    Lower death rate in hospitals by sending sick people to hospice! https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/doctors-say-hca-h...
15. 45.▲
    by darkmarmot 3y ago

    I don't throw it away, I keep it as a reference. But for anything interesting, I might rewrite from "scratch" three times easily.
16. 46.▲
    by darkmarmot 3y ago

    We could replace alcohol with GHB. Done.
17. 47.▲
    by darkmarmot 3y ago

    We use hot code reloading because taking our system down for any length of time could kill people (real time medical software).
18. 48.▲
    by darkmarmot 3y ago

    We run a distributed cluster of 32 Elixir nodes across 4 data centers. Typically, we do rolling deployments -- but when we need a fast fix for something, pushing patches against the live system is real life saver!
19. 49.▲
    by darkmarmot 3y ago

    Thank you! I worked quite a bit on the HL7 one! And I started on one for FHIR - but it's such a pain to work with I put it aside and considered releasing it as DumpsterFHIR or TrashFHIR. I don't think the company would be keen on
20. 50.▲
    by darkmarmot 3y ago

    We’ve actually released multiple open source Elixir libraries (I wrote the HL7 one, but one for MLLP - those are for medical messaging). My coworker has done several talks on the system, one linked here: https://www.erlang-soluti
21. 51.▲
    by darkmarmot 3y ago

    I’m not aware of another systems language that pulls off nine nines of reliability. Having been paid to write Java, C#, and Elixir systems, I’ve found the BEAM to provide vastly better fault tolerance. My current project has requirements fo
22. 52.▲
    by darkmarmot 3y ago

    If the success of Cisco, Whatsapp, Discord and nine nines worth of uptime isn't enough... you can link to our stodgy Fortune 100 company using it successfully! https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/how-hca-healthca
23. 53.▲
    by darkmarmot 3y ago

    We sold it to our Fortune 100. Our Elixir application tracks a fair percentage of healthcare patients across the US in real-time, can handle loss of systems or data centers with zero downtime, data loss or interruption and we update it live
24. 54.▲
    by darkmarmot 4y ago

    Clarence Thomas actually dissented on this and said it was crazy.
25. 55.▲
    by darkmarmot 4y ago

    I'm gonna assume it just lies based on the jurisdiction.
26. 56.▲
    by darkmarmot 4y ago

    So what advantages to comprehension or usability would you like to offer over Elixir? (as it doesn't really focus on type/category theory like most other FP languages)
27. 57.▲
    by darkmarmot 4y ago

    I'm not that sensitive and have loved recruiting code games/challenges put out by other companies (like Scribd's AI recruiting game way back...) I was just noting that when I shared this link with my extended team, there was
28. 58.▲
    by darkmarmot 4y ago

    Looks fun and interesting. I will say your recruiting call at the end made some of the devs where I work swear off your service... I think there have been enough scams in this vein that it rubs certain people in a bad way.
29. 59.▲
    by darkmarmot 4y ago

    Inelastic demand is one oft cited trait.
30. 60.▲
    by darkmarmot 4y ago

    It's interesting because I work for a Fortune 100 at which most of the software challenges are related to scale (or sadly data quality...) A lot of vendor and startup systems that try to work with us fail because they simply can't