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by dbrueck 3y ago
Oh, I'm not defending their approach per se - I don't want another subscription at that price point either - I'm just saying that it's not as simple as it appears on the surface because the alternate approach has a direc
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by dbrueck 3y ago
I hear you, but it's also really hard from the service provider's perspective because - for many people at least - the allotment of searches starts to become a hinderance on using it. By making it feel a finite resource, some perc
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by dbrueck 3y ago
I think that's true, at least officially, but IIRC the ATF came about in the 1800s as part of the Treasury Department, i.e. "managing" those things in the sense of taxation/revenue first more than policing, the latter no
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> They are both completely optional lifestyle choice. Kind of like alcohol, right? (which has nearly 4x the annual deaths vs firearms)
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Sort of interesting, but the whole setup is oddly misleading: "Smoking and firearms are among the leading causes of avoidable premature death in the United States" The statement is true for smoking but it takes some work to make i
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> The real question is, did C++ give you any real ROI either? We actually moved most of everything that was in BP (and a good bit of what was in C++) to Python, so it addressed all of our issues while also speeding up development and, so
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Earlier this year we completed a huge refactor that involved, among other things, getting us almost 100% off blueprints (now we use them just for little bits of presentation logic in UIs). BPs are amazing for discovering how to use the engi
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by dbrueck 3y ago
To each his own, but it sounds like you're overlooking the opportunity cost, which is potentially massive.
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by dbrueck 3y ago
https://www.readtangle.com/
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Hmm... apologies, but it seems like we're talking past each other. You thought that Svelte used a " completely custom template language that doesn’t even look like HTML ", and I replied that no, compared to something like R
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by dbrueck 3y ago
No, and that's one of the things that's really nice, at least for our team: we really want our web designers to own the HTML/CSS from start to finish. If you use something like React (i.e. where there is code that emits chunk
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by dbrueck 3y ago
In many cases, compared to what people were using before, it really is that good. That's not to say it doesn't have its flaws, but when people talk about how it's cleaner, they can dev and debug faster, it takes less of a cog
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> What I want is Javascript helper library that's easy to jump back into YMMV, but this is precisely why I've standardized on svelte both for work and hobby projects. There are times when I've come back to project that I h
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by dbrueck 3y ago
The files are named '.svelte' because each one encapsulates the relevant Javascript, HTML, and styles. But why do you want the vdom exactly? Like, what does it give you? Seems like its presence is more an implementation detail of
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Yes, this drives me crazy. I particularly hate the trope where the plot hinges on two characters having a huge misunderstanding that would be resolved by a 5 second conversation.
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by dbrueck 3y ago
I visited the Louvre a few months ago and the tour guide said the news coverage of the theft (spoiler: a Louvre employee took it) is what catapulted the painting to become one of the most well-known paintings in the entire world. I suppose
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Isn't MQTT more of a standard than an implementation?
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by dbrueck 3y ago
I think I'm in the same boat as you, but can you articulate the 'why' behind that sentiment? (saying it's "on principle" could also be a way to not have to address that question, haha) As in, if someone created
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by dbrueck 3y ago
A root of the problem is using economic models for physical items with digital goods and services. IMO the most sensical low level* economic model for digital things would be one where you pay a really tiny amount every time you derive val
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by dbrueck 3y ago
It's a false sense of security. At a $bigCo, your entire division might disappear tomorrow because the Board wants to cut costs. A shift in perspective might help: instead of tying "stability" to time at a particular company,
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> The point is, if you don't need the rigor of a strongly typed compiled language This has nothing to do with strongly typed compiled languages vs alternatives.
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by dbrueck 3y ago
I stopped using Java a long time ago, and so I assume the language has gotten better since then, but early on at least it felt like Java almost took pride in making the developer jump through extra hoops. Compared to many other languages, u
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Not the OP, but I've had great success w/ rclone + backblaze.
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Sorry, who is saying those two are the same?
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> Splitting thousands of hours of video into 1-2s chunks, uploading them to s3 Eh, that's a separate thing - that's how modern streaming works, i.e. it's what allowed streaming to become really, really good, and it's
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by dbrueck 3y ago
My OCD begs that you get rid of the dot representing the day before you were born, thus fixing that final line with one lonely dot on it.
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by dbrueck 3y ago
In isolation, I love the idea. I don't have a strong sense of how the tradeoffs would affect things in practice though. Perhaps they are not a big deal, but if they are too restrictive, then maybe the next best thing would be to have a
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by dbrueck 3y ago
I'm one of those people. :) Well, it's not so much that I prefer no explicit types, I just dislike how most languages require you to specify them, and to do so at the least opportune time, so I end up preferring languages that d
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> for all I know there is some amazing pocket somewhere that I can have it all IME there is a pretty large middle band between the extremes of urban and the boondocks where you can come really close to having it all. It's easiest to
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Ditto!

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