dkersten

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by dkersten 5y ago
> Degraded performance is what it says. Things that took 20s are currently taking 60s. Things that took 60s are now taking 180s. Things are going slower. Maybe by a constant factor. Maybe exponentially. It wasn't a performance issue
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by dkersten 5y ago
Well, I wasn't able to push to one of my repositories, even though I tried many times. So it was effectively out for me, not "degraded". Partial Outage, like what the status grid said, seems much more accurate. But this goes
813.
by dkersten 5y ago
> Update - Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. I hate that companies are saying degraded performance for "its not working at all" (even if only for some people). That's
814.
by dkersten 5y ago
And even then, I've often heard it stated as "zero cost if you don't use it", eg, exceptions have zero runtime cost unless an exception is actually thrown, so, given that they should only be thrown in exceptional cases
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by dkersten 5y ago
Do we know that people affected by the opioid epidemic are not otherwise affected too? For example, given the past experiences that I mentioned previously, I could see how if I had been on opioids at the time, that I could have perhaps beco
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by dkersten 5y ago
> just by requiring a compiler with the right output, How is that different from a compiler that generates JVM bytecode? Yes, the bytecode was designed specifically for Java's needs, but running languages that weren't designed
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by dkersten 5y ago
Java, Kotlin, Clojure, Scala, Groovy More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages It accepts any language that compiles to JVM bytecode. Java is just one of them. Just like an x86 processor accepts an
818.
by dkersten 5y ago
That's interesting and now that you mention it, yeah, that totally makes sense.
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by dkersten 5y ago
Reminds me of this TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY9DcIMGxMs "Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong" , where he asserts that addiction isn't caused by the things we typically cor
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by dkersten 5y ago
I agree. It takes a lot to create something that you know you likely won't see the fruits of. Its certainly a great thing to strive and work towards, but many people seem to think he'll have us on Mars in a decade such that we can
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by dkersten 5y ago
From what I've read about people using Ketamine for antidepression, they tend to use a very small dose at as long an interval as possible while still being effective, while the reports of bladder damage seem to be when people use large
822.
by dkersten 5y ago
> and now ketamine Ketamine has been in medical use for a long time as an anesthetic and has also been shown to be beneficial for depression in recent years. Its not "now" Ketamine.
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by dkersten 5y ago
Mars isn’t a short term solution. The best we’ve had so far is a human in space for a year and he said it was hell. I can’t imagine mars would be any different, it will take a gigantic effort to construct a colony that is better than a clim
824.
by dkersten 5y ago
To become a billionaire, of course! I mean, yeah, I wouldn't care, life's too short not to use the money for something.
825.
by dkersten 5y ago
Bubble security sounds like a good idea. You know, put everything into its own isolated little bubble.
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by dkersten 5y ago
Besides, you could also live as if you make a million and still have 74 million a year after tax to save.
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by dkersten 5y ago
> Linux kernel is large project and clearly C is sufficient for it Sure, and operating systems have been written in assmebly too. The question is whether it would be better than just sufficient if Linux were written in C++, today (ie C++
828.
by dkersten 5y ago
Seems that they're doing just what they were intended to: proving ownership, nothing more. Having said that, yes, I think building a concept of royalties in would have been a good idea.
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by dkersten 5y ago
I meant more human-to-human selling of your soul, as an alternative to selling on ebay. Doesn't even require you to believe in the supernatural.
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by dkersten 5y ago
Surely the modern way to sell your soul online is through NFTs?
831.
by dkersten 5y ago
That’s just the simplest and most common method.
832.
by dkersten 5y ago
> There was no sure proof she did it Exactly. And yet she was treated as one by the media and justice system. She even spent time in prison for it. Even though there was no proof she did it. > nor that she was innocent There's n
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by dkersten 5y ago
The article explains this, that Tom McCarthy mentioned her in a Vanity Fair promotional interview. Nobody said they put it on posters or anything.
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by dkersten 5y ago
> The reason is that it's a different kind of practice than day-to-day corporate stuff With some of these big companies, litigation almost seems like its part of their day-to-day though.
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by dkersten 5y ago
He was at least an excellent spanish teacher, who can't be killed.
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by dkersten 5y ago
I would add to what you said by saying that coding (that is, actually writing the code) may be easy enough and you can even get useful stuff made easily enough, but as I said in the github copilot discussions, writing code is usually the
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by dkersten 5y ago
On that last point, I would respond pretty erratically too if my house disappeared and nobody would tell me what happened, bipolar or not.
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by dkersten 5y ago
I was about to comment the same thing. I’ve always hated medium and refrain from reading stuff there when possible (Medium required me to unblock too much on my Adblock) but lately they’ve been outright refusing to show me the content witho
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by dkersten 5y ago
Sure, agreed. That’s why I said “Test common mistakes due to user error. Stuff like that that.” My main point is that it’s unrealistic to expect human QA to find bugs, but what humans shine at that computers don’t is workflow issues, visual
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by dkersten 5y ago
> 90% of the "unit tests" that I've observed in the wild are checking for things that a modern type system would easily prevent you from doing. I'm a heavy Clojure user, so I often hear how static types are unnecessar

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