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by drewda 3y ago
When I first saw TypeSpec, I was interested in it as a way to have a single-source-of-truth for both OpenAPI and GraphQL schemas... but unfortunately though the readme mentions GraphQL, the team at Microsoft didn't actually get around
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by drewda 3y ago
Just as what's damning to C++ is how its security track-record compares to other programming languages available today, it's how the US's current number of roadway deaths and serious injuries compares to other developed natio
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by drewda 3y ago
Would have been more entertaining if the "Oppenheimer" movie had been made about Frank Oppenheimer [1] -- a younger brother of J. Robert and the founder of the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco [2], where Pi Day comes from [3]
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by drewda 3y ago
I get that all of the current generation of front-end/back-end frameworks promised their investors that they'd figure out how to sell developer services, rather than just offer open-source components with some extra commercial sup
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by drewda 3y ago
Many of the technical blog posts that are most up-voted here on HN would be best described as content marketing. That the posts describe something technical is almost incidental to the point of making you aware that the company writing the
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by drewda 3y ago
Now that Sebastian Thrun has succeeded at replacing all American universities with Udacity, he can focus fully on self-driving cars... or little electric aircraft for rich people... or whatever it is that is his next innovation that is guar
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by drewda 3y ago
For what it's worth, Polymaps is probably still my favorite of his creations...
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by drewda 3y ago
The major clouds do offer VMs with fast local storage, such as SSDs connected by NVMe connections directly to the VM host machine: - https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/local-ssd - https://
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by drewda 3y ago
This is practically becoming the sign of whether a Bay Area city or suburb is affluent: whether they have a contract with Flock Safety. Before this SF purchase, they've also sold to Los Altos Hills, Alameda, San Mateo, Palo Alto, Woods
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by drewda 3y ago
For an interesting presentation on Postgres at different orders of magnitude, all the way up to petabytes, see https://thebuild.com/presentations/2019-fosdem-broken.pdf
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What We Owe One Another: The Political Economy of Open Source [video](youtube.com)
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by drewda 3y ago
The California DMV tracks "disengagements" and publishes them annually at https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/auto... The California PUC now requires quarterly reports that are publis
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by drewda 3y ago
Google has had delays trying to design their own processors (for smartphones): https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-googles-effor...
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by drewda 3y ago
We've been using https://github.com/mvisonneau/docker-tailscale/ on k8s clusters. Good to see an official option coming.
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by drewda 3y ago
Apache Foundation provides well-trod legal path for large corporations to release their internal code as open-source. They do have some competition. Linux Foundation is another large non-profit that creates umbrella entities for a bunch of
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by drewda 3y ago
Dagger looks more comparable to Argo Workflows: https://argoproj.github.io/argo-workflows/ That's the first of the Argo projects, which can run multi-step workflows within containers on Kubernetes. For what it&#x2
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by drewda 3y ago
From a New York Times article yesterday about a different natural disaster (the wildfire in Maui): > Natural disasters have often been the focus of disinformation campaigns, allowing bad actors to exploit emotions to accuse governments o
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by drewda 3y ago
Since 37signals has been having challenges hosting SaaS and hiring for dev/ops roles, it naturally makes sense that they'd be looking to shift that operational burden to their customers :) I'm being extra snarky. But I must a
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by drewda 3y ago
Occasionally I wonder what could have happened to front-end web application development over the past few years if Figma had open-sourced their WebGL-based GUI library. We've had ~15 years of focus on the DOM with the progression of jQ
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by drewda 3y ago
Instead of joining in on the argument here, I'll just add the the SF Federal Building itself is somewhat architecturally interesting and contentious. Here's an initial review: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/ar
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by drewda 3y ago
> Most universities have a wait list a mile long, so they're not going to run out of students. Have a look at the stats at https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d22/tables/dt22_305.40.a... Add up t
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by drewda 3y ago
This could be an effect of California law that doesn't allow businesses to expire gift certificates. They have to honor it as long as they're still in business.
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by drewda 3y ago
Yeah, I've been surprised to learn how DocuSign is used by some large corporations and government agencies. It's the system that manages all sorts of forms and workflows within the orgs, not just contracts going outside the org.
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First release of jq in 5 years(github.com)
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by drewda 3y ago
Here in California, I sometimes enjoy looking at the California Independent System Operator daily supply and demand diagrams: https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html A fascinating way to see solar co
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by drewda 3y ago
In some situations it's possible to move the energy consumption closer to the hydro-based power. That's why the major cloud providers all have data centers near the Columbia River.
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by drewda 3y ago
Last I heard, Google staff use Concur to handle travel... there's no escaping SAP (and similarly frustrating enterprise software) in large corporations, even FAANG ones.
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by drewda 3y ago
For what it's worth, I miss Adobe Flex.
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by drewda 3y ago
> Tesla strongly encourages providers to only collect data they need, limited to frequency that they need. If only...
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by drewda 3y ago
For better or worse, there are lots of channels for "no name" apps and gadgets to make money selling location data. See, for example: https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/09/30/theres-a-multibilli

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