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by eadmund 3y ago
> Do you have any resources showing what an API client for a "true REST" system would look like? … The idea of a computer application that has no context beyond an entry URL and a media type (text/html) is pretty hard for
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by eadmund 3y ago
> If the key principle of REST is one that is incompatible with computer clients Don’t worry, it’s not. While some hypermedia is intended for humans, there is no reason a hypermedia might not be targeted at computers instead.
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by eadmund 3y ago
> Ever since I have tried to think “can I solve this problem in a way that reuses known conventions or do I really, really have to do something different?” The answer, once I can control my ego, is nearly always “I don’t need to do somet
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by eadmund 3y ago
> I guess I don't understand what people want out of the fake image generator. Plausible images. > It will never produce anything historically accurate as a visual medium, because the images never existed. Is there any photograph
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by eadmund 3y ago
For the most part, a great article. But: > If most references to doctors in the corpus are men, and most references to nurses are women, the models will discover this in their training and reflect or even enhance these biases. To editor
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by eadmund 3y ago
> While permalancing at Vice’s tech pub Motherboard I was paid a whopping $300 per story to write 382 articles over five years, covering everything from the death of local journalism and the empty hype surrounding 5G, to regulatory captu
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by eadmund 3y ago
> if you are seen as part of the ethnic group in power, you will not be able to experience noteworthy levels of discrimination That is not a crazy idea, but it does raise the question: who is the ethnic group currently in power? Again
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by eadmund 3y ago
Rankine enters the chat … For those unaware, degrees Rankine are the same size as degrees Fahrenheit, but counting from absolute zero. It’s the English analogue to the French system’s Kelvin.
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by eadmund 3y ago
History? George Washington was always Black, Genghis Khan was always white, and Julius Caesar was always an albino Japanese woman. Also, Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia, war is peace and freedom is slavery. From my more substa
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by eadmund 3y ago
'go run cmd/COMMAND' is what I like best. I normally don’t bother descending further than the root of a project in the shell because all my other interactions are in Emacs rather than a terminal (I rarely use the shell in
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by eadmund 3y ago
The Ministry of Truth in Orwell’s 1984 would have loved this sort of thing. Why go to the work of manually rewriting history when you can just generate a new one on demand? It is disturbing how much of our sense of reality is based on medi
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by eadmund 3y ago
Plan 9 does so very much right. On Linux, namespaces are a mess of complexity which waited for Docker to make them usable; on Plan 9, a container runtime is basically a shell script. I suspect that Plan 9 would be a more stable underlying
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by eadmund 3y ago
> These are some pretty big things to posit without some citations. They really should be common knowledge. Among many other examples: the Chrysler bailout violated the Takings and Due Process clauses; the use of the IRS to persecute po
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by eadmund 3y ago
OTOH, online authentication doesn’t necessarily even need a tag at that point, right? If invisible or at least imperceptible the particles could just be permanently applied.
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by eadmund 3y ago
I don’t think it makes more sense — to be honest, the Linux behaviour seems like a bug and the Plan 9 semantics seem to be what is or ought to be intended.
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I don’t think that’s true. The development of the Tea Party comprised several causes: the anti-constitutional attitudes of the Obama administration; Mr. Obama’s personal anti-American character; the general incompetence of the Obama adminis
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by eadmund 3y ago
> So, not fun, not rewarding, no intellectual challenge, no career benefit. Why exactly should I want to do it? … why exactly should I go above and beyond what I agreed to in exchange for my salary? I think that delivering a solution w
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by eadmund 3y ago
I agree with the majority of this with respect to simplicity in general, and only really take issue with this bit, about GraphQL: > • Our various apps (user app, support app, Wave agent app, etc.) can mostly share one API, reducing compl
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by eadmund 3y ago
> A mistake GitLab made, and continued to make when I left, was not caring enough about scalability. Yes, directors would say it was important and improvements were certainly made, but it was never as much of a priority as other goals. A
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by eadmund 3y ago
> Startups don’t have the luxury of a DBA … I understand, but I think they don’t have the luxury of not having a DBA. Data is important; it’s arguably more important than code. Someone needs to own thinking about data, whether it i
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by eadmund 3y ago
Oh, now that is beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
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From my point of view, there are several of reasons: • It’s just not necessary. The Web is, at its heart, about resources and actions on them. Those resources are mostly documents. There is just no need to execute a Turing-complete progr
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by eadmund 3y ago
In my experience, there is nothing like being in a room with a team. There is something about the physicality of presence, the way the communication has both lower latency (because it is not intermediated by electronics) and higher bandwid
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by eadmund 3y ago
I wouldn’t suggest a competitor in that line of business, because it’s not a line of business which should exist: fundamentally, it represents a firm wanting to bring in another firm to engage in its core line of business for it, because it
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by eadmund 3y ago
Because there is less entropy in 40 characters of public key than there is in 40 characters of cryptographic hash of a public key.
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by eadmund 3y ago
> going to war, especially on such a weak pretext. Weak pretext? Serbia had funded the terrorist assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. It’s difficult to imagine a stronger reason to go to war. Germany’s misbehav
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by eadmund 3y ago
> After Brexit, the blanket got lifted and I started seeing teeth. I’ve seen that same regression here in the U.S. It started in late 2016, and got significantly worse with the pandemic. We’re in a very dangerous period in history. It’
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by eadmund 3y ago
I agree with the substantive point that these DRM-enabled shenanigans are a bad thing but I think putting things this way is unproductive: > I proposed that all Wired endorsements for DRM-encumbered products should come with this disclai
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by eadmund 3y ago
I am a professional software developer. Half of my team use Emacs to write Go. Our workflow integrates perfectly well with the non-Emacs-users: we commit our code, push it &c. It’s an editor like any other (just IMNSHO better). I rea
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by eadmund 3y ago
> What you wrote puts a shiver down my spine. If I can't disclaim any sort of warranty, and my FOSS has a bug which a company incorrectly thinks is nefarious code, what defense do I have should that company decide to sue me? I am no

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