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by fizx 4y ago
All 3rd party clients shut down is the best case for twitter. All 3rd party clients migrate their users to Mastodon, while simultaneously solving the UX and approachability problems that have hampered Mastodon, sure seems like the worst cas
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by fizx 4y ago
I've often wanted to extend the https://selectorgadget.com algorithm to be able to do find & replace on code ASTs, instead of the DOM tree. It'd be pretty cool to be able to find-by-example, selecting snippets of c
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by fizx 4y ago
Wheel of Time was made by a team that respects the source material about as much as the team that ruined the last seasons of Game of Thrones. Unfortunately, you're not missing much.
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by fizx 4y ago
This is the problem i hope WebAssembly fixes. 2GB of RAM per microservice is nuts. If we can get this back down to 10-100MB, then maybe we can run a company's dev env from a laptop again.
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by fizx 4y ago
Can we call this Death Star security? Invincible quintillion-dollar project, unless you hit the tiny trash vent at the back of canyon 35.
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by fizx 4y ago
As a sometimes-clever programmer, I find it interesting that Github Copilot is discouraging my inherent cleverness.
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by fizx 4y ago
Really wish we reported the 4.8% number. Seems more reasonable for a monthly report to focus on the changes of the month.
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by fizx 4y ago
There's a great selection of craft non-alcoholic beers on the market these days. My personal favorite is this one: https://athleticbrewing.com/products/downwinder-gose-non-alc...
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by fizx 4y ago
Half the reason people believe Hans was cheating is cause he couldn't do this for the game in question.
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by fizx 4y ago
Anyone 1500+ can recognize the natural move--that's what makes it natural. Probably the easiest case of "natural move but blunder" is anything that is a top 3 engine move when looking 3-5 moves deep, but losing significantly
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by fizx 4y ago
People were saying this stuff when Deep Blue beat Kasparov. Chess is perhaps thriving more than ever.
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by fizx 4y ago
You mentioned your uncompressed binary was 25MB. The compressed version still must be huge. Did you look at using the TinyGo compiler? It should help some, and I'm curious what the difference is, and whether there were any blockers t
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by fizx 4y ago
I've done this solo sprint for a year to get a startup running a few times in my career. The time it worked, I worked 10-4pm (heads down) in the ideation phase, ate well, slept well, got two hours of exercise daily, and had an interest
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by fizx 4y ago
parent-child in lucene is a hack. It only works when the children immediately follow the parent, and that never happens when it's in a different file because you updated the child. It's a minor miracle you didn't notice the
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by fizx 4y ago
There seems to be two groups of protobuf libraries for HTTP 1.1, the ones that want to make it look like binary+HTTP/2 grpc (grpc-web, grpc-gateway), and the ones that make it look like idiomatic web tech (twirp). I'm excited to s
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by fizx 4y ago
I wonder if this works in webassembly?
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by fizx 5y ago
It could be reading and writing to a virtual filesystem in your browser. You could then view the transformed file inside the browser as well.
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by fizx 5y ago
All of the old Java (and ActiveX, ewww) was operating under the principle that you'd grant the applet more permissions than javascript, whereas WASM grants the same or fewer permissions!
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by fizx 5y ago
There's only been one time that did real damage. Talked with a security firm, got an audit, and the bad guy did a good enough job of covering their tracks (did the recon with their account, actual attack over TOR) to make it hard to p
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by fizx 5y ago
Every competitor that has signed up for any service I've been involved with has tried to hack us. Whether it's something relatively benign like some querystring manipulation, or something interesting like an elasticsearch zero-da
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by fizx 5y ago
This is pretty similar to the "pantsers vs plotters" debate in creative writing. Do you need an outline before writing a novel? How much of one?
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by fizx 5y ago
If anyone has a copy of the twitter "#shirt" or the Andy Warhol bird shirt, I'd buy them off you too (lost mine moving sometime).
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by fizx 5y ago
Not at a growing young company. There are cases where a late-stage startup got into too many businesses and the next investor wants them to cut a line of business. Like I can imagine Uber having to shed UberEats if that was going poorly, b
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by fizx 5y ago
This is great, but you might want to have multiple postgreses for the different workloads. DB postgres != rate-limit PG != search PG. It's pretty hard to optimize one DB for every workload.
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by fizx 5y ago
You can host this on a requestor pays S3 bucket.
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by fizx 5y ago
Effectively, this is a pretty cool way to get an OSS version of something like https://www.snowflake.com/guides/public-data . Also something like a lighter version of https://datasette.io/ . The thing i
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by fizx 5y ago
The USA has a philosophy of having loose laws and occasional enforcement. This is partly cultural, and has a lot of negative side effects, particularly for minorites. It's pretty easy to do drugs or drive 5-10mph over the speed limit
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by fizx 5y ago
I use Go because it compiles quickly, the GC is reasonable, the ecosystem is good enough, and it's not rocket science (Scala/Rust/etc). While generics moves Go in the direction of rocket science, it feels like this is solving
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by fizx 5y ago
5 years on Rails, 6 months on next.js+prisma. React is way better on the view side than ERb/HAML/whatever. I miss ActiveRecord. Prisma is relatively clunky. I like having fat models integrated with the DB. It also feels like I&#
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by fizx 5y ago
It's probably more stressful having a camera on you for with thousands of fans offering critical feedback every second. Maybe something like an engineering management role where all you do is share performance reviews?

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