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by harrall 2y ago
System design is about connecting together black boxes that meet requirements. A black box is something with a certain defined behavior but you don’t necessarily care how it works. Imagine if you got tasked with building an airport but you’
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Two hyphens (-) make a em dash (—) on Apple devices and many word processors. In the pre-Unicode days, people would use two hyphens (--) to simulate em dashes.
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I have a higher end dye-based EcoTank (ET-8550) and I absolutely love it. Absolutely sips ink. I also actually have a Brother color laserjet too (HL-L8360CDW). Between those two, I get a LOT of projects done. They are both reliable workhors
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If I’m going to be the devil’s advocate, it’s probably better for performance. When I maintained a hook-based plugin system, I learned that many programmers do not know data structures or algorithms and would slow down the whole software by
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Two things: I think people forget (or don’t know) that adding data storage system to your architecture also involves management, scaling, retention, and backup. It’s not free. And second, sometimes you do need to invest in storage to permit
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I dislike any politics or clickbait too and it doesn’t come back. I have no complaints about my Instagram and YouTube feeds. They give good recommendations.
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By locked down I mean everything requires authentication (and authorization), everything is containerized, and I have fairly strict firewall defaults. Let me explain what I mean by low maintenance... I was a very early containerization ado
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In California, you can just scan with the app. I don’t even play the game on the scratcher sometimes.
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For me, Tailscale is worth the trouble of not maintaining my own Wireguard setup. Everything on my home network is set up as if it were public-facing.
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I own a monitor color calibration tool and my Apple devices have fairly been well calibrated out of the box. And even if your users may not use color calibrated monitors, you’re still better off picking the correct color on a calibrated mon
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A few ibuprofen and anti-diarrhea pills can make a world of difference, save you from ruining your whole day on a potentially short trip, and they take up no space.
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Walk through your typical preferred travel day when traveling to build a checklist. “I’m going to be on a plane for 14 hours,” “I need to get ready for bed at night,” “I am going to walk through the city” or “I am doing a wilderness hike.”
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Freedom from someone stopping me from owning cannabis plants (“negative”) vs. freedom to sow and plant cannabis seeds (“positive”). The distinction between negative vs. positive freedom sounds like word play to me.
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Iridium and other satellite companies also went bankrupt and their satellites were going to be de-orbited until the US Government bailed them out in the 2000s. They couldn’t get enough customers to support enough launches. Terrestrial netwo
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Yeah that's true. Also, you, as the query writer, know how much the table has and will have and sometimes you decide what to do based on that information too.
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Plain transpiling won’t work because when you write a SQL query, you have to know what engine is running it because they all do worse at some things than others. For example, the same result could be fetched using a correlated subquery, a c
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Really depends on your wiring and what’s on the circuit. Using powerline as a single point-to-point in 2018 worked flawlessly for me with 0 drop outs, 0 latency problems, and 0 throughput problems for 4+ years and then my lines changed and
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That would be the adaptation I’m talking about.
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But we already know. I think people arguing about AI being good versus bad are wasting their breath. Both sides are equally right. History tells us the industrial revolution both revolutionized humanity’s relative quality of life while also
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Probably. My area used to be a T-Mobile dead zone 5 years ago. I also have Verizon. Choice of service varies based on location heavily from my experience. I’m a long time big time camper and I’ve driven through most corners of most Western
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5G can be extremely fast. I get 600 MBit over cellular at home. …and we only pay for 500 MBit for my home fiber. (Granted, also 500 Mbit upload.) (T-Mobile, Southern California)
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WASM is another VM and it reminds me of the difficulty that the JVM has faced. You can write-once-run-once a lot of languages like Ruby or JavaScript on the JVM and some of the runtimes are pretty good. But the rest of the community prefers
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Don’t work for Apple but some bugs just take a lot of work to identify. I work on a well trafficked consumer product and even though I have a full latitude to fix bugs at my job, I will wait weeks for the right report to come in to make it
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I think it depends 100% on the person. I’ve met people who haven’t solved a partial differential equation in 10 years and still remember how to do it whereas some people barely remember the library they used last week and have to keep a mou
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Yeah, you need know your audience and make different diagrams for different reasons and different people. Once you come at it like “I want to teach someone this concept and have them enjoy the journey,” you’ll make ungodly good presentation
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Japan has some awesome public transit but at the end of the day, people talk about Japan as if it was just Tokyo. A non-American who has only visited NYC or Chicago might think that America as a whole had good decent public transit. I’ve be
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If an older web developer rants about abstraction, they will target React developers. If a Python dev rants about abstraction, they will target older web developers. If a C++ application dev rants about abstractions, they will target Python
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What made TikTok (and reels) effective was that it also added personalized discovery. Most other social media services focused on showing stuff you that were either already subscribed to or were very similar to it. At some point, you woul
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Even if you were the 99% user, the ribbon solved the problem with toolbars. Word had like 20 different toolbars. If you wanted to work with tables, you had to open the Table toolbar. If you wanted to work with WordArt, you opened the WordAr
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Punk and skateboarding may have been commodified but if you still go to shows or go skate, it’s still filled with kids (and now adults) just having fun. And now within subcultures are sub-subcultures. Within skateboarding, everyone hangs wi

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