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by hinkley 9mo ago
Orders of complexity don’t give a tinker’s damn about how many other customers you have.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
When one customer is 50 times bigger than your average customer then sharding doesn't do much.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Exactly. Once the market tastes like lemonade, everyone will be afraid of trying new apps in the way that they are afraid to accept phone calls from unknown numbers now. You will trade initial development budget for advertising budget, tryi
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Autocorrect makes us all sound like jackasses these days. Have some pity.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
There's a few months every year when I'm feeling brave or crazy. We could take turns. The thing is that most supply chain attacks are going to hit you when you are least prepared to deal with them, because that's exactly how
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by hinkley 9mo ago
These roles are on-site, post is not marked.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Those have always looked so unwieldy to me. What an excellent way to lose a limb.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
This reminds me of college, when some of my professors were still sorting out their curriculum and would give us homework assignments with bugs in it. I complained many times that they were enabling my innate procrastination by proving over
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by hinkley 9mo ago
As a way to keep kids from accidentally making a granny knot instead, which will not stay tied, it's pretty decent.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
There's a lot of things going on that lead to this. One, the developers spend more time running this code than we do, and they have to get the program working before we can even use it. So any parts of the program that are hostile to t
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by hinkley 9mo ago
There are some databases that can move an entire column into the index. But that's mostly going to work for schemas where the number of distinct values is <<< rowcount, so that you're effectively interning the rows.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
The carriers were taking about 70% in tariffs and fees even without you bribing them to get better positioning. That’s why all the mobile app people rushed to Apple in the early days. They could actually turn a profit on the App Store. If p
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I think we can all agree that the world would be a better place if Elon made time for his kids instead of whatever the fuck it is he’s been doing.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Metros are in tunnels. There’s only so much gridlock you can avoid without going above or below grade. I was shocked when I moved to Seattle and they had no subway system. It was made even worse by being crammed up against a tall hill with
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Because it’s boring.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I think I read somewhere that the model T went something like 12 years without substantial changes to its design. Ford wouldn’t have known about The Innovator’s Dilemma and possibly not about Sunk Cost Fallacy. Deming had to go to Japan to
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by hinkley 9mo ago
It’s almost as if a company would be better off having a CEO who wasn’t also the CEO of four other companies while also dabbling in geopolitics.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Generally you’d like the variable to imply a call to action. Even if the call to action is for a feature still in the backlog. Over time I’ve developed some tricks that invite people to add features to the code in the “right” place, and thi
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I find the thesaurus helps a lot with this. Actually more than just naming, because often a word in the synonym list will stand out as a more accurate representation of the concept you’re trying to add to the code, in a way that reveals sub
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I’ve seen this enough now to consider it a trope instead of a coincidence. There’s that one or two guys on the team who may be noteworthy in their math clever but only high school reading level, who use the same word in three parts of the c
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by hinkley 9mo ago
You can do both. The noise is often what hides the bug in the first place. Aim for more straightforward code and the bug will often surface. For a while when Node was switching to async from promise chains, people would bring me code or tes
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I’d like to see someone try AI guided property based testing. The random walk could take a long time ti notice problems with code. I’d trust AI more if it brought proof instead of speculation
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by hinkley 9mo ago
What I’ve found is that, particularly with internal customers, they’re fine with an hour a month, possibly several, as long as not all of your eggs are in one basket . The centralization pushes make a situation where if I have a task to do
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Gzip will make most line protocols efficient enough that you can do away with needing to write a cryptic one that will just end up being friction every time someone has to triage a production issue. Zstd will do even better. The real one-tw
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by hinkley 9mo ago
No they definitely did more tracks, but it seems to be a smaller multiplier than I recalled. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/12768/wha... 2-5% more tracks, 12.5% more sectors.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Somehow I have a definition of The Last Responsible Moment that is both less and more urgent than most people's.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Ethernet is usually two pair, but cat5 has four. When I moved into a new apartment building I found all the phones were cat5 wiring so I was able to redo three of the outlets to do phone and an ethernet jack, then put a switch in the coat c
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by hinkley 9mo ago
They resisted hardware RNG when it first was introduced. Brian Cantrill is trying to end this nonsense but we shall see if they end up being the lone voice or not.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I’m sure there was a time in my life I would have taken those two sentences to mean the same thing but that time is long past.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
If you don’t think Intel put back doors into that then I fear for the future.

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