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by hliyan 2y ago
Almost everything looks positive. Only thing not mentioned: cycle times before degradation starts.
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by hliyan 2y ago
There was an earlier discussion on HN about whether advertising should be more heavily regulated (or even banned outright). I'm starting to wonder whether most of the problems on the Web are negative side effects of the incentives crea
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by hliyan 2y ago
Inclined to agree. Consider that a singleton dependency is essentially a global, and differs from a traditional global, only in that the reference is kept in a container and supplied magically via a constructor variable. Also consider that
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by hliyan 2y ago
(1) is entirely believable because our brains evolved as a prediction engine that can help increase the survivability of its owner. So it's understandable that it over-indexes on threats.
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by hliyan 2y ago
This reminds me of one of the most interesting bugs I've faced: I was responsible for developing the component that provided away market data to the core trading system of a major US exchange (which allows the trading system to determi
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by hliyan 2y ago
I have to agree. Evolution seems to have placed human empathy on a spectrum -- some have a lot of it and perform caregiver functions within a community, others have less of it and tend to perform defensive function. While we may not have ph
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by hliyan 2y ago
Meanwhile where I live (Sri Lanka), we're all able to directly file our taxes with the Inland Revenue Department: https://eservices.ird.gov.lk . It's called RAMIS. It has it's warts and has had some outages in the
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by hliyan 2y ago
Initial verification requires you to physically travel to the nearest verification center, and present yourself in person.
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by hliyan 2y ago
I sometimes wonder whether the end result of this proliferation of bots is the creation of a "premium" Internet where you are authenticated as a real person before entering. I don't mean a walled garden or a gated platform li
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by hliyan 2y ago
This is the first thing that struck me. Dangerous to weave narratives where large scale phenomena are elegantly explained by a single cause. It's always a confluence of multiple factors: influx of Nazi scientists, the policy mentioned
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by hliyan 2y ago
The paragraph about capacitors brought back some strange memories: around 1989, my father, for reasons still unfathomable, decided to purchase an IBM XT clone. I say unfathomable because we (myself, my mother and two siblings) were in Colom
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by hliyan 2y ago
Tried reading the paper [1]. I understand the authors are academics, which is why I'm surprised the paper reads like a layman's attempt at a contributing to a "theory of everything", or at best, an inquiry written by a 1
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by hliyan 2y ago
The phenomenon at work here is: if product being produced by a profit-seeking enterprise can be rented instead of being sold, said enterprise will eventually find a way to do it, then over time, rather than a single bill, it will attempt to
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by hliyan 2y ago
This is how I used to do it over TCP, 20 years ago: each request message has a unique request ID which the server echoes and the client uses to match against a pending request. There is a periodic timer that checks if requests have been pen
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by hliyan 2y ago
Better formulated as: some weaknesses may be unintended consequences of your strengths under certain conditions. Rules of thumb like this are useful approximations of reality, but I wouldn't elevate them to the level of a principle t
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by hliyan 2y ago
Are we rediscovering SOA and WSDL, but this time for LLM interop instead of web services? I may be wrong, but I'm starting to wonder whether software engineering degrees should include a history subject about the rise and fall of vario
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by hliyan 2y ago
A suggestion based on an idea that I've been trying to implement for a while: consider replacing the left panel's form editing experience with an assistive command line at the bottom. E.g. rather than clicking table, "add fie
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by hliyan 2y ago
You're not, and thank goodness for that. I hired about 10 engineers during the past six months, and as far as I could tell, at least 9 out of 10 didn't use AI in the interview process, as in, they demonstrated in day to day work,
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by hliyan 2y ago
The number one most important thing you can do is to learn how to actually do the job. Your ability to pass interviews will follow from that. If the place you're applying to has an interview process that does not align well with the jo
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by hliyan 2y ago
Ideally, shouldn't this be the native experience of most "sites" on the internet? We've built an entire user experience around serving users rich, two dimensional visual content that is not machine-readable and are now b
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by hliyan 2y ago
This his how I look at it. If a lesser computing device's vulnerabilities were exploited to alter its intended behaviour, especially for financial gain, it would be considered hacking and criminal penalties would apply. Why that applie
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by hliyan 2y ago
1) Advertising is profitable for companies. Which means that you as a consumer ultimately pay the advertiser more than what they paid to advertise their product to you. 2) Wikipedia is not ad-driven, and remains as useful, if not more usefu
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by hliyan 2y ago
I wouldn't exactly use the word evil, but I do remember a time when desktop hardware and software were not so massively dominated by one or two companies. I could buy a 386 or 486 computer from any number of vendors, buy expansion card
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by hliyan 2y ago
As a local, the brand called Dilmah is just a regular supermarket brand for us, but I hear it's quite popular in places like Australia and New Zealand.
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by hliyan 2y ago
Sri Lankan here. They just slapped 44% on us (higher than on China). The country is just trying to recover from the economic crisis and the sovereign debt default of 2022, so we have very high import duties on certain items (e.g. vehicles)
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BigQuery pricing model cost us $10k in 22 seconds(linkedin.com)
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by hliyan 2y ago
Much of the heavy lifting is done by this simple but powerful attribute, something surprisingly few developers seem to know about. It's been around for quite a while. <div id="editor" contenteditable="true"
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by hliyan 2y ago
Also the old school HFT community (which I'm from).
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Wouldn't say it's the root cause, but it is a major cause. I have some experience developing desktop applications using Visual C++ / MFC in the early 2000's. I still prefer that development experience to modern React&#x2
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by hliyan 2y ago
Agreed. Most user experience work today are done by people who ironically have little experience as a user. E.g. they will design a table in Figma, make it look nice. They may even go so far as understand that this table will typically cont

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