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by hliyan 3y ago
I think the case of the Cottingley Fairies (1917) should be included here. Concocted by a pair of teenage girls with a camera and paper cutouts, it fooled many including Arthur Conan Doyle. It's featured in the first chapter of James R
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by hliyan 3y ago
Pretty much back to normal as far as tourism is concerned. Although you might want to wait a few more weeks if you prefer the sun and sand -- it's been rainy or overcast for the past month.
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by hliyan 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. That reminded me of another experience: around 2012, the front left wheel of my car ended up in a ditch by the side of the road. I was considering calling a tow truck, when a crowd gathered and told me to get in the car
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by hliyan 3y ago
Sri Lankan here. I personally experienced this last year and was very surprised. We Sri Lankans love to criticise ourselves for our wonky moral compasses, so when the early protests started, I stocked up on food and installed an extra CCTV
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by hliyan 3y ago
I've come to the conclusion that all numbers in the real world are integers and real numbers are a human construct necessary evey time we select a unit that is too large. There is evidence (e.g. quantization) that at the most fundament
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by hliyan 3y ago
I used to suffer from this, i.e. overplanning and over-organising as a means of combating anxiety associated with lack of progress or organisation. I've gone through every project management tool and todo app imaginable (I've writ
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by hliyan 3y ago
Actually shouldn't any money deposited into the bank be a liability for the bank?
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by hliyan 3y ago
I get what you mean. "Give me a list of all the users and their password hashes" would be even worse.
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by hliyan 3y ago
Read only connection?
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by hliyan 3y ago
A long long time ago, I used a series of tail -f's and unix pipes to aggregate logs, and grep, less and awk to analyse them. There were about 20 different services written in C++, each producing over 1GB of logs each day. Managed to de
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by hliyan 3y ago
Not exactly sure what you mean, but in my model, the modules all get built into a single runtime artifact/executable. In the case of monorepos as I understand them, the "mono"ness is in the version control system, but each co
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by hliyan 3y ago
The best "microservice" based system I've ever worked on was full ten years before the term had been invented. It had multiple services that read and wrote to the same database, but each used a common dynamically linked libra
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The criminal justice system is broken. Restorative justice can help(vox.com)
2 points by hliyan 3y ago|1 comments
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by hliyan 3y ago
I wrote this 8 years ago: Microservices vs. "air-gapped" modules https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/maintainable-software-archite... . You can achieve the same end as a microservice using a module, by simply havin
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Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous for All Involved (2016)(abovethecrowd.com)
1 points by hliyan 3y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 3y ago
More than that, you will have to find a new product to demonstrate the value of your continued employment at the company. The team is incentivised to keep tinkering.
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by hliyan 3y ago
I'm not a US citizen, but I too would cosign the idea of not using security updates as a vector for pushing monetization "features".
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Twitter accused of helping Saudi Arabia commit human rights abuses(theguardian.com)
7 points by hliyan 3y ago|0 comments
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Musk blames Anti-Defamation League for 10-50% of X revenue loss(twitter.com)
20 points by hliyan 3y ago|11 comments
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by hliyan 3y ago
Highly unpopular opinion: by 2030, React will probably go the way of jQuery (i.e. a highly popular library that was once considered almost an "industry standard", but later ended up in a graveyard of projects, tutorials and articl
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by hliyan 3y ago
A virtual machine makes an OS believe it has the machine to itself. A container makes a process believe that it has the OS to itself.
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by hliyan 3y ago
Why not "Docker is an OS level virtualization (or containerization) product"? This is like saying "Tylenol/Panadol is a painkiller and a fever reducer" without ever mentioning that it is a branded offering of the ge
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by hliyan 3y ago
Psychiatrists and psychologists may not be working the same way.
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by hliyan 3y ago
Shouldn't we be looking at the percentage of people who suffer from food insecurity and lack of access to permanent housing to begin with? How far a dollar stretches, changes over space and time.
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by hliyan 3y ago
My onboarding experience (from 20 years ago) involved all the new hires (engineers) being placed in a classroom environment for two weeks. A senior engineer gave us a primer on the libraries the company uses (C++) and then had each one of u
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USB4(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by hliyan 3y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 3y ago
I once blew a team's mind by this simple demonstration: 1) Searched the entire agile manifesto site for "sprints", "stories", "velocity", "stand ups" etc. Zero references. 2) Searched the officia
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Granary: Convert data between social networks(granary.io)
1 points by hliyan 3y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 3y ago
Happy to see some cross pollination between Slashdot (my go-to from 2008-2013) and HN (my go-to from 2013 till now). Also happy to see that Slashdot comments have not really devolved and remain readable and useful.
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by hliyan 3y ago
I wish modern architecture writing could go back to being this straightforward: "There are three dominent themes in building high transaction rate multiprocessor systems, namely shared memory (e.g. Synapse, IBM/AP configurations),

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