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by jen20 6mo ago
> which is sort of north Somerset (Somerset keeps on morphing faster than a sci-fi shapeshifter). The seats in parliament that represent it and the local authority structure have changed, of course, the same as everywhere else in the cou
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by jen20 6mo ago
> and unix tar It's in the name: GNU's Not Unix.
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by jen20 6mo ago
The same as ever: lightweight processes with isolated heaps and per-process garbage collection, and the native message passing style.
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by jen20 6mo ago
> the average CS graduate from an average or low tier college in the US is not as good of a hire as the average int'l MSCS degree holder. That is an abjectly insane statement. The quality of higher education varies massively through
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by jen20 6mo ago
> I would absolutely love to get some insider perspective on this I'm not an insider but would put good money on the migration to Azure being the root cause of the stability problems.
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by jen20 6mo ago
Every Java codebase using something like Flux serves as a datapoint in favor of this argument - they're an abomination to read, reason about or (heaven help) debug.
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by jen20 6mo ago
It seems unfair to spend so much time in this article talking about JavaScript and Java without mentioning that async/await first appeared in .NET, and _broadly speaking_ works pretty well there.
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by jen20 6mo ago
> Example: the second sentence on the first page says “softwares” but “software” is a mass noun that cannot be pluralized. I constantly see and hear this mistake from actual humans too. It's fairly ironic that your own comment conta
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by jen20 6mo ago
> the best software written since win95 This feels like what us Brits would call "damning with faint praise". Windows 95 was terrible. Really bad. If you really mean to say that Kubernetes is revolutionary and well-engineered,
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by jen20 6mo ago
Nomad is substantially more like Borg than Kubernetes is. And, funnily enough, scales better in both directions than Kubernetes does!
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by jen20 6mo ago
The problem with Kubernetes is that it doesn't scale down to small deployments very well, but it sure as shit doesn't scale up to large ones either. Large shared multi-tenant clusters have massive problems even when running parts
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by jen20 6mo ago
https://github.com/AlexsJones/llmfit gives a good approximation of that.
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by jen20 6mo ago
It was exactly like the GP described in the UK too. All-powerful carriers at a time when Apple was almost bankrupt, before Google was a verb and before Microsoft made phones that would crash just sitting waiting for a call.
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by jen20 6mo ago
> However, the topic of this submission is the US Congress. The topic of the comment was about not voting because you think it makes no difference. If everyone develops that mentality, no-one will vote and elections will be decided only
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by jen20 6mo ago
Yes - and to action the other thousand or so who made the difference between a win and a lose. Of course, I understand what your are clumsily and nihilistically trying to suggest, so here’s at least one example of an election won and lost b
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by jen20 6mo ago
Tactical voting is far more important in the UK, where there are typically more than two candidates to vote for in any given seat, the government is not directly elected and most candidates are not selected in primaries. It's _incredib
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by jen20 6mo ago
> No reason to vote then. It is not possible to eye roll hard enough at this. In the US (and to a lesser extent, the UK), you vote for whichever you believe to be the least bad candidate, or tactically for whoever will keep whoever you b
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by jen20 6mo ago
> part of it is just to lock people into AWS once they start working with it. This is some next-level conspiracy theory stuff. What exactly would the alternative have been in 2006? S3 is one of the most commonly implemented object storag
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by jen20 6mo ago
> I live in a place with basically zero property taxes The biggest financial culture shock between the UK and the US is the property tax situation. The UK has a "council tax" paid by the _occupier_ (i.e. the renter, if a house
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by jen20 6mo ago
> a complicated algorithm to sign the request. There are lots of benefits to this over the bearer token approach that many take. Binding the authentication to the specific request is valuable regardless of TLS.
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by jen20 6mo ago
It was simple(ish) 20 years ago, to be fair.
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by jen20 6mo ago
I'm surprised no-one has commented on the "sign up for the waitlist" button being a Microsoft Office form that wants your email address and GitHub handle. This feels like an elaborate phishing attack more than a serious featu
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by jen20 6mo ago
It is absolutely Apple's job to protect people who do not have the desire or capacity to decide what is a good use case or not from predators (yes, the ad industry is 100% predatory). The whole reason I and my entire family have iPhone
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by jen20 6mo ago
> ironically it is back, as Apple gave the same name to the.... This isn't that ironic - reusing old names where the trademarks are already owned etc is a pretty common thing.
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by jen20 6mo ago
> On UI/UX taste, I still think current Codex is behind the Jan/Feb era of Claude Code. OpenCode is great though, and can (for now) use an OpenAI subscription.
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by jen20 6mo ago
> One surprising thing is how quickly it got blighted. I don't think this is actually true - either that it happened quickly, or that how quickly it happened was a surprise. Detroit (the city, which was always the "problem&quot
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by jen20 6mo ago
> $1000 to move ANYWHERE is already a lowball. It's better than $0, which is what most places pay you to move there.
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by jen20 6mo ago
> Also would you say that Detroit is "walkable"? Somewhat. Downtown is perfectly walkable. Some of the individual surrounding towns are too (Royal Oak for example), but the metro area as a whole is not. I haven't looked (I
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by jen20 6mo ago
I agree that is the reality of why this has happened, but it is completely at odds with the story that that AI maximalists are telling the world, which is that software development is over because LLMs can do anything with a couple of specs
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by jen20 6mo ago
Not to sell Tart short (it is quite good), but it's "just" a wrapper around Virtualization.framework with a few extra pieces. This is the kind of thing that Codex driven by experts _should_ be able to build very easily.

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