jknoepfler

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by jknoepfler 10mo ago
"Far right" isn't a euphemism for anything, it's exactly what it is. Countries that collapsed into actual fascism (e.g. Germany, Italy, Spain) within living memory, which then spent the subsequent century abutting the mo
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by jknoepfler 10mo ago
I use Patroni for that in a k8s environment (although it works anywhere). I get an off-the-shelf declarative deployment of an HA postgres cluster with automatic failover with a little boiler-plate YAML. Patroni has been around for awhile. T
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by jknoepfler 1y ago
Oh, and don't forget to retain the artist to correct the ever-increasingly weird and expensive mistakes made by the context when you need to draw newer, fancier pelicans. Maybe we can just train product to draw?
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by jknoepfler 1y ago
I (too) had a similar experience! On the first read I felt like I was barely scratching the surface but could enjoy just enough of the lyricism and imagery to slog through, but definitely didn't "get it". Then I read it with
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by jknoepfler 1y ago
Why would you hate a book exploring mathematics and reflecting on your relationship with it? What a weird thing to hate. Wouldn't you rather celebrate intellectual curiosity? Like... I hate journalism that profits off of xenophobic fea
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by jknoepfler 1y ago
Uh, no. This is about illegal detainment of people (some of whom are citizens) by federal law enforcement. The overwhelming majority of citizens want a functioning immigration system (and a functioning criminal justice system). What I and o
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by jknoepfler 1y ago
It's exactly what the entire campaign platform you voted for was: unprincipled, random bullshit designed to stoke an angry, bigoted, ignorant base. I can respect principled patriotism and fiscal conservativism, but voting for an icon o
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by jknoepfler 1y ago
Probably implicit in your #2, but there are two types of people in the world: people who know why you shouldn't try to write a production-grade database from scratch, and people who don't know why you shouldn't try to write a
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by jknoepfler 1y ago
Incorrect, yes, but to be fair .67% and 2% occupy the same "wow, that's a large proportion of the economy" order-or-magnitude band of surprise (for me). Obviously not as charismatic/sensational, but still significant an
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by jknoepfler 1y ago
Formality is about preserving objectivity. You don't submit papers to a peer-reviewed journal watermarked with a purple dinosaur in a suit for the same reason you don't submit a complaint to a court watermarked with a purple dinos
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by jknoepfler 2y ago
Isn't that essentially how the AP has functioned for over a century? (Consume press release, produce news article, often nearly verbatim.)
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by jknoepfler 2y ago
s/Tesla/Toyota/ unless that was part of the joke.
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by jknoepfler 2y ago
If you think there's an inviolable set of Ur rights that aren't intrinsically in conflict, then articulate them. Your inability to articulate them cogently suggests that they don't exist... not that every argument to the cont
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by jknoepfler 2y ago
Having more than one right (i.e. "rights") entails contradictions between competing rights. That's how the real world works. Even if you view rights as "freedom from," the right to "freedom from harm" imme
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by jknoepfler 2y ago
I cancelled my subscription and moved on with my life. I get my dose of economic centrism from the Economist. Same with leaving the shithole that is "X," but slightly less inconvenient.
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by jknoepfler 2y ago
And they are oh-so-contentious. If anyone wants to go down a fascinating rabbit hole, the recent conversation/debate around whether Bomb Torizo skip (a very difficult, borderline-human-impossible trick) should be allowed in Super Metro
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by jknoepfler 2y ago
I see the value in this, and thank you for posting it. That said, it really makes me wonder at how insanely inefficient information transfer over the internet can become. This is like... doing OCR on screenshots of PDFs to send messages, ra
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by jknoepfler 2y ago
Survivorship Bias: the Board Game that Ends Abruptly.
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by jknoepfler 2y ago
A few hours in the "metaverse" destroyed any faith or confidence I might have had in their ability to develop usable products that might interest people. It was like using a product that had been designed and developed by the wron
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by jknoepfler 2y ago
For the same reason I want a cast iron skillet to last. Why would I buy cheap garbage cookware and throw it in the dump every few years when a nice dutch oven, skillet, stainless steep pans (etc.) will last me for life and be nicer to use?
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by jknoepfler 2y ago
The point is that other countries are realizing the same or better (generally better) levels of care while confronting the same issues. Privatization and ineffective/lobbyist-written regulation is and has been the problem from the begi
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by jknoepfler 2y ago
Hey don't forget all those brutal incursions during the war of 1812.
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by jknoepfler 2y ago
I mean, yeah. I read opinions I sharply disagree with all the time on this forum. If I didn't I probably wouldn't post here. ( Because contradicting opinions enrich my own, not because "someone's wrong on the internet ag
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by jknoepfler 2y ago
If eliminating signal from malicious, remote actors is more valuable than preserving signal from rural areas, which may very well be the case depending on the application, then adopting this might solve a real problem for you. I don't
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by jknoepfler 2y ago
Having had real conversations with company leadership about "the board being concerned about engineer salaries being above industry norms" despite "having the highest revenue per engineer in their portfolio" I can... ane
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by jknoepfler 2y ago
Inefficiency also compounds. If you're sending too much data over an unreliable connection using a bloated protocol (say), you have three multipliers. Now start daisy-chaining these things together, host them on bloated images on pods
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by jknoepfler 2y ago
Which would put it roughly in line with railways, in my head? I.e. sort of mundane pieces of infrastructure still serving a purpose?
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by jknoepfler 2y ago
Who the heck is on ARM (outside data centers)? But yeah, with golang that's just: GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm64 go build GOOS=darwin GOARCH=amd64 go build Which again, let's me distribute a binary to my
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by jknoepfler 2y ago
I live in a state that 'inadvertently' legalized THC products when trying to pass hemp legislation in 2022, so... yeah. Not that I'm complaining, mind you. It was followed closely by actual legalization because nobody in thei
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by jknoepfler 2y ago
that's a funny typo, I apologize.

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