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by jrumbut 4y ago
That is very useful work to squeeze more performance out of existing software, I would say there is still a lot more to be gained from big wins in more efficiently distributing computing power like cloud computing and containerization (whic
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Remote functions instead of data interchange doesn't have the same ring. Though I would say that RPC blurs a lot of lines. REST is clearly a way for two programs to communicate. RPC could be seen as a way for two programs to become one
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I had the distinct pleasure of discovering CAFEBABE myself, in high school (not sure what direction this is dating myself in but I'll risk it), when I went on a tear of opening odd things in a hex editor. Now I will never be able to se
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Then you get into the field of survival analysis, where you get methods that can handle this problem (called right censoring IIRC). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaplan%E2%80%93Meier_estimat...
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Azure became interesting when it got better integrated into the Windows/AD/Office worlds. You're not having to manually integrate so much anymore. The way for GCP to compete is to give customers (presumably high level custome
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by jrumbut 4y ago
When you see the first post you think "you know, I've been meaning to get serious about a CDN for my assets and DDOS protection, I should take a look at Cloudflare." But since you can run your website without it, it's ea
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by jrumbut 4y ago
> Hard to imagine what would be their point in doing that. Precisely because it is hard to imagine? It looks like a clandestine operation by one NATO country to limit the options of another or perhaps even the German government doing it
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by jrumbut 4y ago
That's a bad day at the office when you have to go and say "hey remember all that data we painstakingly collected and maybe even billed clients for?"
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by jrumbut 4y ago
> (3) `time.time()` is not monotonic. I just winced in pain thinking of the ways that can bite you. I guess in a cloud/virtualized environment with many short lived instances it isn't even that obscure an issue to run into. A n
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I'm surprised you could infer what was possible just by looking at it. For me, the hints at how the rules worked weren't sufficient. I think lighting up the signs if the conditions are met and perhaps having something on the free
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by jrumbut 4y ago
The victim of this policy was not the (hypothetical, I have no idea about the actual case) person who was both the victim of a crime and perpetrator of another crime, it's the much larger number of people who did not commit a crime but
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I foraged myself for the first time recently and got a small number of puffballs. They were far and away the tastiest mushrooms I've ever had, different enough from the store bought variety to make the whole hassle worthwhile.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
A lot of universities have (often not well publicized) programs to help you finish bachelor's degrees after you drop out and are gone for a few years. You can sometimes get credit for work experience or other things you've done an
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by jrumbut 4y ago
What might make that even cooler is having multiple layers. 1. Detect the trees (I think morels are symbiotic with some kind of tree) that morels are most likely to be found near. 2. Detect the morels themselves, perhaps taking into account
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by jrumbut 4y ago
As understandable as the mistake is, I would be upset if I had arranged a private meeting with someone and they let a third party into the conversation (excluding force majeure such as sophisticated hacking, violence, etc). Especially if it
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by jrumbut 4y ago
RDBMSes don't do a lot of extra stuff, if they throw an error it's usually for a reason.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Foreign key constraints are easy to remove if they become a problem but almost impossible to add once data integrity problems arise (and I've never seen them not arise in projects without FK constraints). The small number of people wit
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by jrumbut 4y ago
But, besides index hints, the developers don't need to worry about those things if they use the database to perform joins. The database management system chooses for them and does it pretty well (counterproductive index hints are not u
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Given that there isn't one number (or five numbers or five thousand numbers) that can tell you if your engineering team is good or bad, there is no easy mapping between high and low velocity and good and bad, and velocity can't re
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Basically this is what I meant. I'm fine with someone saying "I'm feeling overworked" but I'm not OK with saying "I can't believe Jane had a baby during this important sprint."
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by jrumbut 4y ago
The problem isn't increased workload, or people having challenges or bad feelings about adapting to increased workload, it's spreading discontentment over someone taking maternity/paternity leave. A manager and everyone else
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Well it would seem very messy coming from Scheme! Scheme is a small language which achieves expressiveness by allowing you great freedom to push the language into bold new forms. Ruby (especially with Rails which should almost be considered
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I only briefly examined the paper, but I felt that it did a better than usual job explaining how they got to that image.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
This is exactly my point. Part of being an adult in the modern world is being discerning in your media consumption and just a pinch of courage (obviously, specific circumstances might require a lot more). It's OK to feel nervous if you
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by jrumbut 4y ago
> This - unlike millions of today's kids - is why my generation were and still are a much more resilient lot and not afraid of the world than is the present younger generation. I marvel at this logic. Who raised the present younger
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by jrumbut 4y ago
No one from September 2019 would believe you if you told them about the work from home policies in place right now for millions of people who were expected to be seated at their desk at 9:00 (or 8:30) until 5:00 three years ago. The world i
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Just to be clear, I was using the college years as a metaphor rather than a specific knowledge level. I'm fine with dilettantes (I am a proud one) and recognize that there are some real polymaths in the world, but it creates a tricky s
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by jrumbut 4y ago
As a disclaimer, I have not listened to his show extensively. But while he may be genuinely curious the sum of his questions and his guest choices express a thesis and for avid listeners seems to become a program of study that leads somewhe
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by jrumbut 4y ago
It's apparent because you're used to the rhythm of English speech and the forms of American sitcoms. I'm not sure if I would notice a Chinese show was censored.
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One of the aspects of mastery (that I've observed in others) is being able to say yes to 99% of requests but knowing how to steer projects away from that one feature that will cause complexity to explode without delivering commensurate

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