juanbyrge

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by juanbyrge 3y ago
Yeah I can't take Marc Andreessen seriously any more after that incident, no matter how hard I try. He wrote that surreal letter objecting to building multifamily/affordable housing, claiming it would immensely reduce the property
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by juanbyrge 4y ago
This is just a sad attempt at marketing to OSS maintainers. Whoever came up with this idea has no idea how OSS maintainers operate.
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by juanbyrge 4y ago
Python is great for small scripts or explorations. You can't use it for anything serious that needs to scale due to the lack of concurrency and significant memory overhead. If you need something to scale you use something like C++, Jav
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by juanbyrge 4y ago
One data point: my wife and I were set in getting a Tesla as our next car. We are now in the market for a new EV, but we both decided against Tesla due to Elon's shenanigans. We will wait for the Kia EV9 or something coming out next ye
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by juanbyrge 4y ago
Lol, I could host all of substack as static html pages on a $20/mo linode instance. Embarrassing.
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by juanbyrge 4y ago
To be brutally honest it does not seem like Slack is the actual problem. I think you are having difficulties performing and are looking for an excuse, and Slack seems convenient. Just uninstall the Slack desktop client and use the web brows
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by juanbyrge 4y ago
We used to pay CircleCI $200/month to run CI on a widely-used open-source project, which was set up before GHA was available. Around one year ago we switched to GHA, which was significantly better, and cost $0. At around the same time
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by juanbyrge 4y ago
I am surprised to see that GitHub staff are still working on GitHub Actions. It's hard to tell because it's been almost two years and it's still not possible to have a self-hosted GitHub Actions runner on Mac M1: https:&#x2F
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by juanbyrge 5y ago
I think the primary use case is building the same code on multiple platforms. A developer can write a single CMakeFile and then CMake will generate Makefiles/Ninja files/VS soln files/etc depending on the underlying platform.
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by juanbyrge 5y ago
Now all of a sudden those physics problems involving shooting a gun while on a train seem a lot more depressing :(
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by juanbyrge 5y ago
To me that is a specious argument. It's like asking why Python was invented when Cobol could suffice. The dozens of ASN.1 specs are absolutely hideous and entrenched in obsolete telecom jargon. If the sole goal Protobuf was to avoid ha
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by juanbyrge 5y ago
I feel like I have derived so much value from Google Maps, especially turn by turn navigation, than I don't even consider the advertisement aspects. I would happily pay a monthly fee to use it. Before it you had to use paper maps or us
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by juanbyrge 5y ago
I am guessing FANG engineers (and most engineers in general) would unanimously suggest "delete this ridiculous , ill-conceived JNDI integration ASAP. If people want JNDI integration, use a custom opt-in log4j appender. Don't let t
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by juanbyrge 5y ago
This feels like the Google Plus fiasco all over again. Throwing an entire company at making a social product that nobody will use. Good luck!
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by juanbyrge 5y ago
Translation: I have written buggy, racy software that has specific dependencies on thread timing. Please do not make significant improvements to Python because it will reveal these bugs in my software, and I will be forced to fix the bugs a
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by juanbyrge 5y ago
OR, folks can just use Atari emulator in a RetroPie or any other media PC and not have to deal with this guy.
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
This article has a summary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23696427 That’s not how I would interact with a Turing award winner. And it’s not the first time they have had that reaction. From what I’ve observed it could
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
Declining a research award due to supporting a toxic employee with a long history of unnecessarily hostile and combative behavior (just look at the yann lecun twitter thread). Sounds fine to me!
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
Very interesting article. Got through the first few paragraphs until I got completely lost. This seems like something that should be submitted to an academic journal and OP should be in a research group or academia.
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
It is quite pathetic that a purported 'future of payments' is so inefficient in so many ways. This is why I will never participate in systems like bitcoin that consume hundreds of TwH (and growing) each year.
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
I believe it's the other way around. Objects with mass warp spacetime, and the resulting curvature results in gravity. Everything not accelerating travels in straight lines, where straight lines are geodesics through spacetime. This is
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
The audacity of these AWS folks patronizing elastic about open source despite AWS making millions of dollars off of their open source project just reeks of entitlement. Glad I am never going to use AWS.
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
If a project management app is the hardest code you've ever written, this sounds like overengineering**2. Just use lists of lists like every other project management app.
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
Fair point, Maxwell was one of the most brilliant scientists ever. Definitely on par with Einstein, Newton, and Galileo. It's a shame he died so young, who knows what else he could have discovered during his lifetime. I suppose if you
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
Seems like OP observed something unsettling at the office, wanted HR to fire the perpetrator, and HR did not do that. Then OP generalizes and says that HR is not effective and not your friend. However, there are many gray areas where it&#x2
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
I think they may be underestimating the interactions that scientists have with other perhaps lesser folks in their field. For example, Einstein may not have been able to publish the special theory of relativity without the work produced by
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
Is the source code buildable, or is it mainly for documentation purposes? I’m guessing the build system and tool chains required for building windows are massively complex. Are these distributed with the windows source code as well? Also I’
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
Human brains are also the culmination of billions of years of iterative development. Computers were only invented in the last century. I would not be surprised if computers could catch up given a few tens or hundred more years.
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
I don’t mean to trivialize what SpaceX is accomplishing, but maybe we are overestimating the degree of difficulty of building rockets in the 21st century, given the advances in technology over the past few decades? With the immense improvem
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
How so? The dark side of Mercury is frozen and Mercury rotates very slowly (one day on mercury is 2 months on earth). If you had a rolling home base you maybe able to avoid the extreme heat.

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