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by kerblang 5y ago
Not very informative. Both gas & electric markets did payout MASSIVELY to those who had resources because the pricing absolutely exploded by well over 10,000%. The Brazos Electric Co-Op went to bankruptcy court (ongoing) because they ra
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by kerblang 5y ago
The folding would be mostly unnecessary if we wildcarded (e.g. `import foo.bar.*`) instead of explicitly spelling every single thing out, but many dev teams forbid that... and then want the IDE to compensate for it. My point actually being
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by kerblang 5y ago
I keep saying it again and again: Dependencies strangle dev teams to death. A massive framework tangle of interlocking dependencies is enough to default most teams to never-never-upgrade-land, even when struggling to compensate for a too-ea
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by kerblang 5y ago
> the slave states had a population of 12 million (most of those slaves). In 1860 only two states had more slaves than free citizens, South Carolina & Mississippi, and by a slim margin.
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by kerblang 5y ago
1979 is the year Baudrillard published Simulacra & Simulation (a sort of obsession for me) and became the philosophical superstar of postmodernism, documenting a great cultural sea change towards a more cynical, superficial, often del
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by kerblang 5y ago
By process I typically mean "business process", as in: Bob wants to ship all the widgets to the South Warehouse, and this pile of logic right here is going to do that for him, end-to-end (or mostly end-to-end). The best option I&#
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by kerblang 5y ago
A lot of programmers want to divide logic into Categories of Behavior and then package them up into behavior packages, so that you have to hopscotch all over the directory tree to reconstruct and navigate an actual process from beginning
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by kerblang 5y ago
And Oracle bought Sun in 2010; Widenius got mad and created MariaDB the same day, apparently out of spite. (I don't think any of the characters were particularly ethical, smart or otherwise commendable... they just did what people do)
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by kerblang 5y ago
In terms of technical solutions relevant to this community, I have often found that people understand , but they don't see why a given thing is useful , so they say: I don't understand. In fact it may be necessary to explain the
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by kerblang 5y ago
In my experience it is best to explain the problem today , and ask about ideas tomorrow . Most people tend to think up ideas on their own time rather than on-demand as if they're some kind of ideas slot machine you can just yank on.
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by kerblang 5y ago
Why do we need a programming language to run software installers? Like, all I really need is the ability to say, "Hey, for this thing, install it in a versioned directory, please, and leave /usr/bin the heck alone." or e
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by kerblang 5y ago
Question: Does anybody actually have a good quality reference point of "This is how I know the earth really is a sphere"? Like, something more direct than indirect (I know you'd need a fairly massive conspiracy, but that&
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by kerblang 5y ago
The author of original article links to this one in their post: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/mysql-utf8mb4#utf8-to-utf8mb4 And yeah, there's gotchas in there, the main one being that strings that barely fit now
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by kerblang 5y ago
Pragmatically speaking, yes, and this is the most important thing: The language eventually becomes a lost cause, regardless of where the finger of blame points. Worst of all, programming language evolution runs in circles as people invent &
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by kerblang 5y ago
Do not be fooled into thinking, "The language made me do it" when the culture that surrounds the language made you do it. Different technologies have cultures brought on by often self-appointed leadership figures, even anonymous
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by kerblang 5y ago
Not to mention that there was originally an entire character named "Switch" who switched genders between matrix/real-world and didn't make it past The Hollywood People and that according to one of the Wachowskis it was r
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by kerblang 5y ago
In all fairness, the classical "dev from hell" who views users with contempt is not a new phenomenon, and just putting my own thumb in the wind it's less common now than a couple decades ago; modern programmers seem to find i
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How organized retail theft rings use Facebook Marketplace to sell stolen goods(nbcnews.com)
4 points by kerblang 5y ago|0 comments
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by kerblang 5y ago
This idea of "the database should be invisible!" abstraction was widely pursued back in the 90's when people were still obsessed with "the network should be invisible!" and Remote Procedure Calls (RPC). A lot of ORM
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by kerblang 5y ago
Yes it is routinely used as a way to humiliate candidates, because it's a perfect brain teaser: Devilishly simple but difficult to conjure unless you've seen it before - "Why couldn't I think of that???" Most underg
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by kerblang 5y ago
As best I've been able to tell, this was not an intentional feature; it was added by the original author for configuration , so that they could drop LDAP URL's into the log4j configuration file, thus using LDAP as a "configu
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by kerblang 5y ago
Apparently the intention was to add the ability to parse random crap one might wish to put in config files, including things like pulling a string out of a JNDI reference, system variables (maybe environment variables?); the person making
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by kerblang 5y ago
Just for reference here's the posting that confirms such: https://spring.io/blog/2021/12/10/log4j2-vulnerability-and-s... Also worth noting this is not log4j 1, but log4j 2, like angular vs. angular
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by kerblang 5y ago
Seems like this was added as a way to enhance configuration files, and somehow it gets carried over into actual logging of data?
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by kerblang 5y ago
The article manages to make this point in the most hopelessly long-winded way possible, going mile after mile on "guess what's wrong! did you guess yet?" and fails to fully cover a nuanced subject in the process. Informative
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Is DNA Hardware or Software?(growbyginkgo.com)
3 points by kerblang 5y ago|1 comments
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by kerblang 5y ago
To the best of my recollection American Football does not wrap the playing field in animated ads like European Football/Soccer does. I assume that's partly because everybody just hates the idea for every possible reason... Noise c
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by kerblang 5y ago
I suppose it's a "pathway to perl" in the sense of a mild gateway drug. Perl is definitely one-liner-friendly. Every time I get into Perl I have to relearn it all over again (which is apparently not an isolated phenomenon), s
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by kerblang 5y ago
Maybe a dumb question but does it lock the postgres connection down to one pool client (no sharing) when the client has a transaction in progress? How does it compare to pgbouncer in this regard?
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by kerblang 5y ago
Wait I need to toss an extra bomb over the wall and point out the superiority of swapping "sed" out for "perl -pe" and getting everything sed had plus superior regex without needing to learn much of anything new. (I migh

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