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by kitd 4y ago
Thank you for replying. And while there is no doubt a lot of PR in the article, PR != "made-up nonsense". I like HN because the standard of discussion > eg reddit. Simply throwing out what are essentially accusations of lies is
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by kitd 4y ago
Sorry, but that wasn't his statement. It's quite clear that he states that what is presented as new technology is completely made up nonsense. He may be right, but he needs to show what in the article is completely made up non
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by kitd 4y ago
Not so. He is the one who made the original statement. The onus of proof is on him to show what is "completely made up". It's a fairly extreme statement after all.
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by kitd 4y ago
Completely made up nonsense with no evidence Citation?
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by kitd 4y ago
The video shows them using a "tailplane" on the main sail, presumably to adjust sail angle without needing sheets, etc. Is this used in normal sailing? It seems far simpler.
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by kitd 4y ago
In JavaScript, you’ll often see i, j and subsequent letters as iteration variables. i is not descriptive, and j is somehow even less so. Using i & j etc for indices dates back to older versions of FORTRAN where the variable type depen
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by kitd 4y ago
There's a project called JBang that aims to provide a much simpler DX when working with Java projects. For basic projects, the experience is almost Go-like. https://www.jbang.dev/
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by kitd 4y ago
Good point. Alternative is to compile your Clj uberjar using GraalVM. Here's a project to document how to do that and which common libraries are compilable: https://github.com/clj-easy/graalvm-clojure
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by kitd 4y ago
Babashka is Clojure running natively. It uses a simplified version of the Clojure runtime compiled to native code. No JVMs involved at runtime. https://babashka.org/
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by kitd 4y ago
> The framework is so new Just a note: Svelte is 6 years old, only 2 years younger than Vue. Both are definitely "old" on JS-framework timescales.
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by kitd 4y ago
Why should it be so hard to believe? A mainframe box is about the size of a rack of servers, and all the components are much more tightly integrated. Plus the utilisation on m/fs is much higher than on normal servers. I don't have
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by kitd 4y ago
Mainframes are more energy efficient for a given level of performance than an equivalent farm of servers. Additionally, the redundancy, hot-swapping, and resource utilisation is generally better. A corporation might well calculate that, for
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by kitd 4y ago
I suspect a lot of mainframe development today is Java EE centered, for which there is an abundance of stuff on the web. Indeed, and not just Java. zLinux runs a great many workloads on M/Fs these days, which looks a lot like a norma
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by kitd 4y ago
Yes, it looks like a library of K8S tutorials without any overall walkthrough. After a search, I guess this one would be the best starting point: https://learnkubernetes.withgoogle.com/kubernetes-essentials...
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Tonga volcanic eruption reshaped Pacific seafloor(bbc.co.uk)
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by kitd 4y ago
Personally, I'm on the fence about using server side rendering (which PHP is pretty good at) versus just writing RESTful APIs, because browsers now have fetch API built in which makes consuming them easy (no need for jQuery or necessa
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by kitd 4y ago
Seems to be up now. For me at least.
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by kitd 4y ago
But you quickly come up against problems of text alignment, trying to show 2+ theoretical streams of text on one 2D page, and it's a pig to get the DX right. A specialist editor would help, but then you could ask, why not just use a st
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by kitd 4y ago
Graphical representations tend to be better than 2D text when dealing with concurrent streams of execution. You can do it in plain text, but either it is difficult to follow or it becomes a mess of text alignments. IME.
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by kitd 4y ago
If you know Java, C++ or C#, the official tour will get you productive pretty quickly IME. https://go.dev/tour/welcome/1
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by kitd 4y ago
It reminds me of the accidental Hawaii nuclear missile alert a few years back. AIUI, the button to test the system was in close proximity to the button to send the real thing.
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by kitd 4y ago
The ancient Briton in question is around 480,000 years old. White skin appeared 22,000 to 28,000 years ago. Why should the skin colour need questioning?
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by kitd 4y ago
Good work. But I can't help thinking this could or (should even) be under the auspices of crates.io. Provide a way to categorise crates and highlight commonly-used or trusted crates.
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by kitd 4y ago
Yeah. I'd like to meet the 5-year-old that understood that. edit: the "What are GATs" paragraph in the link posted by @leetrout is much more usable.
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by kitd 4y ago
returnif err That's exactly his proposal at the end of the article, except he uses 'guard' as the keyword.
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by kitd 4y ago
A container only knows about what's going on inside it though. If you want to hook those resources up with peers in a decoupled way, that requires an abstraction on top, preferably declarative, or else you faced with a substantial amou
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by kitd 4y ago
My money's on Musk. As much as I dislike his methods, I credit him with more intelligence than Liz Truss.
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by kitd 4y ago
How much would be solved if instead of "containers" we deployed static binaries (that were a couple hundred mb's larger apiece because they contained all their dependencies statically linked in... but who's counting).
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by kitd 4y ago
This is already widely done in Nordic countries and well understood. I went to a geothermal plant about 25km outside Reykjavik. It also supplies much of the communal hot water for the city. Between the plant and the city, in the depths of w
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by kitd 4y ago
I appreciate the focus on technological simplicity, cost-effectiveness and environmental cost. Yes, the battery itself isn't as efficient (per m^3) as a chemical one, but the basic engineering and well-established supply chains behind

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