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by klodolph 3y ago
I think there's probably a lot more trash today. There's a lot more of everything. The number of books published each year in the US has grown by something like 300x over the past one hundred years, if you only count traditional p
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by klodolph 3y ago
I do think it's just a lot harder to find good modern works. There was plenty of trash written in the early 20th century. We've forgotten about it, for the most part. Anything still in print from 100 years ago is probably the bes
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by klodolph 3y ago
The fact that it is voluntary is kinda beside the point. If you define "free speech" in such a way that you draw a line somewhere, you're missing out on a way to talk about some of the more insidious ways that our society pol
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by klodolph 3y ago
> A server is a physical machine with an operating system. It can run many processes. That is an acceptable and different definition of “server”. Words have multiple definitions, that’s why any time you look something up in the dictionar
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by klodolph 3y ago
Likewise, every pair of “wireless headphones” have many sets of wires inside them, if you cut them open. “Vegan” products you buy at the store are made by humans, who are a type of animal, so you cannot say that vegan products contain no an
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by klodolph 3y ago
“Server” is a long-running process that serves requests. “Serverless” means that your requests are handled by short-lived processes of some kind. This is just the name for it. If you want to poke holes in the definition I gave, it won’t do
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by klodolph 3y ago
Trillion per day is 10M per second. That’s hard. “Serverless” just means you’re not running a long-running process that handles these specific requests.
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by klodolph 3y ago
/opt is part of the FHS, or am I missing something?
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by klodolph 3y ago
You could equally criticize BBC for talking about the UK implicitly, or NHK for talking about Japan.
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by klodolph 3y ago
I still don’t see how blockchain is a part of this. You can have an API and a log anyway, if you want one.
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by klodolph 3y ago
> If property deeds were on the block chain then it'd be trivial. True, but then a ton of other things would be much, much more difficult. Like, what happens if Joe has the deed to a home, but then Joe dies, and nobody has the key t
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by klodolph 3y ago
Agreed. The classic reason is when you have latency needs, but your data set is large enough that RAM is cost-prohibitive, and random-access enough that disk won’t work. The cost savings from switching to NVMe have to justify the higher NRE
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by klodolph 3y ago
Not sure what you mean by “remember AppEngine”.
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yeah. I think the whole point of Spanner is to handle larger, larger, larger workloads and databases, and if you can fit everything on a single server, you definitely should. Comparing Postgres to Spanner is kind of like comparing a deliver
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by klodolph 3y ago
I get the skepticism, but these core SaaS offerings tend to have a much longer support life than consumer products. Google’s Bigtable is still around as a cloud offering, and it’s almost 20 years old at this point. Spanner is used for a lot
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by klodolph 3y ago
A problem identified in the article is that if you access a word-size object, your compiler may use a load or store of some different size, violating your assumptions about atomicity. This is not just about ISAs. The example cited was in a
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by klodolph 3y ago
I think there’s too much overlap here between the people concerned about surveillance enough to wear a mask, and the people who don’t want to wear masks because it was the government who told them to do so in the first place. At least in th
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by klodolph 3y ago
TypeScript won before people were using VS Code as much.
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by klodolph 3y ago
You can write TypeScript and automatically generate Closure type annotations for compiling / minifying, using a tool called tsickle. I am aware this is possible but I have heard that getting a good tooling experience out of this, outsi
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by klodolph 3y ago
Treating everything as nothing more than a financial asset is way too reductive. My point here is that housing is not only a financial asset, and should be treated as more than just a financial asset. Or if you want to take an economic ap
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by klodolph 3y ago
Consider BBEdit. I’ve been using it a lot more these days, now that its competition has skyrocketed in CPU / memory.
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by klodolph 3y ago
The database-backed configuration mechanism makes a ton of sense, and if you squint, the filesystem is really kind of a database anyway. With the registry, there’s a lot you get for free—you can set defaults system-wide, you don’t have to d
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by klodolph 3y ago
Wikipedia pegs the largest city in West Virginia as Charleston, pop 48,000. Portland is population 650,000 with over twice the density. Homelessness is an easier problem to solve when you have fewer people and more available land per person
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by klodolph 3y ago
I think it’s hard to compare West Virginia to Portland, and conclude that the differences are a result of policy decisions.
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by klodolph 3y ago
You have to define the problem too narrowly in order to say that price controls don’t work. Rental increase caps are not something designed to make the overall housing prices more affordable. That’s just not the goal in the first place. The
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by klodolph 3y ago
The logic here is that there are two different competing concerns—the use of housing as an investment (money in, money out) and the use of housing as a place to live. There’s a lot of legislation that shifts the balance one way or the other
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by klodolph 3y ago
The parent comment is complaining about the specific amount, $500, and indeed, raising the rent by a large amount (defined percentagewise) is illegal in many jurisdictions. So it seems difficult to come the idea that it is somehow absurd.
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by klodolph 3y ago
In my experience, the “real” 10x employees collaborate with others more than anyone else.
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by klodolph 3y ago
I think the real problem is that people are going for free tabs, and the free tabs online are just kinda awful. They don't just miss information, but they also contain outright errors. If you’re serious about learning a piece, so you c
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by klodolph 3y ago
Sure, if traditional sheet music is the qwerty keyboard, then this new version is a 2x expanded keyboard, with separate keys for all the capital letters. I think there’s no denying that the particulars of the current system of musical notat

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