lamontcg

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by lamontcg 3y ago
All the followups pretty much just talked right over the point I was making.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Some of that may be on devs, actually: distribution-as-docker-container at the expense of real packaging seems to be on the rise. You could just run docker or podman or whatever alone on a VM and start/stop containers entirely man
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by lamontcg 3y ago
This all seems way overly complicated for what could probably be a few services running on a VM or four. Why does Kubernetes/Argo/Helm need to get involved? Why couldn't the whole architecture diagram look a lot more like H
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by lamontcg 3y ago
This isn't censorship.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah, people have woken up to "supply chain" problems, particularly with javascript and npm which is an entire tirefire. But we've gone from 0% to 100% overnight and as usual people have adopted it as their new religion and t
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I use soccer podcasts. Not American pundits who like to argue with each other loudly, but brits who don't raise their voices, yapping about teams I don't have any particular emotional connection to, with nothing particularly insi
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by lamontcg 3y ago
AV cars could be programmed to never stop in bike lanes or bus lanes or do anything else to disrupt transit. They could automatically get out of the way of buses. AV buses and AV cars could coordinate to move people around faster making t
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I didn't say not to try to get to reproducible builds, though, but not to treat Dtolnay like he's a criminal. There is a very real problem that he was trying to solve, but the right way to do it will require core language support.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I used to use a FreeBSD desktop at work back in like 2002. And that is a reasonable thing for those projects to try to achieve. Still we've been downloading binaries for decades and the world hasn't ended, this issue never warrant
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I'm using "infrastructure" in the same sense that the author described: > ... as infrastructure -- triage and fix bugs from the backlog, optimize performance, increase security and reliability, pay down tech debt, simplify
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by lamontcg 3y ago
"Most of you all", addressing the HN audience, not the author.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> However, this means that the most commonly used crate is shipping an arbitrary binary for production builds without any way to opt-out. The nokogiri rubygem has been shipping a prebuilt windows dll for probably more than a decade. The
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Biggest problem I think is really staffing the infrastructure tasks sufficiently. You will get bled down to practically no headcount being allocated to infrastructure, with all the headcount assigned to "big bets" on the non open-
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Its certainly going to be interesting to watch how it all plays out.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> How about the coral reefs that were in absolute collapse are coming back? The recovery stopped last year, and we're heading into El Nino conditions which will probably cause another mass bleaching: https://www.theguardi
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> remote work leads to really bad outcomes from team members who don’t want to be part of the team. garbage in, garbage out.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I tend to think that larger open source projects (large enough to need funding) need to be coming from nonprofit foundations, R&D arms of already-public corporations and educational and government institutions. Companies that want to g
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by lamontcg 3y ago
autopsy showed he was full of polonium and shot himself twice in the back of the head before jumping out of a plane that accidentally collided with a missile
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Or it is exactly what it looks like. War was going like shit, Prigozhin got very angry and went off half cocked with no exit strategy, Putin did what Putin does and eliminated him (and what literally everyone who isn't using motivated
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by lamontcg 3y ago
To reply to myself: I guess I should say that what the Fed is doing is class warfare and a major unspoken reason for what they're doing is to remove bargaining power from the workers. They would be more concerned about pay and breaki
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> I'm still scratching my head about what he thought his endgame was going to be after the coup. It isn't a contradiction for smart people to fuck up and do dumb things. Sometimes people just miscalculate and make mistakes. Th
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> I think the plan was to create a poor labor market so they could demand RTO. If we hit a major recession and unemployment spikes, corporations will be looking to downsize everywhere, including jettisoning more office space. And the Fed
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> I've personally worked with many junior engineers over the years and it's really hard to mentor someone over a computer screen. It's definitely possible, but being able sit down informally and talk about something that&#
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by lamontcg 3y ago
how close are we now to being able to plug in an eGPU into an Apple Silicon device?
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by lamontcg 3y ago
That optimizes for Demo-driven development though. I've seen a lot of flashy "clever" stuff created for demos which were later totally abandoned. And a lot of basement-level code wrangling that is difficult to demo.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
McNamara fallacy: > The McNamara fallacy (also known as the quantitative fallacy),[1] named for Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, involves making a decision based solely on quantitative observations (or metr
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by lamontcg 3y ago
ASME estimated closer to US$500b: https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/memagazineselect/arti... JCER estimated from US$470b to US$660b https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/clearing-the-radi
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Zero deaths is debatable, and it is only possible due to a trillion dollar cleanup cost.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> made expensive by 50 years of excessive regulation driven by fear. they're expensive because we can't build ANYTHING big in this country without cost overruns.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> glorified janitorial roles yeah, i'm quite supportive of him banning you.

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