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by lanstin 3y ago
This is like when people use protobuf to send a list of key-value mappings, and call that a protocol. (I've seen that same design in many protocol description arenas, even SQL database schemas that are just (entityId INT, key CLOB, va
902.
by lanstin 3y ago
The distributed part shifts the problem from "find types that represent your solution" to "find a system of types that enable evolution of your solution over time." I think this is why bad things like json or xml do so w
903.
by lanstin 3y ago
I have stuff like that on a hard drive in my home, on a persistent storage volume from Linode, and on Dropbox.
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by lanstin 3y ago
If I have one I can't help but write, I'll add in a 1 line "TLDR" or "Executive Summary" at the top, then have details below. I do spend some effort to be funny or at least amusing in the long writing. Not sure
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by lanstin 3y ago
I too worked at AOL back then, but on the AIM team. When we bought ICQ the presence side of ICQ ran on the largest machine Dec would sell you. The vertical scaling worked very well, tho. Also porting the host code to Digital Unix made it re
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by lanstin 3y ago
I used PGP Phone with my dad, which means it was pre-Dec 1999. The crypto battle is kind of orthogonal to general privacy concerns. Stuff like being allowed to sell location data from your phone is not related to building back-doors into en
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by lanstin 3y ago
Different religion, but my ex-wife's family were all baptists and I've never met women as angry at men as the older women in that family. They had obeyed and submitted and got angrier and angrier as the decades wore on. Didn'
908.
by lanstin 3y ago
In 2017 I led a (painful) project to migrate from RHEL5 to Ubuntu 16. Since then, it has been pretty easy to go to 18 then 20, soon 22. The previous migration was in 2010 and was from RedHat 6 (not RHEL) to RHEL5. These projects were for
909.
by lanstin 3y ago
And idempotency is essential for shell scripts that alter state. Otherwise you have to keep track of where failures happened.
910.
by lanstin 3y ago
Because it's just one global instead of constant space added to all the closures/stacks. One map of symbols to values, not a whole world of them. If I had to guess.
911.
by lanstin 3y ago
Not in San Jose. A few drivers will only wait for you to cross their half but they are an asshole minority and at any rate are not aiming to minimize things.
912.
by lanstin 3y ago
But also ambiguous and from time to time requiring judgment. Should I let that dumb ass driver go next or pull around them? I agree it’s insane not to allow the automated driving use more sensors than humans have. I wish I had vision that c
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by lanstin 3y ago
You getting six nines of accuracy on that with good latency? Did you watch the “how our large driving model deals with stop signs” from Tesla AI department? Given the multiplicative effect of driving decisions and the weird real world out
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by lanstin 3y ago
I have seen a lot of layoffs over the years and I would put the main targets into here buckets: 1. People with bad relationships with he boss and bosses boss. 2. People with higher salaries. 3. Unlucky folks where an entire line of busine
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by lanstin 3y ago
If I can't fix it in like 3 tries, I switch to my local shell script having the script to run on the remote end be in a HEREDOC and just scp it it over and then ssh exec it. Inside the HEREDOC, it's a sane environment.
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by lanstin 3y ago
That is badass. Tex lives on but DVI need not.
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by lanstin 3y ago
A nice corollary to Kernighan's law on debugging. I guess it can go either way. Sometimes ChatGPT4 is great and saves me time, but the cycle of "explain what I want, get the output test/compile it, post the errors, try again&
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by lanstin 3y ago
Follow #hashtags that you are interested in to get a broad slice of miscellaneous content, and also check the "trending locally" page from time to time (showing posts that are popular on your instance). #bookstodon #rust #programm
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by lanstin 3y ago
The point about email/gmail is that Google's rather declining spam processes don't keep spam out, but do make it excruciatingly difficult for a family to run their own SMTP server and their own DNS and send mail to Google wit
920.
by lanstin 3y ago
I routinely help data scientist people with mangled local python installs. It could be a full time job but a really bad one.
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by lanstin 3y ago
When people could design systems that work for long periods of time.
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by lanstin 3y ago
Generally that is a straight forward process of compiling, reading the error message, googling “$dist install $dirname of missing dep” running the apt-get / emerge / yum “ command and then repeating the compile command. Sometimes
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by lanstin 3y ago
It would be a simple regulatory change that would (maybe ?) substantially mitigate the harm leveraged buy outs cause the economy and society.
924.
by lanstin 3y ago
Things that management knows about and worries about consistently, like 5 years and still going strong, do trickle down and make a difference, and eventually build a culture. Things that management changes every year end up making even the
925.
by lanstin 3y ago
Yeah that is counter intuitive till you forget not knowing it.
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by lanstin 3y ago
And the probability of a given piece of C code that was written for a thread safe environment working when called from multiple threads at once is pretty low for anything not 100% purely functional.
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by lanstin 3y ago
no special sense here, just experiencing things without the sense of knowing the outcomes to expect. just sit and see.
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by lanstin 3y ago
as a Zen trainee, i am pretty sure there is no secret meaning to the otherwise normal words. beginer's mind is just that mind when you have no experience to predict what is expected next.
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by lanstin 3y ago
this, movement of discretion from the employees talking to the customer to some central platform with the possible outcomes premapped out, seems to be a general trend for highly cost conscious large stores. so often the people at the desk s
930.
by lanstin 3y ago
Most stores I shop at are unable to take money if their internet is down. And, to be a grumpy old man, it seems most of their employees lack experience in offline credit cards or cash and making change. And I have no way of getting cash wit

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