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by latch 6y ago
Status pages, like SLAs, are sales tool - not engineering tools. At best, they are there to help decision makers go through their checklist. At worse, they exist to deceive.
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by latch 6y ago
Assuming you can sustain this, that's 33TB/month, or 33x more than the [more expensive] AWS lightsail. It might not be _the best_, but for the price, how is that anything but great? What's a case where you want to (and more i
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by latch 6y ago
We use rustler only as a thin wrapper to existing crates (like, for hdrhistograms). I'm far from a Rust expert, but I believe it uses std::panic::catch_unwind
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by latch 6y ago
NIFs run without most (all?) of the safety features the erlang VM provides, such as memory safety and scheduling. If the NIF crashes, the entire app (aka, VM) crashes. This is anathema to some...i dunno..philosophies? expectations? of Erlan
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by latch 6y ago
An article written by an expert in biology and disease and the director of the National Institutes of Health, which summarizes an a article that was published in a peer-reviewed medical journal and written by another accomplished medical d
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by latch 6y ago
Looks like there's active work going into it (1) (2), but Zig's lack of built-in http library has been a showstopper for me. I've had a few small side projects I wanted to do which involved exposing an API. (1) https:/&
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by latch 6y ago
Barman (1) is really easy to setup and lets you avoid the many pitfalls of RDS (lower performance, high cost, no superadmin, no arbitrary extensions, waiting for releases, bad log interface). (1) https://www.pgbarman.org/
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by latch 6y ago
The question was: "Who defines unreasonable"? As a matter of fact, the answer is: Facebook. That _does_ seem like the issue to me. I think that you're moving the goalpost from "who decides" to "is it a good ide
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by latch 6y ago
Well, if you believe in the First Amendment, then Facebook itself gets the freedom to decide what does and doesn't go on its platform. If you want something more generic, you could start with hate speech laws in Australia, Belgium, Can
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by latch 6y ago
This is a logical fallacy, and a bad one as it generally doesn't bear out how you're implying in the real world.
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by latch 6y ago
UFC - United Fruit Company. It's hard to pick out 1 specific example. Their wiki page (1) reads like a plot where the villain is a caricature of capitalism. (1) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
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by latch 6y ago
> US economy works best at extremes. I agree with you, but going on a tangent, I question if it really "works best". I'm not an economist nor sociologist, but I know there's some evidence/argument that inequality
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by latch 6y ago
Yes. And I love Singapore. I'd like to think that cities / countries of the future have lower inequality and are more self sustainable (not too much Singapore can do here, but it might become increasingly important). I don't
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by latch 6y ago
Yes, lived there for 4 years.
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by latch 6y ago
I've lived for multiple years in Singapore, Shanghai and Hong Kong. I think they're all great. For the sake of argument, I'll try to keep this about Tokyo, but a key observation of mine is that _all_ of Japan is like this. Ob
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by latch 6y ago
I've traveled a fair bit, and every part of Japan that I've been to feels like I've timed-traveled 20 years into a better future [compared to anywhere else I've been]. Yet there seems to be a fairly constant negative eco
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by latch 6y ago
How isn't this an academic paper as defined by Admiral Rickover? It meets a lot of his criteria: small, cheap, built quickly and, probably most importantly, it's not being built now.
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by latch 6y ago
I don't understand what you're saying. First, why can't you "create a tech sector when all your data passes through USA..."? What does one have to do with the other? Are you talking about espionage? If so, is there
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by latch 6y ago
Alex Jones was on JRE on Feb 27, 2019, which appears to have been at the height of the litigation against him (1). I'll take your word that's what he said (so in that sense, you're right, it's a "fact"), but if
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by latch 6y ago
that
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by latch 6y ago
Saying that someone's figures are misleading because the alternative is "huge" isn't a compelling argument. What's the amount? How much does it depend on the crop? What about rice and lentils? Why almond milk? Why n
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by latch 6y ago
I'm saying that I can imagine a realistic scenarios where an extra extrajudicial execution could be seen as the lesser of two evil by reasonable people. Yes, there should be oversight before the act and scrutiny after. Yes, it should b
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by latch 6y ago
If you allow me to ignore the slippery slope argument, the typical justification given for extrajudicial killing (clear and immediate threat) at the very least, makes this a not-so black and white issue.
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by latch 6y ago
I'm generally an "ends justifies the means" kinda guy, but I think anyone with that position needs to be aware of what the "means" actually are. Maybe that's why I'm a bit shocked that you're shocked.
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by latch 6y ago
Whether or not this is a problem comes down to two factors: 1 - How ok are you with just accepting things as documenting, like having to put `use HelloWeb, :controller` in each controller. Personally, I _had_ to understand what this was doi
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by latch 6y ago
This word means "uhmm" and you can hear it dozens of times in a single conversation. It sounds like an English-language racial slur, but you stop being surprised to hear it pretty quickly when living in China. The story isn't
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by latch 6y ago
While I agree, the article doesn't really give concrete examples. Elixir is layered, making it easy to learn and master. You can get pretty far with Phoenix without ever understanding (or even knowing about) the more fundamental buildi
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by latch 6y ago
This is absurd bordering on trolling. That isn't the "whole point of rights" (maybe this is what you believe, but that's an opinion, don't present it as a fact). At best, a right is a societal norm. They're alm
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by latch 6y ago
I just spent some time looking at some old code, and it does seem like OTP 22 solved any of the issues that I had run into at the time. My mistake, sorry about that. (Though I maintain that it's still opaque)
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by latch 6y ago
Yes. I recently wrote an Elixir driver for MonetDB. I also wrote a CLI tool in Go for MonetDB and had to write a subset of the driver. Pattern matching in general, and binary pattern matching specifically, made the experience (and the resul

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