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by lllr_finger 7y ago
I chase storms in my free time, and there are still a lot of areas in the US where Internet connectivity is poor or non-existent. I had an idea for an e-ink powered device that pulled down satellite images like this, but I never got very fa
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
The OpenBSD port for Rust 1.39 - the long awaited async/await release - wasn't available for several (6?) weeks. The reason for this was the maintainer is a single person with a complex setup, trying to wrestle with LLVM issues an
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
ADRs are great, and don't need to be overly formal or use tooling. We've been hand-writing Markdown-based ADRs ( https://github.com/adr/madr ) checked in with our code in a docs/adr directory. You don&#x27
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
We've been capturing those decisions in ADRs ( https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/lightweight-ar... ) for the past year or so, and they've been incredibly helpful even for those involved in the
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
That's probably more directed towards the sub-$300 market, which has at least a handful of options. I've got my wife, kids, and parents all on these devices because they're cheap and easy to use. I'd prefer spending $300
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
Yes, it slows you down because you need to think about your domain and how that maps into types (whether you think those types exist or not, they do). Having that opinion isn't backend bias - it's likely being exposed to a variety
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
"Most" is a fairly strong quantifier, and some people would probably disagree. Anything new could be termed as an example of RDD, but if that were always the case, we never would have had JavaScript in the first place. One (IMO) u
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
I've implemented this in Kotlin with sealed classes, and it's slowly taking over within our org. You don't get a few things (like the ? sugar) but it's still really nice. I have no idea why the Kotlin std lib has a Resul
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
It doesn't, but at least 'when' statements will be exhaustive when working with sealed classes - which is a breath of fresh air if you enjoy working with sum types and pattern matching.
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
Probably just GitHub (the browser UI). If you want to do it offline or from the command line, I understand why you might hesitate want to check out files, but stashing in git is extremely easy.
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
Look up imposter syndrome. You've got it, I've got it, a lot of good devs have it. As someone else mentioned, just being aware that you have skills at various points of competency and you want to be better puts you in a subset of
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
If you're a .org owner for personal use and aren't happy with this change - what are the feasible alternatives that others have settled on?
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
Because Outbrain and Taboola can easily be 1/10th or more of a legit site's revenue, on the order of millions of dollars. I'm not saying that's a good thing, it's a very difficult argument with the amount of money y
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
On a BSD? It's great for me in Windows or Linux, but it's really choppy scrolling or watching videos in OpenBSD. There was a post on the mailing list somewhere that blamed excessive mallocs. This was with version 69, so not some a
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
On a free and open platform like OpenBSD, Firefox isn't even really an option due to performance issues. More than anything else, being forced to use Chromium for a decent browsing experience turned me away from using OpenBSD on a dail
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
Allow me to nerd out a little, since my other love besides development is severe weather. The forward flank downdraft or rear inflow jet of a linear convective system/bow echo can see winds of 50mph+ rather commonly. The more interesti
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
> efficient development I think the rationale for that is twofold: that as a static typed language that prefers stack allocation, you can get some very good performance without putting much effort into it, and that it's usually clea
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
Wind driven hail traveling nearly sideways is common unfortunately. I'm not sure what angle of protection would be the best compromise, but I do know a copy above would not afford 100% protection.
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
Foam would suck up water unfortunately. It'd almost have to be something that was waterproof, dried quickly, and could be stored compactly.
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
Great points. Basing a damage payout on anything besides actual damage feels counter-intuitive. Insurance companies already know where heavy hail falls - there are several companies with products that correlate hail reports with the dual-po
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
It's a good idea to solve the problem instead of what the article describes, but there's an issue with canopies. The types of storms that produce hail, usually supercellular, often have damaging straight-line winds. While out stor
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
I have only my anecdotal experience, but when I did full stack work at two large employers HN readers would definitely recognize, we had some really talented developers, and nearly every poorly performing part of a page was dictated by a pr
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
Binary serialization and real-time compression like zstd have opened up a whole new world for me. Something like flatbuffer even lets you index into structured data without a deserialization penalty.
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
Are you driving towards the conclusion that we don't need to be concerned about management of water resources because this happens naturally? That sounds close to the argument that we shouldn't do anything about climate change sin
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
The article touches on the cause. Planting trees won't help if you use the available water for other things.
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
Disruptor benefits from lock free access using a ring buffer. You can get amazing results with a single thread but that aspect isn't central to the pattern.
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
Sounds like an embedded key value store, ie. RocksDB. I've used it with great success in constrained environments and also when pushing cache to the edge for stable, low-latency, high volume APIs.
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
You're all over this thread, and people have already put your resources under a critical light. What is your relationship with the private prison sector and why are you so passionate about it?
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
Walmart isn't really an example of choice. I've traveled the Midwest and great plains extensively every year since 2009, and have watched it slowly destroy small town life. The locals fought back as much as they could, but saving
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by lllr_finger 7y ago
We've used this to our advantage when performance testing things on the JVM. We might not write the final solution in Rust, but we'll use it to figure out a theoretical upper limit with various things like Kafka and misc. database

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