lmilcin

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by lmilcin 5y ago
I wouldn't blame (badly implemented) DI for all the problems of monoliths. I think the real main issue is lack of discipline when dividing the application into modules. Spaghetti is basically defined as an application where real modula
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Whether there is any value depends heavily on your application. If your Apache is responsible for 0.1% of your costs then this is at most what you can save, even if Nginx was magically zero cost (like zero to install, maintain, zero computi
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I think some of the pressure to update products is irrational. Just because something is newer and better is not yet reason to upgrade. If Apache did everything they needed I can imagine a company to completely forgo investigating Nginx and
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Waiting for everybody else to test the product before you migrate is perfectly common sense strategy. Especially if that product does not give you any special edge over competition.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
As an ex-Intel employee it is interesting to see. This seems to be sound long-term though it may cause significant shrink in the business in next couple of years to cut lines of business that are not above water. From the point of view of i
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by lmilcin 5y ago
NAS + USB HDD docking station plus couple HDDs in rotation. While NAS has mirror on it, I do not consider it enough backup. I assume it will not save me from ransomware or a family member stupidly deleting a lot of data or from fire or from
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by lmilcin 5y ago
The problem isn't requirement of being online. The problem is forcing people to be playing the game regularly or loose whatever they have "accomplished".
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by lmilcin 5y ago
For most of the duration of Covid I actually worked for a large company that maintains large (hundreds if not thousands of people) development workforce in Shanghai. I left in November 2021. NONE of them got sick, as far as we know. Some
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by lmilcin 5y ago
No, it is not. What happened initially and what is happening now are two completely different things. Nobody disputes that it is no longer possible to beat the virus. Even if China did beat the virus completely they would still be receiving
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Except the draconian measures that China put actually worked initially. They lost battle when entire world around them got sick and it did not make sense for China to be isolated. What did not work is other countries closing their borders i
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Covid could have been eliminated at some point. We know because there are scary other viruses like ebola that are not ravaging entire world because the moment it shows up we act decisively -- exactly because it is so deadly and scary. Becau
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> universal basic income for artists How can something that only a single occupation receives, at random, be called "universal"? Do words even mean anything anymore? We know what it means. Ireland will suddenly have a lot of &q
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Every place is dysfunctional to some extent. Working in truly dysfunctional and trying help the situation has taught me very valuable lessons that are very useful in less dysfunctional organisations. In other words -- seeing very clearly ba
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> I know it is picky but, if a task "needs to be done" then it is on the critical path. You are wrong. Critical path is the longest path from start to end of the project. It dictates the length of the project. The idea is that
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by lmilcin 5y ago
The task is deceivingly simple. You have a file and a bunch of memory and you need to make sure data is being moved from file to memory when needed and from memory to file when needed. mmap() is one algorithm to do it, and the idea is that
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I have worked for a time with credit card terminal applications. We used BER-TLV throughout the system extensively, where it was needed as well as where it wasn't. I have implemented complete parsers/serializers, data structures u
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Pretty much the same as buying high end DSLR. The camera does not "make" pictures. The photographer does. If you have no idea how to compose your shot or control lighting, it is going to look bad regardless of how much investment
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Really? First rule of asking about why somebody left a job is that people tend to first make the decision and then rationalise it. They will tell a lot of interesting stories about toxic culture and whatnot where in fact the reason might be
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by lmilcin 5y ago
No, they are not. I may want something to be done by the end of next week and at the same time I would like somebody to spend less than 4 hours on the task. Spending entire two weeks of effort would not be acceptable in this case even if th
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Newer STM32 lines go as far down as 1.7V. Or they would if I was able to find other chips (notably Bluetooth) that would suit me and could pull the same trick. As it stands, the circuit can work down to ~1.85V which is still quite comfortab
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by lmilcin 5y ago
It isn't even exponential, it might be much worse than that. Tipping points have ability to change our climate in a very, very short time. For example, Gulfstream breaking or redirecting can be a sudden event. Many people forget that E
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I design some electronics in my spare time. As a user, I strongly prefer to have a choice of using a rechargeable battery. It somehow does not feel right to throw out a toxic battery when I could have another type potentially hundreds of ti
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Removing CO2 from atmosphere is still much, much more expensive than alternatives. People just don't seem to understand the vastness of our atmosphere and the scale of operations that would be needed for this. Our atmosphere weighs ~5
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by lmilcin 5y ago
As a casual observer I would prefer if people checked the "facts" they post on HN. It is now socially more acceptable to post obvious falsehoods than to point it out. Think about it.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I think I red a study, many years ago, about lowered performance in Mexico City due to their local higher CO2 concentration.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
There are faster, more responsive mechanism that actually saved us from most of the problem for past decades. CO2 gets dissolved in ocean water very efficiently causing acidification and getting into other reactions. Unfortunately, it seems
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by lmilcin 5y ago
No, that's not correct. The rate of expansion in the observable universe is believed and observed to be the same everywhere. We don't know if this is true for entire universe but it appears so in the part that we can observe. The
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> The gases being released aren't toxic until a hundred times higher than current levels. You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. Current atmospheric CO2 level is 400ppm which already has a measurable impact on perf
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Filtering carbon dioxide to have breathing air at home isn't difficult. But housing 8 billion people in sealed environment is. The trouble with CO2 is that already the amount of it in atmosphere starts making us measurably dumber and i
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by lmilcin 5y ago
And if moving schedule by a decade is not an object...

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