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by loukrazy 5y ago
These sorts of tools make me think of Lotus Notes or Access applications. Didn’t couchbase do some self hosted UX as well?
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by loukrazy 5y ago
Could we rewrite German in Rust to make it faster?
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by loukrazy 5y ago
As is Amazon
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by loukrazy 5y ago
Is Austin much cheaper than Washington these days? I have not looked in 4 years
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by loukrazy 5y ago
If there is no peaceful transfer of power then you are incentivized to never give up power
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by loukrazy 5y ago
Isn’t the point that Record classes will be able to be upgraded to value types easily once Valhalla is done? Or am I missing something
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by loukrazy 5y ago
If you make changes to a large shared module, is it your responsibility to chase down each and every usage of it? For example if you are upgrading a dependency due to a somewhat breaking security issue such as Jackson 2.8->2.12
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by loukrazy 5y ago
There is evidence that the Pfizer vaccine is still effective at least 6 months later https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/04/01/pfizer...
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by loukrazy 6y ago
Seems like religiosity is a neurological need, but church is not. With organized religion decreasing in various countries, I wonder where people will get their outlets for social and metaphysical needs previously supplied by churches.
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by loukrazy 6y ago
I remember I only understood C once I wrote a memory allocator in assembly in my Computer Architecture course
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by loukrazy 6y ago
I feel like the more sane way to do this is to add disclaimers / explanations at the beginning ala Disney Plus or others
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by loukrazy 6y ago
His point that conspiracy theories are acting as a substitute for religious community and purpose is interesting. I guess there are a number of different belief systems that can fill a void of purpose.
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by loukrazy 6y ago
Not to mention the cost of X more servers for a year is probably less costly than the developer time of optimization and the opportunity cost.
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by loukrazy 6y ago
The charts are comparing “accelerated” performance versus what appears to be a cpu only baseline. It is not clear which M1 hardware beyond the CPU is used
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by loukrazy 6y ago
A way better write up than this fluff piece: https://www.wired.com/story/are-radioactive-diamond-batterie...
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by loukrazy 6y ago
Depends on the part of Amazon but it is pretty prevalent in Retail. The fact that it is both binary and self describing makes it pretty good for data at rest. You can still parse and understand that archival transaction data from 8 years ag
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by loukrazy 7y ago
It really seems that the bigger risk is that they will sacrifice the simplicity of iOS to shoehorn the iPad into productivity use cases
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by loukrazy 7y ago
Having a single wiki instance for your company is an awesome way to collect knowledge. You can write up operation run books, design documents, references all in an informal way.
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by loukrazy 7y ago
Isn’t this basically part of CQRS?
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by loukrazy 7y ago
You would have less leaks with Oracle because you would not be able to afford the database in the first place. Can’t leak anything if it’s not stored
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by loukrazy 7y ago
Isn’t it easier to say “embedded” and “severless”
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by loukrazy 7y ago
There is a great American Experience episode about the history
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by loukrazy 7y ago
At work we joke about zip lines between buildings
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by loukrazy 7y ago
At IBM we used Lotus Notes as our shadow IT. Lotus Notes databases are just really ambitious excel spreadsheets and most of ours were written by self empowered excel hackers. It was kind of beautiful but as you might expect, a pain in the a
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by loukrazy 8y ago
I just skipped the Walmart section. The Amazon section is pretty solid and mostly unrelated. I feel like this would be better in 3 parts, the the discussion of Ads as a 3rd part.
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by loukrazy 8y ago
It seems like VC funding is the real key to changing the calculus. If you get as much money as Elastic did, you damn well start digging that moat and get to monetizing.
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by loukrazy 8y ago
I guess we will find out if you can defend your APIs using copyright in the Oracle vs Google case
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by loukrazy 8y ago
What is the advantage of JVM if there is no Jar deployments. Other than language syntax, most reasons to use JVM is to get all of those libraries
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by loukrazy 8y ago
Sounds like full on imposter syndrome. I feel like a little bit is healthy, but this is quite a lot.
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by loukrazy 8y ago
For me it was the opposite. Once I learned computer architecture then I finally understood memory allocation and pointers in C

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