lukeasrodgers

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by lukeasrodgers 4y ago
What is the evidence this is true? I tend to agree with https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/multi-cloud-is-the-worst-...
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by lukeasrodgers 4y ago
For me, the sense in which it "unites a lot of seemingly disparate phenomena" is not that different than the sense in which "purple" unites a lot of purple things. It is true that they are all purple, but ultimately not
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by lukeasrodgers 4y ago
What do you mean their general systems theory is unmatched? Unmatched for what? I have read a bunch of D&G (as well as D on his own) and generally enjoy their writing, but I find it basically useless in my every day life and work (softw
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by lukeasrodgers 4y ago
This looks neat, if you had a way for people without an etsy store to get notified when this launched, I'd sign up.
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by lukeasrodgers 4y ago
Based solely on my personal experience, this log scale graph is no more misleading than a typical log scale graph. What in your mind makes it unusually bad? Do you have examples of better log scale graphs?
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by lukeasrodgers 4y ago
Yeah those response times are in the realm of “why would I even consider that”. If I am trying to tune my db queries to have p95 latency of 1ms (for example) there’s no way I would choose an architecture that then threw that all out the win
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by lukeasrodgers 4y ago
How would Hanami prevent this without messing with ruby constant lookup? Probably monkey patches to Kernel would be required.
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by lukeasrodgers 4y ago
Reusing code in unexpected ways seems like what would be predicted in this scenario, if you agree with the position Naur advances in Programming as Theory Building (which I mostly do).
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by lukeasrodgers 4y ago
Blood Meridian
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by lukeasrodgers 4y ago
Interesting, I never bothered to investigate the basis of that claim. According to https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02328-0 , a recent study does show that the vaccine was effective at preventing the spread, w
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by lukeasrodgers 4y ago
I have used it in production at small companies (i.e. not Amazon, as some other commenters mention) for things that needed very high reliability. It helped us find a few race conditions that took > 20 steps to reproduce, that I would pro
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by lukeasrodgers 4y ago
I wouldn't classify rats<->humans as an analogy in this context. Generalizing (too broadly, probably) premodern medical "science" was explicitly analogical in many ways, e.g. "we will use this herb that looks like
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by lukeasrodgers 4y ago
I think the article has a number of good points, though suffers a bit from arguing against strawmen as other commenters point out. I also disagree with the claim that "A system dynamics model, properly considered, is just an analogy dr
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by lukeasrodgers 4y ago
Readers may enjoy the portmanteau that came from Kripke's interpretation of Wittgenstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein_on_Rules_and_Priv...
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Bogus Ankle-Monitor Alerts(chicagoreader.com)
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by lukeasrodgers 4y ago
Reminds me of the CS Lewis quote, "Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."
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by lukeasrodgers 4y ago
What if it was possible to have a local build system that would run tests etc and provide a cryptographically secure hash proving that the tests passed, the build was good, etc then a “centralized” CI system just verified that before permit
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by lukeasrodgers 4y ago
I recall having come across it in articles on/translations of continental philosophy. I've never heard anyone use it in conversation.
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by lukeasrodgers 5y ago
This isn’t exactly about treating kids like “young adults” but Magda Gerber’s Your Self Confident Baby is largely about recognizing how capable kids are, even from infancy. Also check out Ross Greene, whose big idea is basically “you can d
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by lukeasrodgers 5y ago
Popper’s criticism is, iirc, drawn mainly from Plato’s Republic. But Popper somehow managed to read a deeply ironic and subtle text as a recipe for tyranny. Eg there are numerous points where Socrates makes obviously bad arguments which oth
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by lukeasrodgers 5y ago
This would be pretty cool, but I don't see how it could go beyond translations like "I feel positive emotion related to nursing" and "I feel negative emotion related to pain." What if an adult pig makes "positi
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by lukeasrodgers 5y ago
I really hope I'm missing something very obvious but contra this line from the article "verifiable ownership via blockchain (and not by a central authority)", this seems like yet another case where we will mostly just trust a
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by lukeasrodgers 5y ago
Even at the 130M rows range, you should still be able to take advantage of indexes for fast queries beyond just the primary key. It's been a while since I used mysql, but around 2010 I was working on mysql 5.something and we had severa
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by lukeasrodgers 5y ago
It probably makes no sense to talk of a virus having a strategy. I don’t agree with all of his stuff but the point of Daniel Dennett’s “intentional stance” is basically that attributing mental states to things is just a pragmatic matter. If
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by lukeasrodgers 5y ago
I believe the last sentence in the parent comment was (top notch) sarcasm.
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by lukeasrodgers 5y ago
Some other commenters here seem to think this article is (or should have been?) an introduction to systems thinking, or an argument for using it. The article is explicitly framed as some advice, based in experience, on avoiding common pitfa
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by lukeasrodgers 6y ago
An argument of Elephant in the Brain ( https://www.elephantinthebrain.com/ ) is that a key component of bullshitting others (paraphrasing, somewhat) is that you must also bullshit yourself, in order to be convincing.
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by lukeasrodgers 6y ago
I am a real developer who likes agile, nice to meet you :)
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by lukeasrodgers 6y ago
I like this Roosevelt quote, and Brené Brown gets a lot of mileage from it, but it always struck as me as a veering a little too close (for my comfort) to a possible rationalization of why it was okay for me to fuck a bunch of stuff up and
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by lukeasrodgers 6y ago
I've only done hobby stuff with pony, but love the idea of it, and would love an opportunity to use it in production. I've found the community welcoming and helpful in my limited interactions. The standard library code is pretty e

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