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by macintux 1y ago
Related advice based on my days working at Basho: find a way to recognize, and terminate, slow-running (or erratically-behaving) servers. A dead server is much better for a distributed system than a misbehaving one. The latter can bring d
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by macintux 1y ago
Not the person who asked for it, but I think they were suggesting they'd use the API to retrieve information about RSVPs/current state of a planned event. (Perhaps even RSVP on someone else's behalf.)
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by macintux 1y ago
Deaths and accidents are different measurements. Cars are much safer in an accident than they were in the early/middle 20th century. Per-mile-driven deaths started climbing again around 2012 in the U.S., I'd wager due to the trend
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by macintux 1y ago
As best as I can tell, not universally. I'm rather obsessive about watching brake lights around me; my state doesn't have safety inspections, so I try my best to alert other drivers when they have brake lights out. I've defin
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by macintux 1y ago
> I think I've seen that blind people in the US have a little machine that they can use to add the braille themselves. That solves half the problem, but you still don't know whether you're getting correct change.
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by macintux 1y ago
Maybe. How many users change the defaults, or even know it’s an option?
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by macintux 1y ago
(2020)
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by macintux 1y ago
How do you plan on handling the influx of garbage? I like the idea, but I’m inclined to think registration of event organizers would be necessary to control the spam.
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by macintux 1y ago
While poking around I found this side-by-side comparison of Inform 7 & Dialog. Seems instructive. https://www.linusakesson.net/dialog/craverly/craverly_side_b... https://www.linusakesson.net/di
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by macintux 1y ago
I discovered Erlang from Bruce Tate's book[0] and it was such an obviously pragmatic and interesting language that I started participating in the Twitter Erlang community, discovered Basho was using it for Riak and looking for a tech e
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by macintux 1y ago
I've shared it here once recently, so might as well again. I gave a talk at Midwest.io (sigh, such a great conference, shame it faltered) building Erlang from the ground up, starting with the = sign and the implications (side effects?)
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by macintux 1y ago
I have an older list, but I don’t know how many of the links are still valid. https://gist.github.com/macintux/6349828#alternative-languag...
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by macintux 1y ago
Now I'm curious whether Joe Armstrong's original Prolog implementation of the VM is available anywhere, but I doubt it.
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by macintux 1y ago
I had a small collection of RPN calculators, one or two non-HP, but alas someone broke into my house and took them. I really should have called around to pawn shops after, I’d very much like to have them back.
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by macintux 1y ago
In terms of his impact on Europe and beyond, it's hard to find more influential people. There's a running joke on the History Matters Youtube channel: if you ask a question about European history post-Napoleon, there's a pret
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by macintux 1y ago
Unless it has changed, the max character length on a submission title is 80 characters, which this matches exactly. I assume "body" was dropped to make it fit.
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by macintux 1y ago
Perhaps the current process becomes the backlog management system. This isn’t an insurmountable problem, were the incentives in place.
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by macintux 1y ago
> But you just admitted that you pay for YouTube and it shows you creator promotions. It's easy to skip creator promotions. You can also choose not to engage with creators that conduct ads. I'm fine paying YouTube not to force
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by macintux 1y ago
That I would have noticed. I think. Maybe.
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by macintux 1y ago
I wish the companies would just pay a few technically-competent companies to do the scraping. Pay two so you can check their work, maybe, but let's get past the point in time when dozens (or more?) of companies are all simultaneously h
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by macintux 1y ago
It's possible, albeit very unlikely, that we had a theme. My observational skills have been found wanting before. Sadly the only theme I remember from its waning days were the many buckets to capture rainwater; clearly they were strugg
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by macintux 1y ago
Huh. If the Indianapolis Frys had a theme, it completely escaped my notice.
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by macintux 1y ago
> And this is how I ended up showering at work for three days that week after not having had one over the weekend. I discovered the unexpected value of a YMCA membership when my hot water was offline for a while.
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by macintux 1y ago
Shameless plug if you like videos: I gave a talk about Erlang, building the language (focus on semantics, not syntax) up from the fact that the = sign doubles as a runtime assertion. https://youtu.be/E18shi1qIHU Joe was ind
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by macintux 1y ago
I left Facebook, but its algorithm continues to actively encourage the divisiveness and misinformation that’s poisoning the world I live in. Sometimes “you don’t have to participate” isn’t strong enough advice, not that I know what the answ
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by macintux 1y ago
When I worked in desktop publishing (35 years ago, sigh) we used Ready, Set, Go extensively. Certainly seemed like a more intuitive UI than what little I've seen of Quark, at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re
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by macintux 1y ago
It seems evident to me that semantics are more challenging to define than visuals; it's not the CSS that's the problem.
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by macintux 1y ago
Why would marketing want to pay for the extra (and to their mind entirely pointless) work required to capture semantics? (I’m not saying I like the world we live in, but I don’t see a likely alternative.)
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by macintux 1y ago
I think it was inevitable. Most of the funded content on the web is marketing/sales-driven, and companies paying for marketing content want it to be displayed in a specific way. It’d be interesting to have a parallel DocBook web for te
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by macintux 1y ago
> but we would have just seen the same thing transpire over a number of years if iPhone hadn't been created. Maybe, but I’m not certain we would have converged on a single form factor. Only Apple had the retail, marketing, software,

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