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   by macintux 2y ago

   Same topic, 2 comments so far: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41949098
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   by macintux 2y ago

   Thanks, I was coming to share that blog. There’s a plethora of interesting Antarctic content.
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   by macintux 2y ago

   https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/us-elec... “Americans on November 5 will be electing a wartime president. This isn’t a prediction. It’s reality.”
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   by macintux 2y ago

   I've been pronouncing it with the short 'i' for 30 years, but mainly, possibly only, in my head. In 1998 I started a new job, and my boss pronounced "URL" as "earl". That threw me for a loop, had to fight
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   by macintux 2y ago

   Is that so that users who no longer have/want to use the app can still delete their account?
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   by macintux 2y ago

   Here’s my ~10-year-old meta-list of distributed systems reading lists. I’ve added this one about 10 years too late, and heaven knows how many of the entries on my list survive. https://gist.github.com/macintux/6227368
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   by macintux 2y ago

   I have no idea what the conditions were like for this incident, but I’ve blown through a 4-way stop sign when the sun was setting. There’s only so much sunglasses can do.
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   by macintux 2y ago

   You’re right, but if I can extrapolate from myself to most adults, that’s approximately never. I think I’ve done that once in the last 10 years, and I spend a fair bit of time in the woods.
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   by macintux 2y ago

   The impression I got from the document is that cells don’t communicate much with each other. They’re effectively multiple copies of the same cluster of services. Cells could certainly encapsulate multiple microservices, but I don’t see a st
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    by macintux 2y ago

    I was comparing the concept to the Actor model as I skimmed the piece, but I don’t think there’s much overlap. What about Smalltalk correlates to cells?
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    by macintux 2y ago

    I would wager it's not a matter of helping filter out CO2, but rather CO2 is one way to assess how effective the air management is on a plane.
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    by macintux 2y ago

    Write the proof of concept in a language that the company doesn’t want to support. Erlang, Haskell, Prolog.
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    by macintux 2y ago

    People used to get along fine with a magazine or book; that doesn't mean they weren't ready for something better.
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    by macintux 2y ago

    Smartphones failing to make phone calls is not exactly an unknown concept. https://www.tomsguide.com/news/some-pixel-users-cant-dial-91... https://www.slashgear.com/842545/why-antennagate-was-a-com
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    by macintux 2y ago

    I recently traded in my 5-year-old iPad Pro because it was badly banged up, and they still offered me ~$400 in trade-in value. Great iPads.
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    by macintux 2y ago

    "Commodity products for premium price" definitely sounds like sour grapes. If the products are actually commodity, just buy something else.
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    by macintux 2y ago

    Many years ago I was grading my students’ C programs when I found a program that worked without global variables or passing parameters. Instead, every function had the same variables declared in the same order.
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    by macintux 2y ago

    A few years ago I was auto-generating HTML to ingest into an older version of Confluence (pretending it was Markdown). Confluence behaved differently (correctly) when I inserted hard line breaks between elements. Took a while to figure that
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    by macintux 2y ago

    Musk choosing to abandon YouTube to push his other company didn’t help.
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    by macintux 2y ago

    I was very disappointed that Apple gave up that fight. They also at some point joined the PC world in moving the nubs on their keyboard from "d" and "k", where you were more likely to notice if your fingers are not in th
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    by macintux 2y ago

    Technically 1 is not a few.
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    by macintux 2y ago

    Nice, thanks, will have to look that up.
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    by macintux 2y ago

    > It just so happens that most people in the West are comfortable, are completely insulated from the consequences of war, and can't even imagine a regular war happening to them. One of my great disappointments after 9/11 was th
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    by macintux 2y ago

    10 years ago I used Jim Gray's piece about Tandem fault tolerance in a talk about Erlang at Midwest.io (RIP, was a great conference). https://youtu.be/E18shi1qIHU Because it's a small world, a former Tandem employ
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    by macintux 2y ago

    It’s not always possible, or not always obvious. I finally hung a jacket over my screen on one flight.
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    by macintux 2y ago

    We frequently see what we expect to see. If I'm convinced something isn't in a certain location, I won't find it, digital or analog.
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    by macintux 2y ago

    Or maybe your "no one else is smart/brave enough to say it" wrapper detracted from your message. Additionally, throwing yet more syntax/features at a language to make it pseudo-functional doesn't appeal to everyone.
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    by macintux 2y ago

    Taking a company to court is definitely in the realm of activism.
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    by macintux 2y ago

    I'm just pointing out why, in your words, we see "political parties harping on about job creation".
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    by macintux 2y ago

    The problem is that value creation is meaningless to people who are losing their jobs. Homelessness sucks.