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by makmanalp 2y ago
Add schema migrations and bulk loads to this. So many systems crap out doing things like schema migrations at scale. Query latencies degrade over time due to internal structures keeping track of things, stuff runs out of buffer / log s
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by makmanalp 2y ago
No, that is kind of the point of a salt is that it doesn't need to be hidden - it's designed for a scenario where e.g. your database is hacked and they're visible as plaintext: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by makmanalp 2y ago
> HIPAA has done net harm by delaying flow of information for critical-care patients resulting in lack of patient compliance, confusion, and treatment error. You won't find any disagreement from me that HIPAA is very complicated. Ho
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by makmanalp 2y ago
> Someone can just hash every number from 000-00-0000 to 999-99-9999 and figure out mine from that. That's what salts are for, right? It wouldn't be too hard to issue a very large, known, public salt alongside each SSN. > An
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by makmanalp 2y ago
As a person who's from a country with, let's say, VERY VERY contested, controversial and eventful elections, the fact that independent poll watchers from different parties and NGOs can independently observe ballot boxes, take phot
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by makmanalp 2y ago
> I don’t even know how they thought that little old me just out of university could be left alone to successfully build applications on my own, but I think people trusted a lot more during that era A similar feeling on my end too :-) T
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by makmanalp 2y ago
As much as this stuff is nuts to think of today and there's tons to hate, I am kinda nostalgic for some aspects of my experience of working at a place where software is maybe needed and/or valued but isn't a core competency.
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by makmanalp 2y ago
Interesting that it didn't have a "shift" mechanism and so you end up with both upper and lower case keys, which must make typing full sentences a pain. But they maintained the "upper case" being on the top and the
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by makmanalp 2y ago
Underrated oncall problem that needs solving is scheduling IMHO: - We have a weekday (2 shifts) / weekend (1 slightly longer shift including friday morning to allow people to take long weekends) oncall rotation as well as a group-combi
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by makmanalp 2y ago
Canary releases aren't a magical bug free fix. They might be doing it, but the conditions that trigger a problem can be sneaky and can happen outside your canary period, rendering it useless. It's a best effort method.
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by makmanalp 2y ago
OK, in this vein, why oh why did Lyft and Uber remove their apple watch apps? I just need an app that's a single "take me home now" button so I don't have to worry about my phone battery dying when I'm out and about
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by makmanalp 2y ago
Lovely answer full of helpful details, thank you!
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by makmanalp 2y ago
Question - if large clusters are reporting that they're seeing gains from using RDMA networks because communication overhead is a bottleneck, how is it possible that this thing is not massively bottlenecked running over a home network?
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by makmanalp 2y ago
Oh I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that - I just meant as in feeling so excited like a child over what amounts to a manual labelmaker :-) No bad vibes at all on my end though. Very interesting about the rest though, thanks for th
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by makmanalp 2y ago
I feel a bit silly being excited about this, but of course there's a circa 50s office solution that requires no batteries and electronics. I don't know what I was thinking!
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by makmanalp 2y ago
Because by providing a temporary monopoly, it allows one a better guarantee to recoup costs, making the investment worthwhile in the first place, thus incentivizing people to spend time and effort creating works in the first place. Then, on
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by makmanalp 2y ago
Eclipse always left me with the impression that it was more interested in architecting generically extensible platforms and protocols moreso than a nice, clean, user ready tool with all the kinks worked out. I was so scarred from Eclipse an
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by makmanalp 2y ago
> If so many people were buying non-FDA approved drugs that drug-makers stopped pursuing FDA approval, I think that would be quite indicative that there are some serious issues with the FDA process. At a minimum, that would demonstrate s
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by makmanalp 2y ago
A customer base of people with profoundly serious troubles at the edge of desperation who are looking for any glimmer of hope. An industry who's incentivized to charge astronomical amounts to an untapped market to recoup costs. A drug
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by makmanalp 2y ago
I mostly agree with the first bit. Re: advice, well, there could be, but the people who put these things in place aren't necessarily thinking in those terms. They're thinking about a statistical edge and acceptable negative outcom
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by makmanalp 2y ago
I don't know why but the sounds make it so much more satisfying :-) It's as fun as I remember it being as a kid.
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by makmanalp 2y ago
> If people are given a chance to be lazy, they will be (I will be for sure). Quickly hacking some stuff without properly testing? Sure! Linting? Pfff, living on the edge, you'll throw the colab away in an hour anyways To save every
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by makmanalp 2y ago
And it's 1kg and 15cm long, and costs 1300 too. Most people will probably rather buy the non-art 28 and a 45 and carry both. But I think that's besides the point. If you're buying this I think it's because you really wan
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by makmanalp 2y ago
True, but anyone who's a cheaper hire because they can "do cloud" but not homegrown also represents a sacrifice in terms of what's you get. In terms of your operational capabilities, you'll likely be paying for that
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by makmanalp 2y ago
> That doesn't really make sense, does it? These issues have been going on for centuries; how does that explain a rising trend? I think basically this is just a visibility issue: the problems always existed, we just used to accept t
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by makmanalp 2y ago
I think the qualifiers are there because the question of who came up with the first "stored program computer" is a matter of some notorious controversy - kind of unrelated to the first computer program. Knuth would have known abou
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by makmanalp 2y ago
Whoa, amazing, thanks!!
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by makmanalp 2y ago
Very neat, thanks - probably this is just enough beyond my abilities that it'd probably be me bricking my PO rather than accomplishing anything useful :-)
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by makmanalp 2y ago
Hadn't heard of it before - the fact that it has multiple compilation targets is super interesting - thanks!
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by makmanalp 2y ago
Just got a PO-33 and very psyched with it, though I've had some thoughts about whether you couldn't leverage the LCD a bit better to shift it from semi-serious to fully serious. E.g. right now in the sequencer it's impossible

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