misterbowfinger

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   by misterbowfinger 8y ago

   Agreed, headline is very clickbait-y, should be changed
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   by misterbowfinger 8y ago

   i got u
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   by misterbowfinger 8y ago

   [updated my comment, apologies for the poor wording]
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   by misterbowfinger 8y ago

   Yes, precisely!!!! The system is. broken. to. begin. with. And not just with cheating, with a number of different factors. What incentive, as a student, do I have to NOT cheat if I won't get caught?
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   by misterbowfinger 8y ago

   I don't think the two are comparable. Cheating on a test doesn't "take" anything of intrinsic value from another person, stealing does. Cheating hurts no one. You can argue that cheating puts you ahead of students that w
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   by misterbowfinger 8y ago

   This reminds me of a story from my AI professor in college. Not exactly his words, but it was something like... "You have to do all of your work on your own. But let's say you decided to copy someone else's homework. Well, to
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   by misterbowfinger 8y ago

   The Ruby implementation looks wrong. He's shoving the file into an array: contents = contents.read.each_byte.to_a When really he should be streaming each byte from the file. I suppose he should do that for all of the implementat
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   by misterbowfinger 8y ago

   A lot of people also make a mistake of benchmarking Redis on multi-core machines. Redis is single-threaded, so it'll never be faster if you have multiple cores. To properly benchmark Redis on a multi-core machine, you have to run more
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   by misterbowfinger 8y ago

   Oh my lord, these comments are really surfacing the number of incels and MRA's on hacker news. Wow. When I hear criticisms of the tech community being so bro-y and full of insecure dudes, I tend to rebuff them because I don't pers
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    yeah neither does a cockroach for a database.
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    Makes sense, thanks for the thorough answer! The popularity of the LAMP stack predates me a bit, so I didn't know as much about the history.
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    The reason I think a single database release has a dramatic effect on the entire SQL ecosystem is simple: MySQL is the weakest link in the chain. That's a heckuva deep cut. I wonder why/how MySQL got so popular, when in my head
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    There has to be a simpler, privacy focused way to figure out pageviews, right? As long as I don't know _who_ looked at my site, I should be able to find out _how many_. Similar thing goes for "how many people clicked this button&q
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    I opted for a simpler solution: no analytics. It also enables me to think that my blog attracts thousands of visitors every day. I lol'd
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    Using this: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/ba... The load balancer expands variables to empty strings when it cannot determine their values, for example for geographic locatio
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    > By sending a bad "length" argument to an improperly coded USB control procedure at the right point, the user can force the system to "request up to 65,535 bytes per control request." That data easily overflows a cru
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    I hate to be that person, but when I hear "ACID transactions in a distributed database", I hear Citus/Spanner/CockroachDB. I'm positive that Citus & Spanner are quite different from FoundationDB, but I have no i
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    We do "architecture docs" where I work. Although there really isn't as much of a narrative in them. It's mainly a summary, why we should do it, and a bunch of graphs/charts. Honestly, I find it a bit arduous, althou
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    what's the benefit of using them vs. AWS or GCP directly?
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    by misterbowfinger 9y ago

    Apologies for the strong tone, but how many articles do we need to actually get something done? It's exhausting to see article after article without action.
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    by misterbowfinger 9y ago

    Hey so question - WebAssembly can't access the DOM right? What's the whole point then, avoid Javascript? If we can't just swap out all the gnarly JS garbage whole-hog, I don't see where the business value is, given that
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    by misterbowfinger 9y ago

    So confused. DNS registrars can be mandated to reject domain ownership? What about DNS registrars outside of the US? Also..... at some point we could just publish a list of IP's if we care enough, right? Although that's less than
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    by misterbowfinger 9y ago

    I'm not sure I agree with what I'm about to say myself, but wanted to see how others feel.... The advent of the internet has caused us to question a lot of our rights as a people. We originally felt strongly around our right to fr
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    by misterbowfinger 9y ago

    Link to report cited in the article: https://www.rsph.org.uk/uploads/assets/uploaded/62be270a-a55...
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    by misterbowfinger 9y ago

    Reposting this to see if anyone could comment (last time i promise): So. For me, personally, I don't care about the name. I generally care that it's great tech, and it clearly has a great team behind it. However.... If I worked at
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    by misterbowfinger 9y ago

    All I remember about Shyp is when TJ Miller called a Shyp employee a "bitch" at the Crunchies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ1qcD6isI8 Sorry for the gossip.....
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    by misterbowfinger 9y ago

    original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-23044-8 abstract: Misalignments between endogenous circadian rhythms and the built environment (i.e., social jet lag, SJL) result in learning and attention def
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    by misterbowfinger 9y ago

    Awesome post! Related - Lin Clark has an amazing talk on explaining React Fiber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCuYPiUIONs
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    by misterbowfinger 9y ago

    So. For me, personally, I don't care about the name. I generally care that it's great tech, and it clearly has a great team behind it. However.... If I worked at CockroachDB, and I saw the negative feedback around the name, I&#x27
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    by misterbowfinger 9y ago

    I've definitely noticed that if use Uber infrequently, I consistently get marketing promotions for "40% off" of your rides. This might be specific to my market, but it happens really consistently. Honestly, I just think about