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by mjr00 3y ago
> It is not having a significant impact in most fields, despite all the hype. Companies will use it to continue to make customer services worse so they can spend less money on it. There's some delicious irony in this: tech-savvy HN
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by mjr00 3y ago
With generic "capeshit" superhero movies no longer being a sure thing (The Marvels is tracking to a $45-55m opening this weekend, guaranteeing it's a huge bomb) and the massive success of Mario, Sonic 1/2, and even the e
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by mjr00 3y ago
ORMs are a tool that can be abused, but eventually you need something that loads data from your database and places it into an in-memory object. Given how repetitive the SQL and mapping code is, why wouldn't you use a tool to automat
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by mjr00 3y ago
I wasn't really trying to refute the parent! I agree that the article author focusing on LINQ making things secretly n^2 is a red herring (though important to know). But the more fundamental problem is the benchmark being very unclear
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by mjr00 3y ago
The original benchmark author is just really unclear what they're trying to benchmark. "Class vs struct performance" is meaningless, because performance at what ? The first benchmark does nothing, as the article points out.
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by mjr00 3y ago
This is going to be another Mozilla failure. The era of big, public social media has peaked. People know better now: Big Brother is always watching, and what you post will be linked back to your real identity, maybe 10 years from now, whe
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by mjr00 3y ago
> Twitter is maybe even worse now though, no matter how many times you click not interested on hard right content, street fights, etc. it just forces it on you. I have literally never seen this stuff in my feed. Are you commenting on or
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by mjr00 3y ago
If you have two separate processes running in two separate containers... those are two separate services. You need to solve the same problems that would come with running them on two different EC2 instances: what's the method for commu
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by mjr00 3y ago
I do agree with that. Microservices are not a good idea whatsoever for organizations with weak senior technical people. Which is probably 90%+ of businesses.
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by mjr00 3y ago
> It doesn't lack a definition, there's lots of people talking about this. In general you'll find something like "a small service that solves one problem within a single bounded context". How small is small? Even
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by mjr00 3y ago
> they were relying on reports generated from a data warehouse which incorporated a copy of that MySQL database and was being populated by an undocumented, not-in-version-control cron script running on a PC under a long-departed team mem
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by mjr00 3y ago
It's funny because the term "microservices" picked up in popularity because previously, most "service-oriented architecture" (the old term) implementations in large companies had services that were worked on by doze
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by mjr00 3y ago
> I find it odd that there is this widespread meme—on HN, not in the industry—that microservices are never justified. There's a few things in play IMO. One is lack of definition -- what's a "microservice" anyhow? Netf
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by mjr00 3y ago
Engineers understand that the entire discipline is about tradeoffs. It would be extremely easy to build reliable, secure, performant, robust, etc software given infinite time and infinite budget. Engineering is about working in the real wor
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by mjr00 3y ago
> One way I've seen this enforced is this: Have your "best" devs, the people who put out 2x the amount of solid, testable, well documented code as anyone else, you know those that carry the sprint, spend half their time re
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by mjr00 3y ago
Libraries sort of help but not really. In the end, if the main app is on Python 3.10, all libraries it uses must be capable of running on Python 3.10. And if you want to upgrade the app to 3.11, first you have to upgrade all libraries to su
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by mjr00 3y ago
Separate services helps a lot with bigger teams. No matter how much you modularize code -- which will gradually fall apart anyway unless you have custom tooling that enforces API boundaries programmatically -- you're still tying peop
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by mjr00 3y ago
> So let’s say our frontend app is a hairball that’s full of interdependencies. How do we break that link? I think engineers - and managers! - are so excited about the prospect of escaping the monolith, they forget about the intermediary
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by mjr00 3y ago
And with all these restrictions on something as simple as intra-city transport, keep in mind the massive investment in autonomous vehicles 5-10 years ago was toward the ultimate goal of replacing humans in long-haul trucking and related log
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by mjr00 3y ago
Sadly I haven't found any good ways to strongly type dataframes, so my solution is mainly cultural: just make people aware that they shouldn't use dataframes unless it makes sense, as opposed to Python codebases where dataframes a
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by mjr00 3y ago
Python's typing ecosystem has come leaps and bounds, quickly. About 5 years ago I had to do an evaluation of Python+mypy and found that while mypy was a great idea, support by major libraries was abysmal and mypy itself was immature, s
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by mjr00 3y ago
> When it's about as good or better than humans, people will consume it. How are you measuring better? AI art is already better than most humans in a lot of ways: better shading, better coloring, even better anatomy outside of han
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by mjr00 3y ago
> This is definitely speculative and a little catty, but I suspect a lot of "hatred" of AI art is a) emotional solidarity with working artists who feel economically threatened by it, and b) a personal sense of insecurity along
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by mjr00 3y ago
> If they hate it so much it shouldn't need tagging as it would be naturally lower ranked. Lower ranked how? Not everything has a Reddit-esque upvote/downvote system. Plenty of sites let you browse by fandom/character&#x2F
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by mjr00 3y ago
> This is an odd article. To me, it seems like the "creative" arts are an ideal arena for AI. After all, there's no such thing as "wrong" art. Yeah but who wants to consume art purely generated by AI (that is, no
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by mjr00 3y ago
The most egregious one to me has been CircleCI's "Ask an AI about this error" option on failed builds. Always spits out something irrelevant at best or misleading at worst, and it does so in the typical ChatGPT high school es
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by mjr00 3y ago
> Advocacy of genocide has been forbidden since long before COVID happened. Really? Cause I remember post-9/11 it was a pretty mainstream opinion that America should go glass the middle east. And then, you know, America went and act
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by mjr00 3y ago
> (I mean, what was the theoretical upper limit on the benefit of cryptocurrency for the world? Probably not that much.) According to the crypto-faithful at the time: solving territorial disputes (Gaza Strip? blockchain solves this!), id
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by mjr00 3y ago
This just reads like poorly written fanfiction. While using generative AI to make your own self-insert fanfic is definitely a use case, I'm not really sure how this translates to the death of the entertainment industry.
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by mjr00 3y ago
> Fate/Grand Order is one of the most profitable games on the mobile phone market, it literally makes millions Small correction: FG/O makes billions . Over 7 billion, in fact. https://gameworldobserver.com/2023

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