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by motorest 1y ago
> The inconvenience of this process is also addressed by the dev, as is the different definition of experimental that you're using (...) The only aspect of "experimental" that matters is what it means to the release proces
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by motorest 1y ago
> That is a valid objection, but I still think that for some huge and difficult features the month long pauses imposed by release cycles are absolutely detrimental. I feel you're not answering the question, nor are you presenting an
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by motorest 1y ago
From the article. > So, while the decision restores money to individual research programs, it does nothing to reverse the larger damage caused by the politicization of funding decisions.
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by motorest 1y ago
> A mistake I see commonly whenever someone says to "just move off of the cloud" is that they see the cloud as just a VM provider. If it was, then yeah, moving to another provider wouldn't be such a big deal. I think it ca
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by motorest 1y ago
> You get about as much reuse from a set of re-usable functions as you get from inheriting implementations. There's far more to inheritance that code reuse. For example, encapsulation, access control, and static type checking, etc.
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by motorest 1y ago
> The defining characteristic of implementation inheritance is open recursion. Recursion does not register as a concern in inheritance or polymorphism. > When you call a "member function declared in a parent class" there&#x2
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by motorest 1y ago
> I never understood this meme. If you don't understand how and why and when eventual consistency is a problem, you will never understand why cache invalidation is hard. By the sound of your example, you only handle scenarios where
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by motorest 1y ago
> You only ever need interface inheritance for code reuse. Not really. Interfaces play no role in invoking member functions, even if they are defined in a base class. Inheritance is used to allow member functions declared in a parent cla
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> Implementation inheritance is generally a misfeature (...) Not really. It's value proposition is code reuse. It's not a misfeature just because it breaks a simple explanation.
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> When you have UFCS you can toss out 90% of the uses of methods in favor of just plain ole functions. Can those go away if you use inheritance or polymorphism, and you need your functions to access protected or private members? I mean,
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by motorest 1y ago
> This one doesn’t require an app service plan. It requires a plan. You need to know what a plan is and what plan your azure functions are running on. Is it a consumption plan? Or is it a flex consumption plan? I mean, you can run multip
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> Ah, my least favorite technical interview question. The epitome of turning technical interviews into a trivia contest to make them feel smart. Because isn't that the point of a tech interview?
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by motorest 1y ago
> Is AWS any better? (Genuine question) It is, without any question. Even of you work at a Microsoft shop, the benefits you get from vertical integration isn't that clear. Azure requires a far greater cognitive load to handle and to
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by motorest 1y ago
> AWS and GCP started by engineers building products for engineers and later post success moved into enterprise sales (which AWS is doing well with, GCP not so much). I think that product managers are AWS' and GCP's unsung hero
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> Python is installed on most systems (...) Not on Windows. And which Python are you talking about? I mean, Python3 is forward compatible but you SoL if you have the bad luck of having an older interpreter installed and you want to run a
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by motorest 1y ago
> You don't have to share anything across apps. You don't. You also do not have to share the same service plan with any other app service or function app. That's besides the point. The point is that Azure requires anyone
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by motorest 1y ago
> You're really trying, aren't you :-) I'm trying to educate you on the topic, but you seem to offer resistance. I mean, I haven't even mentioned the fact that in order to be able to provision an azure function you ar
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by motorest 1y ago
> You're not forced to, you can use a consumption plan. Pray tell, what do you think is relevant in citing how many plans you can pick and choose from to just run a simple function? I mean, are you trying to argue that instead of on
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by motorest 1y ago
> As noted, those are minimum limits. If there's a clown show, it's you who is hosting it. Do they specify ay SLA other than the minimums? If not, I'm sorry to tell you, but they only offer the minimum and anything over th
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by motorest 1y ago
> You lie about or cannot figure out basic things in Azure like creating a Function without an App Service Plan. I recommend you spend a few minutes going through an intro tutorial on Azure Functions. A key topic on Azure Functions 101 i
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by motorest 1y ago
> That was not the point. Parent was complaining how complicated provisioning and deploying through the Azure portal was. No, I wasn't. I was pointing out the fact that Azure follows an absurd, brain-dead model of what the cloud is,
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by motorest 1y ago
> The vscode extension can both provisions the resource as well as deploy it. On top of having to have an Azure subscription, you need to provision: - a resource group - a service plan - a function app You do not get to skip those with a
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by motorest 1y ago
> You open vscode, install the Azure Functions extensions, walk through the wizard to pick your programming language and write the code. Then create and deploy it from vscode without ever leaving your IDE. You are talking about something
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by motorest 1y ago
> What's funny is you're completely backwards here. Microsoft has a much more modern view of the cloud than AWS where everything is a thin veneer over EC2. Azure started as PaaS first and AWS started as IaaS first and that fing
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by motorest 1y ago
> You can provision an Azure Web Service (...) which provisions the computational resource, Azure App Service, as part of the deployment steps. That's not a solution because deployment steps aren't a problem. The brain-dead asp
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by motorest 1y ago
> Anecdotally - working with Azure has been hell on earth for me. Insanely unintuitive and buggy interface. Many cryptic errors preventing me from doing anything. What pisses me off the most about Azure is now they designed it as the 90&
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by motorest 1y ago
> Azure identity is so bad. It's like they tried to build it on the original 1998 implementation of LDAP or whatever. I think that Azure AD is literally built on top of Active Directory. That's what you need to do if your goal
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> It says something that he still believes he has "missionaries" after betraying all the core principles that OpenAI was founded on. What I find the most troubling in this reaction is how hostile it is to the actual talent. It
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> Without the underlying machine, there's no real purpose for C or Java. They do express algorithms, don't they?
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> Not to mention, even if your supercomputer has an idea you still need a lab that can confirm the idea. I think this is the critical aspect. You don't need to own a supercomputer to run simulations in supercomputers. Sometimes you

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