mrkeen

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by mrkeen 3mo ago
I'm of course hearing this second- or third-hand, but when I read 'evolution of weather systems' I substitute for 'cellular automata'/'Conway's game of life', vaguely recall them as being Turing-
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
OK, count me onboard! Can we convince the 2-3 other stakeholders in our deployment unit to go with this crazy plan? Or are there 40-60 other stakeholders we need to convince?
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
The pain of the network boundary pays for itself many times over compared to sharing a codebase with developers who don't program to the interface.
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
Right, and I am also "the cranky guy" to the other guy. But yes, I am equating those. Some people might take Conway's law as a warning to try to avoid; others might take it as a natural law description and therefore unavoida
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
Then substitute 'dead code' for 'buggy code that someone else likes'
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
At least read to the end > Knowing whether public routes are still in use is still a problem, so you need a minimum level of metrics or logging before you can retire an endpoint. > What are the race conditions? Everywhere. Just fuckin
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
* My last monolith job had 4 hour release windows. * You can't change anything of substance. The more people touching the same codebase as you statistically puts you way lower in the pecking order. Changes become political, not techn
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
Missing the point. Static analysis doesn't go away. Metrics just covers the gap of "is this used by external callers", and nothing more than that. You need that to identify dead routes in a monolith anyway. If you like stat
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
> Inside a monolith it's easy to answer questions like "Which dependencies are we shipping?"; or "Is this piece of code still used?" Static analysis can often tell you. Once the code is spread across dozens of in
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
It doesn't seem like fringe conspiracy to me. If you want to tie it to WW2, Hitler declared the superiority of the blonde & blue eyed, but was OK to count Japan and Italy as allies. Reciprocally, Japan and Italy didn't have
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
This is so odd. It's not that I disagree without you about mutable fields vs params, but the industry so disproportionately on the other side of that issue that I'm surprised this objection is raised as often as it is. Bring it on
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
If only they could be as non-autistic about the law consistently. From the article, it looks like warrantless search & seizure and lawyerless detainment over the suspicion of participating in plain old 1st amendment activities.
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
If it's not cookies, it will be something else. IP addresses, tracking pixels, browser fingerprinting. The Do Not Track header is the only technology needed. The rest is compelling companies to obey it.
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
I agree that software becoming worse (in some sense) but I don't blame AI. My experiences as a user haven't really changed. Streamers fail to cast to TVs. Browsers are devices which reliably and efficiently propagate red console
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
I think I would absolutely hate the automap feature, even if they do make it play perfectly with HM - which I suspect cannot be done. If I try to map (map f) to a list of arrays of lists, I need the compiler to stop me and tell me I'm
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
That's the fun of it. Try to find out? Straight to prison.
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
Good reading the next time you ask "why can't I just mutate when I want to?"
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
No
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
Indeed, whenever I reboot (which is very frequently, because Mastodon will only open, not reopen . If I close it, I need to reboot before using it again) I see the tamper detection. It warns me that I'm using GrapheneOS, not Android.
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
Reasonably happy with GrapheneOS, but the number of bugs (maybe more ecosystem bugs) would make me hesitant to suggest other people rely on it as a communication device. I have notifications turned ON for WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram. I n
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
What's the lesson to be learned from Roc migrating from Rust to Zig?
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
I think companies figured out how to get around the GPL by simply not distributing software. The user has a right to know what software runs on their machine? Screw that, we'll keep all the software (and now user data too) on our sid
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
This game was so good, it's as if the developer was given a team of PhD-level experts to work on it.
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
Graphs centred around the mean do tend to look pretty balanced.
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
Another name for that 'logical fallacy' is prisoners' dilemma and "never play a dominated strategy". Even if you don't take it as prescriptive, it would be dumb not to take it as descriptive (i.e. what the othe
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
It needs to by mathematical definition. Half of everything is below average. (Ignoring the complaints of others that they didn't calculate the mean from the whole graph).
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
> I'm not sure how you can make that claim with only 29 years of data without making some pretty big assumptions about the underlying distribution. Under what circumstances would 29 years be an insufficient mean to compare to the la
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
Right, so if someone was in the US and didn't think they should take action (because of China), then the obvious reply is that they should take action on the basis of being part of US+China, whose population is far greater than either
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
I'll go you one further. We need a standard higher-level DSL which abstracts over the various competing data access libraries in a portable, declarative way, such that 1) database engines can independently optimise themselves to bette
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by mrkeen 3mo ago
It's the corollary to your statement about the market rewarding competent companies. The market punishes incompetent companies. Just being aware that the market rewards competent companies is not enough to magically turn companies comp

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