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541.
by mst 3y ago
I learned assembly for ARM2, loved it, moved from Archimedes to PC and pretty much immediately went "oh my word what the flying fornication NO" and have basically never written assembly since.
542.
by mst 3y ago
I've been thinking along these lines but more 'strongly validated' than statically typed in the sense that you'd be better off being able to load the entire config and then produce a list of problems (and should be able
543.
by mst 3y ago
I think also Archimedes, especially given he meets the polymath part of the author's approach.
544.
by mst 3y ago
The article seemed very strange to me, so I'm not surprised it's been pulled. (my overriding thought as I read it being "I'm sure google does assorted morally dubious things in this area but this really doesn't seem
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by mst 3y ago
Very much appreciated - I'm generally fairly unlikely to listen to a podcast but will happily read transcripts even if they haven't had as much love put into them as yours clearly have. Admittedly, yours is still in the "left
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by mst 3y ago
Note that to get a transcript you have to scroll down and click the relevant bit of UI, at which point it loads in. I was going to post https://www.latent.space/p/llamaindex#transcription as a shortcut to it but appare
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by mst 3y ago
The LTS kernel change appears to be lack of senior maintainer bandwidth. This is not, in my experience, the sort of problem that could be solved by throwing money at it. (and by "in my experience" I mean situations where I was inv
548.
by mst 3y ago
Sorry, forgot to say: Win10 / Firefox.
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by mst 3y ago
Apologies for the off-topic-ness, but no matter where I've tried putting the mouse focus on the post, Up/Down don't work to scroll (but PgUp/PgDown are fine). (I very much appreciate the effort to provide tooling that pu
550.
by mst 3y ago
They appear to be aiming for Go without -compulsory- garbage collection and goroutines. Also go has a -lot- fewer sharp edges than C. It's an (extremely) ambitious goal, and skepticism is warranted, but I think their desire for such a
551.
by mst 3y ago
> Making GC/goroutine optional & customizable requires building a std works with no GC/goroutine. Right. You've picked a goal that require you to do some hard things to make that goal even possible. OTOH even if you ne
552.
by mst 3y ago
I have worked with a number of codebases where we did that. In fact, I have worked with a number of codebases where I was the one who deployed that, because the app process could already do the relevant level of restart without dropping a r
553.
by mst 3y ago
There are a number of languages where there's been an alternative standard library developed, the problem is 'by stdlib do you mean standard-for-the-language or standard-for-you-to-code-against.' But there was e.g. https:&#x
554.
by mst 3y ago
I'm still unsure what I'm going to do when they finally take old.reddit.com away from me.
555.
by mst 3y ago
I think sharding support was only added after the rebrand to MongoDB. (caveat that while I don't -enjoy- modern Mongo, it's no longer meaningfully the thing that said joke is about)
556.
by mst 3y ago
Aria can be "crashproof" by using what I think is effectively a mini-WAL. "One statement per transaction" is a limitation you need to be able to accept, but -if- that's the case the data safety is likely relatively
557.
by mst 3y ago
I wouldn't switch because I don't think they're different enough to see a point, but unless there's a specific feature in MySQL but not MariaDB that I anticipate needing, I've been tending to default to MariaDB for
558.
by mst 3y ago
Is it actively incompatible or are MySQL and MariaDB both just continuing to develop by implementing slightly different subsets of PostgreSQL (reading change lists for the two of them feels a lot like that from my pg-biased POV).
559.
by mst 3y ago
I'd note that I've seen cases where the V8 JIT was sufficiently good that thunking to C++ and back meant that the performance difference was minimal. But that was for 'js library backed by C++' shaped cases whereas for p
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by mst 3y ago
I had >30k users on a bunch of systems in 2001 (I inherited that approach, mind, I'm not -recommending- it). We moved to LDAP a couple years later because it was a much nicer architecture to deal with overall, but performance and co
561.
by mst 3y ago
It's an analysis of a paper, not a feature checklist, so the article is for people who want to understand more about how FoundationDB works rather than trying to provide a "which system should I use" explanation. Though &quot
562.
by mst 3y ago
FoundationDB's testing turns the rigorous up to 11 and I'm unaware of anybody else who's published a description of a testing approach that goes to quite the same extremes. If that's just because I haven't noticed t
563.
by mst 3y ago
I don't consider it -likely- but Apple do have form for "buy a thing to -use- it and who cares if other people use it as well" in FoundationDB.
564.
by mst 3y ago
Hetzner also have a reputation for taking the bare minimum action possible about abuse reports. Personally I'm entirely happy with taking the risk of services blocking Hetzner in return for everything else about their service, but it i
565.
by mst 3y ago
Have you looked at https://mobx-keystone.js.org/ by any chance? I've been quite enjoying keystone + lit (or react if required) of late and at the very least it feels like solid prior art towards MVC stuff. Also https:
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by mst 3y ago
Given how DC treated him there's maybe a slight hope he'd do it out of spite as a "one last hurrah." I doubt it, but I wouldn't blame somebody for trying.
567.
by mst 3y ago
> The few times one tries to actually keep a partially covered window (i.e. show only the last few lines of a terminal visible), the UX is terrible because as soon as you switch focus the visibility of the entire stack of windows changes
568.
by mst 3y ago
My fvwm2 setup is like that (the config line "DeskTopSize 3x3" does the trick) plus keybindings to jump the cursor a half or a whole screen so I don't usually need to touch the mouse while navigating around (focus follows mou
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by mst 3y ago
> I have an infinite number of separate workspaces, each arranged in their own way. I like being able to see and have at-hand everything at once on one screen, which is an illusion best maintained, for me, by a single desktop. Even more
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by mst 3y ago
And PSGI is actually really rather good (for sync stuff, I dislike the way it handles async/websockets and would tend to use Mojolicious for that) and generally used to deploy OO MVC style apps. The Perl ecosystem has come a long way f

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