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by mst 2y ago
> Stackless did not have a bright future because the stackless nature meant that you could not have interleaving Python -> C -> Python calls and suspend with them on the stack. perl's Coro.pm ( https://p3rl.org/
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by mst 2y ago
It seems like they were branded much more conservatively and bankish at the point where said couple would have picked them. The site *now* ... yeah. Ick.
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by mst 2y ago
I'm hoping it shows up in Matt Levine's Money Stuff - this is the sort of area where I've seen patio11 defer to him before, though obviously my ideal world would be getting to read an analysis from each of them.
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by mst 2y ago
Oh, cool! I used a purple Indigo 2 as my desktop for a few years. When there were some issues with the local hot and cold running power for a few weeks, sometimes I'd get home to my study after being out and about and see 'brownou
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by mst 2y ago
When I start with "plain" vim the first thing I do is drop in https://trout.me.uk/X11/vimrc to nerf it back to as close to ex-vi as I can get - because my muscle memory comes from classic vis (between the mos
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by mst 2y ago
I think, basically, it being a game where you build stuff for the sake of building stuff, a bunch of people will have bought it out of curiosity, spent half an hour or an hour playing it, got disillusioned by the lack of a 'point'
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by mst 2y ago
Yeah, I can see how you read my initial comment, and given the combination of "I could probably have been clearer" and "my approach does not seem to be one people take very often" it makes sense for you to've read i
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by mst 2y ago
I have no trivial solution to this, but "make friends with somebody who likes knitting things" will probably work well. (I wear a wrist brace on my left arm a lot of the time so I need significantly lopsided gloves and that's
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by mst 2y ago
Did you mean 'not remaining in metastable failure' ? I was under the impression that once you learned how to pet the cat forwards (the non-triviality of getting to that point being an oft cited adoption barrier, but still), Riak w
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by mst 2y ago
This feels like it needs a "yo dawg, I heard you liked stack traces" meme. Also bourbon. Probably *lots* of bourbon.
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by mst 2y ago
I remember somebody whose competence I rate highly talking about ending up picking Cassandra over Riak (at a point where Riak was technically decently mature) simply because of availability of ops expertise - basically his take seemed to be
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by mst 2y ago
Yes, that's an excellent idea, and will free up time to deal with the *other* stupid mistakes past-me made :D
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by mst 2y ago
I understood what you were doing, yes. However you said you're using a prebuilt version of the aurelia framework - and I'm using only using a prebuilt version of the frameworks I'm using. Which seems pretty equivalent to me,
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by mst 2y ago
On the one hand, it's not that terrible and most *of* the terrible is from people making silly choices. On the other hand, there's a reason I regularly get annoyed enough at it to call it nope.js. On the gripping hand, I mostly wr
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by mst 2y ago
It's basically a set of tools to make building native modules easier, that said modules then use to deal with their binding to C/C++/etc. code. Everybody complains about it, and understandably so, but if it didn't exist
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by mst 2y ago
I don't think you quite did understand - the frontend team didn't actually -need- that, they just happened to have a prebuilt UI component that -used- that, reached for that (entirely understandably, to my mind) without considerin
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by mst 2y ago
I've been experimenting recently, with quite some success, with having a 'libs.js' file that pulls in and re-exports everything external I want, and providing a script that applies 'bun build' to just that. I haven&
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by mst 2y ago
Provided the manager only rarely exercises the power, and is open to being persuaded not to, having somebody able to veto risky dependencies can be really quite useful. Normally when I'm the one with that power we rapidly get to a gene
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by mst 2y ago
The CPAN 'Alien' infrastructure is great for this, you have pseudo-modules that you can depend on that use vendor packages if available and build the damn thing for you if not. It's considered ... rude ... in most cases to wr
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by mst 2y ago
Never underestimate the potential of past-you to have accidentally missed a tiny but essential step in a way that won't have made a noticeable difference at the time, yeah.
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by mst 2y ago
CPAN.pm is not the fastest, no, though it generally spends most of its time running each distribution's tests before installing it, which while it does have a certain "start the install and go for lunch" to it is an excellent
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by mst 2y ago
I think it was 'A Deepness In The Sky' that posited so many layers of legacy underlying the starship control systems of the era that one of the most crucial positions on a ship was that of 'Programmer-Archeologist.'
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by mst 2y ago
The author does make a point of giving an example of him perpetrating something equivalent wrt somebody else's API. In theory, yes, it's kinda crazy behaviour. In practice I suspect most of us have done something (im)morally equiv
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by mst 2y ago
> or take the time to explain in a clear and friendly why you cannot The next person to work on the frontend paging code will likely look at the existing code and infer the contract from there. Doesn't matter how healthy your intere
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by mst 2y ago
I see the failure mode you describe, but the point here is that if the API _does_ need to support that front-end use case, that should become an explicit part of the API contract. I think "start off with an API that supports a minimal
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by mst 2y ago
I think some stuff will be happier in the "director" process and some happier in its own "worker" process - and fd passing is the magic trick that lets you accept() in the former and still do the bulk of the work in an a
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by mst 2y ago
You might not necessarily need even shared memory - it's possible to pass a file descriptor over a socket on all modern unices (and albeit with a completely different API also on Win32) so your control process could do an accept(), may
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by mst 2y ago
In apache 1.3 it was far from unusual to do a complete bundled compile and restart the entire thing every time because there were gremlins that showed up when you dynamically loaded the more complex modules often enough that it was operatio
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by mst 2y ago
TimesNewMe linked https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/container-queries-introducti... upthread. (I've got that and your link open but haven't read either yet, more coffee first, just wanted to make sure you didn&
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by mst 2y ago
"Because I can" remains an entirely legitimate reason for a hobby project. If anything, you've gone further along the "also (at least sort of) practical" scale than I expected. Given as mentioned elsewhere a per-req

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