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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
> ...how much of modern cloud architecture is over engineered. I would wager a good majority of it is. The Stack Overflow architecture[0] sticks out to me in this regard as an example on the other end of the spectrum. [0] https:/&#
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
> the rental locations were all on air bnb but cheaper and with none of the extra fees that they would have charged forever Exactly! Came here to echo this. I have family that got roped into this arrangement and the annual maintenance fe
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Language agents help large language models 'think' better, cheaper(source.washu.edu)
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
Link to paper: https://proceedings.mlr.press/v235/crispino24a.html
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
Since I don't see it mentioned here and it's complimentary information allow me to mention the OpenAPI Tools website[0]. It lists and categorizes a ton of different tooling options from SDK generators, to automatic testing framewo
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
Yep. It sucks. Zero consequences of any import for those companies as far as I'm aware too. Tiny fines end up being "cost of doing business". Then they get to externalize their failures onto us by using terms like "Ident
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
As I recall (this was about 6 months ago now) the Spring project's support for these libraries was somewhat in flux and was evolving, so arriving at the correct set of dependencies for a modern Boot stack was somewhat fraught with read
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
I can confirm that this is a pretty good way. Building out a basic distributed tracing solution with OTEL, jaeger and the relevant Spring Boot configuration and dependencies was quite a pleasant experience once you figure out the relevant-f
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
While it seems that I may have triggered some extremely negative sentiment here with my honest question, I appreciate the responses that didn't assume I think Greek people are aliens or serfs. I'm quite ignorant of the on-the-grou
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
Some years ago I was mildly invested in the idea of finding 'strong dollar destinations' (locations where due to exchange rates and other economic factors the US Dollar was very performant), and using this research to weight vacat
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
Yep, fully agree here. Some companies seem to consider the word 'refactor' to be profane language, and I think that's a real shame. In my experience it's those companies that end up with mountains of technical debt and r
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
> Smartphones are a tragedy itself. Security theatre destroyed it. If you're willing to buy a new device, then I recommend getting a Pixel on sale and flashing it with GrapheneOS[0]. No rooting required. Read up on it when you have
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
I was once bitten by not understanding that there is a difference between "regular" clocks and high performance clocks/timers that a developer can take advantage of. At the time I needed a sampling routine to run at precisely
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
There is some new evidence that changes occur at various stages in our lives, specifically one in the early-to-mid forties, that can affect things like alcohol metabolism[0][1]. I find this type of thing and the "epigenetic clock"
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
> the originals remain dominant for enterprise and free users anyways. I'm a former pfSense user that reluctantly moved to OPNsense a handful of years ago after a lot of bad press around Netgate started circulating widely causing me
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
Yes, and we should be investing heavily into technologies and techniques that maximize the efficiency of the water that is consumed by agriculture. The government should probably subsidize the expense of the conversion. We should also get r
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
Very true, but the agency does benefit from the current state of affairs: You can load up an engagement with more people...whom are there to help facilitate the process. These people add to the bottom line engagement revenue. When all your
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
Hear hear! I think it was Franklin who is quoted to have said "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." While I've always resonated personally with
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
> That's what makes Bank REST APIs so tricky - processing doesn't ever actually occur at request time. HTTP has provisions to enable async semantics between the client and the server. I would always advocate for teams to return
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
I've lived this life first-hand, and it is refreshing after experiencing the vast open sea of half-assed Confluence sprawl, huge PDF design documents that aren't kept up to date with changing requirements, etc. The other sibling c
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
Yep, FedNow is a good step in the right direction, but the list of banks that participate needs to grow substantially. Many small and mid-sized banks/FIs aren't having a great 2023/2024, so I wouldn't expect to hear much
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
Fair. My comment was more in the direction of saving others time, as I've personally looked into this previously (granted, some years ago) and found the Temurin packages to be of very high quality while avoiding the legal risk with the
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
If this might apply to you/your company and you don't have a lot of time to get into deep research on the topic just go see the Eclipse Temurin[0] project and grab a build or image from them. [0] https://adoptium.net&#x
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
Agree. I've always thought that PostgREST is an interesting project for some niche use-cases and teams. However, his argument about replacing GET request handling with a new tool that lives outside of/alongside your existing appli
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
I can agree with that wholeheartedly and admit to the practice myself...particularly with libs with a large surface area or which are used in many other places in the company.
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
I appreciate that the engineers at Spotify wrote this post, but not because it's a novel solution or because most software engineers don't know this stuff (well, some don't I suppose). However, I find it and others like it he
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by nicholasjarnold 3y ago
confirmed. and interesting/unexpected! this breaks: datetime.strptime('Feb 29 13:37:06.942', '%b %d %H:%M:%S.%f') edit: added code example. import datetime from datetime first obvi
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by nicholasjarnold 3y ago
It's literally out of control. We cannot have a healthy democracy in a systematically surveilled society. When people understand they're being actively and constantly surveilled they tend to self-censor their expression. When we d
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by nicholasjarnold 3y ago
Exactly, and this is why I always try to steer teams away from "one metric to rule them all" whether this be "always fail if coverage is less than X percent" or "random code metric like CC is beyond limit". Rea
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by nicholasjarnold 3y ago
afaik the IANA is the body who is authoritative on this type of information. RFC1918[0] defines the address blocks reserved for private routing. From there it's up to various routers and their software to decide whether or not to actua

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