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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
DNS is the last cleartext channel for ISP's to monitor browsing. This isn't about "porn" at all. Even with HTTPS ISP's have long been able to snoop DNS to find all the sites you visit. This data is extremely valuabl
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
No they don't. TLS has encrypted sites for a long time. And with encrypted SNI they get no info about browsing history. This is a blatant attempt to stymie the last cleartext protocol that can be used to record browsing history.
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Hah! This is the most insane justification I've seen in a while. Even better than when all the tech giants smash competition because "security". Cloudflare (which has somewhat shady ties to us govt maybe) is pushing hard for
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Shameless plug for in-language storage. I've found that using a fast language/framework with a local cache gives you most of the advantages of a shared cache like Redis without all the complexity. This feature feels like a tacit a
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Underrated comment
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
JS solves the tagging issue using "symbols". They're extremely weird at first look but they're basically around for that reason.
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
I applaud Google for this, I was thinking about their policy while reading the article.
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
There's some truth to this article but it's overtly racist by generalizing "all" Indians to be this way. I've had Indian friends and co-workers over the years openly admit that this happens, and that they hate it. I
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
It has, Earth was much warmer in the past. I completely believe climate change is happening, but I don't understand why a new temperate record is scary. Higher sea levels, higher temperates, higher CO2. The earth has had all that for m
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
If they want multi-db support they should really be using an ORM. Hibernate for example is completely DB agnostic as long as you don't get too fancy.
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Cache lookups are cheap, if these users are all in the same office you would be much better off just storing everything at a close by datacentre. By using hash fragments you can prevent lookups completely and get the same hit rate as the CD
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
I agree it's a nice pattern. What you really need though is a "database in code". A library that handles all the projections, event stream, and especially replays and upgrading event versions automatically. I'm hopeful t
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
You get audit logs for free on a regular database with an ORM like Hibernate or even support on database snapshot level with Postgres or MSSQL. You get the logging capabilities of CQRS without any of the complexity. After working on several
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
I disagree. The events tend to relate directly to what would be regular database tables in my experience. And data is the new oil is definitely a businessweek cargo cult. None of the event data was of any use on the projects I worked on. We
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
If the author is here, have you tried the new ZGC collector? I've tried it experimentally and verified that pause time are indeed 10ms or less in every case with a couple of our apps. I also heard Twitter is a big adoper of Graal but a
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
What if you just say no? I don't use any social media and it can't be that unusual
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
I'm sure the builders understood the irony. Reminds me of "Los Arzamas", one of the less terrifying jokes of the cold war. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarov
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
In my experience CQRS is useless these days when I can use something like MongoDb that has great read speeds. The idea of splitting reads and writes is fine conceptually but doesn't make sense to me when databases are so fast. I worked
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
I forgot about this, you're totally right
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
That's basically true. Languages that use interfaces with structural typing are significantly easier to work with though. You can "implement" an interface implicitly by just having matching fields
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Looks cool but this caught my eye. > The campus also features a replica of the White House that is used as a lab and testing building Lol, wtf? I mean, Apple's spaceship isn't any less crazy but the sheer wierdness of these big
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Yes I agree. Once you have interfaces with default implementations especially, you have non-nested OOP
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
When they front the origin there's definitely an advantage, I agree. But that implies: You allow a CDN to host your initial asset, possibly a security risk You only use that one CDN for most/all non-dynamic content. When latency
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
The last part, absolutely yes. CDN's are obsolete, although they'll jump through all sorts of hoops to convince you that's not the case. As long as your service uses HTTP/2 it's far more efficient from DNS and multi
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Yes. Rustaceans have stepped up and provided a ton of nice shim layers though. So practically, you don't have to actually write your own js to interface
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
IMO they just expose more of how OOP really works, giving you flexibility. Take Rust. Just because I like their pragmatic approach. They represent objects as structs with functions attached that have access to the struct data. In C++, Java,
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Yeah, what most people don't know is that AC is a great dehumidifier along with cooling. The air gets pretty cold right when it passes over the coils. Cold air holds less water, so a lot of humidity drops out as condensate. A lot of co
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
I'm guessing you have an older HVAC system. Huge advances in air source heat pump efficiency came in the last decade. If you own the place and plan to stay there more than ~5 years I would look into it. Could save you a lot over time d
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
It's stable now and implemented in all major browsers.
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Great article. I applaud the massive amount of effort that's resulted in JS being far faster than anyone ever expected. It's time to switch to WASM though. Half native speed with almost no parsing overhead. As integration and tool

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