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by papaf 5y ago
Syncthing has a good approach to telemetry. It optionally collects stats and makes them publicly available. https://data.syncthing.net
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by papaf 5y ago
Whats the difference between Opensearch and the Open Distro for Elastic Search[1] provided by AWS? https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/
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by papaf 5y ago
The R tooling is clumsy I really like the R tooling. What do you find clumsy about it? It feels like the reason it’s popular is mostly just people not wanting to update skills I have the opposite view. I find its the people who complain
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by papaf 5y ago
I was very skeptical after reading this article last night but I checked some hobby code I am writing to see if I really needed the 7 golangci disable comments. It turns out I didn't really need them and that I had not understood the l
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by papaf 5y ago
I really like markmap: https://markmap.js.org/ I have the habit of writing notes in Markdown anyway and, with minor modifications, markmap will visualize it. There is also a plugin for VSCode: https://marketplace
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by papaf 5y ago
Thats a good point about IP addresses. I think the advantage with Hetzner cloud is that you rent the IP address separately. If you get an IP with a bad reputation you can stop renting it and get a new one. Edit: I have not actually tried ch
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by papaf 5y ago
what VPS hosts are reliable for email? I've not had problems with Hetzner and Scaleway. Before that I used to host email on random vendors I saw on Low End Box[1] and never had problems. [1] https://lowendbox.com/
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by papaf 5y ago
Er no: https://goo.gl/maps/Ajtkg3DWnnCRnNK18 There are a few strange comments about Germany in this thread. Is there some internet movement whose pastime it is to make Germany look backward? What do you get out of it?
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by papaf 5y ago
I find repgrep defaults sensible when searching for text but fd misses files that I expect it to find -- this has happened a few times now and I have gone back to find. For instance: 'fd .apk' to search for android builds.
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by papaf 5y ago
And git+[choice of issue tracker]+[choice of forum]+[choice of wiki]+[choice of project website]+etc. is the real competition against Fossil I think that this is only true for some projects. For some people, the ease of self hosted setup
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by papaf 5y ago
I agree with your comment about libraries. Destructors biggest advantage is in well used libraries. Any interesting code involves custom classes written by less experienced developers that are only used once or twice in an application -- it
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by papaf 5y ago
I don't have to think about them, and I can't get them wrong. ... until you have to write a class yourself. Then you have to think of the complexities introduced by destructors such as copy semantics, move semantics and the dest
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by papaf 5y ago
What am I missing that makes Amazon's case so special? The Amazon version has the nickname 'despair closet' [1]. [1] https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/mental-healt...
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by papaf 5y ago
Not taking away from how amazing those things are but we have billions of computers that connect most people in the world together which in my opinion just insanely amazing. The 70s looks at your example of progress, thinks of it as a big
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by papaf 5y ago
Packed SIMD [1] can be a pain because it pops up as a transitive dependency [2]. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/packed_simd/blob/master/rust-to... [2] https://crates.io/crates/pack
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by papaf 5y ago
Did you also write bsdiff [1] or is that someone with a similar name? [1] http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/
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by papaf 5y ago
Also, some people don't realize that medium size providers like Scaleway and Hetzner support Packer/Terraform e.g: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/scaleway/scaleway/la...
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by papaf 5y ago
Although it just uses scaling, Forth also has a nice solution to unit conversion: https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/12-forth-code-example/
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by papaf 5y ago
I guess the overlap between physicists/engineers and type system/PLT people isn’t large enough. C++ has supported units, as a library, since the early 90s. The Barton Nackman book had the initial implementation [1] and it was pi
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by papaf 5y ago
Not every solution to a problem needs to use as little memory as possible. But that's not the point. People aren't suggesting micro managing memory. Java has a well deserved reputation of being a memory hog and its using 20x wha
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by papaf 5y ago
For me, the biggest problem at the moment on the internet are bubbles where people are not being exposed to different viewpoints. I would stick with HN and live with the downvotes. It also helps to make any criticism polite.
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by papaf 5y ago
I sill don’t understand is how to write idiomatic code which deals with multiple different error types. I am not sure if it is idiomatic but I have been following the guidelines int this article for general error handling: https:/&#
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by papaf 5y ago
Are we expected to mirror github on our infrastructure to become resilient in case of a major outage? You can vendor the dependencies you use [1]. [1] https://golang.org/ref/mod#go-mod-vendor Its also worth noting th
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by papaf 5y ago
You are an IBM employee 100% of the time I hope their pay reflects that and is 3x the average.
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by papaf 5y ago
Thanks for your hard work on this bug -- I got bitten by it and I would really like to see the fix released.
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by papaf 5y ago
That's a great way of shutting down discussion without having to address any of the points AND has the advantage that it looks like you know all the subtleties. The only downside of this technique is that people become less likely to c
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by papaf 5y ago
Personally I don't use Docker containers for Go applications, but there is nothing wrong with putting everything in Docker for consistency. Most projects I know use Docker, even when its not needed, just for the consistency. One minima
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by papaf 5y ago
So we will be there in 30 years or so?
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by papaf 5y ago
Historically, many things were "never" - until we do otherwise. The opposite is also true. Many things we thought would be possible are either economically or technologically out of our grasp: - Nitrogen fixation in wheat. - A c
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by papaf 5y ago
At the moment the longest part of my deploy is copying the new executable to the server. Do you use rsync [1]? I ask because most of my collegues don't and they take minutes to deploy what I usually do in seconds. [1] https:/&#

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