papito

64 ms·

691.
by papito 5y ago
A couple of years ago, Netflix added a science series about the Universe, and I could not understand why they referred to the process behind planet and star formation as a mystery. We know that dust, left to just float in space, will create
692.
by papito 5y ago
In most cases, I just updated a few exception handling statements.
693.
by papito 5y ago
What is happening? The two trending posts are about monoliths and "stable" languages? Are we finally breaking from the madness of unnecessary complexity, evangelized by the FAANG disciples? I resurrected a Python project of mine a
694.
by papito 5y ago
You must handle an exception in a language like Java. Yes, you can just print the stacktrace, but that is a choice . I don't HAVE to handle errors in Go until the program crashes as well. I never really understood that argument.
695.
by papito 5y ago
People downvote it, but it's true. 2/3 of your Go code is `if err` blocks. And the way you have to chain the error messages to make the stack make any kind of sense is just maddening.
696.
by papito 5y ago
I honestly cannot make sense of this. I said that it affects you, and you will have to care, whether you want to or not. In what way did I say you were the enemy? Just curious, are you at a college/university, or fresh out of?
697.
by papito 5y ago
Yes, you do have a horse, if you live on Earth (I am not being snarky). World's democracies are backsliding, while we are all trading monkey NFTs.
698.
by papito 5y ago
And instead of fixing politics, we are just going to have our own un-governed thing over here. Run away from out problems, lets open another bottle. It will be great then.
699.
by papito 5y ago
In a way, this is a reflection of real life. Just as in politics and public space, we see the race to the bottom, to be the most horrible (and visible) human being possible, as part of performative assholery and grift.
700.
by papito 5y ago
You never pay it off. It's like "the war on crime" or "the war on drugs". Don't call it a war if there is no clear win. You can never win the war, but you MUST win the battles in order to not lose it.
701.
by papito 5y ago
"Laws are people, and I can manage people." - Logan Roy, Succession, HBO "How do you ensure the green? You can't. As in life, in traffic, you leave yourself an out... You move diagonal, you turn the wheel when you hit a
702.
by papito 5y ago
Try calling "your ops guy" during Thanksgiving or when he is sloshed in a bar when your colocation servers stop responding. No one wants this job anymore. Current technology jobs have already enough unnecessary complexity to deal
703.
by papito 5y ago
Even on HN there are some former AWS employees who talk about how its all stitched together and flying on a wing a prayer. Apparently the on-call is just a traumatizing experience. It will take real damage to revenue for the management to p
704.
by papito 5y ago
Well, we are going to find out if Tether is exposed to it, won't we. Big, if true, and it would set off a nuclear bomb under crypto.
705.
by papito 5y ago
As I understand it, this is actually very common in China. It's a weird mix of responsible business oversight and anti-trust action and just straight up corrupt wild west capitalism.
706.
by papito 5y ago
It always bothered me when someone on America's Funniest Home Videos leaned into a wall (or, ran into it, gently), making a giant hole in it.
707.
by papito 5y ago
I don't translate the possibility of someone being infected into my personal attitude toward them. I go out of my way to be nice to service industry people, and tip them extra-well too.
708.
by papito 5y ago
I mean, this is a common problem with architecture astronomy. It's inherently leaky. Our job is to simplify , not to abstract everything into "class Thing()".
709.
by papito 5y ago
Sure, but it's easy to fall into the trap of "the fix is to just restart it". That's dereliction of duty.
710.
by papito 5y ago
What's striking to me is that it also deepened the supply of assholes. One would think that after one year under effective house arrest people would be happy to see others and be nicer to each other, but the opposite is true.
711.
by papito 5y ago
Why do you thing certain people LOVE "small government"? It has nothing to do with their freedoms. It has everything to do with more corporate tax loopholes and a toothless set of regulatory agencies that have no resources to do a
712.
by papito 5y ago
In my old workplace, we had a running joke where at the end of a meeting about using a certain tech stack we brought up blockchain as an option. We laughed, and dispersed. Safe then, and safe now. Blockchain is ancient tech by Internet time
713.
by papito 5y ago
Exactly. You don't need to be particularly inventive if you are sitting on a massive pile of money. Buy priority to stay in business? Sure. Lease a whole fleet of cargo planes? Put it on the tab.
714.
by papito 5y ago
There was an article in the NYT literally a few days ago about how Kyiv, Ukraine has become an absolute unregulated wild west of crypto.
715.
by papito 5y ago
It's almost like in the past the world did not have anyone who had the capability to print their own money, until the world said "this is madness, we need to put structure to this".
716.
by papito 5y ago
I can guarantee you that most systems out there could serve production traffic on an old laptop, with well-written code and lean database queries. I have done things in MySQL v3 in 2006 that should not be done with a modern database even to
717.
by papito 5y ago
How many startups out there have run into the problem of "oh no, we got too big too fast"?
718.
by papito 5y ago
But they COULD have been. Insta was 12 people when it got acquired. If they tried to be "cool" and did distributed systems, the team would have ballooned to at least 10x.
719.
by papito 5y ago
The new generation of devs really develops systems as if HTTP were a zero-latency concept. This is just like those people who consider all DB calls to be "free". Not that this went away either, it's just way more egregious no
720.
by papito 5y ago
First of all, we called these "distributed systems". We reserved those for rare cases where scale was THE requirement, and you jumped into it fully expecting to have no life. The world did not finally "crack" distributed

More ›