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by perrygeo 3y ago
> How can you draw a thing without visualizing it? This is a great question. I have an inability to draw things from memory (despite being able to recognize them immediately and form strong narrative memories of them). This realization i
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Excellent idea! I might be showing my age here but... Does anyone have any recommendations on how to get started with live streaming? What hardware, software, and web platforms do you need to make a full live coding experience with audience
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Agreed. I was more rebutting the "If it compiles, it works" mentality - which is not true for anything other than trivial examples. You still need to test that the compiled artifact actually works in a real setting, where "wo
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by perrygeo 3y ago
The amount of runtime checks and/or tests required to emulate the guarantees of static types is huge. It's perplexing that some people would rather do that manually. But to the point of triviality, static types tend to lull develo
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by perrygeo 3y ago
> It's so much easier just to select, drag and drop graphical elements instead of spending time learning a specific markup language and typing everything out You state this like a fact. A GUI might be your personal preference but ma
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Great interview topic, I agree. Candidates should be able to identify any SQL DDL that might break an app, then decompose it into three safe steps as you've described. It's a core skill for working with an RDBMS but rarely explici
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by perrygeo 3y ago
What's the distinction between vivid mental imagery and a closed-eye hallucination? I have aphantasia too (what I used to call "the opposite of a photographic memory") and it always struck me as odd that seeing imagery with c
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by perrygeo 3y ago
This is something that child-free people fail to understand. It's not just about priorities and "scheduling time" to be a parent. That would be great but it's a fantasy. Reality is being on-call 24/7 to deal with th
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by perrygeo 3y ago
And what exactly does TFA have to do with this conversation? It's literally not mentioned in the link or these comments (currently).
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by perrygeo 3y ago
I assume you're not being facetious. This is obviously different from e.g. garbage collection because garbage collectors are not actively involved in designing and optimizing their own schedule.
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Yet when refering to both space and time, you should consider explicating that space = memory, time = time.
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by perrygeo 3y ago
"Exploring a C program's memory use over time, on Linux" would be more accurate. Nothing in this article deals with our three spatial dimensions, the typical use of the word "space".
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by perrygeo 3y ago
That's wishful thinking if your job requires you to do the same physical activity as your hobby (typing, reading a backlit monitor). There are real physical limitations to our human bodies. Plus we require a range of experiences - more
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by perrygeo 3y ago
I fully agree. But I also think it's a sign of something broken. It's deeply sad that a generation of talented people have to go home and face a choice: crank out even more hours of work to have an outlet for your creative/pr
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by perrygeo 3y ago
For anyone interested in self-made independent nation states, I recommend "This Land is My Land"[1] Not exactly a comprehensive history, but it highlights and celebrates the human story of why people dare to engage in these seemin
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by perrygeo 3y ago
A good comparison with other operators here [2022]: https://blog.palark.com/cloudnativepg-and-other-kubernetes-o... Personally I've only used Kubegres ( https://www.kubegres.io/ ), which didn't even
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Hypothesis: The post-war growth in America was largely driven by cheap and abundant domestic oil. 1971 was the wake up call - we hit the peak in domestic oil production (we surpassed it again only after 2015) leading to a realization that e
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by perrygeo 3y ago
> You can't scale an application that relies on a database heavily to this level because your fundamental constraint IS the database. That's a big assumption. If your app is just an HTTP wrapper for SQL queries against a poorly
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by perrygeo 3y ago
downgrade implies that such a thing is possible. In a stateful system though, you cannot take back that which you have committed. It's quite literally impossible by definition.
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by perrygeo 3y ago
The system can only move forwards. Just like a `git revert`, it's a new commit to an immutable history. This is why I've never used or understood the value of the "downgrade" feature in some database migration tools. If
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by perrygeo 3y ago
The anti-nuclear lobby may have a point but this paper is an embarrassment to their cause. The author says directly and without supporting evidence that "nuclear power itself will deliver virtually nothing to the climate emergency’s re
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by perrygeo 3y ago
I'm a fan of the Alone series on the History channel. Contestants are dropped off in a remote location and have to survive on their own with minimal gear. All of them are highly trained in hunting, wilderness survival, etc. but only th
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Step 0. Explain the process, end-to-end, in plain written English. It's amazing how many people jump directly from "oh here's a problem" to "let's automate it" without a suitable definition of the problem.
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Lol. You misunderstand almost all of my points but I'm tired of arguing. Decarbonizing means reducing carbon. Period.
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Keep in mind that electricity generation itself is only responsible for ~35% of our greenhouse gas emissions (power generation was responsible for 13 Gt CO2 in 2019, globally 37 Gt) So if we wanted to estimate the global impact of data cent
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by perrygeo 3y ago
We're not reversing, we're not even slowing down, we're pulling our foot off the accelerator slightly. Reducing the 2nd derivative is better than nothing but it's blatantly false to claim an "unprecedented scale an
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by perrygeo 3y ago
> unprecedented scale and speed of decarbonisation in many countries And yet carbon emissions still increased by ~1% last year [1]. As it has for decades. It's gone from greenwashing to outright lies. The atmosphere doesn't car
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by perrygeo 3y ago
How smart can you really be if Golang is what's holding you back? It's a fine language, but definitely NOT a language that encourages clever abstractions and riddles - but that has nothing to do with being a smart programmer. Some
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Any digital or analog photo is a far cry from our biological signal processing. Yes, their methodogy used lots of signal manipulation to produce the photo. Just like an RGB digital camera does. Just like analog film. Just like our rods, c
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Useful for executable documentation or runbooks, whatever you call the next level above scripts. You check your scripts into source control but how do you invoke the script? Copy and paste the example? Type it by hand every time? There&#x

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