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by pragma_x 1y ago
Yeah, this reads like popular health guidance left over from the 1980's. Back then we though that "fat makes you fat" and shifted to sweeteners to make food taste good. Later, we found out that was all due to the sugar indu
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by pragma_x 1y ago
Lately, what I've been asking people is: what do you use Windows for, exactly? When the overwhelming majority of their stuff is in a browser, Steam, or Office, it's pretty easy to lay out Linux as an alternative. Nobody actually
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by pragma_x 1y ago
> Build what you Can’t Ship This parallels another creative domain: cooking. If you've ever wondered what's worth making yourself, it really comes down to the goal of building skills, or obtaining the unobtainable. The latter i
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by pragma_x 1y ago
Exactly. Everyone is doing this, maybe well, maybe poorly. Consider Sonatype Nexus and its "repository firewall" product. Their business model _depends_ on everyone not cooperating, so there's likely a ton of folks that wo
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by pragma_x 1y ago
I think it's implied that packages can be blocked and/or evicted from said cache administratively. This deliberately breaks builds, and forces engineers to upgrade/downgrade away from bad packages as needed.
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by pragma_x 1y ago
It would take labor, that's for sure. Manual review of everything JS is just too massive a landscape to cover. Automation is the way to go here, for sure. I think the bare minimum is heavy use of auditjs (or Snyk, or anything else th
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by pragma_x 1y ago
So, other packaging environments have a tendency to slow down the rate of change that enters the user's system. Partly through the labor of re-packaging other people's software, but also as a deliberate effort. For instance: Ubunt
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by pragma_x 1y ago
"Some things happen, an space station happens, some AI happens, and in the end, our protagonist figures out that he's kind of insignificant despite being there for all of it."
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by pragma_x 1y ago
Honestly, it sounds like the drop-in-drop-out allowance is what makes this tick. Well, that and the short commute thing. You get the best of face-time collaboration without the "grind" of needing to punch a timecard. Just the be
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by pragma_x 1y ago
> a frontend to SharePoint No wonder they just tossed Skype in the trash. This explains so much. > SPOL is even worse a tirefire than, say, even Lotus Notes. To be fair, Lotus Notes is what we had back in the mid 90's. There re
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by pragma_x 1y ago
I'm kind of astonished that something as well-used as RabbitMQ isn't doing much to keep whatever state it has, coherent in some backup/store/database. Or is this just an implementation detail that I'm unaware of?
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by pragma_x 1y ago
Gotta keep in mind that PRISM (or maybe something like it) is still a thing. If US traffic isn't sniffed by Starlink itself, then it's happening at the next hop in the nearest terrestrial network provider.
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by pragma_x 1y ago
FWIW, that's about where the bar is set with live coding exercises during a job interview. I've done this, both at a whiteboard, and online in a provided web sandbox.
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by pragma_x 1y ago
Seems easy to thwart with two exam proctors, one at each end of the exam room. Hypothetically, the whole affair is going for maximum manual effort (grading), so why not double down on test-taking labor too?
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by pragma_x 1y ago
That's how I remember it. For completeness, 33.6 required insane levels of signal clarity on the phone line, and was mostly fiction outside of urban and dense suburban areas. Prior to 14.4k, there were other generations of modems that
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by pragma_x 1y ago
I think it presents a conflict of interest. Considering we're talking about system security, it's best to not leave this up to the ethics of just one team. Also: a lot of development teams in security-oriented fields are doing a
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by pragma_x 1y ago
My hunch is that they're doing this for three reasons. 1. Decompressing the gas can be used to do work, like turning a turbine or something. It's not particularly efficient, as you mention, but it can store some energy for a whil
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by pragma_x 1y ago
Not just new code-bases. I recently used an LLM to accelerate my learning of Rust. Coming from other programming languages, I had a lot of questions that would be tough to nail down in a Google search, or combing through docs and/or t
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by pragma_x 1y ago
> full of amazing tongue twisters You mean, always amazingly augmented, aspiring to alienate all other audible aspirations? Zach is always a treat.
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by pragma_x 1y ago
I feel like this would also solve the "I just need the printer driver file(s), not everything else" use-case. Nice work.
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by pragma_x 1y ago
> Who here remembers frames? I was there, writing sites professionally when this was rolled out. They're more or less deprecated, but I missing having a 1st-class building block that allows you to resize areas of the screen. Recomm
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by pragma_x 1y ago
It reads like they're trying to drum up investment. This is why the focus is on the pedigree of the founders, since they don't have a product to speak of yet.
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by pragma_x 1y ago
It's also interesting to look at other architectures at the time to get an idea of how fiendish a problem this is. At this time, Commodore, Nintendo, and some others, had dedicated silicon for video rendering. This frees the CPU from
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by pragma_x 1y ago
That was my takeaway as well. Pivoting a conventional structure in a column-major storage system just smells like a look-aside of some kind (a database). Plus, you lose the benefits of bulk copy/move that the compiler will likely giv
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by pragma_x 1y ago
There's a lot of missed opportunities out there. For example, AskJeeves is still just a vanilla search engine (Google front-end).
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by pragma_x 1y ago
> Maybe people don’t like it because of the repetition of “data =“ Eh, at first glance it looks "amateurish" due to all the repeated stuff. Chaining explicitly eliminates redundant operations - a more minimal representation of
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by pragma_x 1y ago
Debate around the usefulness aside, are there any linter rules for warning about f-strings in light of this? I can easily see where mistaking one for the other would cause problems. For context, I'm thinking specifically about tools
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by pragma_x 1y ago
It's something to marvel at, really. Birds _needed_ to evolve super efficient brains due to all the constraints that flight puts on the organism; they have to be more efficient by weight as well as by size. Meanwhile, being earthbound
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by pragma_x 1y ago
> if supply lines were set up correctly, that wouldn't matter for a lot of cargo. One of the big problems facing logistics across the board is just optimization. But at some point, you run out of intuition to uncover more efficienc
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by pragma_x 1y ago
All day, every day. And that's coming from someone that _likes_ working with it.

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