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1201.
by randomdata 2y ago
Yes, it seems most products that gain a reputation for reliability end up taking on a "masculine persona", of sorts. Which I guess stands to reason as in popular culture reliability is what defines the "manly man".
1202.
by randomdata 2y ago
> It's surprising to me that people would want to make a major financial decision like a car without knowing about its reliability history. Some people will always be surprising, but it is pretty clear that the pickup truck is the
1203.
by randomdata 2y ago
> Again this is a matter of where you draw your boundaries. Just as with the boundaries of what shape the earth is. If you want to consider it flat, good on you. But if you want to talk about the law of universal gravitation, you'
1204.
by randomdata 2y ago
Because I do not believe that HOAs are magic. What makes you think that they are?
1205.
by randomdata 2y ago
But then said community will overthrow the HOA, so, again, no reason to leave. The earlier suggestion of leaving was based on a situation where you don't find the community you need. Escaping the social ties was the sole reason for lea
1206.
by randomdata 2y ago
> Not necessarily, someone can just hand me a dollar for nothing in return. Value is certainly subjective. While it is possible you might find someone seeing a dollar as being worthless, just as they might give you a house for nothing
1207.
by randomdata 2y ago
> Seems to me I can still have demand for more dollars. Only to the maximum capacity of your ability to fulfill the wishes of other people. A dollar is, after all, an IOU. For someone to willingly give you an IOU, you have to give them
1208.
by randomdata 2y ago
What do you mean? Per the discussion, escaping social ties is the whole point of wanting to leave. If you fit into the community, what reason would there be to leave?
1209.
by randomdata 2y ago
Using it as a poor man’s SQL was addressed, but using it that way doesn’t mean that’s what it is for.
1210.
by randomdata 2y ago
If you go back to the early stuff coming out of Facebook about GraphQL, it was designed to roll up all the REST services (or similar) into a single request for high latency clients. Occupying what has become known as the backends for fronte
1211.
by randomdata 2y ago
> It doesn't if it's sitting there, with no one really occupying it, and priced out of the free market's reach It does. Reiterating: Supply and demand , not just supply. When someone builds a house and keeps it for them
1212.
by randomdata 2y ago
A comment is a nice addition, but the very least is to ensure that your test suite properly covers cases where changing one and not the other will introduce a problem. This not only ensures that both are changed, but that both are changed i
1213.
by randomdata 2y ago
Knuth says forget about small efficiencies in 97% of your code. Indeed, the `i++` optimization isn't apt to make more than a small difference, even with the most naive compiler, but other decisions could lead to larger chasms. It see
1214.
by randomdata 2y ago
Someone has to build it, but as long as you are using a popular DMBS the work is no doubt already done. All you need to do is stick your application-y bits in the middle – same as you have to do with GraphQL. Computers aren't exactly m
1215.
by randomdata 2y ago
Nobody said you should expose your database to the outside world. Do you not understand the difference between APIs and services?
1216.
by randomdata 2y ago
You don't, obviously – we already talked about how many don't. But if you don't have a graph of "microservices" in which to query, what do you need GraphQL for? Especially if all you are doing is returning the resul
1217.
by randomdata 2y ago
It doesn't. That's literally what GraphQL was designed for: To provide a resolver that sits between high latency clients and all of the various REST/RPC services in order to roll up all of the requests at datacenter speeds in
1218.
by randomdata 2y ago
I don't know about construction, but as a farmer it's pretty natural to look at what your neighbours are doing and if they adopt a new technology in their operation you're at least going to give some thought to doing the same
1219.
by randomdata 2y ago
> Hence why I said "building more supply won't help if it is never for sale". It doesn't need to be for sale to help with the situation, of course. It still relieves pressure on the demand side. An individual can ne
1220.
by randomdata 2y ago
> But if you draw your boundaries to include that additional supply that's hoarded and not for sale, the theory no longer holds. Do you see what I mean now In the same vein, if we consider the earth to be flat then the law of univ
1221.
by randomdata 2y ago
> Thus price is no longer determined purely by the market supply/demand of the good, but also profit margin of the monopolist. In fact, the price is "purely determined" by supply/demand in the scenario you gave. The
1222.
by randomdata 2y ago
> Ask yourself, do Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the US, Britain, Ireland, etc, all have the same inability to build Of course. Remember, homebuilding continues to be incredibly labour intensive. Meanwhile, all of those countries hav
1223.
by randomdata 2y ago
> What many people seem to not even know, is that the theory only holds true under competitive free market conditions and falls apart under captive/uncompetitive markets. Why would the law of supply and demand fall apart under cap
1224.
by randomdata 2y ago
> and protons a negative one. A "pro" negative? That introduces a whole new confusion.
1225.
by randomdata 2y ago
Stands to reason. The brain has to constantly resolve ambiguity when reading natural languages, while artificial languages are (usually) designed to be free of ambiguity.
1226.
by randomdata 2y ago
> Instead of calling B from A, you have to wrap B in an interface, instantiate it, pass it to A, and make the call. There is a place for interfaces, but not all dependencies need to be interfaces. The database handle mentioned in the p
1227.
by randomdata 2y ago
> I suppose you live in a bubble where "script" is almost all code ever written. Most tasks humans perform are in following a "script" so stands to reason that software would carry that forward. Why wouldn't mo
1228.
by randomdata 2y ago
That's fine. Obviously words can mean anything and naturally one would ensure that they are aware of what they are intended to mean in a given context before going any further if there is any lack of clarity. As there was no earlier qu
1229.
by randomdata 2y ago
It seems you agree. Systems and scripts are not differentiated by the size of the codebase. The way you speak about errors, like "being tempted to swallow errors" and "returning Result from every single function", sugges
1230.
by randomdata 2y ago
> I don't understand the hiring people industry. Not many do. Especially those doing the hiring. The thing is, there isn't much business value in making it a core competency, so employers just wing it mostly based on copying

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