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by rewmie 3y ago
> Not having a system API is the entire point of QUIC. The only reason QUIC needs to exist is because the sockets API and the system TCP stacks are too ossified to be improved. I don't think your take is correct. The entire point if
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Since it lives on top of UDP, I believe all you need is SOCK_DGRAM, right? The rest of QUIC can be in a userspace library ergonomically designed for your programming language e.g. (...) I think that OP's point is that there's
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by rewmie 3y ago
I have no idea what point you were trying to make. The "cattle" analogy is about reproducibility. There is absolutely no reason to keep systems in an unmanageable state that you cannot reproduce.
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Does anyone trust this service? It sounds like a great way to harvest personal data from unwitting participants.
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> The devops answer to complexity is always more complexity. I don't think this is a valid take. The main responsibility of DevOps is automation. You cannot automate without writing code, which by definition means introducing comple
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> Of course I know about the sanctions. Do they negate the equity act? I have no doubt you already know your argument is bullshit, but opted to go on a smear campaign to try to circumvent the natural consequences of the sanctions imposed
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> This person as far as we are aware is NOT a designated person that sanctions are impacting and they are NOT located in Russia. Irrelevant. If you read up on the Russia sanctions[1] you'll learn that violating sanctions is a crimin
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Databases are a means to query and index data with greater performance than without. I don't think you understand your own point. The querying, indexing, and performance bit are tied to the data structures used internally by the d
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Databases are automatically obsolete. A file system is enough and performance is improved by not using a database. This makes no sense at all. Databases are much more about what data structures are used internally and the high-level in
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I am Russian by nationality, but I (...) It sounds like Pakt Publishing might be bounded by law, and you're experiencing a consequence of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. > Since Packt is based in London, is this even legal?
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by rewmie 3y ago
Paywalled.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> OP said they are Greek, they didn't say they lived in Greece. I said that OP experienced a government's disastrous term first-hand, not that he lived in Greece. Plenty of emigrants experience their home's political decis
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> People really need to stop using "I'm X, and I therefore I know". No. Are you really trying to lecture those who experienced a government's disastrous term first-hand that they should stop claiming they experienced
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by rewmie 3y ago
I don't know why people are downvoting OP's comment. Varoufakis' pyrrhic's, meteoric, and self-aggrandizing term as Greece's minister of finance is well documented, so as his critical role in worsening Greece's
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by rewmie 3y ago
Great post, thanks for the insight. I have a question regarding this point: > 2. never expose real tables to an application. Create an "API" schema which contains only views, functions, procedures, and only allow applications t
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I can select "run Python as a REPL on Windows" in your post, right click, search and find an answer within a minute. That takes place only after you search for the python installer, download it, install it, check the environm
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Interesting. What makes work provided computers better suited for coding? They already have working software development environments. It's a process that can be time-consuming and is done once in a blue moon (basically when you n
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> I interviewed one individual who couldn’t even get the REPL started for their project and as they were struggling trying to get it to work I heard them mumble to themself “I should have just use my work computer”. The fact they couldn’
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by rewmie 3y ago
I think OP is so inexperienced that he hasn't realized yet how code gets "bad", and what's his role in getting it there He will eventually, but until now the more experienced people around him will have to be patient.
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> Why? If 99% of code bases are bad and it's the baseline condition, why should I try to move things in a better direction? Code is like entropy: it's natural tendency is to become disordered and not suit the current problem do
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> I get that reading the code is what developers should do, but why not help others and make it easier? Even I add comments so that future me can remember how it works. Comments are a code smell. If the code doesn't make it clear wh
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I'm not cherry picking (...) Sorry, but it's obvious that you are. This discussion is not about Git but about Tesla's history of harassment, racism, and overall bigotry, and the thread you're commenting on is clearl
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> But know that making a real production database tends to be harder than it looks, and so tends to be all-consuming, and a team that depends on a custom database tends to become a database team rather than an anything else team. The ori
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> The costs were moderate, not colossal. Care to point out any concrete example? Just pick the absolute best example you can imagine. So far none was provided. There's all this talk about "cost" but apparently it's so
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> Inertia is not merely caused by a psychological block, overcoming it carries real tangible costs. There are countless examples where technically superior solutions exist, but the benefits they offer do not outweigh the cost of overcomi
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> But that's not even what "master" means in git. There is no "slave" branch. I think you're trying to cherry-picking debatable examples as strawmen. The central argument was not that some inclusive terms ma
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> Replacing one well known default with another non-retroactively increases cognitive load. It's quite clear that managing cognitive loads is the least of all concerns considered by proponents of sticking with non-inclusive terms. F
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> I’m honestly a bit shocked at the reactionary nature of this entire thread. I knew HN had a bunch of conservative and libertarian tech bros but…holy shit. This whole thread is unhinged. It's shocking indeed. I'm not sure &quo
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The «master» to «main» change was totally unnecessary and B.S. imho. If I recall correctly, the point of reflecting upon the usage of specific terms was not that every single person thought it was B.S. but that a minority might feel ne
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> It would be awful to get this diverted from what was expected to be a love-in. Was it expected to be a love-in, though? When an exec takes over a position, the most basic questions are about what challenges predecessors faced and what

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