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by rewmie 3y ago
> From RPi5's FAQ: > Raspberry Pi 5 is a higher-performance computer than Raspberry Pi 4, and you may have problems using an under-powered supply. We recommend a high-quality 5V 5A USB-C power supply, such as the new Raspberry Pi
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by rewmie 3y ago
> (...) I'm also not sure we have ever seen a nuclear power with its back against the wall to this degree have we? What do you perceive as "this degree"? I mean, Ukraine's endgame is to free its occupied territories f
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I don't think that estimate takes into account the power savings (...) I don't think this is relevant. RPis cost is a critical factor in it's usefulness as a disposable toy computing platform, not web servers that need t
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Easy target, why not. If the super-rich are such an easy target, how come the article states they also avoid any type of income tax?
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by rewmie 3y ago
> In all projects that I’ve worked on the code was much too complex for a single developer to have even a surface level understanding of all of it, yet one is regularly required to change unfamiliar pieces. That sounds like a self-inflic
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The question is: why is this the case? Diagrams capture and represent abstract and/or high level concepts. Their goal is to provide a kind of mental map of how specific aspects of a project are organized in order to help developer
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by rewmie 3y ago
> So how would you expect to insight on whether the current code differs from the planned design documents? Developers are expected to know what they are doing and how their software project is organized. > By always applying a lot of
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The biggest problem I've seen with architecture diagrams is they fall out of sync with the code base. In my opinion, automatic generation of these diagrams is necessary. Architecture diagrams document how the software is expected
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by rewmie 3y ago
> (...) sounds like defeating the purpose of the 'single board' computer. What purpose do you think it is? Why do you think people spend their cash on a Raspberry Pi or any other RPi clone?
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by rewmie 3y ago
> At least in JavaScript land all production ready frameworks only solve two problems: architecture in a box and put text on screen. I don't think you have a very good grasp on the issue. All production-ready application frameworks
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Unnecessary abstractions exist not to simplify any return on investment but to ease candidate selection from amongst a pool of otherwise unqualified or incapable candidates. This take is outright wrong. One of the most basic business r
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Most are overpaid API monkeys. I think that's a highly dismissive and ignorant view of what software development, as a value-creation endeavor, actually is. The responsibility of a software engineer is not mapping high-level const
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The difference between "something went wrong", "we're looking into it", "we've found the problem and are working on a fix", and "we have a fix and are deploying it region-by-region" is
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Absolute omnishambles. The company renowned for their CEO using a pocket knife to unplug servers straight from the server room is not expected to do stellar work managing certificates.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> If you're not signing up, there's no network effect. This is blatantly false. In the past, Twitter links, both to tweets and to user timelines, were widely shared through third-party services, including major news outlets.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I want to downvote your comment, but it's really X and their engineering team I want to downvote. The issues you mentioned were not engineering problems. They are all Product Manager diktats. Screwing over the timeline of non-auth
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by rewmie 3y ago
These are self-descrived "high-quality". I don't think any of these libraries are noteworthy, let alone adopted to any degree of significance.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> We consider “cos 123” an exact solution even though to numerically calculate it requires a power series approximation. I think you're confusing what an exact solution is supposed to be with your own approximation of the exact solu
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by rewmie 3y ago
> To be fair, Twitter has began pushing algorithm mess onto their users far before the Musk take over. We really can't blame him for that. I don't think this is a very fair and honest take on the toilet flush spiral where Elon
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Domain / IP could perhaps be inaccessible only from certain locations, and staff could be unaware in that case. Your hypothetical scenario either involves a regional deployment being down, which I would be very surprise if any no
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by rewmie 3y ago
> - Is my internet down? Can I access any page? ...and in a few seconds the same user opens google.com. What then? > - Is that a region accessibility issue for my location? Why does a user care? A user only cares if they can access
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by rewmie 3y ago
> If they know about it What exactly leads you to believe that each and every employee of Slack would fail to notice that each and every single service accessed through the domain slack.com was down? > - If they have a fix ETA I never
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by rewmie 3y ago
Wow that's one of the most awe-inspiring videos I saw lately. Thanks for sharing it!
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by rewmie 3y ago
> There is a non-zero chance that something bad could happen with the domain (...) If something happens with the domain that prevents you from accessing the service, the page works as intended by being down. I mean, what do you think use
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by rewmie 3y ago
> It means if you want to see a persons latest tweets, you have to login/create an account. It's infuriating. A stupid growth tactic. It's a dark pattern, and one which only the most desperate services implement as their l
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Sure, but what are the majority of their customers going to do? Providing a status monitor/canary page does not force anyone to register an account or subscribe to a service. They can provide all sorts of push/pull notificati
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by rewmie 3y ago
> (...) leverage the lower cost and higher throughput of object storage like S3 (...) What do you mean by "lower cost (...) of object storage like S3"? Isn't S3 terribly expensive? I recall S3 costs around 10$/month p
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Can the cores even stay busy and fed with work to do at some point? There are still some embarrassingly parallel applications out there that could benefit from this sort of hardware. I'm not sure if it's absolutely necessary
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by rewmie 3y ago
> It’s more that he’s chosen to call a number of people’s bluff with these “what are you going to do, sue me!” tactics. That's an overly charitable spin on the fact that Elon Musk's Twitter is hemorrhaging money and can't
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I think we're pretty much out of interesting things to say about post-acquisition Twitter (Twixtter?); it seems to have settled into a stable state of lower expenditures counterbalanced by a smaller userbase and significantly redu

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