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901.
by ris 10y ago
I couldn't agree more. My life these days consists 90% of marshalling json around. Hooray for microservices.
902.
by ris 10y ago
When it comes to "useful", the important question is "useful to _whom_". To a mapper, even a single photo well geocoded is a valuable source of information and its presence on a system like OpenStreetView (or even Mapill
903.
by ris 10y ago
LWN produce some of the highest quality articles around - well worth a subscription. Something I think may harm their subscription rate is how quickly they release articles to non-subscribers (1 week after publication?). This makes it easy
904.
by ris 10y ago
Well done, that's probably the least relevant use of "written in go" in a HN headline I've seen. And there's some stiff competition for that title.
905.
by ris 10y ago
Another good article on this subject: https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-majestic-monolith-29166d02222... My experience with microservices has been pretty painful. My analogy of microservices is it's a bit like building a
906.
by ris 10y ago
Note that there are many different things that people tend to use the term "OpenStreetMap Server" for. What is being described here is what's known as a _tileserver_.
907.
by ris 10y ago
The actual _work_ done here was by ArtchiveTeam, which is not the same thing. Archive.org are just doing the hosting of the end-results.
908.
by ris 10y ago
"brute-forcing encryption on all of these is probably not possible. A small % marked as 'secret conversation'? Much easier." They probably wouldn't have to brute-force them. Backdooring's still quite possible -
909.
by ris 10y ago
Yes, I've always found tmux to be a bit weird, especially its hijacking of mouse events which really throws me.
910.
by ris 10y ago
Looks like a recipe for fire if one goes a bit awry.
911.
by ris 10y ago
So, while it might be the fashionable thing to do some kind of (machine/deep/?) learning approach where you allow it to run millions of simulations and figure out things itself, I can understand why they didn't. Learning appr
912.
by ris 10y ago
Website impossible to use because it hijacked my scrollbar without understanding the dimensions of my browser window.
913.
by ris 10y ago
"Cultural heritage" is so often these days used as a dog whistle for, well, race, allowing people to make all kinds of exclusionary and divisive statements then do the ol' "What? Racism? Nothing I said had anything to do
914.
by ris 10y ago
You're stopping just short of claiming genetic superiority here.
915.
by ris 10y ago
Ah - so the only countries that should be expected to take refugees should be those immediately sharing a border with them, right?
916.
by ris 10y ago
> The vast majority of refugees... Having met many refugees I can say this is absolutely true. The vast majority are lovely people.
917.
by ris 10y ago
"and then tune the system to use index-only-scan for these queries." Caaareful there. I hope you're monitoring your query times for outliers.
918.
by ris 10y ago
"Iridium is wiretappable." Beyond this, it's probably possible to snoop on the location of local targets with some unknown degree of accuracy, even if you can't decode their data payload.
919.
by ris 10y ago
I'm guessing one of the major reasons more packages are "broken" for macos is there is a CI system running for linux/nixos (travis) and not one for macos. So macos breakages can slip in easily. If a passionate mac advoca
920.
by ris 10y ago
This is called "writing tests".
921.
by ris 10y ago
Your OS is now your hypervisor. If you don't see that, then your containers are so loosely coupled they barely have to interact with each other. Wait until you need to tightly couple several components and you'll be back to square
922.
by ris 10y ago
The nixpkgs manual has a section on it https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-python but the key to it is that it's really mostly about managing your PYTHONPATH. You wouldn't typically be installing a pyt
923.
by ris 10y ago
Having set up my last company doing all development and deployment using nix, moving to a new team which just uses pip/virtualenv and a "bootstrapping script" feels a little unnerving to start with.
924.
by ris 10y ago
I love the first paragraph's insertion of a little EU-paranoia in the run up to the referendum. Vintage Telegraph.
925.
by ris 10y ago
While we're at it, can we also retire "linear" mean in favour of geometric mean in what is commonly understood as "average"? It is far more representative in most real life situations I find.
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by ris 10y ago
"MySQL is popular among a subset of programmers: web developers." Slapdash web developers. Most web developers I know now consider postgres the base standard.
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by ris 10y ago
"We are migrating our analytics db from Mongo to PG but we hit a wall because SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT x)) performs abysmally in Postgres." https://github.com/aggregateknowledge/postgresql-hll ? or even https:&
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by ris 10y ago
The default rendering for OSM might do, many other renderings are available (including your own if you like).
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by ris 10y ago
OpenStreetMap is just a database. It has no concept of layers (except the `layers=` tag used for stacking order of objects e.g. bridges). Products which use OpenStreetMap data are free to apply whatever "layer" abstractions in the
930.
by ris 11y ago
"Ceding the market because they can't currently make billions from it pretty much guarantees they won't ever make any money from it" Are you kidding? Intel has spent the last decade and billions of dollars trying to push

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