rswail

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by rswail 2y ago
My point is that "procedure calls" have always covered up failure modes and making them "remote" papers over all of the problems of distributed computing. The other problem with "procedure calls" is they are im
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by rswail 2y ago
The problem with gRPC is the "R". It's been the same with JMI, Corba, ONC-RPC and all the others. Making "procedure calls" remote and hiding them underneath client libraries means that programmers do not consider th
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by rswail 2y ago
Product Managers decide what they want the Project Managers to manage. eg: "New Feature X" or "New Product Y" or... Project Managers are about estimates and critical paths and resolving bottlenecks and competition for re
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by rswail 2y ago
So the license makes it more like a tombstone of the source. It can't be used except for non-commerical use, whatever that means.
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by rswail 2y ago
Which doesn't exist in some jurisdictions. Or at least the right to put something into the public domain. Same with moral rights of the creator. Code is explicitly not like math. There's been half a century of case law about it.
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by rswail 2y ago
None of what you talk about is computer science , it's applied programming. Computer science is to programming in the same way that astronomy is to navigation. How can a student "understand" LLMs without the background knowl
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by rswail 2y ago
Because getting something into production is much more than just the specification. You can specify anything . But producing hardware that complies with that spec is much harder. Then you've done a lot of research and development,
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by rswail 2y ago
Telix https://telixpharma.com that is working on theraputics and diagnostics for gioblastomas (amongst other cancers). The Australian of the Year (a quasi government annual position) was last year given to Professor Scoyler, who
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by rswail 2y ago
Except that paulg's essay was about startups, not about an OSS project. Servo has no "customers" as such. It has potential future project users and there may be a support/development economic return for those users to
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by rswail 2y ago
No, by making the bug impossible . Sandbox applications at the OS level so that they can't share /tmp. Apple has that for its OS, apps are jailed.
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by rswail 2y ago
My experience in commercial development is that code reviews don't work because the incentives are misaligned. There's no incentive for someone to do a proper code review, because finding a bug isn't rewarded in any way by ei
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by rswail 2y ago
I didn't say that code reviews don't find bugs. I said that they don't find major bugs. A code review wouldn't find a bug where the configuration at build time was incorrect for the build for production as it was in th
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by rswail 2y ago
I can tell you that the commercial software that you use is unlikely to be living up to the unachievable standards that are being demanded in this thread. In this case, the person is a solo developer, so who exactly should be reviewing the
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by rswail 2y ago
This thread reminded me to make my annual donation to iTerm2's developer, who does a pretty amazing job keeping iTerm MacOS compliant and up to date.
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by rswail 2y ago
I've used iTerm2 for as long as I've known about it, which would be maybe 10 years? I don't use much of the various SSH/mux features, 'cos I don't use multiple buffers, just multiple tabs. I like the scrollback
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by rswail 2y ago
Hopefully this war will be over very soon, and soon after there will be a boom of children born in Ukraine, as happens after wars. They'll have all sorts of issues, but has there ever been a nation that has been so unanimous about want
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by rswail 2y ago
I buy a company because it has something I want. The seller is selling because they no longer want what the company offers. The price I buy the company at is at least as much as the seller values it, otherwise they would not sell. If I&#x
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by rswail 2y ago
Cash is an asset like any other, why wouldn't that be acquired when the company is purchased?
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by rswail 2y ago
A passport with strong cryptography would be forgery-resistant, however it is dependent on some form of PKI to distribute the public keys to every customs/border inspection point across the world, for every passport-issuing nation.
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by rswail 2y ago
You're assuming that Greenland would be given statehood which is extremely unlikely, they would be entitled to two Senate seats and one House seat with an even lower population than Wyoming.
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by rswail 2y ago
There have been numerous examples of the lack of industry regulation in TX leading to bad health outcomes to local residents with no recourse.
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by rswail 2y ago
Entirely agree on what you would like to see. My point is that Ukraine is no worse than any of those nations, so admitting them to the EU is hardly going to affect the EU in any bad way. Integration would be difficult on the agricultural fr
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by rswail 2y ago
What makes you think that the reforms that have been going on since the war began aren't evolving Ukraine into a "modern" country similar to Romania, or Bulgaria, or Slovakia, or any of the post-Soviet members?
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by rswail 2y ago
No, Trumpism is caused by manipulation of public opinion by populist and authoritarian politicans and media. One of their manipulations is to promote the dismissal of expert opinion as "elitism" and that the "elites" are
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by rswail 2y ago
If it was as an actual 51st state, with 2 Senators, full citizenship for all residents, etc, then maybe it would make sense. But that is not what the US is in any way offering. Trump wants a colony that can be exploited.
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by rswail 2y ago
Which is zero when it comes this sort of brainfart nonsense. The Panama Canal belongs to Panama, Greenland belongs to its residents via Denmark, Canada is a sovereign nation. Trump is just strutting, which is his standard position, pushing
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by rswail 2y ago
Greenland's mineral resources are valued in the trillions. They can be exploited for the benefit of the residents, why on earth would they sell that for the undefined "benefits" of being an exploited territory of either the U
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by rswail 2y ago
And Singapore has leveraged that trade by implementing tax policies that make it in huge demand for financial trans-shipment. A lot of Australia's resources are bought and sold via Singapore precisely for the tax advantages of funnelin
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by rswail 2y ago
What X gets mocked for is that the feature of being "verified" by Twitter was worth paying for. But X turned the "blue tick" into "this person has paid" which totally removed any value for the blue tick. It was
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by rswail 2y ago
I always allocate an email of my+company@myemail.com and the number of email validators that don't accept that "+" is a legit email character is infuriating.

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