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by rualca 5y ago
> In most cases, the business cannot afford to stop all feature work in this way, and so the problem will persist forever, becoming a permanent drop in productivity. It will also make your developers miserable. This scenario is only poss
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by rualca 5y ago
>>So then the advantage is that you always have a small mental working set. You don't need microservices architectures for that. Even a clean architecture on a monolith ensures that you can compartmentalize the problem domain. At
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by rualca 5y ago
> 1) something has different run time needs than something else. This is supposedly the #1 technical reason to move to microservices: horizontal scaling + distributed system (in the rare cases the app needs low latency across the world)
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by rualca 5y ago
I agree, minidiscs were a RW media format with a 140MB capacity that popped up in a time where 1.44MB floppy disks where still extensively used and the next-day thing we're CDRs/CDRW, both of which made it prohibitively time-consu
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by rualca 5y ago
You don't create persistent file system mounts by launching a process, nor do you mount files into the process's file system.
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by rualca 5y ago
> Minidisc was a HUGE commercial flop, with a paltry number of releases. What I remember from my minidisc days were that at least the ones I owned were all recorders. Even though I bought zero minidisc albums, I had a few minidiscs with
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by rualca 5y ago
> Well, don't know about "virtually", but in Europe I only know one person who had one, and I don't remember seeing any on the street / bus / metro. I owned a couple of portable minidisc players in the 90s,
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by rualca 5y ago
> A sizable chunk of use cases for containerization is to confer the benefits of standalone executableness, No, not really. Just because in the end you get to run an application that does not mean that it's reasonable to explain thi
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by rualca 5y ago
> Containers aren't Docker. Discussing if containers are Docker or not I'm this discussing is a non-sequitur fueled by needless nitpicking and being pedantic for being pedantic. The whole point is that all those features that I
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by rualca 5y ago
> I'd say that the static linking metaphor refers to the container image itself, in that it's standalone and (fairly) "universal". That metaphor makes no sense beyond the standalone part. Container images are way more
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by rualca 5y ago
> Exactly! I don’t see this as a criticism of containerization so much as it is a praise of static linking. Not really. It seems the keyword "static linking" is being abused to refer to stand-alone executables, because that&#x2
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by rualca 5y ago
> The answer to this is a container. Containers don't "reinvent" static linking, they solve problems that go beyond static linking. This. I would also point out that containers handle also other critical features like it&#
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by rualca 5y ago
> True. However, since cache is usually transient, adding this key-value store/cache is as easy as "docker run redis". No need to provision block storage, and it's really lightweight in comparison. If you're usin
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by rualca 5y ago
> As German engineers are known to say: "Why make things simple when complicated will do?" Isn't Redis an in-memory key/value store? Paying for RAM is not the same as paying for SSD.
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by rualca 5y ago
El Salvador only passed a vote where they agreed to pass a law sometime in the future. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvador-approves-... From the article: > With 62 out of 84 possible votes, lawma
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by rualca 5y ago
> So does USD The USD is the official currency of the US of A, and all transactions and specially taxes are expressed in the official currency. This its value is automatically tied to the nation's total economic output.
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by rualca 5y ago
> BTC is framed as destructive or dangerous and CBDC is their solution. It's hard to refute their point when we've just saw bitcoin tanking and seeing its value drop to half in a few days.
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by rualca 5y ago
> The parkinglot is filled with oldtimers and the interior is very 'that 70's show'. Could you please explain how that ad-hominem based on blatant ageism does anything to refute the points regarding the nature of cryptocur
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by rualca 5y ago
The only thing that happened in El Salvador was a public politician making a populist statement. It would make sense to point to Venezuela or Iran, but those examples don't get much attention for some reason.
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by rualca 5y ago
> We don't know. Bullshit. People have been wearing protective equipment such as masks for decades, and the negative effects are none. The anti-maskers' irrational tirade about even low-effort/high-reward protective measur
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by rualca 5y ago
> Express this dismay to them, in a honest open conversation. Discover what holds them back. Been there, done that. The popular answer was that projects change too fast and he doesn not have time to maintain docs. However, I firmly belie
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by rualca 5y ago
> If a "basic protective measure" is not foolproof, then maybe the downsides of such a measure outweighs the benefits Pray tell, what are those collosal downsides that render such an effortless thing like wearing a mask in publ
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by rualca 5y ago
> The point was to show that the OP has a false-confidence in their arguments that could easily be countered by more nuanced takes on mask wearing. That's a gross misrepresentation of the facts, and one which flies in the face of re
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by rualca 5y ago
> Even though M95 masks were found to be beneficial against respiratory viruses (...) You're contradicting your claim. > It seems that pro-maskers vastly overestimate the efficacy of mask wearing (...) You're desperately try
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by rualca 5y ago
> You actually never needed to wear a mask outside. This claim is patently false. Even though outside spaces are safer than indoors, it's still possible to spread covid-19 outdoors, moreso if you do not respect social distancing. h
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by rualca 5y ago
Reddit's "open in app" textbook dark pattern is infuriating, specially given the fact that switching user agent allows users to access content on mobile that otherwise would force them to install the mobile app. And given the
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by rualca 5y ago
> Would be nice if you could post some links to where we can read up on your claims. They are not my claims, it's the current state of the art regarding GMOs, and one which anyone with a cursory interest in the subject is very well
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by rualca 5y ago
You wouldn't post these kinds of cynical and deeply ignorant remarks if you had the faintest awareness of the science behind the GMO debate, specially the warnings and problems already flagged in the real world where GMOs played a crit
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by rualca 5y ago
I've asked for your opinion on what you feel is the best counterexample you can put up. It does not seem you're able to point out anything at all. Is that because you are aware that there is actually no good argument to refute OP&
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by rualca 5y ago
For the sake of argument, what's the absolute best alternative to Tether that you feel could safely be used as an example? Because you quickly resorted to ad hominem attacks even though you failed to provide any alternative or even a s

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