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by rualca 5y ago
> "I need X million USD in engineering spend this year to fix half a decade of awful technical execution and decision making (that all happened under your watch, BTW)". I don't know what is there in the IT/dev industr
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by rualca 5y ago
> Never even bothered to talk about the existing infra that was managed like cattle I don't see the point of your counterargument. For starters, there are plenty of managed containerized solutions that just run your containers witho
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by rualca 5y ago
> It's not clear to me that K8s was the actual thing that helped them scale, but rather the work they put into reworking their services. It seems you're missing the forest for the trees. They put in the work to refactorize thei
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by rualca 5y ago
> bidding for the multi-year contract to operate a line is a poor proxy for But that was never the reason why railway operations and railway track exploration and maintenance was split, was it? The whole point of splitting railway operat
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by rualca 5y ago
It's also not really about the money. It's about quality of life. If you're the kind of boss that starts whining because you are no longer able to coerce victims into working for you then perhaps there are plenty of things ot
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by rualca 5y ago
> And then what about (...) If seems you've missed the whole point of suggesting the use of Either/Result monads. It's entirely irrelevant if you have legacy code that does not support returning error codes a certain way.
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by rualca 5y ago
> The reason why kubernetes et al. are so popular is that the orchestration tools like ansible, puppet, salt, chef... they all failed to deliver ultimately great software. This assertion makes absolutely no sense at all, and reads like a
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by rualca 5y ago
> If there was one thing Trump was all in on, it was closing the southern border. Is there any source that even suggests that the US's "southern border" played a remotely relevant role in the US's pandemic? I mean, CO
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by rualca 5y ago
> That sounds like a pretty wild conspiracy theory. The concept of viral reservoir seems to be pretty basic and well established concept in virology, both in terms of macrobiomes (i.e., populations) and in terms of microbiomes (i.e., mic
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by rualca 5y ago
It should be noted that this is the same CCP that until recently have been simultaneously accusing Spain and Italy and the US of being the origin of the pandemic outbreak, instead of Wuhan.
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by rualca 5y ago
>>And the U.S. couldn't close its land borders even if it wanted to. Given that until recently the US was quite militant in refusing to act upon the outbreak, and it's a country comprised of hundreds of million of people amo
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by rualca 5y ago
Assymptomatic carriers have been observed to carry the virus and spread it to those around them for periods that range between a few weeks up to a couple of months. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article
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by rualca 5y ago
> I wonder why they don't just call the game developers on the phone and say "here is AMD, you must fix your shaders, here is the code". From my experience as a member of an away team, your own goals is not the home team&#
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by rualca 5y ago
You're insisting in a red herring that tries to misrepresent the actual problem and the whole point of this discussion. The whole point is that memory costs money, and the more memory you require, the more you pay. AWS Lambdas is a cle
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by rualca 5y ago
> (...) we had exactly 0 accountants involved, You should really rephrase that as "I was totally unaware that there were accountants involved" because it is simply inconceivable that a business activity involving allocating res
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by rualca 5y ago
> Yeah, sure, that's one use case, to run it on AWS Lambda. It's not an edge case. It is a clear and irrefutable example that you pay for the memory you use. Let's be very clear here: when you provision a VM anywhere in th
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by rualca 5y ago
> If you're out after performance you wouldn't use AWS Lambda or even AWS at all. That point makes as much sense as complaining that if you were after performance you'd use a Formula1 car and not a Tesla. People who live i
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by rualca 5y ago
> Indeed, but is relevant? If you have a machine with average memory installed, both are fine. The whole point is that you don't. You literally pay for the memory your application requires, proportionally to the amount of memory. Th
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by rualca 5y ago
One of the first comments made by the author was that he had the bad habit of writing div soups, and after his refresher not only was the author aware of a respectable list of semantic HTML elements and their appropriate usecases but he als
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by rualca 5y ago
> Charging money does not make something a corporation. In your opinion, other than the different taxation schemes, what's the difference between a religious organization and a corporation? Specially if both types or org charge to p
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by rualca 5y ago
> Funerals are traditionally handled by the church, You're somehow assuming that a religious organization does not operate as a corporation, even down to the invoices.
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by rualca 5y ago
Also, it should be stressed that being forced to be immersed in "office culture" is something that is not in the interests of some employees (somewhere between "most" and "all"?) I mean, who really cares about
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by rualca 5y ago
> well it's happening in incognito mode too. You're raising doubts regarding a browser's threat to privacy by stating an observation that depends on blind faith on the same browser not threatening privacy.
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by rualca 5y ago
Wishing that a service should be provided by a community instead of a business does not address the fact that it is a service, and one which has a constant demand and an inherent need to be offloaded to a third party. Once specialization is
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by rualca 5y ago
What if you want, say, continuous scrolling in your blog? What's the point of advocating against client-side rendering if the alternative is server-side rendering that only covers some of the features you want?
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by rualca 5y ago
> The comment you replied to answered your question. It really didn't, instead it weaseled out by putting up a strawman that pretends to put a loophole in a straight-forward and very clear way. In fact, it's blatantly clear by
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by rualca 5y ago
> SOA: [xxxx][yyyy][zzzz][wwww] That difference only occurs if, for some random reason, you came about what's the address of element zero of that array, or if for any even rarer reason you have a hard requirement of when you cease t
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by rualca 5y ago
An array of structs is already a struct of arrays if you're willing to do some offset math.
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by rualca 5y ago
> This can happen already to you when products go out of stock (...) No, it can't. Your case involves a scenario where no transaction is possible because there is no product to buy or sell. It has zero to do with my very simple and
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by rualca 5y ago
> It's not a math equation you run through a computer and get a legal result out the other end. Not really. This has zero to do with math. At all. We have a buyer and we have a seller, both the buyer and the seller wish to perform a

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