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by rualca 6y ago
> At minimum, you need to start dealing with things like service discovery and accounting for all of the edge cases where one part of your system is up while another part is down, or how to deal with all of the transitional states withou
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by rualca 6y ago
> But too many are eager to jump into distributed computing without understanding what they are bring into their development workflow and debugging scenarios. This fallacy is the distributed computing bogeyman. Just because you peel off
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by rualca 6y ago
> Sounds like Texas is a bastion of energy. Sounds to me they are the bastion of the energy industry. Which are historically the main opponents of any concern regarding climate change.
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by rualca 6y ago
I'm rather skeptical on this idea that just because a specific feature was never implemented, or just because a specific bug was never fixed, that estimates based on past behavior don't work. That assertion doesn't have any b
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by rualca 6y ago
> I am not sure having everything in a single HTML file is any feat though. This bears repeating. By this logic all projects, including convoluted React SPAs, are just a bundled away from claiming they are a single-HTML file project.
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by rualca 6y ago
It's true that some stuff in macOS is tightly integrated, but the fact that homebrew exists and is a must-have kind of demonstrates the opposite. Also, I've lost count of how many times my 1yo macbook pro crashed, while my crappy
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by rualca 6y ago
> Yep, the amount of incompetence in Parler's case is just mind-boggling. Parler's case has zero to do with incompetence, and it boggles the mind of how suddenly putting together web apps with bare metal servers is somehow depi
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by rualca 6y ago
> AWS is just a bunch of APIs This is a gross oversimplification of what AWS is. For starters, no one pays for AWS for the APIs. People do pay AWS for the on-demand infrastructure, and the global network of datacenters, which makes it tr
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by rualca 6y ago
> What are the odds of that? People on the left never lie? Instead of just presuming that people lie with a given frequency just because they don't share your opinion on politics, if you're really interested in getting the fact
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by rualca 6y ago
It really isn't. In higher mammals the basic property of generating fertile offspring through sexual reproduction is clear-cut and undisputed. The only discussion there is in the species problem is in reaching consensus on a general de
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by rualca 6y ago
It's not easy to define species following a common basic definition that applies to all taxonomy ranks, specially when asexual reproduction takes place. But this is not the case being discussed here. With higher mammals that is not the
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by rualca 6y ago
I'm not sure your comment is relevant to the discussion. The concept of species, when it involves sexual reproduction, is pretty straight-forward: mating produces fertile offspring. Your remark is only relevant when nit-picking corner
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by rualca 6y ago
That's pretty funny and clever. Thanks for the chuckle.
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by rualca 6y ago
> Imagine the criticism they'd have faced if they'd used anything other than QMK. You're making it sound like reinventing the wheel to come up with a higher cost and lower quality offering is something to be proud about.
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by rualca 6y ago
> It's the same, except with keyboards: if you grew up with a laptop, you want a 60% keyboard because it's "natural". I don't use a 60% keyboard, but I do use a tenkeyless keyboard because I do love my F keys. My
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by rualca 6y ago
> Why are so many keyboards tiny like this? If I want a small keyboard, I will just use a laptop. That makes absolutely no sense. Your choice of keyboard should not come attached to a monitor. Furthermore, laptop keyboards are notoriousl
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by rualca 6y ago
Your comment makes no sense. If you want to read a math-heavy do and you stumble on unreadable text, your experience doesn't suddenly improve if you say "well at least I can get JAWS to play audio". There is no tradeoff.
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by rualca 6y ago
> That is, you should always return in an `if` branch. I've had seasoned team members criticizing that approach as possibly the worst mistakes a developer can do. Their rationale is that you needlessly increase the cyclomatic comple
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by rualca 6y ago
I disagree. I find that breaking functions into subfunctions extremely helpful to make code easier to read and understand and follow, and consequently to track and fix bugs. Extracting functions does way more than removing descriptive comme
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by rualca 6y ago
>>I want to be able to change the font size and have the text reflow correctly. With PDFs you end up with broken layouts if you don't view it exactly as formatted. Reflowable books also do a poor job reflowing content. Case in po
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by rualca 6y ago
> Why prefer an epub... Does epub support proper proper math notation typesetting? Moreover, text in a webview doesn't flow as nice as vanilla TeX, and can look outright atrocious.
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by rualca 6y ago
> 4x10 shifts are not a new concept. This sort of argument sounds like a red herring. It's irrelevant if a company pioneers exploitative working conditions. What's relevant is that the company is imposing exploitative working c
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by rualca 6y ago
Say what you may, but let's not pretend that there are no corporate shill accounts being used throughout all social media, specially when it's about posting pro-corporate messages with content that's borderline enthusiastic a
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by rualca 6y ago
> As a gig worker I hope it stays, gig work has been a massive quality of life improvement for me. I think if the unions want to compete with us that's fine but the state shouldn't get to pick the winner. The fact that you regi
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by rualca 6y ago
> It was "To handle things with a lot of complicated changing state, try a state machine, and here's a simple example." Right you are. We should also acknowledge that state machines are a fundamental tool of GUI developmen
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by rualca 6y ago
> I got called a shill and downvoted repeatedly To be fair, your line of comments was pretty similar to the wealth of sockpuppet a which were unleased on reddit to force GameSpot's stock down while pumping up silver. Even if you wer
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by rualca 6y ago
> It’s not a weird play, it an absolutely run of the mill pump-n-dump scheme played out by a few people who are spamming Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and wallstreet bets with pitches like “this will be the next GME”, “make banks collapse, b
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by rualca 6y ago
I would also add that reddit's wallstreetbets crowd has been pointing out that silver is a manipulation tactic to try to entice them out of gamespot's stock. I have no idea where the truth lies, but it's patently obvious that
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by rualca 6y ago
> This may apply to equipment and even buildings to a certain extent, but qualified nurses are not something you can just purchase off the shelf like a new rack of servers when demand is high. Professional training is not the same as hir
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by rualca 6y ago
Baseline capacity and the ability to scale up to withstand peaks are two separate things.

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