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901.
by rualca 6y ago
> But if you end up having a bunch of DBs with a lot of overlap I don't know how much you're gaining You're gaining component isolation and separation of concerns, and the ability to scale services horizontally without bot
902.
by rualca 6y ago
> You're the one who said "integration test". Yes, I was. And that's the problem, because it seems you didn't realize that tests that involve checking how 15 APIs interact are indeed tests that check how differen
903.
by rualca 6y ago
> is only good advice if the tables are application specific data Isn't that the whole point? > and you don't do microservices in that stupid braindead way that (...) I feel that this cynical jab is not only set as a flimsy
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by rualca 6y ago
> Don't forget the part where the queries are impossible to test, because you can't spin up real instances of all 15 APIs in a test environment, Why? What's stopping you? > so all the HTTP calls are mocked and the respo
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by rualca 6y ago
> Minimum wage is enough for this. Give a minimum wage job a try for a couple of years and afterwards let me know if you still believe in that.
906.
by rualca 6y ago
> TBH the length that C++ goes to replace every single use of the preprocessor "just because" is close to zealotry. This comment is short-sighted. Take for example C++'s use of include guards to use translation units inste
907.
by rualca 6y ago
> One spends so much time trying to figure out a way around some crazy boiler plate code requirement in C++ only to realize that no, it simply isn't possible to do it in a sane way in C++. It seems you're complaining about the
908.
by rualca 6y ago
> We're talking about what language you can use instead of C++, without losing access to C++ libraries. Congratulations, your suggestion requires you to maintain two entirely separate languages, one of which is not standard nor matu
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by rualca 6y ago
> Ironically the main thing keeping C++ relevant is the lack of a standard cross platform ABI. I find that statement very odd, because in my experience the bane of C++, and perhaps the primary reason to look for alternatives, is C++&#x27
910.
by rualca 6y ago
> The average programmer simply cannot deal effectively with this modern C++. It is too complex. I interpret this assertion with a high dose of incredulity and skepticism. You're specifically referring to a single class that's
911.
by rualca 6y ago
> I'm not OP, but what is "real life"? In the context of creating models, it's representative data collected from statistically significant observations of a population, for starters. > In cases where some communi
912.
by rualca 6y ago
Let's look at the dictionary, shall we? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/masquerade "an action or appearance that is mere disguise or show" As in social engineering masquerading as AI research?
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by rualca 6y ago
> Also being in same team with a stakeholder, you minimize coordination cost and adjust goals and plans according to value. I'm not sure we are on the same page regarding what "being on the same team" means, and thus what
914.
by rualca 6y ago
> Do I dispute that she provided an ultimatum of which one side was a resignation offer? Ok so it's established that she threatened her managers and employer to either comply with her personal wishes or she would "exercise her
915.
by rualca 6y ago
> If management don't understand the projects, and they generally don't, what are they really managing? With the inception of Agile, by definition software projects are impossible to understand in the sense of having a clear id
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by rualca 6y ago
I still don't get it. Keeping a public worklog is intended to help other people, not yourself. That's why you're keeping your logs public, not in your personal engineering notebook. You post stuff in the ticket to make that s
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by rualca 6y ago
If you take a step back and read the snippet you cherry-picked, I believe you'll be able to understand that it referred to how the author is trying to pass opinions on social engineering under the guise of research on AI ethics. That d
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by rualca 6y ago
> I thought that my comment was fitting to the tone of the text (...) Yes, that was one of the problems. > It is unclear to me what this means, is it arguing that studying bias in AI and specifically deep learning is not germane? Let
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by rualca 6y ago
> I see nothing to suggest she's not qualified. Your argument sounds like a red herring. Qualified for what? I didn't noticed the OP making any remark on the author's qualifications. And by the way, you should think things
920.
by rualca 6y ago
> Do we want a model that acts like the average person of the last 20 years? Or do we want a model that acts like a person who has just been through 2020? You're free to use the model you believe is best for your goals. I you use re
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by rualca 6y ago
> It seems to me that it would be impossible to do any social science research, and specifically any research on racism. With this kind of attitude. I think this sort of veiled personal attack resorting to baseless extrapolation is not a
922.
by rualca 6y ago
I would say that vaccines work to prepare the immune system to fight a specific threat, but that doesn't mean the virus or the disease disappears. It just mean that the infection's impact is mitigated on the individual and, with t
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by rualca 6y ago
Then there's also the fact that the cliche "no shoes no shirt no service" never gathered much indignation from the same segment of society.
924.
by rualca 6y ago
I don't understand your confusion. From day 1 it was always very clear that although protective measures such as facemasks do protect the individual from contracting the disease, their primary value is to prevent the mask wearer from s
925.
by rualca 6y ago
> Being on the periphery of groups you'd likely describe as "conspiracy theorists" (...) There's no need for so many weasel words. You are talking about a group which insists in spreading theories about how a phenomen
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by rualca 6y ago
> Any time I run into a bug, no matter how minor, I open an issue for it. I then use comments on that issue to track every step I use to fix it - adding screenshots, pasting in blocks of command-line output, linking to debugging tools I
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by rualca 6y ago
> The aim is to assist for a fair deal through information, not to extort the capital owners. This sounds similar to "the aim is to be good, not bad". Your assertion does not lie on facts but on your personal moral interpretati
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by rualca 6y ago
> DynamoDB is an Amazon Web Services database system that supports data structures and key-valued cloud services. Isn't DynamoDB a key:value storage that is allowed to have JSON documents as its value?
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by rualca 6y ago
That quote without context or the rationale just feels needlessly snarky, as it leaves out arguments in favour of using parser generators.
930.
by rualca 6y ago
> Amazon itself used to be that environment. Before AWS was adopted internally, which it wasn't for some time, to say nothing of the many years before it was created, getting capacity involved a weeks or even months long political g

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