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by rualca 6y ago
> That's where Terraform comes in. ...and CloudFormation, and SAM, and CDK, and...
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by rualca 6y ago
> (...) in the rare event that it does happen and you suddenly need to handle 10-100x more traffic, having things auto-scale up and then back down means you (in an ideal world) get to watch it excitedly, instead of furiously running arou
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by rualca 6y ago
> It's the freedom to get things wrong, iterate and try again. It's the freedom to move resources around. It's the freedom of not having to wait for your procurement process and approval from a purchasing department. It&#x
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by rualca 6y ago
> Scouts and cavalry have had this role this for ages, but drones plus guided munitions are extra good at it. I would add that they are not only extra good, they are also extremely cheap and thus disposable and able to be deployed in mas
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by rualca 6y ago
Personally I'm doing very well, but this line of argument sounds an awful lot like "letting them eat cake". I mean, the assumption alone that people never thought of something like starting a family is mind-boggingly idiotic
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by rualca 6y ago
Mythical creatures are very capable. Their only limit is your imagination.
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by rualca 6y ago
> I think you need to start a family! What an irresponsible advise, given that you factored out the importance of the relationship with the significant other. "Just find the love of your life!" "Just live happily ever afte
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by rualca 6y ago
Plenty of cloud providers don't charge for bandwidth until you hit an anti-abuse ceiling. For example, Hetzner offers a 20TB bandwidth cap per node. You don't need to buy AWS to get same prices on network.
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by rualca 6y ago
Your assertion only makes sense if you assume the only people accessing the site live in SLC.
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by rualca 6y ago
> Looks like it is difficult for some Europeans to acknowledge that not everyone on earth lives under the rule of unelected EU technocrats. Your comment reads as a textbook example of the expression "cut off the nose to spite the fa
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by rualca 6y ago
I don't understand how someone can look at a metal box held together with standard rivets and think "the aliens did it".
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by rualca 6y ago
> There are indeed theories about a secret organisation plotting to take over the world, and if we were rigourous that's the only time we should be talking about "conspiracy theory". No, not really. There is a constant str
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by rualca 6y ago
Outstanding post. Thank you for taking the time to share this gem.
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by rualca 6y ago
> your bias is leaking pretty heavily Please explain what you personally interpreted as bias.
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by rualca 6y ago
I'm not sure that religion is a good example. I mean, religion is quite openly a set of guidelines and rules that establish how a society should operate. Some religious text books use parables as rhetoric devices to show scenarios that
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by rualca 6y ago
> From a scientific point of view, the problem is that there are no definition of what a "conspiracy theory" is. But there is, isn't it? I mean, it's a theory regarding conspiracies. And colloquially, the theory is su
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by rualca 6y ago
Sounds like #7 and #11 to me, which is a feat as it's only one sentence and posted from a brand new sockpuppet account.
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by rualca 6y ago
> A toxic relationship that Gust tolerated for 18 months, which turned him toxic too. Fine, so he was just treading water till his own bonuses cleared, but that was his choice. You're desperately trying to blame the victim for some
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by rualca 6y ago
> C only became standardized after 20 years or so, and only out of necessity because there were different compiler toolchains moving into different directions and this ensuing chaos had to be brought under control somehow. The "afte
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by rualca 6y ago
> I don't know how to describe it differently as GP, but I'll give it a try. Until a formalised model is built, there is no way to describe it's behaviour that wouldn't come down to writing down the implementation tha
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by rualca 6y ago
> Rust is not ready to be specified as is required for ISO and similar standards. A few large chunks of its functionality currently don’t have any good definition written down, but instead are defined by the rustc implementation: most si
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by rualca 6y ago
And that's why languages such as C and C++ are not a reference implementation from a vendor but an international standard. Just get a few rust standards out of iso, one for the core language and another for some standard libraries, and
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by rualca 6y ago
> Perhaps I'm too cynical now, but to me this post reads as a troll trying to get a rise out of people. Might be. I don't know. What I do know is that once I had a job where my supervisor was highly abusive to the point she cri
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by rualca 6y ago
> As for “Gust”, my sympathies are severely limited. He remained in a job where he knew his employers were taking the absolute piss out him long enough that he turned toxic himself. What? Do you realize you're attacking the guy for
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Thought-Control Tactics Narcissists Use to Confuse and Dominate You (2019)(blogs.psychcentral.com)
80 points by rualca 6y ago|27 comments
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by rualca 6y ago
> Or all the projects must be ported to use a particular build system (like CMake exported config packages). They really don't. I mean, it's a nice to have but not a must have. If you want to use a project that doesn't off
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by rualca 6y ago
>>In addition, I don't like cmake's DSL syntax, which is very tedious and difficult to maintain. I don't agree that Cmake is difficult and hard to maintain. I do believe that most people write complete messes in their m
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by rualca 6y ago
I would add that cmake is a makefile generator. cmake's value is in the way it provides a high-level abstraction over all supported platflom's capabilities, and that it works by generating and running build scripts from lower leve
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by rualca 6y ago
> You’re wrong to suggest that elementary-school-multiplication and (discrete) convolution are so dissimilar (...) They are way more than dissimilar, they are radically different concepts altogether. Convolution is a function, or an oper
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by rualca 6y ago
> Set x=10 and (...) ...and you no longer have a function, only the image of a function at a specific point of its domain. Convolutions are functions, not functions evaluated at a specific, and cherry-picked point.

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