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by rualca 6y ago
> Intel just does this. Every now and then, they get so far ahead that the rest of the market just totally disintegrates, (...) Past performance does not guarantee future results. Keep in mind you're trying to pin magical properties
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by rualca 6y ago
I'm also curious to learn where was the bottleneck in both tests. I've read stuff about how the M1-packing MacBook Air shipped with a SSD whose burst write speed was far higher than the one shipped in older MacBooks. The bottlenec
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by rualca 6y ago
> Your choice is between 3% and 0.15% - not 95% and 97%. I would put it differently: if we become covid carriers, we become spreaders. Those 3% are, thus, applied to a large population comprised of everyone we interact ina daily basis. T
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by rualca 6y ago
> I did find a a source of 532 developing Guillan-Barré You should have mentioned that the 532 cases of Guillan-Barré were found within the 48 million people receiving the swine flu vaccine. Accordig to Wikipedia, the incidence of Guilla
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by rualca 6y ago
> (...) I should personally not vaccinate myself or anyone I care about, and be a free rider on societal herd immunity" > That particular version of antivaxxism is the one I would have the most trouble refuting. What's hard
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by rualca 6y ago
> You're missing the point. Obviously, you can write your application in Cython and have decent performance. "Decent" is a weasel word, which suggests that the performance hit of following this approach is tolerable or acc
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by rualca 6y ago
> (...) I'd summarize DDD as making Domain Concepts and Behavior primary, instead of the Data (and databases) being the focus. That take is disputable. Arguably, the focus of DDD is indeed the data, because the data structure is des
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by rualca 6y ago
> It's very unlikely, but wow it would be great if I could build a server using an M1 processor. Just the power saving alone would be phenomenal. Mac minis are designed with a stackable form factor, and in fact one of their selling
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by rualca 6y ago
> They care if a receipt was generated by the machine, and are a check on the employee. Aren't receipts used to track the store's revenue, as in the numbers reported to your local tax agency? As far as I know, it's common
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by rualca 6y ago
> DDD likes to model things in terms of interacting entities, (...) Not quite, DDD is based on the idea that the domain model is the one driving the design of an application. The domain model is just a data structure that reflects funct
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by rualca 6y ago
> When you have a two-party system, you get binary outcomes - ie. divisiveness. The two-party system problem seems to be a consequence of "first-past-the-post" voting. For example, some posters in reddit's /r/con
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by rualca 6y ago
> Sounds like this is less about whether RoR was the right tool for the job and more that no one other the implementer was familiar with Ruby/Rails (and maybe not even them). Isn't that already an operational problem? I mean, c
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by rualca 6y ago
> Rails handled Black Friday and Cyber Monday traffic for an ecommerce company I used to work for just fine. That says nothing about the added cost of running inefficient services, which require additional nodes to serve the same request
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by rualca 6y ago
> If you knew Ruby and not the Python, the whole scenario would have been flipped. That's why popularity matters. The odds that any random kid already has experience with Python are far greater than him knowing Ruby.
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by rualca 6y ago
> It doesn't allow you to run all the other services like DynamoDB, SNS, S3, etc. locally. Sounds like you're mixing up how a test pyramid works. AWS SAM supports running unit tests locally. Your remarks refer to integration te
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by rualca 6y ago
> The point I am trying to make is that, Python with C extensions can be as considerably[1] performant as C code for network or memory bound tasks. You don't make that point. You instead make the point that calling C code with glue
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by rualca 6y ago
> At my job I use AWS serverless services and I get a lot of frustration not being able to test and debug code offline. AWS's Serverless Application Model explicitly supports local testing. https://docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2
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by rualca 6y ago
> (...) I’ll have mature teammates who understand the right tool for the right job. I Honest question: what leads you to believe that Ruby on Rails, or even Ruby, is the right tool for the right job? You didn't even mentioned the jo
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by rualca 6y ago
OP specifically did a Python Vs C comparison. Your assertions have nothing to do with the claim behind discussed. Even so, if you really want to discuss specific technical aspects, you should do well to keep in mind Python's notorious
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by rualca 6y ago
>>You can just write good Python and get almost as fast code as C that will take you 5 times less time to develop. In this case we're talking about a >2x slowdown. The service also has fewer features. You're talking about
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by rualca 6y ago
> Companies at the lower levels of the hiearchy are centrally planned entities with managers assigning tasks to employees instead of using a free market to distribute them within the organization. Not really. I mean, there's a FAANG
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by rualca 6y ago
> The trillion dollar bailouts are central planning. There's a difference between an measurement that's imposed by a dominant economic actor and having a centrally planned economy. Bailouts were arguably applied centrally by a
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by rualca 6y ago
> Goods are manufactured, shipped across the planet, to be dumped in a landfill. Goods are shipped because someone bought them with their hard-earned money to fulfill a need they personally have. Whatever they do with it afterwards is up