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by rwoerz 3y ago
Some sins of technical writing: Undefined/vague abstractions or methaphors: Leave the meaning of notoriously overloaded terms like component, plugin, container etc. unexplained in your specific context of writing. Homonyms: One term ha
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by rwoerz 3y ago
I stumbled upon Leonard Susskinds physics lectures on YouTube and bought the accompanying books [1]. The target audience are people like me, who had some intermediate physics and math lectures at university "before life happened".
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by rwoerz 3y ago
Okay, you use the username as the the key. What is the benefit over putting everthing in a partitioned database with partition keys?
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by rwoerz 3y ago
AFAIR, you can register in Figma as a single user, i.e., user = customer. So, one DB instance for each of the 4 million users [1]? Sounds like a lot of overhead. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/08/figmas-dy
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by rwoerz 3y ago
CQ: What exactly do you mean with "virtual instance"?
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by rwoerz 3y ago
"Iiich bin ein Crrrrreep, iiich bin ein Weirdooooo!"
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by rwoerz 3y ago
Indeed. I never understood how they got synonymous to "big ball of mud". When I think of a monolith, I think of something heavy with a very simple structure like the Washington Monument.
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by rwoerz 3y ago
I fully agree with your general critique. It is a common bad habit in science to use common words with an uncommon meaning without any explanation. I remember me sitting in a lecture about cryptology and wondering how that "I can prove
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by rwoerz 3y ago
Yes, it is "prompt alchemy". But that seems to be true for the whole LLM field, at least for the time being.
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by rwoerz 4y ago
Or they are on a hard nut to crack and better should sleep over it. I know unsolved bugs can make you sleepless sometimes but sleeping over them often does the right kind of "backtracking" in your mind that leads to the "bran
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by rwoerz 4y ago
Made my day! What about import statements like "CELEBRETIES LOVE X" or an "unsafe" keyword like "SECURITY EXPERTS HATE THIS TRICK"?
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by rwoerz 4y ago
"... [Types of] Dedicated Servers", right?
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by rwoerz 4y ago
Impressive, how the debaters keep their manners even in religious disputes like "tabs vs spaces".
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by rwoerz 4y ago
+1 although I wouldn't call them buzzwords. The whole architecture community tends to use vague metaphors, borrowed or overloaded terms (events, commands, nouns, verbs and the like) without ever defining them technically or formally. D
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by rwoerz 4y ago
There is no no use for that.
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by rwoerz 4y ago
Arguing about coding style appears to me like if left-handed or right-handed traffic is better. Both are fine, mixtures are not.
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by rwoerz 4y ago
Things I Hate about Rust... It makes steel brittle.
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by rwoerz 4y ago
You mean because of a svn:needs-lock? That was a useful feature for really unmergeable (binary) files which is not suppoted by Git because of its DVCS nature.
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by rwoerz 4y ago
Alarmists and pessimists always win either way: If the prediction comes true, they were right and if not everyone is happy and has no reason to blame the alarmists.
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by rwoerz 4y ago
Reminds me of the do not do <statements> unless not <expression> of some fun programming language whose name I forgot.
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by rwoerz 4y ago
I forgot the... thing...
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by rwoerz 4y ago
No offense, but choosing "The Death of Quanta Magazin" as the title for a rant about clickbaiting is quite ironic.
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by rwoerz 4y ago
If a service is broken down into n microservices such that each of them fits into the free tier, these n microservices are likely to consume more resources in total.
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by rwoerz 4y ago
The whole monolith vs microservice discussion revolves around a false dichotomy and higly subjective and context-dependend definitions. For example, what if a monolith is integrated into a larger system landscape (e.g. due to an enterprise
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by rwoerz 4y ago
Citogenesis is actually a Germanism stemming from "Zitogenese". [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33581269
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by rwoerz 4y ago
The U in UML stands for unified not universal.
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by rwoerz 4y ago
Oh irony, a post about overcoming distraction gets 232+ comments.
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by rwoerz 4y ago
Nice pun in that context
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by rwoerz 4y ago
Is that the AI singularity when robots learn to be bad losers?
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by rwoerz 4y ago
I misread it as "do it" and wonder if that was intended too.

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