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by ryandv 3y ago
> The new technocrats are ostentatious in their use of language that appeals to Enlightenment values—reason, progress, freedom—but in fact they are leading an antidemocratic, illiberal movement. Many of them profess unconditional support
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by ryandv 3y ago
I own this access point. The first thing I did was install openWRT. It's fine.
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by ryandv 3y ago
No... no, no, no. No kidding; Operators are indeed poorly understood. They are not just glorified XSLT for YAML/JSON. https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/operat...
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by ryandv 3y ago
I'm reminded of DHH's article, "Rails is Omakase" [0] back during the time when "convention over configuration" [1] was a common refrain, meant to avoid the proliferation of (YAML or XML) configuration files by
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by ryandv 3y ago
> The Kubernetes API is fairly straightforward, and has a well-defined (JSON) schema, people should be spending a bulk of their time learning k8s understanding how to use the API, but instead they spend it working out how to use a Helm c
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by ryandv 3y ago
> On the other hand, most operators I've seen are just k8s manifest templates implemented in Go. > I'm a fan of metacontroller [1], which is a tool that allows you to write operators without actually writing a lot of imperat
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by ryandv 3y ago
The purpose of an Operator is to realize the resources desired/requested in a (custom) resource manifest, often as YAML or JSON. You give the apiserver a document describing what resources you need. The Operator actually does the work
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by ryandv 3y ago
Isn't this extremely reductive and an instance of the association fallacy? I am going to judge the complexity of your entire person based on one bit of information - whether or not you espouse the teachings of Alan Watts? Talk about co
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> The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it with the world as they think about it and talk ab
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by ryandv 3y ago
I've also used DMS to migrate smaller datasets (~200GB) from AWS RDS MySQL 5.7 to RDS PostgreSQL 11. 10 seconds of downtime here was actually incurred not due to the migration itself, but to enable MySQL binary logging on the RDS insta
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by ryandv 3y ago
Precision of language, definitions, and meaning seems to dilute as words gain more widespread usage. Eventually the word becomes a hollow symbol meaning multiple different things to different people, with the intersection between those mean
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by ryandv 3y ago
One day I want to expand on the idea that our digital avatars, our images and representations of ourselves, become an extension of our own self-concept, in the same way our keyboard becomes an extension of our hands and our body. Our social
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by ryandv 3y ago
That's right. The death of P2P is in many ways thanks to NAT. How reliable is hole punching these days? Where is the activity in the peer to peer space today?
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by ryandv 3y ago
The particular point about protocols is that IRC is dead-simple to implement. It's all ASCII/UTF-8, CRLF-delimited messages of space-separated tokens. You can get a working implementation with the stdlib of most languages in about
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by ryandv 3y ago
The pandemic burned me out pretty hard after a lifelong obsession with computers, tinkering around with technology back when it was more of a hobby than a commercial pursuit. It was nice to be able to parley my passion into a career, but co
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What a shame. IRC is one of the few protocols left of the early Internet that hasn't been aggressively commercialized and colonized by corporate interests, and this is just another nail in the coffin. Often times I wonder why basically
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Even still, there exist non-OOP implementations of runtime dynamic dispatch, such as Clojure's multimethods.
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The slide deck is about performance pitfalls of OOP languages, which can surreptitiously introduce cache misses, random access to memory, and excessive levels of indirection into your code: > Prefetching > Data accesses are now predic
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Polymorphism is not at all specific to OOP, and there are in fact different kinds of polymorphism; "generics" are pervasive in pure FP languages such as Haskell or imperative/functional languages like Rust, and are an instanc
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My IDE is a tiling window manager, neovim, and several terminals. There is a browser somewhere for reading documentation.
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We saw examples of simple quantification of people and activities, such as using counts of likes, stars, commits, and papers, and even more informed metrics like H-Index can lead to strange outcomes. AI will make the world even more
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[self-censoring for wrongthink]
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Be careful bringing up this phenomenon, it's already been explicitly mentioned in the rules [0] - which means that it can't possibly be actually taking place here at all. Discourse on the internet in general is becoming less open
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by ryandv 3y ago
The property of composable queries is not unique to (or dare I say even characteristic of) ORMs, which are primarily concerned with mapping between tables or relations (in the relational algebra sense), and in-memory objects. It's the
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A 2018 study [0] found the following: > Language design does have a significant, but modest effect on software quality. Most notably, it does appear that disallowing type confusion is modestly better than allowing it, and among functiona
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Reminds me of this classic IOCCC entry implementing a flight simulator, where portions of the source code are formatted to resemble a plane: https://www.ioccc.org/1998/banks.orig.c https://www.ioccc.org&#x2F
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> it's worth considering Magick from the psychological perspective That's right. Israel Regardie ("The Middle Pillar," "The One Year Manual") has more to say on viewing magick and Crowley's work through
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I) DEFINITION. Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will. (Illustration: It is my Will to inform the World of certain facts within my knowledge. I therefore take “magickal weapons”, pe
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It can be argued, and has been upthread in the top-voted comment at time of writing, that "the dynamics of the current 'cancel culture' or whatever resemble those of the traditional religious institutions Dawkins has previous
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> It's so curious that Dawkins, of all people, seems to be complaining that unorthodox thought -- that is to say, a rejection of traditional religious doctrine -- is expressible in the English language. That's not what he'

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