samhw

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by samhw 5y ago
Oh, tell me about it. I think that's the kind of innovation that's happening now with the drone warfare you see in Ukraine. People tell me that "Russia has 100k tanks to Ukraine's 10k", and I think: those high-level
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by samhw 5y ago
This got me reading about the history of 'armored fighting vehicles', and eventually this early model, which I still can't stop laughing at: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b&#
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by samhw 5y ago
I briefly made an MVP of 'basically Fast', and had to deal with mobile Safari, so I can tell you (hell, I can give you the code if you want it). We had to load our own site in a zero-sized iframe, at a specific endpoint which ran
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by samhw 5y ago
I was going to start a business in this space, and I can sum it up as broadly this: - It saves all the details needed for 1-click, not only your card (which is just PayPal). So: shipping address, name, possibly even 'pre-done' a
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by samhw 5y ago
I don't know why on earth this is downvoted. You're 100% correct and I'm bewildered that this 'conservative' trope is prevailing in the thread. Both companies spent functionally the same amount of money, and both ma
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by samhw 5y ago
> "We've hit an error an error that the manual says nothing about, but our DB expert saw this once, 7 years ago, and remembers how to recover" Yup, this rings true. Once worked on a large Cassandra deployment – holding peo
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by samhw 5y ago
Sure, so what are they about?
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by samhw 5y ago
...are we deliberately reenacting the original Dropbox thread here?
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by samhw 5y ago
Is it? I mean, how? The core Redis software is still open source as it's always been, with the same (well, improved over time) functionality, whereas the closed-source for-profit components are not even 'paywalled features' b
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by samhw 5y ago
I don't see how it's 'toxic' to express dissatisfaction with mission creep in a piece of software. It's a totally normal, reasonable criticism, and from the author's point of view is far more useful than their
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by samhw 5y ago
> So it appears that you are the one that is missing something. They were asking what library support was missing for that person's use case (which your question answers, but I think the snark is based on a misunderstanding).
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by samhw 5y ago
There's a fantastic piece in legal aid cuts in the LRB here, for anyone who's interested: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n11/francis-fitzgibbon/s... It's obviously specific to the U
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by samhw 5y ago
I highly recommend this blog post, which makes the same point among many (great) others: https://sled.rs/perf.html > When we speak about comparative metrics, it is also important to avoid saying commonly misunderstood th
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by samhw 5y ago
Does it really matter whose child it is? You seem to be writing this as if she might give birth to a goblin or something like that. I can't see what's "speaking practically" and "putting the morality aside" her
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by samhw 5y ago
Jesus, this is heartbreaking. I'm so sorry. I haven't gone through anything quite like that, but after friends' deaths and suchlike, I always loved this passage from Slaughterhouse-Five: > The most important thing I learne
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by samhw 5y ago
> So how does this compare to Teslas FSD? Well, it exists . Courtesy of Wikipedia: > In December 2015, Musk predicted "complete autonomy" by 2018. At the end of 2016, Tesla expected to demonstrate full autonomy by the end o
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by samhw 5y ago
As aviation people eloquently put it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_sky_theory I think there should be a correlative 'small road theory', if only to underscore the difference.
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by samhw 5y ago
Uh, .NET is free open-source software. Have a look at this 1500-line package-lock.json: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/mono/wasm/ru... And even if you ignore that: what
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by samhw 5y ago
> It's frankly an illegal action by the node IPC owner based on my understanding of computer crimes. It's absolutely categorically illegal - hell, look at what Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for - and I have no doubt that they&#x2
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by samhw 5y ago
> if you peacefully speak up against your own regime you will be doxxed, silenced, arrested, your bank accounts frozen and even be classified as a terrorist > this ... now also is common in so called democratic countries too Uh, in wh
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by samhw 5y ago
I think their point might have been that Unity forgot that lesson. And everyone else, transitively, along the chain. As horrible and impracticable as it sounds, the only way to prevent this happening is to read the source of every (/t
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by samhw 5y ago
Eh, it's hard to talk about JavaScript because of all the different layers. My personal take is: JavaScript itself (ECMAScript) is an ugly and flawed but clearly generally productive language; Node is a work of art; NPM is horrendous w
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by samhw 5y ago
I think this is engendering a false sense of security. NPM's awful documentation doesn't specify whether it's possible for a dependency published 1 year ago to install, via a wildcard [transitive] dependency, a dependency upd
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by samhw 5y ago
This is an argument for good package management. There’s no way around it. You can’t add everything anyone could ever hypothetically need into the standard library, just because Pip is rubbish. (I mean, I don’t care. I use Rust. I’m just ar
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by samhw 5y ago
Then they won’t be able to - and in any case won’t be forced to - install this new version of Python. This is silly. If we rejected any change because 3 people might have some farfetched problem, there would never be any progress. The rea
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by samhw 5y ago
This is true. I'm a Rust fanatic myself, but I grudgingly admit that I wouldn't start a company with Rust. I just wouldn't trust future engineers enough. Whereas with Go, I'd never write it in my spare time, and I hate t
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by samhw 5y ago
As one of our VCs once wisely said to us: "The hardest thing is to get a consumer to install a new app. Deliver your solution any way other than its own app."
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by samhw 5y ago
It seems like you maybe misread their comment as referring to human parsing of code, rather than writing a parser program? I can’t make much sense of this otherwise.
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by samhw 5y ago
Sorry for the late reply - and thank you for responding! That makes perfect sense. I share your thought about this. I hope my comment wasn’t too unclear. I was just considering that a more diverse ecosystem of algorithms doesn’t necessarily
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by samhw 5y ago
Ah, interesting, thank you. As far as point (b) goes, it seems to work pretty well: I can’t recall an occasion where I’ve had traffic blocked. (I suppose in practice not many applications use custom IP-but-not-TCP-or-UDP-based protocols.) S

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