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by scubbo 3y ago
I had a coworker try to use "isomorphic" to mean "when given the same inputs and environment, always produces the same outputs", then accused me of pedantry for pointing out that misusing a word with a very clear definit
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by scubbo 3y ago
Great story, thank you! > I've started to wonder if I just have an academic fascination with it and the practical use cases are more limited (limiting?) than I think I don't think the linked post should prompt such wondering? (
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by scubbo 3y ago
A very fair point well-made!
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by scubbo 3y ago
True, though ironic that also OP is implicitly making the argument for GraphQL-like interfaces ("just specify the data that you want returned" rather than "get all the data, then process it"), which are themselves the Ne
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by scubbo 3y ago
> Remains one of the few contexts where nerds would do drugs Leaving aside the nitpicking of "umm actually, caffeine is a drug" (I infer from context that you mean "hard"/illegal drugs, which is reasonable), this
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by scubbo 3y ago
I'm with you. I understand how it's _meant_ to work, but that's just not how language works in my head. Without `that`, it's just not a sentence to me. (Yadda yadda, prescriptivism is flawed, etc. Note my "in my hea
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by scubbo 3y ago
It's still running on-prem if the execution happens on compute hardware that you control. If importing code from somewhere else disqualified something from being on-prem, then no application would ever be on-prem - when's the last
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by scubbo 3y ago
But are not _the_ answer to the question.
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by scubbo 3y ago
Were you born in America or did you immigrate there? That drastically affects how embarrassing that proclamation is.
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by scubbo 3y ago
Huh. You inspired me to finally get around to installing a local Midjourney-like[0], and, yeah, what do you know - the first result I got from those prompts _without_ the `-amputee` negative prompt was this horrifying (though SFW, despite w
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by scubbo 3y ago
What's the story behind "-amputee" in the arguments? Were such images so common that it was necessary to exclude them!?
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by scubbo 3y ago
I have long-believed that programmers can be divided into two camps: * "Factorio is just like what I do at work all day - why would I do that in my free time?" * "Factorio is all the best bits of what I enjoy about work, with
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by scubbo 3y ago
Likewise, this is the answer I generally hear from those folks. IME it's still begging the question - the increased liquidity is still overwhelmingly only meaningful to those already-ultra-rich, unless you subscribe to trickle-down Eco
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by scubbo 3y ago
I'd claim that I'm technically correct - you _cannot_ mindlessly copy-paste `$-prefixed` code into a terminal and have it execute, because the `$` will result in a syntax error - but you are, indeed, correct to say that it is poss
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by scubbo 3y ago
I don't have a "flagged submissions" link, so..zero? Mostly a desktop user, if that datapoint is relevant.
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by scubbo 3y ago
> Is there a reason websites put that $ in front of commands you are fully expected to mindlessly copy and paste? As well as the answers you've already been given (distinguishes input from output, distinguishes root from non-), one
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by scubbo 3y ago
> code can be quite grokkable with little documentation Indeed, the code _itself_ can often be understood from reading the code. Documentation is for everything _else_ - explanation of the choices made and motivations when picking a part
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by scubbo 3y ago
Amen! https://documentation.divio.com/
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by scubbo 3y ago
There is an extremely common claim (disclaimer: I haven't noticed experiencing it myself) that Amazon Retail often ships fake products when the real ones are purchased. The concern isn't that Amazon _itself_ is manufacturing poor-
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by scubbo 3y ago
Rarely, indeed! But when a competitor is a behemoth who is able to eat losses until they drive competitors out of business (and has a track record of doing so) so that competition (and customer experience quality) declines in the long run,
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by scubbo 3y ago
> Instead the mental model should be how does the computer achieve the thing that I am trying and how can I make that happen with the fewest lines of instructions as possible This is true for performance-critical code which will be writt
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by scubbo 3y ago
WHOOOO! Congratulations, that's awesome!
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by scubbo 3y ago
> I will henceforth be referring to CPUs as "shazam alakablams" and there isn't anything you can do to stop me! It will join "cursed thinking-rocks" in my vocabulary.
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by scubbo 3y ago
Very nice guide! I love your writing style, and your research skills are clearly top-notch. Great stuff! You might enjoy reading some articles by Julia Evans ( https://jvns.ca/ ), who has a similar informal, conversational, e
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by scubbo 3y ago
Certainly fair! I suspect there's probably some concentration in particular product areas - would be interested to see any research done (though that'd be tricky, given the cost involved and the difficulty in proving something to
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by scubbo 3y ago
I have no problem with receiving a counterfeit that is indistinguishable from the "real" product. Is it morally sketchy? Absolutely. Is the outcome for me the same? Also yes.
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by scubbo 3y ago
Anecdotally, among my social group, almost everyone has heard of it, and no-one has ever experienced it.
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by scubbo 3y ago
> Not hard to do in practice and gives you the opportunity to choose exactly how to handle different scenarios, which I see as a plus. You still need to learn AWS concepts and have a strategy for error handling. These are certainly fair
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by scubbo 3y ago
> That's a mountain of work to be done for what are both essentially API wrappers! You are once again assuming that the existence of feature requests implies that the existing tool is not fit for purpose. This simply isn't the
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by scubbo 3y ago
boto3 is an SDK for the AWS API, CDK is an SDK for CloudFormation. boto3 is imperative, CDK is declarative. You can do CDK-like things _in_ boto3, but past a certain level of complexity you'll end up reimplementing so much functionalit

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