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by shoo 5y ago
> From a security stand point, reduced application code decreases risk. It was service discovery code he removed, what if it reached out to discover services on application start up, that's a potential attack vector. Agreed. I'
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by shoo 5y ago
> The invention of permanent, inherited patronyms was, after the administrative simplification of nature (for example, the forest) and space (for example, land tenure), the last step in establishing the necessary preconditions of modern
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by shoo 5y ago
> 100 km of fibre $1k / km -- sounds pretty cheap. Is that running the fibre aerially between someone else's poles?
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by shoo 5y ago
> also missing the energy that a mother transfers to her child in the form of love probably simpler analysis to define a boundary around human population and only estimate energy flows that cross that boundary, ignoring internal flows
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by shoo 5y ago
Another way to do value based pricing is to set a license fee proportional to the amount of volume pushed through the software. That license fee would need to be figured out from the business context and some estimate of how much value the
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by shoo 5y ago
youtube demonetizes videos that use language that advertisers do not wish to be associated with. so, arguably less about offending viewers and more about keeping the advertising revenues flowing
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by shoo 5y ago
you probably have a fairly good shot at getting a junior developer role somewhere. you may not be competitive at getting a role at a highly prestigious top-tier employer who gets a huge number of fresh grad applicants, since such employers
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by shoo 5y ago
Agner Fog's optimisation guides: https://www.agner.org/optimize/ Fabian Giesen's blog has some good stuff. here's a 16 part blog series from 2013 taking apart and reworking an intel software occlusion c
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by shoo 5y ago
a few years back i worked on an enterprisey project that used postgres as a database, along with rabbitmq and celery for job processing. of _course_ the system architecture had to have a job queue and it had to be highly available (implemen
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by shoo 5y ago
if you care to elaborate, i'm curious -- what alternative(s) would you recommend instead of one transaction per message, and why?
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by shoo 5y ago
https://www.gettextbooks.com/
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by shoo 5y ago
Other important state variables in the model are the stocks of "non renewable resources" and "pollution". From memory I believe one of the ideas in the world model is that over time, as existing stocks of non-renewables
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by shoo 5y ago
the references to have a read through are not science fiction, but are system modelling studies done in the 70s: > Meadows, Dennis L., William W. Behrens, Donella H. Meadows, Roger F. Naill, Jørgen Randers, and Erich Zahn. Dynamics of Gr
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by shoo 5y ago
if they only print on one side of the A4 paper you may never need to buy paper for rough notes again
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by shoo 5y ago
not answering the question: in many situations it is likely that the direct carbon footprint of the website is completely insignificant compared to the indirect carbon footprint of the economic activity caused by the website. e.g. does th
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by shoo 5y ago
Similarly, a translation into bad cython code, compiled with cython's defaults (-O2 but without taking advantage of cpu specific SIMD instruction sets such as avx) runs a touch over 1000x faster than the baseline python version nc
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by shoo 5y ago
Current employer has 10,000+ employees. Individual teams have limited ability to customise jira. One of the funniest ways this manifests is the list of custom ways that two tickets can be related -- you know, "relates to", "i
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by shoo 5y ago
It's pretty hard to give helpful advice without clearly understanding the existing situation and what the actual bottlenecks are. E.g. maybe 15 of the 17 hour running time is because the database is doing sequential scans of some table
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by shoo 5y ago
cool to see pledge and unveil. as a linux user i'm somewhat jealous. c.f. OpenBSD's unveil() https://lwn.net/Articles/767137/
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by shoo 5y ago
> everything except scientific computing or insanely optimized code for insanely unoptimized code, such as accidentally ending up writing something compute intensive in pure python, its very plausible for it to be compute constrained --
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by shoo 5y ago
> recommend a good book or other resource about modern code optimization https://www.agner.org/optimize/
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by shoo 5y ago
i agree 100% that you need to structure the project so there's a way to develop locally in your dev machine -- without a network connection -- and run integration tests against local versions of services. looks like google spanner have
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by shoo 5y ago
> we loose a lot with go: having to compile If you're concerned about compile time -- Go does a pretty reasonable job of caching (including caching unit test results). If you're working on a Python project with a large number
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by shoo 5y ago
I've worked with Python for over a decade and have worked with Go for a few years. The Go tooling and workflow for building and deploying applications is much more pleasant than the Python ecosystem. Once you know which target operati
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by shoo 5y ago
> I've been involved now in three attempts to do large-scale migrations of applications written for a specific datacenter to the cloud and every time I have crashed upon the rocks of undocumented assumptions about the environment I&
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by shoo 5y ago
Betting on election outcomes is somewhat similar to sports betting, but perhaps isn't as attractive to sink effort into as the events are lower frequency (e.g. 4 year election cycle) with more variability. Another situation could be in
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by shoo 5y ago
> Would this vector stop at length two? How about other "nudge" worthy metrics? that's a good point. there's definitely other societal goals that can be nudged toward through prices. but on another hand, i'm not
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by shoo 5y ago
> the value that money represents is a single value. But why is it a scalar and not a vector? For example, why isn't everything priced with a value and a carbon cost? That would make prices vectors instead of scalars Suppose for the
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Spin your own autodiff in C++(tbz533.blogspot.com)
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by shoo 5y ago
If you work in a large company, for security reasons you may already be required to use in-house mirrors of libraries or container images. There are commercial products for doing this, e.g. https://jfrog.com/artifactory&#x2F

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