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by shoo 10mo ago
Roll 2d6, sum result. Your CI migration target is: 2. migrate secret manager. Roll again 3. cloud build 4. gocd 5. jenkins 6. gitlab 7. github actions 8. bamboo 9. codepipeline 10. buildbot 11. team foundation server
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by shoo 11mo ago
Jack Crenshaw's 1988-1995 series Let's Build a Compiler [1] Graydon Hoare's 2002 talk `"One Day Compilers" or how I learned to stop worrying and love static metaprogramming` [2] (implements a compiler for a DSL tha
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by shoo 11mo ago
What is a minimal-ish programming language that could be used to express some interesting class of games? It's easy to think of pathologically trivially useless "languages" that could "make a game". E.g. the single
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by shoo 11mo ago
Service oriented architecture seems like a pretty good idea. I've seen a few regrettable things at one job where they'd ended up shipping a microservice-y design but without much thought about service interfaces. One small example
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Probably works OK for a small project with a close knit team of skilled contributors where there's some well defined structure and everyone has sufficient high level understanding of that structure to know what kinds of dependencies ar
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the census bureau annual poverty report includes both poverty measures: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2024/demo/p60-28... (the most recent poverty report isn't currently downloadable d
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> The reader can see my unusual notion of alternative accounting: $ 10 million earned through Russian roulette does not have the same value as $ 10 million earned through the diligent and artful practice of dentistry. They are the same,
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I'm not sure what is behind the change, but here's a few points for consideration: Unregulated free markets don't necessarily produce great outcomes for society. E.g. suppose free markets in certain sectors naturally result i
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A version of the paper can be downloaded from SSRN: Kaniel, Ron and Orlov, Dmitry, Intermediated Asymmetric Information, Compensation, and Career Prospects (February 4, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=353
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Worth putting implementation to one side for a moment and thinking about who your typical ideal customers would be. OK, a restaurant: how many employees, how many locations? How much revenue do they do every year? If they have too few emplo
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Provided your set of functional requirements is the empty set. If there are any requirements then an empty folder is going to have some serious functional defects.
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by shoo 11mo ago
Yep, your way of framing it is clearer. Embedding version information in released binary artefacts helps answer the question of "what version of the software even produced this output/is crashing in production?". This is the
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by shoo 11mo ago
Michael Feathers, author of the book "Working Effectively with Legacy Code", [f] defined legacy code as code without automated tests. From memory, the argument is that once you have automated regression/characterisation tests
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The speed and transparency of Cloudflare publishing this port mortem is excellent. I also found the "remediation and follow up" section a bit lacking, not mentioning how, in general, regressions in query results caused by DB chang
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by shoo 11mo ago
In many contexts you are correct & further, as someone in that earlier thread about the AWS us-east-1 outage mentioned, customers can be more forgiving of outages if you as the vendor can point to a widespread AWS us-east-1 outage and n
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by shoo 11mo ago
> the section about retries doesn't mention correlations. [...] By treating P_{3rdParty}(Failure) as fixed, they're assuming a model in which each each try is completely independent: all the failures are due to background noise
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I wonder if this minimum variance approach of averaging the measurements agrees with the estimate of the expected value we'd get from a Bayesian approach, at least in a simple scenario, say a uniform prior over the thing we're mea
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i think you are correct, memory use of the implementation is overestimated in that paragraph, as you suggest it is lower. from a quick skim read, the benchmarks section focuses on comparing running time against other libraries, there isn&#x
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by shoo 11mo ago
I agree with this. People advocate for "pick a better algorithm", and sometimes that can help dramatically, but at times the best algorithm implemented in python is still too slow, but can be made 500x faster by reimplementing th
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If you enjoyed this post you may also like the 2024 book foundations of computer vision: https://visionbook.mit.edu/ prior hn thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44281506 i don't have any back
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by shoo 1y ago
From Jennifer Senior's excellent 2006 article about burnout titled "Can’t Get No Satisfaction" [1]: Farber had burned out once before. Back in the late sixties and early seventies, he taught public school in East Harlem. He’d
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Out of curiosity, where were your pain points with Go regarding lack of classes? Go offers types, methods & interfaces, that gets you pretty far while avoiding inheritance. I found it pretty reasonable and not limiting (coming from a b
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I was curious about the spec of this new GOB format, there's a comment down thread explaining that there isn't a spec yet but discussing some of the details of the format: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t&#x2F
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For anyone curious about academic studies of historical societal collapses, check out Joseph Tainter [1] > As described in Tainter's Collapse of Complex Societies, societies become more complex as they try to solve problems. [...] S
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The Limits to Growth book is an interesting read. To quote Box, "All models are wrong, but some are useful". I wouldn't take the dates-ranges estimated from the modelling that seriously, but the modelling assumptions are wo
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I am reminded of Roy Scranton's essay Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene [1] > I found my way forward through an 18th-century Samurai manual, Yamamoto Tsunetomo’s “Hagakure,” which commanded: “Meditation on inevitable death sho
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> If you use secret UUIDs, think of them as toxic assets. They taint anything they touch. If they end up in logs, then logs must be kept secret. If they end up in URLs, then browser history must be kept secret. This is no small challenge
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here's one way of roughly doing CI & D > What tools and platforms are you using? script the automated build process in something that is portable, agnostic of CI platform, and can be run locally on dev machines. E.g. a bunch of
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For anyone new to Charlie Stross' fiction, here are a few links for your perusal: Stross' 2005 novel Accelerando [1] set around the technological singularity, is made freely available by the author In addition to various standalon
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fgiesen has a 3 part series of blog posts from 2018, "reading bits in far too many ways", focusing on the problem of reading data encoded a variable-bit-length code Part 3 explores a straightforward idea that can be used to improv

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