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by skrtskrt 4y ago
> 4chan's credit, they never cared about money, and so they were probably the freest platform out there that somehow didn't devolve into nothing but racist hate yeah, not "nothing but racist hate", just a lot of racis
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
Ken Griffin left Chicago because he wasn't able to get his little conservative candidates to win elections with all the money he was pumping in, and he didn't want to pay Illinois taxes anymore. Chicago now is probably safer than
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
is it somehow better than the stuff available in mainstream languages (go net/url, Python yarl, etc)? Or is it just that this is focused on command-line usage
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
> an engineer who is not experienced at architecting complex systems, goes and architects one when complexity was not required in the first place I have dealt with opposite - a monolith-based company grew to a point where more complexity
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
I own this model and update it with fwupdmgr all the time
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
Yeah I use both Fedora and OpenSuse (Tumbleweed) and it's a really stupid easy no-config setup on both distros. Ubuntu is just maddening. Pop OS is nice out of the box too, but I just don't want to use Ubuntu derivatives at this p
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
this position is getting a lot of flak, but I agree since we don't live in magic world where all software can handle time zones well. I strongly prefer everything in UTC and changing time zone is an issue for only the vary top layer of
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
I think this is a good perspective - it follows the general approach in software engineering that if you're going to introduce something with a massively different approach, learning curve, and cost of adoption, it needs to come with t
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
there’s a lot of “Kafka causes so many issues!” comments here. I think it gets a bad rap because it gets introduced to orgs without the org having the requisite level of understanding. If your whole org is just on like a standard OLTP/
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
they're also the poster child - over many decades - of letting fraudulent/organized crime money run through their systems, with the associated lack of controls and morals that comes along with that
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
they're literally just forcing them to build datacenters to keep the data for Americans in America (and Indians in India, etc). TikTok is already publicly hiring a ton of people for this Once the data doesn't leave America this is
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
You don’t need to play devil’s advocate for a bad-faith terribly-written, terribly-argued, and terribly-researched article. No one involved in serious research or policymaking needs to be reminded that second order effects exist.
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
this cannot be a serious article. Edit: it's part of the "Liberty Fund Network" along with "AdamSmithWorks". Get this trash off HN. they just took an article about the environmental cost of beef and did napkin math
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
so thankful that this space keeps evolving. modern vanilla JS/TS isn't so bad but as a backend engineer I just cannot stay up with all the associated tooling required for building, packaging, etc. with front ends. When it's t
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
professionals don't get tricked into thinking a platform is ready for production use If you don't have SLOs and SLAs, then you get what you get, essentially. Even a company with a great reputation can completely reverse course wit
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
agreed. I write Go, Rust, and Python (now only when I have to), but If I had to stand up a small business with a CRUD app in a couple weeks I'd go with Django no doubt - mainly for the no-worries auth and user management within the sam
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
it is funny that PySpark is just a Java/Scala wrapper, but the combo on PySpark + NumPy + Panda + Jupyter notebooks means that Python is option 1, 2, and 3 for any company that's just like "hmm let's start doing some dat
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
I've held jobs where we just productionalized data analyst code from notebooks into data pipelines. There's absolutely nothing wrong with notebooks, but they are a serious PITA to take from being handed basically the musings of
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
unsexy just in that it's not like a net new feature thing you can point a random person to like "I made that!" Like security, it's a field where success is when (externally) no one knows anything ever happened.
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
if other languages don't have equivalents for the devex/productivity enhancements of: * Django * FastAPI/Flask * Numpy/Pandas * PySpark * Jupyter Notebooks (gross I know but this is what "data analysts" and &qu
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
anti-fraud is very unsexy work IMO, but as long as you believe that (insert some internet-enabled service) should exist, then it can't be safe and enjoyable to use without serious fraud mitigation and prevention work, you can be secure
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
the end state of capitalism is just companies big enough to regulate competition out of existence. Capitalism does not mean free market.
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
yeah why, when discussing large powerful groups of capital owners colluding to screw the working class, why would we discuss the most successful tool at stopping them: groups of working class people large enough to claw back a tiny amount o
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
you could not imagine how little responsibility, care, and general competence was displayed by leaders on the all-company call today. We were told that reliability issues will be fixed by going slower. Feature delivery targets are not chang
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
the entire SRE and reliability platform teams are laid off with no plan on what to do about it
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
how does someone learn the basics of "home lab" or small-scale server setup, particularly networking? I'm pretty familiar with managing compute & storage, but the networking is largely a mystery to me. I've read a bu
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
I’m waiting for (probably far off) day when System76 makes its own laptops instead of using Clevo hardware. I just can’t deal with that keyboard & trackpad quality. Everything System76 makes themselves is awesome.
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
Kagi Search is amazing but I’m almost completely on Linux now so I’ll have to wait on this browser
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
the dev workflow usage of docker is less about developing your own app locally and more about being able to mindlessly spin up dependencies - a seeded/sample copy of your prod database for testing, a Consul instance, the latest version
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
hard enough to stay synced with all the latest docker changes, let alone at an organizational level. Example: in the last few years docker compose files have gone from version 2 to version 3 (missing tons of great v2 features in the name of

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