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by sly010 6y ago
Webpack is a highly integrated build system that has very high integration with the language and the compilers it drives. e.g. You don't have an explicit dependency graph, your graph is implicitly defined by your source code imports to
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by sly010 6y ago
If the compiler and the build system is so coupled, I am now stuck with that build system. Specifically compiling frontend code with a generic build tool like bazel is a torture, because the entire javascript ecosystem consists of giant mon
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> The only reason an external file/dag is actually necessary is due to impurity in the compilation process. But files also make various pieces of compiler chain interoperable and allows me to define a DAG. That's exactly what m
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by sly010 6y ago
I have some negative feelings about this trend (of increased integration in compilers), but I can't quite put my finger on the reason. Before the language server idea came along all compilers were pure functions. Dependency management
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by sly010 6y ago
One of the difficulties of working on any improvement in the free-desktop ecosystem is the difficulty involved in getting everybody on the same page. It's interesting to realize that the chops required to write the code is not necessar
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by sly010 6y ago
Personally, I call it the Dan Brown effect, because when I was a teen I read "The Da Vinci Code" (I am not expert) a few months before reading "Digital Fortress" (I am somewhat knowledgable) and I found it so profoundly
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by sly010 6y ago
I concur with everything said, but it is still a bit unclear to me who is this article targeting. What is the takeaway? "Anyone who can afford a $1500 monitor should have one, so poor font designers don't have to break their back
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by sly010 6y ago
Ansible's pretend-declarative yaml doesn't add any value, while forcing you to use patterns that rarely match your use-case. It should have been a python library without all the yaml from the beginning. That said, pyinfra seems to
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by sly010 6y ago
> There is a clearly defined platform / SDK, like in Android or iOS. If it works in your development environment, it's guaranteed to work everywhere. Are iOS/Android SDKs good examples of stable platforms? They are just as
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by sly010 6y ago
Some other European countries already require in-office photography. Hungary is pretty strict about this, most Hungarian embassies will take your photo and fingerprint to issue you a tourist visa. They just use what looks like a webcam.
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by sly010 6y ago
Chances are you are running yarn in a virtual terminal (iterm, xterm, gterm, etc). The framebuffer device doesn't represent your terminal window, but your physical display output (sort of, nowadays the framebuffer itself is emulated).
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by sly010 6y ago
If you run on kubernetes it has first class support for secrets [0]. You can reference secrets in environment variables, or mount them as files in your containers. [0] https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configurat
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk Sorry.
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But you _are_ passing `this` around with OO code too. It just ends up being before the dot (or arrow), instead of being an argument. All you did is loose some flexibility. OO couples behavior with state. Sometimes that's exactly what y
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by sly010 6y ago
Fun fact: The way kanban is used in project management is different than the original kanban used in manufacturing plants. In "IRL" kanban cards are handed _backwards_ to the previous station to signal demand, so things don't
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by sly010 7y ago
I don't know the answer to that question, but if you are developing an embedded project (and especially if it's a raspberry PI) you can mmap() the hardware I2C registers to userspace memory and use them directly. You will have to
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by sly010 7y ago
setuptools doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same capacity as bazel/nix/dhall. Having the entire python language (specifically the ability to inspect the local system) available BEFORE you declare your package (as a side
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by sly010 7y ago
I think this is an important point not just in the context of Zoom, but every time privacy (or the lack of) gets thrown around in an argument. It's perfectly possible to have end to end encrypted email, text, payments etc, but: 1. You
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by sly010 7y ago
> So much of C++'s success is due to backward compatibility. You mean so much of C++'s success is due to backward compatibility with C. Edit: Formatting.
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by sly010 7y ago
Sadly this won't happen in the US. Even if it's really private, people won't install it unless it's pushed down to them as an update from above, and no company will want to be the first to push it. I suspect the bigger i
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by sly010 7y ago
The ask is that they employ real humans to review disputed claims not watch every video uploaded.
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by sly010 7y ago
What kills code more than anything else is not the language of choice, but operating system vendors "improving" user experience by deprecating APIs and frameworks. That said, there are language communities that definitely value ch
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by sly010 7y ago
I have been using SQLite as a format to move data between steps in a complicated batch processing pipeline. With the right pragmas it is both faster and more compact than JSON. It is also much more "human readable" than gigabytes
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by sly010 7y ago
> What, does everyone else write code for porcupines? Computers.
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Why not both?
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Perhaps he meant it's table scraps?
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> I often see these comparisons done to try to discredit the use of cloud computing resources, often comparing single cloud entities to bare metal one-for-one comparisons. The post is not about cloud computing vs bare metal, it is about
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by sly010 7y ago
From the article: "A design system is a large set of reusable components with a set of rules..." From the article also: "A design system should not simply be a collection of user interface components along with some design th
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by sly010 7y ago
Can I just say I have a problem with these kind of SQL migration tools. For efficiency and flexibility we write out schemas in SQL and these migration tools would have us stagger our schema across a bunch of files and would make it very had
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by sly010 7y ago
I didn't know of the checksum until I looked it up today. A better choice of word would have been "evidently".

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