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by snorkel 4y ago
Mainframe devs remind me of mechanics who specialize in repairing classic cars.
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by snorkel 4y ago
Gotta admit, that’s a cool looking repair kit. Meanwhile hole in the wall repair shops just use a hair dryer, razor, and putty knife.
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by snorkel 4y ago
> He had always been good at math, so he put together a formula—a proprietary algorithm that he loves talking about but declines to explain in detail, saying only that it “measures the supply of cattle every day and determines that if we
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by snorkel 4y ago
True you can write readable Perl code, but developers tend to adopt the predominant style of the community of each language, and the community was showcasing more brevity and cleverness than clarity
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by snorkel 4y ago
Perl rose to popularity because early web development was all about text processing (reading web forms and outputting HTML) and Perl made that easier (regex deluxe) than other choices on unix at the time. It became the lingua franca of web
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by snorkel 4y ago
Nice. Reminds me of longtime security tactic for web servers of shipping logs and mounting the entire file system as read-only so that intruders have no means of installing their root kit.
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by snorkel 4y ago
> “trust in institutions controlled by humans and bound by established laws and rules is instead replaced — by unconditional trust in the infallibility of code“ No, it’s not just trust in code, you’re also trusting the people that wrote
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by snorkel 4y ago
I was well into high school before I realized that many supposed many class bullies teased everyone, and especially their friends. From their perspective they often meant their teasing to be playful rather than hateful, but recipients of te
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by snorkel 5y ago
Metaverse is what VRML tech was aspiring to back then, but standard dial-up internet, early web browsers, and PCs could not deliver immersive realtime 3D. It was obviously decades ahead of its time. I recall needing to install web browser p
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by snorkel 5y ago
The DIY electron microscope episodes are classic
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by snorkel 5y ago
Good advice, and should also ask if the team was mostly WFH before Covid because old habits die hard.
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by snorkel 5y ago
Love it! The sordid truths of data science laid bare! "We prefer subtitles over machine-learning-based detection because the presence of a cough in subtitles means it was prominent enough for a person to write it down. Also our postdoc
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by snorkel 5y ago
Whenever I stumble into a political conversation with someone who prefers to live in an alternate news reality, I find it effective to not argue back at them, but rather out-flank them: inform them that not only are they correct, but also I
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by snorkel 5y ago
Engrave it on stone in three different languages, use OCR to import it. If it must be digital media then store as plain ascii text files stored on multiple types of media. Plain text remains the only consistent digital media format over tim
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by snorkel 5y ago
I’m not sure I agree because the advice from the article was mostly “grow the ops org” with a bit of push some ops responsibility back to dev teams, rather than seeing the ops org growth leads to further dependence on ops to get things done
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by snorkel 5y ago
“Innovation teams shouldn’t be burdened with operational concerns” Surprising how prevalent this attitude still is. It leads to large Centralized ops teams are inevitably going to be a bottleneck. If developers need to routinely create tick
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by snorkel 5y ago
Did you ever hear the tragedy of Perl the wise?
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by snorkel 5y ago
Good point. MongoDB scales horizontally (add more servers) PostgreSQL scales vertically (get a bigger server) which is the least desirable way to scale, in addition to be being reliant on fewer servers makes it less fault tolerant. MongoDB
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by snorkel 5y ago
These are the wild west days of crypto finance. Fortunes will be made and lost. There’s hype, fads, bubbles, and spectacular blowouts. The crypto finance tech ecosystem will evolve, consolidate, then eventually be diluted and homogenized in
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by snorkel 5y ago
http://skiplang.com/blog/2017/01/04/how-memoization-works.ht...
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by snorkel 5y ago
Whole situation sounds like typical startup growing pains and this is the OPs first rodeo of this kind. The original crew of developers was happy during the early days when it was all cozy and limitless upside, but now there's new fund
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by snorkel 5y ago
If you don't need data persistence then consider redis instead (which can also do persistence if you enable AOF)
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by snorkel 5y ago
First of all, Tokio is my favorite async framework, so thank you and the Tokio team! And second, I appreciate that cargo/rustc compiler errors are clear, helpful, and guide me toward cleaner and thread-safe coding where most other lang
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by snorkel 5y ago
top and free also double count memory footprint of common shared library’s across many processes that are using the same “.so” library. Use pmap to see how much unique memory each process is actually using vs. shared libraries.
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by snorkel 5y ago
I dabbled with Atari 2600 game programming. I can appreciate how the frugality of the VCS design put really tight constraints on game devs and in hindsight the VCS could’ve been worlds better if a bit more was invested in hardware. As a gam
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by snorkel 5y ago
The graphics (and sound) was much lower res, smaller worlds, fewer characters, less motion poses per character, prebaked character frames, the floors and ceilings were flat, the textures had far fewer colors, the lighting and shadows were
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by snorkel 5y ago
This. Version pinning is just piling on the risk, and when a CVE is announced on the no-longer-supported version you’ve been pinned to for way too long then it’ll be a reactive emergency.
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by snorkel 5y ago
Needless Paragraph (ads) filler paragraph (ads) filler paragraph (ads) filler paragraph … I gave up. This should not have been upvoted. We ought not reward content this obnoxious.
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by snorkel 5y ago
If I had to pick one feature add, it’d be allow trailing commas. That would make serializing a bit easier and less error prone.
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by snorkel 5y ago
AES-256 cipher is already quantum safe (Shores Algorithm does not apply to AES-256) but the quantum achilles heal of TLS communications is the asymmetric key exchange (often RSA or Elliptic Curve) that establishes the shared key used by the

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