solatic

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by solatic 2y ago
The point is that you confused moral hazard with economic hazard in claiming that there was an economic hazard but not a moral hazard. When you have 5 million users paying $1/each, then pissing off a hundred of them makes very little d
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by solatic 2y ago
I would mostly agree, with the exception of libraries that are responsible for parsing untrusted input and making it safe. You can't, on the one hand, tell developers, "always validate your input, if not then we have a security vu
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by solatic 2y ago
Do you think Linux From Scratch https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ is a distribution? That project is not a distribution, it helps you build your own distribution. The Linux kernel by itself, although the source and binaries
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by solatic 2y ago
I can't see the financial industry getting behind FOSS, but there's very much a missed opportunity for Data API companies. Let trading firms pay standard rates to get access to high-resolution, realtime data; the secret sauce in e
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by solatic 2y ago
The "something that is distributed" is a package manager and package repositories. What makes a distribution is what choices it makes in letting you install software. A distroless image doesn't include a package manager. You
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by solatic 2y ago
> Using an RDBMS is an option, but makes scaling harder Modern Postgres scales vertically quite well on modern hardware. > you still need an audit trail, review processes, etc, But you need this anyway for the RDBMS in your architectu
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by solatic 2y ago
> a whole paragraph on the cognitive load of an extra compilation step... IMO you don't even come CLOSE to explaining why this trade off is worth it You're missing the whole context about how React is a library with a huge ente
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by solatic 2y ago
If you split feature flags into a different repository, then you're losing the benefit of having everything in a single repository, of having consistency and avoiding situations where your codebase refers to feature flags that don&#x27
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by solatic 2y ago
Inserting deployments between steps 1 and 2 and between steps 4 and 5 still results in an outage when the deploy for code v2 needs to be rolled back to the older commit, not the commit before. Arguing that rollbacks means you only ever need
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by solatic 2y ago
The biggest issue with storing secrets in version control with the code is that past secrets are never relevant after they have been rotated. This makes rollbacks risky. Consider: 1. Create secret v1 2. Code v1 3. Deploy 4. Secret
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by solatic 2y ago
Serious question: does anyone here work for a BigCo who uses Chinese software like this in production? Do your InfoSec teams sign off on it? What's the risk of downloading what's supposed to be a release binary of this off GitHub,
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by solatic 2y ago
Author clearly has no understanding of why startups move quickly. Startups have the same Legal, Procurement, Security, etc. needs and responsibilities as any large company or government agency - its just that these responsibilities are look
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by solatic 2y ago
If you're writing a CRUD app and mocking your database calls instead of just starting an actual Postgres instance before running the tests, you're probably using mocking wrong. If you're writing a custom frontend for GitHub u
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by solatic 2y ago
FOMO is a great strategy when you are trying to sell to customers who will buy your product exactly once and then move on. Examples: collector's editions of video games, sales ahead of gift-giving holidays, tourist traps in "I am
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by solatic 2y ago
Credits isn't the same thing as either revenue or costs. Look at kids pirating Photoshop and Maya to learn the tools and make cool shit - that's not really lost revenue, because kids just don't have that kind of money to spen
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by solatic 2y ago
Revenue is no match for throwing massive bags of money at the marketing bonfire. Subsidizing open-source projects is ultimately a marketing spend - sounds like the marketing budget is getting cut.
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by solatic 2y ago
To be fair, it's not really possible to come up with good policy to handle this at scale. It would be too intrusive to require employees to divulge their private financial accounts (and near impossible to audit that the employee has tr
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by solatic 2y ago
What you're describing is inflation, not a zero-sum game. The price of something is not the same as its value. If you have a fixed amount of somethings but their price is increasing, that's inflation in a zero-sum game. But there
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by solatic 2y ago
In a way, it already did, which is why remote work is so much more popular now. If you don't need to show up to an office, you can purchase cheaper housing in a place further away from an urban metro.
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by solatic 2y ago
There's a latent bias here that any audience can be engaged. That's simply not true. Some stories are told in a medium that is difficult for specific audiences to agree with (I'm thinking here of the difference between people
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by solatic 2y ago
> Rising home values are a zero-sum game. It makes people look wealthier on paper, but there's nothing good that comes from gains in housing prices. This is oversimplifying. A rise in housing prices should lead the more constructio
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by solatic 2y ago
The word "betula" in Hebrew means "virgin". Was this intentional? I almost spat out my dinner. https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=%D7%91%D7%A...
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by solatic 2y ago
Serious question: why doesn't OpenSSH declare, with about a year's notice ahead of time, the intent to cut a new major release that drops support for password-based authentication?
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by solatic 2y ago
It's a tool. Technology is neither positive, nor negative, nor neutral, it simply is. You might as well claim that banning guns will solve social violence and nobody will murder anybody anymore. The key is not to try to ban the tools (
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by solatic 2y ago
It's similar in many ways to "leaderless" organizations: getting rid of people with formal management titles doesn't mean you don't have managers, it means that it's not clear who the leaders are and that it&#x
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What makes an aimbot an aimbot is its inhuman speed, the camera snaps from one target to the next, perfectly. Hypothetically you could GenAI a video to show hand motions, but real hand motions can't actually "snap" like that.
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> you can't buy one of these even as a hacking hobby I'll pay $100 for your massive paperweight. Maybe I'll figure it out, maybe I won't, but the potential of getting a car like that for a price like that is definitel
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by solatic 2y ago
Makes me wonder why Depot isn't moving to on-prem hardware. When you're reselling compute with a better API, you give up a substantial proportion of your profits to the hyperscaler while offering worse performance (due to being he
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by solatic 2y ago
A different frontend wouldn't fix Jira. It's slow because the underlying APIs are slow. The frustrations mount mostly from the sheer number of rules that are built on top of it by users; if your alternate UI obeys those rules it w
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by solatic 2y ago
Desalination plants are like many energy production facilities; they have significant ramp-up and ramp-down times. They can't just ramp up more when energy is cheap and ramp down afterwards. I mean, I broadly agree with you that Califo

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