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by tacitusarc 6y ago
My read of the article is that the idea is to remove protections granted by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act from social media companies if they engage in "editorializing" user content. If that really is the case, to
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by tacitusarc 6y ago
Though he actually actively fact checks them, and himself, during interviews. I am not aware of any other interviewer doing that.
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by tacitusarc 6y ago
This viewpoint is often touted by those on the political left but has no evidentiary basis that I've seen, certainly. At most the democratic party has a strong tendency of allowing its most fringe members an out-sized voice in the inte
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by tacitusarc 7y ago
What I really enjoy about this merge request are these comments: > Rename _Suffix_fn to _Fx, again following the papers. Note that in the usage below, there is a semantic change: _Suffix_fn stored 0-based values, while _Fx stores 1-based
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by tacitusarc 7y ago
"electronic community is a commercial enterprise that dovetails nicely with the increasing trend towards dehumanization in our society: it wants to commodify human interaction, enjoy the spectacle regardless of the human cost. if and w
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Simplicity: Monoliths and Microservices(medium.com)
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by tacitusarc 7y ago
I really despise McKinsey but this just feels like a strange hit piece on Pete Buttigieg.
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by tacitusarc 7y ago
That's a blanket statement that just doesn't hold true. Reality is much more mixed. Here: https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Waste-Management-1/reviews?fcount...
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by tacitusarc 7y ago
Part of the problem is the suggestion that they need help in the first place. So what Joe the garbage truck driver didn't go to college? So what he has a small house in a kinda shitty neighborhood? Maybe he's doing the best he can
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by tacitusarc 7y ago
Hard process boundaries, largely. I mean, unless you use mmio in which case you're probably going out of your way to break things. Also design constraints should be taken into account- if you need to build highly performant systems, ye
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by tacitusarc 7y ago
One last comment on this, if you have like 5 guys just hacking away on some project and you feel that splitting it up into 30 micro-services is the only way to make things work then you've got problems . I'm not talking about sma
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by tacitusarc 7y ago
Not every tool is right for every job. But the idea that services provide no guardrails is, in my experience, categorically false. Like I said, not a fan of "micro", but there is a ton of inherent value in defining implicit isol
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by tacitusarc 7y ago
Programmers are, by and large, quite bad at not breaking encapsulation when they're dealing with a monolith. Not their fault, really, but when management comes to you and says, hey, can't you get it done in just a day, we really n