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by thisiszilff 6y ago
> Comparing that to kubernetes, the latter is indeed some kind of crazy complex system to operate. I think the fair comparison here would be that to google's kubernetes engine. Getting a kubernetes cluster up and running in GCP is r
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
Yeah, I kind of agree with the author, but not 100%. The takeaway shouldn't be "don't use CI, kubernetes, etc." but rather "don't learn something new" when your goal is to get a product out the door. If yo
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
> Calling something what it is is an important part of addressing it. I think this is the problem the article is addressing -- "calling something what it is" doesn't convince people that don't agree with you on what i
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
It's true, in a way, society looks like what the people in power want society to look like because the people in power are those with money and people who figure out how to make more money get power. It's like you say, that TV and
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
I'll bite and say I think it can be pretty personal. I struggled with insomnia-like symptoms for a while (eg, I simply was not tired and could not fall asleep) until I began to experiment with a couple of things. For me the most import
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
Certain parts of it do make sense, but it can also cause a feedback loop whereby the shift is away from concrete policy goals and towards power seeking behavior. Much of the present day political toolkit is postmodern flavored which unfortu
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/inside-the-new-york-... is a great article about changes at NYTimes in the past few years.
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
The cooking section, I think, is the biggest winner for them these days.
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
You can also recommend a good article that you disagree with because you think it argues an opposing point well.
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
I think the biggest question here is to what extent can productivity in basic research be quantified. Or, what are the value to failed experiments and explorations of "out there" ideas? Basic research is tricky because it is at th
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
This actually sums up my feeling when read the NYT article: reporter wades into a sub-culture only kind of understands what is going on but sees words and reports on them for the "general" audience. The article feels very... surfa
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
The Economist is good because they are a centrist publication with a liberal economics bent and they don't hide it. It's refreshing because their "bias" ends up feeling more like "here is a centrist perspective&quot
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
A particularly choice quote from Dijkstra here: "The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim." In this case I guess it's the other way around, but the sentime
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
Yes, I suspect it is a pitfall of a multi-paradigm language that cannot assume so much about code in order to optimize. Opinionated functional languages (ie clojure, haskell) can have a lot more guarantees about what is going on in order to
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
A guess: general operations
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
The article mentions they used other radio satellited to confirm it wasn't an artifact
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
I'd imagine the answer is yes, viewing the source code would increase the risk relative to an attacker that did not have access to the source code, but the statement is saying that whatever risk assessment Microsoft does already assume
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
Yeah, I'd agree. When the principle was introduced it was stated as: > The DRY principle is stated as "Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system" (from wikipedia
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
> Consolidation is a decent goal, but it really needs to be measured. For me, it is FAR more important to consolidate on the how to do things and not the what does things. In otherwords, rather than making an "elasticsearch connecti
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
There is definitely a spectrum of "knowledge" at play when it comes to these considerations. The most obvious DRY violations are those kinds of things that you go "oh I need to test for this case" because that is usually
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
I think this misses the point of DRY a little bit. DRY isn't about not copy pasting code, it's about ensuring that knowledge isn't repeated. If two parts of the system need to know the same thing (for example, who the current
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
I think the best case scenario for AI ethics is that those researchers work to develop processing & metrics to ensure AI systems are fair. The current model seems overwhelmingly adversarial where AI researches do X and then the ethics r
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
> It's also an is-ought fallacy. America is also the only rich country that's built that much of its wealth on slave labour, so does that mean slave labour is a good thing? I'm curious about this one. Most of what I'v
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
From what I've gathered the contents of the email were largely like "Either we do XYZ or we can work towards setting a date where I leave the company." So it is open to interpretation and vague enough that both sides can get
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
First off, I don't think I will ever be convinced by someone calling something "un-American" or "American." That is almost always lazy thinking that tries to wrap up an emotional sentiment into some kind of conclusi
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
I guess the appeal of clojure in that case is that the language is a lot simpler than other languages.
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
To what extent do you think it is a clojure problem vs a people problem? Further up in the comment thread there was a post discussing how some orgs had problems because people would be writing java in clojure (or python or ruby, etc.). I ca
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
What works for me is a few things: (1) Separate work from life, be able to walk away for a bit when work isn't going well. And do walk away if things aren't going well. If you haven't been able to write any code for the past
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
A lot of it boils down to another entry on that list > Use your brain IE, here is your confidence in our code (0...100%) and here are tools to increase that confidence (unit testing, integration testing, monitoring, etc.). At that point
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
> The original legislation before the board had sought to exempt only medicinal cannabis users from the indoor smoking ban, but the board voted to exclude marijuana smoking in general because state law prohibits cannabis users from smoki

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