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by toast0 3mo ago
It's been a while, but I used to work at WhatsApp and we used Erlang distribution heavily. I understand the clusters have gotten really huge since I left. It's super handy. There's no security barrier between nodes. It's
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by toast0 3mo ago
> appreciate Elixir but the problem is the job market/talent pool is tiny compared to other existing languages. > I shipped an entire telecom infrastructure with barely knowing Elixir and we brought on contractors to audit the co
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by toast0 3mo ago
Yes. But in some cases the waste will be avoided by not doing a production run at all if the minimum production quantity is too high and the law prohibits destroying the unwanted product.
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by toast0 3mo ago
> You don't have to reduce the taxes. Just phase out the concept that you are paying into a retirement account and call a tax a tax. I don't know how you sell that. "Hey, guess what whipersnappers? You all will still pay t
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by toast0 3mo ago
Fashionable clothes are perishable. "Nobody" wants to buy clothes from last season or last year. Storing the clothes until they come back in fashion is expensive... and some materials really won't be useful after sitting fo
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by toast0 3mo ago
> How it it a Windows issue that driver developers pack garbage with their drivers? Because windows update automatically installs the garbage when the device is connected. Microsoft could control the content of the software it automati
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by toast0 3mo ago
Microsoft has a program to do static and dynamic analysis of drivers... not a sandbox, but better than nothing. Of course, wonky drivers plus wonky hardware can still do bad things (io-mmu can help, a bit). The problems tend to be in the us
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by toast0 3mo ago
If your minimum run is 1000 of a size, and you can only really sell 500 because it's an uncommon size, and you would prefer to sell at full price or not at all, seems like making that size no longer fits your plans.
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by toast0 3mo ago
> Is there any entitlements program that's not politically impossible to repeal? > Taking away "free stuff", especially once people have come to rely on it, is a political nightmare no matter the structure. Entitlements
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by toast0 3mo ago
Social security can 'run out', because it's setup with separate accounting. It's sort of designed that current year social security taxes pay for current year benefits ... in the 70s and 80s increases in taxes and decrea
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by toast0 3mo ago
> Viruses aren't so good at seizing and holding territory. Neither is infantry that's sick with the flu, which may have been a factor in the ending of of WWI. Tis hard to practice good hygiene and social distancing in the trenc
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by toast0 3mo ago
Always check the pockets of jackets before donating! My mom snuck $100 in a jacket my wife almost donated without realizing.
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by toast0 3mo ago
Blu-Ray key revocation does not work that way. Players with revoked keys simply can't play discs that were encrypted to disallow them. Discs that worked with a player will continue to work, as long as the physical mechanisms are still
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by toast0 3mo ago
Php serialized uses s:size:value; For strings, which is pretty similar. Size is in bytes.
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by toast0 3mo ago
> Zelle popped up later and somehow has plenty of users, At least for me, Zelle is something I can do in my bank app, so I don't need to work with anything I wasn't already using. It feels a lot easier to use than Venmo, but I
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by toast0 3mo ago
If they had said 'the yield is' or especially the 'yield to maturity' is... that's one thing, but they said "you will get a return of" You'll probably get that, but you might not.
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by toast0 3mo ago
"I guess we'll start calling you Pinky"
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by toast0 3mo ago
> 2. Those bonds are now trading for less than their face value. That means that if you buy one of those bonds on the secondary market, you will get a return (yield) of 7.387% That's your return if you buy one of those bonds and t
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by toast0 3mo ago
All the cool kids were writing those. https://archive.org/details/herbert-barnard-1980-without-me-...
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by toast0 3mo ago
You want to look into genlock[1]. Tldr, everything that needs to be synchronized (at least your video outputs and your camera; possibly lights and audio recording) needs to accept a clock input from a centralized clock to signal the start o
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by toast0 3mo ago
> That sounds like hell. Wayland isn't an eternal punishment, it's just a protocol. :p
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by toast0 3mo ago
On the dhcp server, nothing really? But the address isn't usable if this host is arping for it.
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by toast0 3mo ago
If somebody is arping for all the addresses on your broadcast domain, it will cause a denial of service, yes. It will make your dhcp server mad, too. Not much to do about that if you're not using managed switches. With managed switches
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by toast0 3mo ago
Unfortunately, there's no wayland server for windows, so you can't use waypipe there without pulling in a linux vm or similar.
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by toast0 3mo ago
I don't think private loans are federal loans?
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by toast0 3mo ago
Word on the street was Google didn't want to bother with WP because they worked so hard on WinCE apps and all of that was thrown away. Probably not the whole reason, but they did make an exchange connector available for gmail on wp, so
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by toast0 3mo ago
I'd be very surprised if player and enemy graphics are realtime 3D. Those look very much like typical sprites where you use different sprites for different angles. The player ship rotates, but it only is 'rendered' at a handf
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by toast0 3mo ago
There's no realtime 3D. This boss fight [1] looks super impressive, but the boss structure is FMV, your ship and bullets and stuff is all sprites overlaid on the FMV. (and the FMV is decoded to sprites too) (Stated confidently to ensur
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by toast0 3mo ago
If your scale has only good and awful, you miss nuance. I don't think the same adjective should be used to describe both both Trolls on Treasure Island and Silpheed. :P
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by toast0 3mo ago
Nokia had active developer relations; at WhatsApp we were planning to build for the N9, but ended up not doing it, because the platform was cancelled before the retail release and the retail release was limited. I'm sure some of th

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