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by tootie 3y ago
Isn't the ideal solution to make the throttled system faster? Like autoscale horizontally and/or vertically, sharding or just writing better code? Everything in this article is about to cope with back pressure but solving is frequ
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by tootie 3y ago
Federation solves nothing. The problem with the current generation of social media is quite simply the profit motive. Elon Musk tried to make a big deal out of being a free speech absolutist, but his company is run for profit and any time f
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by tootie 3y ago
And zero use New Relic?
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by tootie 3y ago
While gross ugly Maven lets you specify the bytecode version and every JDK can produce backwards-compatible jars and has done for many years
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by tootie 3y ago
Yeah, I'm disagreeing with you. It's not CO2. I won't say it's impossible, but it's pretty implausible. We already know how bad leaded gasoline was at poisoning an entire generation. Modern cars are cleaner, but mil
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by tootie 3y ago
When I was diagnosed with a neurological condition that was having mostly physical symptoms, the first-line defense was antidepressants. So-named because they were developed to relieve depression, but really what they do is inhibit absorpti
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by tootie 3y ago
I mean, it's cars. Fossil fuel combustion in general, but car exhaust in particular.
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by tootie 3y ago
Salesforce really really benefits from network effects. If you survey 100 data integration tools for their list of off-the-shelf integrations, 100/100 would have Salesforce on the list.
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by tootie 3y ago
I think that's selection bias. There's loads of economists studying all sorts of things and the vast majority are nowhere near the halls of power. And a lot that are listened to are selected for saying politically palatable things
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by tootie 3y ago
How is it that OpenAI was touted like it was some massive years-long effort that blew all AI research out of the water and now we have so many competitors popping up one after another?
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by tootie 3y ago
Radiolab did a story on it. It's really bizarre how it was discovered and popularized https://radiolab.org/podcast/dirty-drug-and-ice-cream-tub
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by tootie 3y ago
I don't know why this goes against programmer culture so much, but for me rule number 1 should be Optimize for IDE Integration. And probably number 2 should be, readable stack traces.
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by tootie 3y ago
I can't speak to individual cases, it's usually impossible to determine from a news article. But realistically speaking, how many actual proven targeted assassinations of a white collar nature (ie whistleblowers) have happened in
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by tootie 3y ago
Yup. Webb also killed himself many many years after telling his story. His story that was generally considered unreliable and inaccurate.
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by tootie 3y ago
Reread your statement there. "Almost everyone"? Who? As far as we know it was literally nobody. The notion that he has compromising material has been insinuated by people with no first hand knowledge. And if he did, where was it?
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by tootie 3y ago
There are accusations on social media all the time and 99% are complete BS. Be more skeptical.
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by tootie 3y ago
I don't run any clouds myself but if I were AWS or whoever I'd think there's a whole lot of ways to make this process more ergonomic without sacrificing functionality. A tool that can report permission failures with a "s
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by tootie 3y ago
Verizon bumped me to gigabit for no good reason a few years ago. I think I had only signed up for 50 initially. I clocked it at 800/800 but I'm not going to complain.
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by tootie 3y ago
To me, Wikipedia is the canonical answer for how centralization and content moderation should be done. They have solved the hard problems as well as anyone. Federated solutions basically sidestep the real problems by rendering them complete
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by tootie 3y ago
The only no/low-code backends I've seen that are worth anything are data migration tools like fivetran that do ETL/ELT from source data to target and let you apply some basic transformation. Even then, they have a very low ce
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by tootie 3y ago
This seems a bit more personal than academic. I don't think there was ever a consensus that unions were bad. Not for the sake of capitalism. And I'm not sure how he equates reduced immigration with reduced inequality without contr
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by tootie 3y ago
Saying that posters and mods are not getting value from the content they generate because they are not getting paid implies that reddit as a platform has no value. If you moderate the astronomy sub because you love astronomy and get joy fro
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by tootie 3y ago
Another good indicator is if HN assumes it will tank
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by tootie 3y ago
Back in 2005-10 era, we used to use stuff like XMLBeans to define an entire, consistent domain model include type constraints (enums, valid integer ranges, regex) in XML and generate code at build-time that we never had to look at. The XSD
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by tootie 3y ago
On the flip side, XML is by far the superior choice for documents people will have to read. Paired with XSD it makes it a lot easier to created valid, well-formed documents that conform to expected input. Ideal for anything that isn't
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by tootie 3y ago
My first thought was The Structure of Scientific Revolution. CAP was a very useful theory on top of which years of research were done until the paradigm was broken and replaced. That's how progress works. It doesn't mean CAP was a
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by tootie 3y ago
Narcolepsy
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by tootie 3y ago
Drug policy makes no sense anymore. We've utterly failed at stemming abuse and held back a lot of valuable therapies. I'm treating a crippling disability with GHB and it's 100% legit prescribed by a doctor but the insurance h
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by tootie 3y ago
I understand Reverse ETL as a concept, but why does it require different software to solve? Aren't most ETL/ELT tools designed to move data from any source to any other source? We've got a pretty vanilla requirement of pullin
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by tootie 3y ago
Yes. We had some test failures. Test setup was to create records for today, yesterday, last week and last year and make sure they are generated correctly. Well last year's date didn't match today's. Easy fix but it was hilari

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