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by ttfkam 3y ago
CDK. The author is basically describing the AWS CDK. And you can have my CDK when you take it from my cold, dead hands. Game changer as far as I'm concerned. CloudFormation templates were a diagnostic nightmare. You tested by deploying
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Umm… you get that Pascal's Wager is an example of fallacious reasoning, right? It establishes a false dichotomy where there either is a God or there isn't when in fact there is equally a possibility of the Christian God as all the
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by ttfkam 3y ago
I wonder how much their tuned ZFS config looked like this. https://vadosware.io/post/everything-ive-seen-on-optimizing-... For example making sure ZFS compression is on while Postgres compression is off. Also checksumm
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by ttfkam 3y ago
> They didn't have to worry about dying from measles or being crippled with polio, and medical outcomes are much better nowadays across the board. Funny you should mention, measles is back, and worldwide fatalities is on the rise. A
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Better hurry. At only 6m above sea level at its highest point, it may sink below the waves before long.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Voluntary? For someone in middle school? For the vast majority of these kids, I guarantee you it wasn't their idea. In seven states, you must be 18 to get married. In the rest, it isn't that minors are rushing to head down the ais
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Journalists shouldn't strive to show "both sides" regardless of merit. If one side says it's raining and the other claims it's dry as a bone, "both sides" is irrelevant. It is the responsibility of a journ
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Grew up with social media and Covid. So… they grew up seeing their friends turned inside out from social pressures we never had to deal with and in the meantime they watched their grandparents and other members of older generations die of a
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Looks like Svelte 5 only somehow worse?
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by ttfkam 3y ago
From the article: > Elon Musk on Thursday acknowledged turning off internet access from his Starlink satellites during a Ukrainian raid last year on a Russian naval fleet, saying he did so to prevent SpaceX from being “complicit in a maj
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by ttfkam 3y ago
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4193788-musk-acknowledges... https://apnews.com/article/spacex-ukraine-starlink-russia-ai...
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by ttfkam 3y ago
The premise that it hurts readers of your code is specious at best. Your syntax highlighting or lack thereof does not necessarily match their syntax highlighting or lack thereof. And it's been 17 years since this was published. We have
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by ttfkam 3y ago
> Centralized DB + read replicas = Distributed-ish Isn't that just AWS Aurora? > Object Storage + global distribution = CDN-ish Isn't that just S3 + CloudFront?
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by ttfkam 3y ago
With malware popups, just like the original!
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by ttfkam 3y ago
If you write Rust where you copy all the time instead of borrow, it can save you enormous amounts of time with arguably minimal performance degradation. This can make up a lot of the perceived time disparity between Go and Rust, and leave C
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Android APPLICATION development is typically in Kotlin (and of course Java), but Android OS doesn't contain a large percentage of Java. That's C/C++ land and now increasingly Rust.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Yeah, cause he keeps disabling Starlink internet access when Ukrainian drones are about to attack strategic points well behind the front, such as the bridge between Crimea and Russia. Self-fulfilling prophecy there.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Simpler decision tree: Choose Postgres by default. Choose MySQL only when you have a specific requirement that cannot be satisfied by Postgres. Choose document-oriented only when there is a specific requirement that cannot be satisfied with
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Been coding in Java since the late 90s. Honestly I have a love-hate relationship with it. On the one hand, it's a known quantity, reliable, and stable. I don't mean this in a negative way. With so much industry churn, Java has don
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Neither have the safety of Rust, but are far less prone to memory gaffes than C. They make for a pragmatic, usable middle ground.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
90% of the time, our lambdas are just making AWS SDK calls or querying data stores like Postgres, Redis, and DynamoDB. The limits are in memory consumption or raw CPU processing but network and service latencies. Those are precisely the wor
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Can't wait for LLRT to be marked stable. Was spending time looking into Rust lambdas, but was reluctant about the total build times for my stacks and getting new team members onboarded with lambdas. (Though in fairness, Rust lambdas te
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Even today, Postgres on Windows isn't a viable target for performance reasons. Postgres is one process per connection. Spawning processes on Windows is slow compared to Unix. Building/running Postgres in Windows' Linux compat
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by ttfkam 3y ago
The overarching point is to avoid new C++ code whenever possible. Carbon isn't intended to compete with or replace Rust. It's for more easily and seamlessly migrating away from C++ and its worst foot cannons.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
And when I code in C, there's typically at least one library with inline assembly even though my C doesn't use any inline assembly. There is indeed a difference here between the vast majority taking part in risky behavior and libr
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Ha! Like C & C++ coders haven't been sending and receiving structs as byte streams over networks. Less common today to be sure, but that was a VERY common practice that obviously led to a lot of CVEs. C coders before the internet w
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by ttfkam 3y ago
I'd wager Unsafe in Java is far more rare per million lines of code written than unsafe blocks in Rust. Been coding in Java since ~1997. Unsafe just doesn't come up in 99.999% of Java projects. Now JNI on the other hand, that made
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Zig. It's not as safe as Rust, but it's a hell of a lot better than C while remaining largely interoperable.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Zig. Nim.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
"Suppose you need a C++ program…" No.

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