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by urthor 4y ago
I think the theory was that Hulu and Disney+ simply couldn't execute on streaming. Turns out, when billions are on the line, they could actually.
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by urthor 4y ago
If I may ask: Why former?
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by urthor 4y ago
https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff Edit: oh you found it
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by urthor 4y ago
They also simply do not store data locally. The onboard storage is basically a buffer, they beam everything back to earth.
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by urthor 4y ago
All jokes aside, tbere's an article floating around about NASA's software development practices. They are big TLA+/formal specification fans (the article predates TLA+'s rise) with well resourced and antagonistic Q/
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by urthor 4y ago
There's like 5 different features wants I could add like this. A columnar database engine comes to mind ( slightly more work involved) and poaching a few Sqllite QOL features. Ultimately Postgres is a community driven product, and pe
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by urthor 4y ago
Yeah, it's basically a software update to the cars, and suddenly the cars are only pulling from the grid at 4am based on the average spot price of electricity. I think the biggest issue is that if nobody charges during the day, and all
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by urthor 4y ago
Much of the general public genuinely believed that. The picturesque London Taxi driver lives on even today. Many of the 21st Century's worst attributes aren't due to society falling apart in the digital age. Online life is exposin
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by urthor 4y ago
Depends on the domain. The analogy I'm making doesn't especially apply to compilers, which have human defined defaults in the first place. What I've found is that it's important to not run the ML model then use its out
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by urthor 4y ago
From my work, I've found it's really simple and straightforward to apply. 1. Choose a parameter for your compiler, xxx. 2. Have your ML model "choose compiler config parameter yyy." After the ML model "chooses&quot
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by urthor 4y ago
Exactly right. The old Python stack trace, circa 2015, was the best in the world. The new ones are even better. The gap between Python and Rust, and the JVM languages/C/C++, is increasingly widening. Stack trace is one of the area
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by urthor 4y ago
It never happens. Anytime the discussion around turning off mitigations comes up, it's trumped by the "why don't we just leave them on and buy more computers" trump card. An easier solution than mitigating is to just upg
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by urthor 4y ago
Running/walking with baby is advice I've never seen fail. We're hunter/gatherers. Babies are designed to shut up and be happy when we're walking around with them and jiggling them. That's a survival feature.
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by urthor 4y ago
Waiiiiiiit, it's NAT causing the bloody captchas. Bugger this. I've had enough of the captcha storm.
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by urthor 4y ago
Zero added sweetener, straight Greek yoghurt. Absolutely sublime. To the typical North American diet it tastes incredibly foreign because the US of A is drenched in sweeteners. But unsweetened foods just taste beautiful once you get used
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by urthor 4y ago
Wifi routers are plagued by TERRIBLE 1% latency figures. I'm far more concerned with wifi not dropping out than mean performance.
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by urthor 4y ago
It's a really good technical improvement, but it'll take a LONG time for this to filter down to software stacks for mere mortals. The improvement is largely being driven by the hyperscalers (Amazon et al) demanding it. The hypersc
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by urthor 4y ago
> How can people rationalize this I've personally learnt a lot from Leetcode, and found the process really valuable. I learnt a ton from bashing my head against the wall until dynamic programming made sense. I anecdotally code much
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by urthor 4y ago
They occur primarily in certain types of performance intensive back-end programming. What do you tell a React developer? You're going to need Knuth-Morris-Pratt to center a div? 95% of software jobs involve using a library for algorith
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by urthor 4y ago
> Short take-home exercises As others have said, open to extreme abuse in terms of timeliness. > A system design exercise around a whiteboard I've worked with a frankly extreme number of architects who can talk the talk but canno
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by urthor 4y ago
I've never heard of an effective alternative to Leetcode though. We're engineers. If you don't like something, make something better. Take home projects and how many marbles in a jar are extraordinarily worse than traversing
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by urthor 4y ago
> no source code on your laptop Cybersecurity policies and work from home has always been extraordinarily strange to me. Optical character recognition exists. Big Corp, trust me, if I wanted to steal your stuff, I'd have it already
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by urthor 4y ago
> an always open video chat What.
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by urthor 4y ago
Blue green deployment is, while it requires a professional, is not particularly complex or unusual. Postgres is a tool. It can do many things, but the tool cannot run your entire business.
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by urthor 4y ago
Excellent, excellent product idea.
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by urthor 4y ago
Know a few. They were all gambling.
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by urthor 4y ago
Maybe I need a better way to phrase it. High level architecture diagrams, user journey diagrams, low level diagrams, are probably all distinct topics. I feel all three are extremely important, but that's bordering on my opinion. > b
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by urthor 4y ago
Have pity on us mortals. It your first week onboarding significantly easier in my experience, the first time I encounter a codebase. I'm sure people make do without. Lotta science behind it, humans work much better if there's a di
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by urthor 4y ago
1. "Comments are bad" is bullshit. Definitely put the comments in the docsting or equivalent for your language, not in the middle of the function. The best place for comments is nicely grouped under (or above, an elegant C++ conve
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by urthor 4y ago
The developer facing UI of Jira's competitors is MILES ahead of Jira. Trello etc. Jira's "director level" UI is miles ahead of its competitors.

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