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by wanderr 5y ago
Tracking down a rehabber is far less effort than raising a wild animal. Most of the time there is not much difference in outcome between leaving it to die vs taking it in and raising it yourself, except the suffering is prolonged. Find a wi
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by wanderr 5y ago
Please don't do this. Habituating wildlife to humans is not doing them any favors, it usually leads to their early demise. First make sure they are truly abandoned, most of the time mom is nearby. Second, if mom is truly not around, ta
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by wanderr 5y ago
Ah, I think you're right that it wasn't MB because I remember having to match artists by name rather than mbid. Music map doesn't sound familiar but my boss negotiated the access, I think I was just ingesting the data from a
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by wanderr 5y ago
Oh man, I should write a blog post about that, as I built that feature myself. It was meant to be a stopgap until we could get some real matchine learning in there, but nothing else we tried did as well. First, for efficiency all recommenda
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by wanderr 5y ago
Grooveshark didn't use any of that. We were very careful about avoiding dependencies where possible and keeping our backend code clean and performant. We supported about 45M MAU at our biggest, with only a handful of physical servers.
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by wanderr 5y ago
That seems weird for some stacks though, like nginx, php-fpm, php. At least I still haven't wrapped my head around what's the right answer for the number of containers involved there.
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by wanderr 5y ago
I believe there is a major misalignment of goals/incentives in undergraduate academia. As students we think the model is, we pay [quite a lot of] money to be taught useful knowledge in a rigorous way that means we will leave with real
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by wanderr 5y ago
Yes. I’ve been burned by this exact issue in the past, not realizing that utf8 was not really utf8 in mysql-land. That is a major, major WTF IMO. But I’ve also seen people relying on validation at the time of insertion so many times that I
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by wanderr 5y ago
Any data in your database that can come from external input should be treated as untrusted and validated before it's used. Otherwise validation bugs or bypasses will result in bad data and exploits that persist beyond the fix. Edit: I’
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Stop the California Solar Tax(engage.tesla.com)
28 points by wanderr 5y ago|19 comments
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by wanderr 5y ago
This is probably not what he had in mind, but I love make one to throw away, for experiments. Product and VPs often have a damn hard time wrapping their minds around it though. I saw it working with my own eyes! What do you mean we can’t sh
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by wanderr 5y ago
I agree that it’s a business problem. Cost, prioritization, rapid hiring, promotion incentives all play a part. Nobody usually funds a project to go through and clean up code. My last two jobs before I went fully down the management track,
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by wanderr 5y ago
I have quit caffeine several times. I love the taste of coffee and tea, but I become dependent on caffeine very quickly, and have to keep upping the dose just to feel normal. Eventually I don’t feel human until half way through the day and
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by wanderr 5y ago
I haven't seen a flagship phone with replaceable battery in forever. I absolutely want that and would pay more for it, but I won't compromise on performance and camera quality either. But Airpods I don't care about the batter
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by wanderr 5y ago
Anything that doesn’t put carbon deep underground is a temporary solution at best. Most of that carbon is destined for the atmosphere.
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Exec suing AWS: “I wouldn't want my worst enemy working there”(theguardian.com)
38 points by wanderr 5y ago|13 comments
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by wanderr 5y ago
Based on a different paper? This was only published last month.
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by wanderr 5y ago
Sure, but in my experience they then find excuses to not fix problems. I had an Elantra (don't remember which year) in which the passenger air bag would turn off if my passenger shifted their weight just a little bit at any point durin
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by wanderr 6y ago
This is not a new phenomenon. This sounds like a rehashing of Systemantics by John Gall (1975), except attributing the causes to things the author sees as problematic rather than recognizing that these are problems inherent in complex syste
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by wanderr 6y ago
Related issue with some workarounds that people are reporting various levels of success with: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5068
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by wanderr 6y ago
This article was written today, in response to an article that made it onto HN 7 years ago?
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by wanderr 6y ago
php-fpm is typically configured to restart those processes after some number of requests, just in case there is such a leak. But I have not seen those leaks happen between process restarts, state is still wiped clean between requests, so le
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by wanderr 6y ago
This is true. As far as I understand, the only issue with memory leaks have been around super long running processes that create cyclical references that cause refcounting to not "notice" that something is free. I have never had a
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by wanderr 6y ago
'The coronavirus pandemic “significantly impacted our revenue,”' - Most of their revenue comes from search engines paying to be the default. Are there any details on why the pandemic would have a significant impact on that?
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by wanderr 6y ago
I've worked at really small startups (<20 engineers) and pretty large companies (>1k engineers). At small companies we have absolutely been able to get away with 0 unit tests while maintaining agility - being able to do major rea
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by wanderr 6y ago
Specifically in the Boeing case, you'd think that the software quality issues on the airplane side would trigger anyone doing business with them to be more skeptical about their software.
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by wanderr 6y ago
If no one understands what it does, it's not perfectly good code is it? Of course there are rare cases where code cannot be simplified, made more readable or self explanatory and in those cases comments are vital. But the aim should be
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by wanderr 6y ago
I think my use cases are pretty varied, anything from looking for pictures of a place I'm considering going hiking, looking for different views of a product I'm considering purchasing, looking for other examples of an artists art,
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by wanderr 6y ago
I don't think it's that simple. When a user goes back to image search results, is it because they are unsatisfied with the result they clicked on, or are they looking for even more, hoping to compare? And when a user closes out in
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by wanderr 6y ago
By that definition no lawyer operating in good faith is. You're not arguing about whether the defendant is on the wrong side of the law.

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