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by why-el 4y ago
What happens during downtime for maintenance?
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by why-el 4y ago
I like types, but I like types even more when they are at the edge of two systems and both systems understand them. For instance, in the past we ran Rails APIs and a lot of mobile apps consumed them, and there was a lot of math involved. We
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by why-el 4y ago
I am not sure if you are agreeing or disagreeing. If you agree, I'll take it. If your point is that we should try and fix it and not succumb to "Stockholm Syndrome", I say precisely that also, in the second part of my comment
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by why-el 4y ago
I don't know, risky answer but I will give it nonetheless. This advice is given to many candidates, and I agree that Leet Code interviewing is bad and the industry needs to work on something better, but in the meantime, if you are star
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by why-el 4y ago
There is a lot of advice here, all good, but also I wonder if you yourself were given this feedback by someone else or this is your own somewhat subjective opinion. I am a non-native English speaker myself and 6-8 years ago I've mistak
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by why-el 4y ago
This is what my strategy is more or less, but for emails. If a startup sends me a "Welcome to X", I treat it as "Don't forget to unsubscribe from X".
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by why-el 4y ago
If a Spotify PM is collecting feedback: If I go to a song's Radio to try and discover similar songs, do not play me songs I already "liked" (ones with the heart icon highlighted), it defeats the purpose of going to the radio.
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by why-el 4y ago
I made the same half-serious joke about Gitlab since it came out: they do not understand visual contrast, and a github user coming to gitlab is instantly both overwhelmed by how much info is in their face and how blended everything is in th
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by why-el 4y ago
This is the response I got: > Sorry, that part of the email wasn't clear. We don't compare passwords between Heroku accounts, this was more of encouragement so customers will hopefully practice good password hygiene.
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by why-el 4y ago
Ah I see, that I don't know (and I misread the original, quite correctly concerned post, my apologies). I am a customer and I will follow up with them about this. If I were to guess, they mean same accounts within the same organization
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by why-el 4y ago
multiple salts can be stored, no? and they can still figure out the same password. Google does the same, even going back multiple passwords in the past ("this password was used previously X years ago").
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by why-el 4y ago
In your rebuttal, you used a concept that necessarily assumes time ("how fast or slow", i.e. speed) to argue against the existence of time?
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by why-el 5y ago
Wonderful, thanks for sharing.
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by why-el 5y ago
This connects nicely with Dan's article from yesterday [1], if only tangentially. I think a good habit is to instill a mindset whereby there is a single metric for cost, possibly associated with your main product, and keep track of tha
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by why-el 5y ago
> Humans who learn to comprehend language must learn about the underlying statistical structure of language This comes up a lot, but is the evidence really there for it? Granted, we (humans) have mental models for "this is most like
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by why-el 5y ago
> Multiple concurrent index creations on a single table will not return from either CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY ... statement until the slowest one completes. I am not sure this is true anymore, or at least, it was improved in v14 to only
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by why-el 5y ago
Strong reaction. In general we shouldn't discourage exploration and moving the needle forward. I actually agree with you that the language is somewhat stronger and the onus is on them to live up to it, but at the same time there is a l
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by why-el 5y ago
Postgres's dominance is well deserved, of course. My only concerns with it, both are actively worked on, are bloat management (significant for update heavy workloads and programmers used to the MySQL model of rollback segments) and the
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by why-el 5y ago
I call these macro-services. They work nicely, but only if you want long enough, in my experience.
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by why-el 5y ago
I give them a card I grab from privacy.com that has a set amount, when I want to cancel, I set the card's amount to zero. They fail to charge it after a few attempts. The end.
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by why-el 5y ago
The gem does not solve these issues, merely tells you about them (and even then it can't catch all of them, only the ones that Rails defines).
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by why-el 5y ago
Ah, fair reading, thanks. As Postgres supports that level of isolation as well, I was thrown off a bit. but your phrasing makes sense.
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by why-el 5y ago
I don't know if anybody from CockroachDB is reading this but their article[1] on serializable transactions is somewhat questionable, as it compares CockroachDB's Serializable to Postgres's Read Committed, which seems to imply
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by why-el 5y ago
I think this is the crux of the issue. People like Chomsky argue the same way, that is, sure a statistical model can mimic a phenomenon to an increasingly likely degree, but the question he concerns himself with is "how and why it [lan
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by why-el 6y ago
This is demonstrated rather famously in the Sokal affair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair .
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by why-el 6y ago
I think the only correct quote here is "Now they don't have two problems."
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by why-el 6y ago
Well that's what privacy.com (where this blog post is written) does, unless you checked it out and it's not what you want? I use them daily.
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by why-el 6y ago
I wonder if the new wonders coming out from linux (io_uring...) would have made this a better design, but that work in the kernel is still in active development.
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by why-el 6y ago
The same OS limits would apply to new instances, unless they knew the root cause and forced new instances to be configured with larger descriptor limits, which is....well, hindsight is 20/20, no?
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by why-el 6y ago
Yes, reminds me of a European court that ruled[1] Subway bread is not really bread because it contains too much sugar. [1] https://www.npr.org/2020/10/03/919831116/irish-court-rules-s...

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