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by wizofaus 3y ago
iframes didn't become common across browsers much earlier than XMLHttpRequest from what I recall - maybe a year or so? But I certainly remember playing similar tricks to get smoother page updates, in some cases even using actual FRAME
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> My guess it that this is to model OOP-based systems: Attributes are for the constructor or a certain class while the children represent dependency injections. Can't say I've ever thought of it that way - attributes just seeme
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> This was the good-old-days when critical features were crammed in just days before a release Fascinating article, but really? I would have thought "cramming in" critical features days before release was more common these da
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by wizofaus 3y ago
If only the men are killed because women are considered useful, is that really so different from men being killed simply for being men? As for the whole whether "Kill all <historically persecuted/minority group>" should
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by wizofaus 3y ago
That would actually be my preference TBH. Failing quickly at startup is usually far better than unpredictable behaviour later on, particularly if it's a long-running service. Though I've always thought that the behaviour of tools
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Depends what you make and whether you consider all costs, including space/ appliances/utility costs needed for storage/ preparation, time buying/ preparing ingredients etc. There are definitely fast food options that are
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by wizofaus 3y ago
There's tiered levels of what's called "stamp duty" in Australia (at least some states anyway), which is a tax charged on all property purchases paid by the buyer. And some council rates (effectively a type of property t
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Interesting but certainly disagree with the reasoning, that somehow having to explicitly discard the unused parameters would be "burdensome", certainly compared to the need to explicitly declare types for complex arbitrary data st
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Ah, that semi-answers my question - but why? Surely the signature of parseInt doesn't match what map requires for its function parameter?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Is this problem avoided in Typescript? I assume it still wouldn't be if the function used with map happened to take the number & types of arguments that matched how map was declared, but that's rather less likely. Actually I&
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Any more than that of countless other words, including plenty that simultaneously carry two opposite meanings? (cleave, sanction, hew etc)
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Definitely country-specific, I'd expect it to be used to describe areas (and football stadiums be used to describe "number of people"). But footy fields in Australia are typically oval shaped! "Olympic swimming pools&quo
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Describing somebody as an electrical engineer and noting that he goes by a second name that readers may be more familiar with is an ad hominem? If the "data" is genuinely interesting then I'm happy to leave it to the experts
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I can't remember the last time I came across "woke" used as a compliment. If it really was originally Trump that twisted it into a slur, he's achieved a genuine widespread (indeed, international) change in the language
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by wizofaus 3y ago
True, if you're talking unrestricted native code, I'd essentially agree with the OP's implication that only the OS (and the CPU itself) is capable of providing that sort of memory protection. I guess I was just wondering wha
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I knew as soon as I posted that someone would find proof it wasn't Churchill...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Note that realclimatescience.com is nothing to do with realclimate.org (run by actual climatologists), but run by Tony Heller, an electrical engineer who calls himself Steven Goddard (see https://www.desmog.com/steven-goddar
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Obligatory Churchill quote ..."This is the type of errant pedantry up with which I will not put".
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by wizofaus 3y ago
We're not creating them ourselves, they're created by IIS.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Is that saying global variables are shared between AppDomains on .NET core then? Scary if so, we have a bunch of .NET framework code we're looking at porting to .NET core in the near future, and I know it relies on AppDomain separation
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I certainly wasn't suggesting it would make sense to rewrite Postgres to run on .NET (using any language, even managed C++, assuming anyone still uses that). Yes, it's inherent in the C/C++ language that it's able to ran
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Not claiming they're as good, just noting that there are alternative ways to provide memory barriers, though obviously if it's not enforced at the language/runtime level, it requires either super strong developer disciple or
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by wizofaus 3y ago
You're implying that only an OS can provide memory separation between units of execution - at least in .NET AppDomains give you the same protection within a single process, so why couldn't postgres have its own such mechanism? I&#
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Would you describe it as a "large-scale microservices architecture operating successfully" though?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Yep, that was the exact article I'd read!
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I literally just read a very convincing post, with good examples, on why relying solely on natural keys is rarely a good idea. Nothing in that repo convinced me otherwise (and alarm bells certainly went off when I saw a table called Species
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by wizofaus 3y ago
That is the sort of thing I'd think LLMs (with suitable training data, that's not overrun with promotional material) would be good at. I've had ChatGPT recommend technologies to me before that I hadn't thought of or didn
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by wizofaus 3y ago
One major criticism I have of the way modules work in many stacks is that the dependencies between modules are hard to visualise and/or manage. Certainly in the C#/.NET world it's very easy to accidentally end up with one mo
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Out of curiosity, do the microservices at Amazon typically call each other in an orchestrated fashion (i.e. microservice A knows it needs some particular functionality and knows to call microservice B to get it), or is in more asynchronous&
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Are there actually many real-life examples of large-scale microservices architecture operating successfully with a range of different languages in use? I did (briefly) work at such a shop, I can't say the experience was particularly r

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