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by wlll 3y ago
> To me that's the most interesting quote of the podcast and that's the impression I had gotten before reading this quote. Sounds like they received valuable feedback along the way and ignored it on purpose. We don't reall
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by wlll 3y ago
> Sure, you can do it, but why? Re. Solid cache they effectively answered this in the post. The cost is less meaning they can cache more so p95 response time goes down. If you're not constrained my money you can just buy a bigger me
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by wlll 3y ago
I don't think I agree with you, but it's hard to know one way or the other because you've not justified any of your positions, just offered opinions. Can you back up your statements? I'd be really interested in that.
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by wlll 3y ago
> It doesn't mean the opposite, though. It does in my English though, and it really really grates when I hear it. Just because a minority of people have started abusing the language doesn't mean I have to go along with it. >
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by wlll 3y ago
> The majority of the world doesn't speak English And yet here we are. To paraphrase David Mitchell ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw ), the problem is not so much the prevelance of American English, which
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by wlll 3y ago
I simply don't trust Microsoft not to push an update later that forces people with local only accounts to convert them to Microsoft accounts.
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by wlll 3y ago
Location: UK (though have worked for US companies remotely coast to coast since 2008) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, but will travel Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Aurora, Go, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Linux Sysadmin, he
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by wlll 3y ago
> you can do anything once I'm not sure that's the quote. You can't after all eat your own head, even once.
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by wlll 3y ago
Yeah, but companies don't get to decide how language is used. Apple can try all they want to demand that people say shit like "Use iPad to do it" or "Experience iPad" but that's just what they want and they can
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by wlll 3y ago
> threaded messaging app I hated threads in slack when they were introduced. However, as with a lot of things (new site designs etc) it helps to give them time to settle in before you decide if you really like them or not and I'm ha
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by wlll 3y ago
Honestly, thinking about how contracts have gone in the past, I think a fair amount of the value I provide is in giving a shit about stuff.
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by wlll 3y ago
I don't know what you mean by "Static typing is not webscale". > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39159481 Bugs exist in all code written in all programming languages and you will find bugs in programs
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by wlll 3y ago
I noticed that we weren't validating backups at a company I used to work at so I did a /really/ simple hack where I checked that the backups were within a certain number of bytes in size of the previous dump. Literally a coup
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by wlll 3y ago
> Ruby's entire programming model was based on the premise that language speed does not matter since most of the time you are waiting on IO / Network. Couple of points. 1) You probably mean Ruby on Rails and not Ruby and 2) tha
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by wlll 3y ago
Go ahead…
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by wlll 3y ago
I believe Github still use Rails for their main application. Spinning services out into microservices, even ones that are other languages, isn't really a sign that Rails isn't working for them, it's just what happens when com
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by wlll 3y ago
This is headset, app and person dependent. I've done 8 hours in Elite: Dangerous (sat down, can't remember the headset) and well over 4 hours in Fallout 4 VR (stood up and moving around, Valve Index). Having demoed VR at my old of
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by wlll 3y ago
Sure. "no moderation", massive problem. I'm not hosting my (admittedly limited) content on a platform that lets my videos get posted in proximity to scams, CSAM etc. If I'm going to ask people to go to somewhere to see m
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by wlll 3y ago
Same sentiment here. Something to compete with YouTube would be great but I'm not going anywhere near anything crypto related, the whole ecosystem stinks to me.
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by wlll 3y ago
Aren't you just shifting the problem somewhere else? I assume VPN providers have to keep effectively the same records as ISPs so you've just created an extra hop to get the data?
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by wlll 3y ago
Here's a guess at some of the reasons this has got people worked up to the point that someone wrote an article in the LA Times: 1. They're being hypocritical. They're making porn that they presumably stand by artistically, an
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by wlll 3y ago
UK here, called my phone company many many years ago and had them disable voicemail. It's now impossible to leave me a voicemail. It's fantastic. In all those years I've never (that I know of) missed an important call, people
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by wlll 3y ago
Ah, fair enough, I misread.
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by wlll 3y ago
Contaminating of the two ecosystems would be a pretty big one. The panama canal has the advantage of being fed by rainwater from the middle flowing outwards, so keeps the two oceans /somewhat/ separate.
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by wlll 3y ago
According to another poster about 2 weeks at ~ $285k per day, so about $3,990,000 extra. Depending on the cargo and late penalties $4.5 mil is in the range of acceptable charges.
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by wlll 3y ago
Couple of relevant points: - On the new locks they recycle ~60% of the water used already, it's a smart system. - Another commenter pointed out that they have to allow fresh water through the lock system to prevent salt water contamina
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Implementing Mario's Stack Blur 15 times in C++ (with tests and benchmarks)(melatonin.dev)
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by wlll 3y ago
> Windows … come up behind others when previously they didn't. m1 16" MBP here, this happened to me on the last OS version too. Still happens on Sonoma. For about 1 year (a few years back) I had an issue where on my three exter
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by wlll 3y ago
I don't get it, how does this help? Is it common for people to have a favourite n letter word? I don't.
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by wlll 3y ago
Yep, this is the majority of my experience, and clawing a way back from that sustainably has been a fairly large part of my consulting/contracting career over the years.

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