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by wvh 4y ago
Pleasant imperfection. High-end roll-off. Natural compression. (Speaking as a musician, not an audiophile.) Of course, all of that can be emulated quite faithfully now.
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by wvh 4y ago
Sounds like Go. Just write code, then see if any obvious interfaces pop up and if you need them.
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by wvh 4y ago
There's a shift away from programs that run on actual computers to software that runs on clusters, a large conceptual computer. Whether ultimately Kubernetes-the-software is the answer or not I don't know, but I don't think w
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by wvh 4y ago
PBS SpaceTime has been running for quite some time already. Beyond the obvious space/time and physics aspect, it's also a good example of a fact-based show that shows scientific method and critical thinking in action, without unne
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by wvh 4y ago
Software such as Kubernetes uses it with different processes writing to the same data fields, but different subsets. If you have a typical API with only one main blob that gets updated in its entirety, you might not avoid conflicts using th
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by wvh 4y ago
That's true, but XML tends to map rather poorly to basic data types in common programming languages. With JSON you usually get to work with native objects or map structures; with XML, you're stuck with either tree or event APIs, w
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by wvh 4y ago
Patch and variations are popular in software such as Kubernetes, where multiple actors are writing to the same field sets. In distributed or highly concurrent environments it's quite likely to get a conflict on update, but in those sit
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by wvh 4y ago
Same here. I don't generally have a lot of faith in supplements beyond a diverse and reasonably balanced diet or nor do I think it's a good idea to make uninformed decisions risking to disturb the body's natural equilibrium w
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by wvh 4y ago
Because people tell you their name if they want to, and give you their thoughts if they choose to do so. Having your name available to all at any time and anything you've ever said regardless of context or without limits to the intende
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by wvh 4y ago
Speaking from a northern European perspective, there are a lot of systems in place that guarantee healthcare, housing and affordable or even free study opportunities. Those systems, funded by taxes, enjoy broad support, and to some extent s
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by wvh 4y ago
Yet asking while spitting someone in the face is not going to work well either. If your base principle is that the other person is privileged scum (even though there might be some truth to that in some cases), there's not really anywhe
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by wvh 4y ago
The principle of not letting a company or government have more power over a device you own that holds your private actions, whereabouts and even inner thoughts you communicate with those closest to you. I'm not paranoid, but it's
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by wvh 5y ago
There's technical knowledge, and there's ecosystem knowledge. To know which applications/libraries are available and suitable for a certain task, and what their individual strengths and weaknesses are, is a very different set
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by wvh 5y ago
Taking the night train is a common way to travel within Finland. By train, it takes around 10 hours and 1000-1100km north to Lapland (taking Helsinki-Levi as example). It's possible to take a local flight at vastly higher prices and no
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by wvh 5y ago
All these architecture and workflow methods (Agile, scrum, TDD, DDD, Kanban, even 12-factor) have a few useful and logical concepts at their base. Then people create a dogmatic religion around them, often without even understanding the why.
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by wvh 5y ago
I did this too for many years. I recently reversed the filter logic from whitelist to blacklist since spam filters nowadays seem efficient enough that passing through `name*@domain.tld` by default and only blocking those few addresses that
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by wvh 5y ago
You wouldn't interrupt a fireman that is on active duty in a mission, though. "Stop extinguishing that fire, put down the hose and have a random meeting with me who is not directly involved in the actual process".
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by wvh 5y ago
I'd say Golang is a systems language if you consider the system to be interconnected services, sort of like a C for the HTTP and Kubernetes age. It has better performance than typical scripting languages, but it's probably not mea
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by wvh 5y ago
I hope you have a lot of coffee.
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by wvh 5y ago
I don't disagree, but a problem can be solved – or at least improved upon, because I'm not sure this can be solved – on multiple fronts. Leaving the question of whether containment is possible on the internet aside for a minute, w
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by wvh 5y ago
This might not be a popular opinion for some, but can't we move as a society beyond the point where having a naked picture online would not be upsetting or harmful for the person involved? I can't help but think that if we were al
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by wvh 5y ago
I think you summed it up quite well. At this moment, there does not seem to be a space between the corporate you-are-the-product mainstream and the weirdos with an agenda crowd at the edges for a person to just be, speak and think in a rela
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by wvh 5y ago
Not sure people over 40 don't want to learn new things; they're likely just more interested in stable long-term technologies and investing their time wisely rather than hopping onto the newest fad all the time. With age comes unde
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by wvh 5y ago
> This is Microsoft. This is not freedom. As a non-technical client that just wants to make a spreadsheet and share it with the rest of the corporation, that perhaps doesn't have to matter (as long as you can afford the ecosystem).
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by wvh 5y ago
It seems that people out during lock-down are quite often those set on trouble and reckless behaviour. (That's a casual observation, not a moral statement.) That's also the reason some European countries have full lock-down, as in
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by wvh 5y ago
Probably having to check if the actual disk entries changed is what slows it down. I wonder if it would be possible with nowadays' memory sizes to keep all metadata in memory as a write-through cache. Not sure if it'd be worth it
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by wvh 5y ago
Because some of us started out in the nineties and like to get a quick update on what is possible in case we need it somewhere and web design isn't our main responsibility. In fact, the single most important resource I wish for of this
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by wvh 5y ago
I concur with what you say, but rather than social threat, I think of it as over-stimulation and sensory overload. Rather than being socially introverted, to me the challenge is dealing with the sounds, visuals, distractions and general cha
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by wvh 5y ago
I played with Cue last year and while I think the concept is interesting, I've been struggling a bit with actually finding a good application for the technology. I'd be more interested in using it for validation as a less brain-de
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by wvh 5y ago
Have you ever tried to set up HA environments before Kubernetes and friends, let alone anything that can do failover and some form of auto-scaling? Kubernetes might have some unwarranted complexity, but let's not pretend it was a walk

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