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by wwright 6y ago
Equally and fully enforcing laws seems about as likely as equally and fully eliminating bugs from all software to me
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by wwright 6y ago
My company forked Firefox and man in the middled an entire fleet of edge kiosks so they could run Flash apps over TLS 1.0 on Firefox 17 in 2018. True story
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by wwright 6y ago
How was he protecting a walled garden by insisting on open W3C standards rather than partnering with a company to ship a proprietary VM in the browser? Apple can be shitty, but effecting change is harder when we try to give them shit for th
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by wwright 6y ago
Oh no, cops are fucked over for sure. They suffer in many ways themselves. They also benefit in other ways, and IMO are not innocent, but they are definitely fucked over by how we do policing.
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by wwright 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what is the “crisis of the last decade?” Honest question here, I’m personally not aware of any “crisis” that hasn’t been ongoing for several decades before the 2010s.
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by wwright 6y ago
I would argue that this applies to the people being policed as well, if not more so. A black man has little recourse if he is assaulted by a police man, or if his wife or child is killed by them. Families are torn apart by drug laws and pri
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by wwright 6y ago
Pay doesn’t necessarily fix individual motivation, but it does create significantly more competition, as well as making the job itself more lucrative for the most passionate. (ie, attract and retain better workers)
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by wwright 6y ago
You can avoid “bugs introduced by the merge” by requiring a fast forward/semi-linear merge (ie, the source branch must be a superset of the destination branch). Any testing or validation of the source branch is therefore valid for the
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by wwright 6y ago
I think the comment you are responding to was effectively advocating for LESS surveillance, for what it’s worth.
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by wwright 6y ago
Yes, which makes it a schema
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by wwright 6y ago
I believe it also handles degraded connections (ie mobile devices and remote/rural/developing areas) much better than HTTP 2.
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by wwright 6y ago
So you are saying that although black people are around 1/8 of the US population, we should hire only around 2% black people, because otherwise we would be wasting more intelligent people on manual labor? You realize the implicit argum
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by wwright 6y ago
Firefox isn’t exactly fair to include; it has a notoriously complicated build system. Supporting a Firefox build doesn’t necessarily mean that one has general support for Rust.
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by wwright 6y ago
Interleaving multiple commands/stdout and stderr as well.
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by wwright 6y ago
This makes me wonder if there is some sort of relationship between currying and row polymorphism; that could be pretty sweet to capture succinctly in a language
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by wwright 6y ago
I think that it’s worthwhile to note that the author of the linked article has equated a child protesting climate change with systematic child rape. That’s very helpful context for reading his other work.
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by wwright 6y ago
Humanity would also be way more efficient if we all lived in identical houses, wore identical clothes, ate identical meals, and worked identical jobs. Look at all the redundant work we do with different industries, restaurants, clothing, ar
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by wwright 6y ago
FWIW, Rust gives you the same simplicity (no data races at runtime) with threads as well. (Not necessarily on topic, but if you’re really excited about dodging data races, I figured it would give you something fun to look at!)
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by wwright 6y ago
AFAIK Bazel and Nix are orthogonal and actually go well together. Nix is great for packaging and environments, but is anemic at actual build tooling (a big one: no incremental builds within a package). Bazel does very little to manage the e
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by wwright 6y ago
That seemed to be what they were describing, but with dynamic dependency detection via introspection.
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by wwright 6y ago
Interesting that they don't talk about Bazel. Isn't skipping tests like this one of its biggest selling points, particularly for monorepo users?
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by wwright 6y ago
Oh, I thought this was going to be about Tesla and Edison.
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by wwright 6y ago
I was stating that plain Linux isn’t an alternative to K8S, not that one should always use Kubernetes ;)
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by wwright 6y ago
I'd recommend you take a look at how Bazel works (Meson may be similar if you look further, but I haven't used it much myself). The default interface you get is relatively "high-level", but everything behind the scenes i
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by wwright 6y ago
“Plain old Linux” really isn’t an alternative to K8S though. You would need a load balancer, service discovery, a distributed scheduler, a configuration management system (K8S is a very strong alternative to building things around Ansible I
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by wwright 6y ago
Not “we all” thought — plenty of people have been saying this would happen for years. Specifically, epidemiologists and black people. Maybe we should listen more!
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by wwright 6y ago
Thank you for the recommendation! I have been thinking about this _exact_ topic a lot recently (for obvious reasons).
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by wwright 6y ago
If TypeScript compile times feel long to you, I hope you never have to work with a poor build system with a truly expensive language. A clean build with 8 cores at work takes around 10 minutes on my machine. Without parallelization it’s alm
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by wwright 6y ago
Python 3.9 is actually switching to a PEG :)
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by wwright 6y ago
I'm not an expert, but from my reading, I believe PEGs typically have the best bang for their buck here. Have you read much on them? (Python 3.9 is actually moving to a PEG for their parser!)

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