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   by xena 3y ago

   https://xeiaso.net Near 400 posts, writing about a lot of stuff. Here's some of my favorites over the years: - https://xeiaso.net/blog/anything-message-queue - Anything can be a message queue if you us
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   by xena 3y ago

   My AI generated novel via automuse is better: https://xena.greedo.xeserv.us/books/network-stranded.html
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   by xena 3y ago

   Yeah, as a professional writer that is somewhat acclaimed (my domain has a lot of karma here) I'm not worried about ChatGPT. It's going to be a rough transition, but I feel that my genuinely having the skills not only means I can
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   by xena 3y ago

   I'd be willing to argue that "sentient" is a bad word. These creatures are capable of transmitting complicated ideas. That means they have wisdom. This means they are sapient, not sentient. Sentient means they are able to res
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   Of course the network can be a filesystem(xeiaso.net)

   3 points by xena 3y ago|0 comments
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   by xena 3y ago

   Do I need to email you with more details about my usecase? I'm seriously considering having hacker News referers use some absolutely terrible Medium clone CSS with absolutely no soul just to stop the harassment that you are facilitatin
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   by xena 3y ago

   Not anymore, all links are noreferrer now.
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   by xena 3y ago

   I'm pretty sure Hacker News isn't the target audience for this post.
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   by xena 3y ago

   This seems to be a persistent problem. Can you modify the site's code to autodead comments to my blog that contain the word "furry" or something? It is tiring to continue to see people that are NOT in my intended target audie
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    by xena 3y ago

    In most societies it's considered impolite to barge into someone else's house and decry the decor as tacky.
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    by xena 3y ago

    Yeah for the record I'm not talking about delay loops, I'm talking about hardcoded sleeps in test code that cause random failures when unspoken invariants change. DevOps is a unique blend of hellfire that is almost unfair to compa
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    by xena 3y ago

    The issues were "inserting data into ElasticSearch" and "searching data out of ElasticSearch" using their official SDKs and integrations. If this isn't core product functionality, what is?
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    by xena 3y ago

    You'd need Rust's type system to truly express the way that ElasticSearch uses JSON. I don't think it would be worth the effort. I'd probably use the json macro with serde.
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    by xena 3y ago

    As someone who is regularly falling victim to the rightward lurch (for having committed the dastardly crime of the wrong hormone activating in-utero), the only reason I don't actively block Hacker News readers is that I make ad money o
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    Tech Debt Metaphor Maximalism(apenwarr.ca)

    2 points by xena 3y ago|0 comments
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    by xena 3y ago

    Because I thought it could be fun if people took the bait lol
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    by xena 3y ago

    So I can design it, what would such a thing look like?
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    by xena 3y ago

    I was hoping someone would notice this by arguing about my pricing estimates in the arguments, but nobody did so I'm gonna spoil the surprise: if you have JavaScript enabled your browser will render slightly different prices if you vie
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    by xena 3y ago

    I'm pretty sure this is still the case. I'm not sure how cross-platform that assumption is (it won't work in Go where it has heapstacks I don't think), but classically yeah the stack is put is slightly faster memory with
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    by xena 3y ago

    you what
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    by xena 3y ago

    Thank you for your feedback. I will increase the thing.
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    by xena 3y ago

    My read time estimate code is here: https://github.com/Xe/site/blob/aa3608afa6c62695ca0ab139f823... I've been trying to play with the constants over the years to make the read time estimate more "ac
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    by xena 3y ago

    It’s unfortunate that you were offended by the cartoon shark in the programming article. You are entitled to your own preferences and expectations, but so am I. I have the right to express myself creatively and share my content with the wor
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    by xena 3y ago

    Wait, are you saying that AWS S3 is turing complete? How the hell if so.
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    by xena 3y ago

    Here's the key paragraph in the article: > In Linux, you can create a TUN/TAP device to let applications control how network or datagram links work. In essence, it lets you create a file descriptor that you can read packets fro
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    by xena 3y ago

    Is this a challenge.
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    by xena 3y ago

    I’m sorry to hear that you felt offended by the cartoon shark in the article about programming. I understand that you may have different preferences and expectations for the content you consume. However, I hope you can also respect my creat
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    by xena 3y ago

    Here's the secret for why my cartoon dialogues work so well: I use the Socratic method. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34461459
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    by xena 3y ago

    Yes, it's actually somewhat of a decent (if cursed) message queue for many usecases too. Not to mention the debuggability (you already know how to use an email client).
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    by xena 3y ago

    I was gonna add Route 53 (to have each node set its own DNS record), but I'm saving that for part 2. Be afraid, part 2 is coming.