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by zaphar 3y ago
I think you vastly underestimate how many people use SQLite for this. The number of times I've seen someone boot up an entire Mysql Server fora dedicated app is far larger than the number of times I've seen them just reach for sq
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I think in terms of the implementation keeping them separate and composable is very useful. I think the marketing around it could have emphasized it a little more but that's water under the bridge really.
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by zaphar 3y ago
It's an umbrella term for a set of technologies. Each of them can be used in isolation from the others if you want though. You don't have to use shadow DOM if you don't want it. You don't have to use custom elements if y
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by zaphar 3y ago
I remember you and Patrick hosting a meetup of HN folks once where we talked about Starfighter. I remember thinking that it was an excellent way to hire but every place I've been I've had trouble getting management and HR to buy i
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by zaphar 3y ago
Nah, currency controls are a significant method of economic power. My point is unchanged.
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Currency controls are the most effective mechanism we currently have. I don't see this idea as absurd at all.
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I am biased because I see a lot of value in the current fiat system that Bitcoin directly impacts. I am also biased because I don't buy the arguments that the current fiat system has enough issues to indicate it needs replacement. As a
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I'm curious, if you have an actual example where I'm wrong or if you just want to win on opinion here. Because I'm fine having a different opinion than you but pretending like, in this example, the behavior of the two groups
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Israel did not pretend they hadn't fired the missile in that case. You may disagree with whether it was deliberate or not but you have no evidence that it was. Which fine, that's a mental framework you are choosing for yourself. H
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Both groups do it all the time. The difference is that, Isreal doesn't lie about it when they do it while Hamas lies about pretty much everything.
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The ten year anniversary of the Healthcare.gov rescue(pauladamsmith.com)
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On what basis do you believe the explosion was more likely to be Israeli than Hamas? From what I've been able to glean it seems like the exact opposite. 1. Hamas is extremely willing to sacrifice their own people in pursuit of their go
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by zaphar 3y ago
I don't understand why people find this idea compelling. I find it without any supporting evidence that this is how it would turn out. They hypothesis is unproven and doesn't match my own observed anecdata around how people functi
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Porting accounts is very much not well supported. You can move the account but moving the messages/followers/following and other data is very much hit and miss. The protocol doesn't support that part. Bluesky's protocol
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by zaphar 3y ago
I always liked the TAP protocol for test reporting. I think part of it is because the protocol is so succinct and makes no assumptions about how the testing framework works under the hood.
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I did not only blame the unions for the current state of things. I merely stated that they stand in the way of one of the potential solutions to the current problem. I don't find the debate of whether there is a hypothetical world wh
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by zaphar 3y ago
Why is decode_* not a nice design?
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Yes, and it's highly applicable. But how exactly do you fix that practically speaking? Especially if you are a parent trying to ensure that: 1. Your own child get's a good education. 2. Other people's children also have the o
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by zaphar 3y ago
Continuing to poor money into a system that isn't working isn't a solution to the problem. School vouchers offer the potential to poor that money into a system that is working instead. Maybe that richer parent is trying to help
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I'm not sure thats true for most of the development people work on. Most line of business apps are pretty much the same for the most part. The specific domain may differ a bit but the domain doesn't seem to impact the design of th
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by zaphar 3y ago
I wonder sometimes if this is the cause or effect of the lack of consensus in software engineering. There are so many topics about which the software engineering community is somewhat split. Typechecked or not typechecked, SQL or Nosql, Obj
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by zaphar 3y ago
Out of not cheaper to run a postgres server than an embedded sqlite DB. There is more to the cost than just the software license.
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by zaphar 3y ago
When the replacement house has a new random set of N self-combusting components where N>1 I'm not sure it's any safer.
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by zaphar 3y ago
Nearly all of the internet's core protocols reject bad/malformed packets. They don't do a best effort to figure out what the sender "intended" they just reject the packet. Some of the most popular instances of doing
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by zaphar 3y ago
Is it possible this is not recent and just didn't age well? I don't see a date of creation or update on it so it's hard to tell.
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by zaphar 3y ago
If we assume this is serious then it falls into a division I see in a lot of areas. Catch errors sooner or Catch errors later. The Catch errors later group tends to take the position that Because I have to catch some errors later anyway I
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by zaphar 3y ago
Bitcoin literally uses voting to on which branch to use as it's consensus tie break mechanism. It depends on the value of the network incentivizing people to vote in a way that keeps the network trustworthy. I don't know if you ca
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by zaphar 3y ago
If your boss was assaulting a co-worker with his fists, what would you do? I would stand in his way with my own fists. You say I have privilege which I suppose I do. I have it because I worked on myself to get them and stood up for
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by zaphar 3y ago
It's more that after seeing that result of starting with those premises they don't like the 2 premises anymore. It would be like me really liking the experience of eating potator chips all day right up until the point that I disco
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It's not musical chairs. My average tenure is somewhere around 5 years. I've worked at companies for 7+ years without burning out or getting close to it. So yeah, I think it's a sustainable pace for quite a while. I'm al

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