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> What am I doing wrong? My coding ranges from "exotic" to "boiler plate" on any given day. > Create a boilerplate Zephyr project skeleton, for Pi Pico Yea... Asking Claude to help you with a low documentation buil
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> cooling is moving the heat completely outside of the building while it’s still liquid. We have been doing this for decades, it's how refrigerants work. The part that is new is not having an air-interface in the middle of the cycle
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I have seen a few dozen Kafka installs. I have seen one Kafka instal that was really the best tool for the job. More than a hand full of them could have been replaced by Redis, and in the worst cases could have been a table in Postgres. If
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This is a chord, this is another chord, this is a third chord. Now start a band. I dont think tech ever expected to have a "punk" phase but this is it. Do the math on how big your app has to be to make 240k a year (before tax). No
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> Building a scalable systems doesn't take extra time anymore, Except you bleed money all over the place to do it this way. AWS (and every other cloud provider) is still pricing its product like its 2013 > you just need an engine
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You're talking about two products and two companies with (initially, and still core) well defined domains. The languages, the architectural choices, that were made by these orgs early on were allowed to "stick". There was no
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Before it was "hustle culture" it was "dot-com culture" or "startup culture" or "IPO culture". There are places where this sort of push is, manipulative. See the gaming industry where people are in it
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> In other cases and if the spec doesn't align with reality after implementation has begun or unforeseen issues pop up, the spec needs revision, does it not? Yes and then it gets pumped back to the top of the waterfall and goes thro
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> It turns out, to describe a system in enough detail to implement the system, you need to use a programming language. Go back to design patterns. Not the Gang of Four, rather the book where the name and concept was lifted from. What you
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Sooo you're never going to be able to do what MS did to IBM? You're never going to be able to do what AMD is doing to Intel?
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> We need a scale reform for modern businesses - platforms and companies like Microsoft are logistically incapable of providing good service to their customers, or moderating hundreds of millions or even billions of users, effectively se
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1y ago
> I know many talented engineers who hate AI coding. People whos primary skill is coding, hate AI coding. No talented engineer hates AI coding. The distinction is this: a coder knows how to use their tools, an engineer knows how to work
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> I created a reciprocating poking mechanism that uses a flexible glue stick With the most cost effective and creative "wear item" ever.
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> The internet we knew was open and not trusted ... monopolistic behavior Monopolistic is the wrong word, because you have the problem backwards. Cloudflare isnt helping Apple/Google... It's helping its paying consumers and tho
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So yes this AI thing is finally validating my product idea that the engineers kept saying NO to. It's not just that it wants to find a solution, it's not just validating, it very rarely says "no". Its not saying no to t
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Im sorry but the classics never go out of style: "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems."
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So we are still solving the same issues that DAP did 35 years ago. We're still dragging x500 around. > Integration remains a persistent challenge Modern architecture looks like a fractal of those early Unix/mainframe systems. W
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We sure have. And it is a money pit. And then you have things like this: https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/01/10/two-sail... It's proof that you can build a robust and safe reactor,
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> Do the people making buying decisions at this scale care if their sysadmins have better tools? Look at who oxide is selling to and for what reasons. It's about compute + software at rack scales. It does not matter if it is good it
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream_pipelines_sabotage NS1 was hit at the same time as well. NS2 had not been activated and NS1 was undergoing work at the time.
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> If something happens to Taiwan, This isn't really a workable argument any more. As examples: https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-quartz-hurricane-5... https://archive.is/sM16Y The globa
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Data centers are cap ex Except the power and cooling demands of the current crop of GPU's means you are not fitting full density in a rack. There is a real material increase in fiber use because of your now more distributed equipment.
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I'm going to assume based on the authors name, and the sources name that this is all very "western". We have gotten very good at exporting all the misery elsewhere while we medicate and entertain ourselves and pretend that th
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There hasn't been enough real "UX" work since before 2008. Most companies arent running focus groups. They haven't put their designs in front of real users (real usability testing) and gotten feed back on them. Yes onlin
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> First feed prices go up, No, thats not what the data says: Corn: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPS012202 Soy: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSOYBUSDM Both the major inputs to cattle
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The fed pumps out tons of data: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/categories What is particularly interesting is the spike in prices of beef. If climate extremes are causing food price shocks one would think that the beef price s
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It used to be very common in the US. The concept of "professional tenants" is a thing here. After the us's more drawn out eviction process, and then the actual delay in carrying it out, it is nearly impossible to get missing
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> Wouldn’t measuring dynamics of home ownership using a unit “households” cause all sorts of problems? I had the same impression at first as well. But a household is a household is a household. That massive increase in people living alon
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Im getting sick of hearing about the "housing problem". As a percentage, how big do you think the home ownership problem is? Guess: 10? 15? If I told you that home ownership is un-moveable would you believe me? That the percentage
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So it's not going to replace engineers or CS? Because thats how they are being sold right now. If it is a third party then your vibe coding or getting CS from a random on a reddit thread (effectively).
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