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by zwkrt 7y ago
This is a point to think about when combining 20 services with “5 9s” of uptime in your favorite cloud provider.
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by zwkrt 7y ago
I have seen two similar “company-specific” languages in my relatively short career: The first is MUMPS, primarily used in the healthcare industry. The second was the Mason templating language used at Amazon, which allowed inline integration
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by zwkrt 7y ago
I think a big issue is that plant based foods are considered boring and ummarketable. You can’t upsell anyone on broccoli and carrots. People who want to “hyper optimize” are falling into a trap of marketing themselves, in a sense being tol
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Yes, I figured as much! The interesting thing culturally is that in the US everyone is (was?) taught cursive script and is told it is very important to know, but somewhere around the age of 11-12 it is entirely dropped out of the curriculum
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by zwkrt 7y ago
I have found two quirks related to international writing styles. The first, as you found, is that people from China tend to have very neat handwriting. The second, (which I don’t know is generalizable) is that my Eastern European coworkers
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by zwkrt 7y ago
You might be forgetting what it is like to be a child
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Seconding sibling comment that aggressive pedestrians or drivers has never been an issue for me biking in Seattle. The biggest reasons for me biking less than I could are weather (traction is an issue on hills) and not wanting to leave my b
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by zwkrt 7y ago
It is always satisfying when you can knock out an entire class of problems in one go. Interestingly, this almost invariably involves writing either a parser or an interpreter
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by zwkrt 7y ago
So for example, in Kotlin each piece of synchronous code within an async function is compiled into what is essentially a Java Runnable object, which must be allocated on the heap.
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Templating CFN is really good practice once you hit a certain scale. If you have 5 DDB tables deployed to multiple regions, and on each of them you want to specify keys, attributes, throughput, and usage alarms, at a minimum. That’s already
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by zwkrt 7y ago
I don’t know if it is good but after reading it years ago I still think about it all the time. DFW has a lot to say about the realities of how people cope (or fail to cope) with modern society. Highly recommend reading it in physical form,
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Hyphens and question marks in identifiers is actually the biggest feature I wish other languages would steal from Lisp. It does help that lisp doesn’t suffer from the “is it an infix operator?” parsing problem, which exists for both program
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by zwkrt 7y ago
In my time at $bigCorp, I saw the title “principal engineer” used to describe two positions simultaneously, and sometimes both in the same org; - the good, hands-on, full-of-wisdom senior engineers, whose relevant experience and strong visi
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by zwkrt 7y ago
My grandfather was an “analyst” for GE, which involved a lot of physical calculation, but also FORTRAN and COBOL. It used to be before programming became its own profession that managers, accountants, secretaries, and other disparate jobs w
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Is the onus on the owner of the laptop or TSA? I guess both, but if you end up on a plane and something happens could you be prosecuted? The FAA is an organization I would not like to get on the wrong side of
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Ironically this aggregator aspect is likely why OP has found quality to vary so much!
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by zwkrt 7y ago
There is a neat physical argument that was made back when quasars and the like were just being discovered. Basically if the flash of brightness only lasts an hour, then you can argue convincingly that the source of the flash must be less th
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Every Frame a Painting has a video talking about how big budget movies tend not to have recognizable melodies, as well: https://youtu.be/7vfqkvwW2fs
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by zwkrt 7y ago
At what point in history did the populace have empathy?
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by zwkrt 7y ago
The proteins in a cell form complex organelles, each with a specific role to play in the functioning of the cell. The cells in your body each specialize to constitute a complex, conscious organism. Likewise, you are part of a complicated so
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by zwkrt 7y ago
If your control structures are expressions then they can lead to code that the maintainers of the language might not want to promote. Remember that language design is not just about being as flexible as possible. If it were we would have st
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by zwkrt 7y ago
I would even go so far as to disagree with one of your sibling comments in saying that this reading list is important because it isn’t about “arcana”. Arcana is what usually gets you the last 10%* of the way to a working solution, even if y
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by zwkrt 7y ago
I think the idea is that it is very common to transact in amounts >$1000. Rent, car payment, direct deposit, etc.
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Monetary policy has many, unrelated effects on the economy. Even if China were able to point to obvious, incontrovertible humanitarian reasons for its currency decision I’m sure the US would still be unkind. It seems that at the end of the
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by zwkrt 7y ago
I agree that this is bad, 2 crashes at relatively low volume is not great. However, I do wonder if reason will prevail in the long run with regards to overall safety and environmental impact. I recall early laws being very unfair to vehicul
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by zwkrt 7y ago
The effectiveness of sci fi is the extent to which it exemplifies problems in the real world!
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by zwkrt 7y ago
A more wild and outlandish thought experiment: would you become infinitely indebted for infinite reward? Imagining some cyberpunk wasteland where every commodity, pastime, medication, and media content is wildly expensive but offset by hug
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Can someone explain more clearly how being in a deterministic universe resolves the “problem” of Bell inequalities? It seems like even if the universe were deterministic it would not cause the classic polarizing-filters Bell inequality to s
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Here is my favorite snarky rebuttal to Anselm’s ontological argument: “The worst proof, by definition, is worse than any other proof that could possibly be conceived. If such a proof exists in understanding, then surely it must be an even w
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by zwkrt 7y ago
“There but for the grace of God go I”, a sentiment even atheistic people should share. Maybe in dry scientific speak, “if it weren’t for the entirety of human culture, evolution, and the specific conditions of the Earth from prehistory unti

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