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by zzbzq 5y ago
I was a big advocate for Docker-as-deployment-packaging for a long time, and cautious about Kubernetes. I imagined building something like Ably describes would be the most practical. I was wrong. What I didn't understand is how easy ku
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by zzbzq 5y ago
Insiders can then defraud it without harming their own company much. Find bug, tell your "friend", friend reports it, money comes from communal pool.
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by zzbzq 5y ago
Oil companies might INCREASE oil production if the renewable energy really goes meteoric. They'll just use all the cheap renewable energy to ramp up plastic production.
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by zzbzq 5y ago
It's not about it being valued as a currency for its objective characteristics, but rather based on the limitless enthusiasm of crackpot ideology
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by zzbzq 5y ago
I don't know what worksheets are, but does Scala3 work with vscode now? Previously the plugins didn't do much, especially if you didn't use SBT.
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by zzbzq 5y ago
There is no evolve(). All phenomena that can be measured, calculated, or conceptualized by humans are in fact governed by capricious gods who behave non-deterministically an cannot be described as a function. The appearance of any phenomena
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by zzbzq 5y ago
It's the same with cryptocurrency, Tesla stock, Gamestop. The market-cap bubbles become a self-justifying cycle. Theoretically everything comes back down to earth, but only when it runs out of fuel. But the fuel is human insanity, whic
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by zzbzq 6y ago
'Async' here refers not only to the keyword but also to what is achieved, in classic javascript, through callback functions
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by zzbzq 6y ago
If I'm part-time in the office I expect nothing from the company and some "shared space" type tables or desks where I can plug in.
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by zzbzq 6y ago
Dijkstra's paper is hard to read. I've gone through it and broken it down. It turns out, the central argument put forth in Dijkstra's paper is that the 'goto' statement messes up the stack trace. Although I don&#x27
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by zzbzq 6y ago
All the policy since they source most of the ideas and especially political strategies. Since the early 2000s they ("they" now extending beyond just the think tanks listed previously) directly control the media by sourcing/co
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by zzbzq 6y ago
Heritage Foundation? Rand Corporation? Cato Institute? American Enterprise Institute? The institutional right is unimaginably huge and well-funded. Half of them even have "institute" in the name.
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by zzbzq 6y ago
1990s advice on a 1990s website. It's the opposite. We need to move away from package hell by splitting our work in two opposite directions: on the one hand, we should move back to large, effective standard libraries; on the other hand
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by zzbzq 6y ago
Tesla is a company that posts to reddit screenshots of tweets about subjects scraped from reddit. With a small side gig collecting government energy subsidies.
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by zzbzq 6y ago
Now that I've worked professionally in a whole bunch of languages that attempt to delete implicit nullability out of existence, I long for it's return. Option monads are a two billion dollar mistake. The fact is when you're w
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by zzbzq 6y ago
> Even now I'm still seeing people screaming about "hold the line" and inserting endless rocket emojis I've been saying of WSB since before this debacle exploded, these are bots. The same bots that have run many other
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by zzbzq 6y ago
I don't think it's hotly debated. It's frivolously debated. Occasionally someone acknowledges that certain formulae or constants might actually be variable, but ultimately move on to assume they are fixed. But even in those h
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by zzbzq 6y ago
Basically this manager guy had like a dozen job titles under him, such as Business Analyst, Data Analyst, ML Engineer, and sundry more. Then his HR team came to him and told him to just boil it down to 1. So he made up this title "Data
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by zzbzq 6y ago
yep
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by zzbzq 6y ago
Robinhood and TD Ameritrade both do the same thing when the stock market tanks. Considering these companies are supposed to be making profit from their services rather than interest on appreciation the assets their customers trade on their
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by zzbzq 6y ago
> than by a classical solution cash
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by zzbzq 6y ago
I believe it has something to do with classically being printed in black and white newsprint. The colors selected in the color cartoon are actually just a mapping to different grayscale patterns based on the lightness/darkness level.
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by zzbzq 6y ago
Each commit consists of a structured collection of hash IDs for every file in the entire repo. The hash ID is generated by hashing the contents of the entire file. Not the diff. The "diff" you're referring to is an implementa
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by zzbzq 6y ago
It didn't work though, there's like 1 billion ways to store photos. At the end of the day DropBox started as just a wrapper around Amazon S3 buckets, it's not exactly a high barrier to entry.
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by zzbzq 6y ago
Well they're basically turning C# into Scala, and Scala is (rightfully) dead/dying, can't die fast enough IMO, so maybe they are just hastening the demise of C# so F# can take the throne.
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by zzbzq 6y ago
I hope that's a typo because it's literally the opposite of what you're saying in #2. It is precisely when you use a DI container that the problem is hidden, whether or not it's solved. In most projects that use a DI con
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by zzbzq 6y ago
This is the common misconception/defense of DI that drives me so cRaZy I've jumped to different languages. DI containers do NOTHING, NOTHING to make Dependency Inversion easier, nor does use of a DI container guarantee (as dozens
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by zzbzq 6y ago
Unit tests don't do anything to validate the existence of DI. Most people don't even use DI in their tests. DI is just spaghetti code. The main thing holding C# back is the culture around the DI and weird hostbuilder code associat
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by zzbzq 6y ago
retirement accounts--pensions are legacy technology
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by zzbzq 6y ago
I worked on some Scala codebases, which has this problem. It even lets you end up with Some(null). I call it the two billion dollar mistake.

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