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sundbry··on Officials: LA-SF high-speed rail cost will increase to $105B
This project is such a joke. What an incompetent state we have.
sundbry··on GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
No. You can achieve the same benefits of local reproducibility with Nix/Guix. Guix is more composable IMO because you can program multi-service development environments entirely in scheme.
sundbry··on Anti-vaxx industry ‘could be worth more than $1bn to social media giants’
Groupthink has gotten totally out of control. Anyone who disagrees with me is a criminal!
sundbry··on Study finds alarming levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in US mothers’ breast milk
That's just b.s. to shove the issue under the rug. The truth is these kids are exposed to environmental toxins left, right, and center. Yes, 72 vaccines since the day you are born are part of the problem (the ingredients in these things go directly into your bloodstream) but not nearly the only factor.
sundbry··on Lucy – A DSL that compiles to XState
Looks like you have done a very thorough job here. I am eager to try it on some xstate machines as it looks like it can simplify readability a lot! Thanks for sharing.
sundbry··on Codecov breach impacts GoDaddy, Atlassian, P&G etc.
You just parse and reserialize it. The trick is handling comments.
sundbry··on Backpressure (2019)
Circular dependencies causing deadlocks? That should not be a surprise. Making the request queue unbounded is just trading one problem for another.
sundbry··on Yellen calls for a global minimum corporate tax rate
In that situation you have nothing but deferred consumption (savings) accrued in your corporate bank account. You're just soaking currency out of the economy. It's fine if none of that money is taxed because it's not moving. As soon as you use it, it's taxed.
sundbry··on Socat – A utility for data transfer between two addresses (2018)
I don't think you understand how TCP works. A TCP connection can stay alive through an unplugged Ethernet cable if it hasn't sent any packets.
sundbry··on Show HN: Diahook – Webhooks as a Service
It's not always your service crashing you need to worry about; reliability also includes the network (and all of the routers) between you and your customers.
sundbry··on FairEmail: Open-source, privacy friendly email app for Android
It looks great, I want to give it a try over K-9 Mail. Your f-droid apk link looks broken however:

https://hostux.pics/image/screenshot-20210308-194330.ulO

sundbry··on “This destroys the RSA cryptosystem”
Its a meme. "This kills the crab."
sundbry··on Semantic Clojure Formatting
Map is not a control structure, it is an expression.
sundbry··on Pg-shortkey: YouTube-Like Short IDs as Postgres Primary Keys
If you do this in your application code, you can just store it as a 64 bit integer in postgres and optimize your index significantly, instead of using a varchar as the backing data type. These ids pack just right into 64 bits.
sundbry··on Hidden costs of constantly shipping new things
You can afford them if you don't have project managers or sales guys begging for their demoable results of new shiny thing and promising it to others too early and too often.
sundbry··on Hidden costs of constantly shipping new things
Then you just end up with the first team continuing to produce garbage, and leaving it up to the 'fixers' to clean it up.
sundbry··on U.S. Stockpiled 63M Now-Useless Doses of Hydroxychloroquine
This is the democrazy we chose. It's not going to last very much longer. It is nearly impossible to make rational, level-headed decisions. Federalist 10 was prophetic.
sundbry··on JetBlue Funded a Stanford Study That Said the Coronavirus Wasn’t That Deadly
The NYC data is the outlier. There may be contributing factors which are causing that 20,000 number to be inflated, not the least of which are the financial incentives for emergency funding for COVID diagnoses.
sundbry··on I got my first $50/mo customer
you can also buy stolen credit card numbers on the darknet, the customers are paying.
sundbry··on Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs
If you want super cheap, use DreamObjects by DreamHost.
sundbry··on Evolution selects for 'loners' in slime molds
Why not? The thesis is that non-conformance is a viable evolutionary strategy (if not usually the dominant one). It doesn't matter what particular species you are talking about. Obviously there are degrees of non-conformamce that would also be evolutionary dead ends or otherwise destructive.
sundbry··on Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treating Covid-19
> random stuff which isn't obviously efficacious off the back of a misunderstanding of the science

1) It's not random stuff; there is associated research and a theory of operation how it counteracts the virus

2) Lacking obviousness? By the time the research is settled, you may be very sick already.

3) There is no misunderstanding, there is a risk analysis based on the currently available knowledge. Risk of chloroquine poisoning X probability of effectiveness X risk of acute viral infection.

4) Crowd-sourcing information has shown to be very effective in other times of crisis, a viral outbreak is no different.

The internet is not a place for the information police. We share our ideas here.

sundbry··on Thinking About Recursion
Wow. such smart. Eliet hacker.

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=tail+call+optimization

sundbry··on Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA)
Nice work!
sundbry··on “move fast and break things” almost killed our startup on arrival
It doesn't mean ship untested crap, it means don't let fear of breaking something prevent you from making progress.
sundbry··on Crux as General-Purpose Database
What's the indexing/performance like? When I select an ID from a collection is it going to reprocess the entire history to filter on a matching ID?
sundbry··on Ask HN: Why GraphQL APIs but no Datalog APIs?
You can handle proper URLs in a SPA if you know what you're doing. It's not something your average frontend dev would pay attention to though, sadly. Server-side "isomorphic" rendering of pages is also possible but a lot more complicated to resolve all the async requests that have to run to render the page.
sundbry··on I'm not burned out, I'm pissed off
Does anyone care to explain what the big issue with syslog is? I've been using syslog-ng in production for years and it's performance has been flawless. Is there something I'm missing re: security? Is the issue the weakly-structured log formats?
sundbry··on Private Equity company acquires .org registry
fuck you ICANN.
sundbry··on Code Health: Respectful Reviews == Useful Reviews
Go sit next to him with a cup of coffee tomorrow morning, and fix the PRs right there. Say "Let's do some quick pair programming and close these lingering PRs real quick."

He should appreciate the initiative, and communication is much more effective and resonant in person.

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