> They never went back to pre-supply shock prices. What do you mean? 2011: 2 TB HDD for $79.99 ($0.0000400 / MB). 2012: 2 TB HDD for $157.27 ($0.0000786 / MB). 2014: 4 TB HDD for $109 ($0.0000367 / MB) 2024: 8 TB HDD…
Don't forget the classic film On the Waterfront. Considered one of the greatest movies ever made and adapted from "Crime on the Waterfront," a 24-article series by the New York Sun's Malcolm Johnson that received the…
Interesting post on a library I've used a lot. > Requests has always had modules intended for its use and only its use. At some point, we tried to document them for ourselves and that led to people using them externally…
A couple years ago I worked on an internal tool for the regulatory division of an agriculture company that involved mapping endangered species boundaries. The Environmental Protection Agency requires the company review…
Create React App is in a strange, pseudo-death state. - It is not listed as an option for starting a new project in the React docs[0]. - The last release was April 12, 2022. - The last time I created a new project with…
I think you're right that static typing reduces bugs, but I am not convinced the reduction is significant or meaningful. If static typing has a significant effect, then why is the existing research so weak and…
If "type bugs are an obvious thing and happen all the time" and "static Typing reduces type related bugs" then it should be easy to demonstrate this empirically. However, "a review of all the available literature (up to…
> In the 1970s/80s, an hour of minimum wage could afford you about 7 big macs. Now, it will not even buy you one. The cost of a Big Mac in 1986 was $1.6 according to the Economist's Big Mac Index dataset[0]. The minimum…
I worked in a government office where only unionized IT workers were allowed to move computer equipment. My boss gave me his old monitor after upgrading and I had to wait until after hours to move it. This was around…
This was before my time, but I believe the WS-* series of specifications is an example. > Like with the original J2EE spec, which sought to complicate the basic mechanics of connecting databases via HTML to the…
That's surprising! Wasn't it Philip Wadler who said "The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well." http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/
> but now we've got JSON Schema, Swagger/OpenAPI, Zod, etc etc. You don't have to use any of those.
Has GPS ever experienced a major outage in its ~30 years of operation?
Two interesting statistics that may be relevant: Homeless per 10k rate [0] Japan: 0.3 USA: 17.6 Rate of intentional homicide victims per 100,000 inhabitants [1] Japan: 0.3 USA: 6.3 0 -…
To anyone interested in this topic, I highly recommend "Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union" by Vladislav M. Zubok. This comment reminded me of one of my notes: Near the end of the book, George HW Bush tries to…
Weird, if true. Diablo Immortal is rated M (17+) [0], the gambling age in the Netherlands is 18 [1]. 0 - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blizzard.d... 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_age
Disappointed to hear this. My first job out of university (and the job I still work today!) came through StackOverflow Jobs. I've only received ~three approaches through StackOverflow Jobs in the past two years, but…
> "Alcohol has been classified as a Group 1 carcinogen (carcinogenic to humans) for decades by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. It's right up there with tobacco and asbestos." Other Group 1 carcinogens…
Exactly. I think it is reasonable to ask candidates to demonstrate basic programming competency, but "gotcha" questions are terrible. Consider the interview question: "Write a function that can detect a cycle in a…
Does that fit with the philosophy of htmx? It looks to me like htmlx expects a server?
> CPU is cheap, network speeds are fast and increasing and microservices are a mess. Is CPU cheap? I can literally host a static site or SPA on GitHub Pages for free. Where can I get free CPU time for an htmlx…
> Shipments are still lower than pre pandemic That is contradicted by the headline and the data in the article. GPU shipments were 10.5 million units in Q3 2018 and 12.7 million units in Q3 2021.
> Wires are often free. Do you have a citation for this? The articles I found online suggest fees are almost universal, with only a single bank (Fidelity) offering true $0 wire transfer fees to all customers [0]. 0 -…
Probably not the right one, but "The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer"[0] sounds like a similar idea which goes from a Freshman Haskell programmer's simple factorial to the abstract heights of a Post-doc Haskell…
Also a Tachyons fan. I looked at TailwindCSS, but stopped at the installation section. The recommended path to get it working with Create-React-App is to install a bunch of JS packages (PostCSS, autoprefixer) and to…
> They never went back to pre-supply shock prices. What do you mean? 2011: 2 TB HDD for $79.99 ($0.0000400 / MB). 2012: 2 TB HDD for $157.27 ($0.0000786 / MB). 2014: 4 TB HDD for $109 ($0.0000367 / MB) 2024: 8 TB HDD…
Don't forget the classic film On the Waterfront. Considered one of the greatest movies ever made and adapted from "Crime on the Waterfront," a 24-article series by the New York Sun's Malcolm Johnson that received the…
Interesting post on a library I've used a lot. > Requests has always had modules intended for its use and only its use. At some point, we tried to document them for ourselves and that led to people using them externally…
A couple years ago I worked on an internal tool for the regulatory division of an agriculture company that involved mapping endangered species boundaries. The Environmental Protection Agency requires the company review…
Create React App is in a strange, pseudo-death state. - It is not listed as an option for starting a new project in the React docs[0]. - The last release was April 12, 2022. - The last time I created a new project with…
I think you're right that static typing reduces bugs, but I am not convinced the reduction is significant or meaningful. If static typing has a significant effect, then why is the existing research so weak and…
If "type bugs are an obvious thing and happen all the time" and "static Typing reduces type related bugs" then it should be easy to demonstrate this empirically. However, "a review of all the available literature (up to…
> In the 1970s/80s, an hour of minimum wage could afford you about 7 big macs. Now, it will not even buy you one. The cost of a Big Mac in 1986 was $1.6 according to the Economist's Big Mac Index dataset[0]. The minimum…
I worked in a government office where only unionized IT workers were allowed to move computer equipment. My boss gave me his old monitor after upgrading and I had to wait until after hours to move it. This was around…
This was before my time, but I believe the WS-* series of specifications is an example. > Like with the original J2EE spec, which sought to complicate the basic mechanics of connecting databases via HTML to the…
That's surprising! Wasn't it Philip Wadler who said "The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well." http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/
> but now we've got JSON Schema, Swagger/OpenAPI, Zod, etc etc. You don't have to use any of those.
Has GPS ever experienced a major outage in its ~30 years of operation?
Two interesting statistics that may be relevant: Homeless per 10k rate [0] Japan: 0.3 USA: 17.6 Rate of intentional homicide victims per 100,000 inhabitants [1] Japan: 0.3 USA: 6.3 0 -…
To anyone interested in this topic, I highly recommend "Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union" by Vladislav M. Zubok. This comment reminded me of one of my notes: Near the end of the book, George HW Bush tries to…
Weird, if true. Diablo Immortal is rated M (17+) [0], the gambling age in the Netherlands is 18 [1]. 0 - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blizzard.d... 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_age
Disappointed to hear this. My first job out of university (and the job I still work today!) came through StackOverflow Jobs. I've only received ~three approaches through StackOverflow Jobs in the past two years, but…
> "Alcohol has been classified as a Group 1 carcinogen (carcinogenic to humans) for decades by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. It's right up there with tobacco and asbestos." Other Group 1 carcinogens…
Exactly. I think it is reasonable to ask candidates to demonstrate basic programming competency, but "gotcha" questions are terrible. Consider the interview question: "Write a function that can detect a cycle in a…
Does that fit with the philosophy of htmx? It looks to me like htmlx expects a server?
> CPU is cheap, network speeds are fast and increasing and microservices are a mess. Is CPU cheap? I can literally host a static site or SPA on GitHub Pages for free. Where can I get free CPU time for an htmlx…
> Shipments are still lower than pre pandemic That is contradicted by the headline and the data in the article. GPU shipments were 10.5 million units in Q3 2018 and 12.7 million units in Q3 2021.
> Wires are often free. Do you have a citation for this? The articles I found online suggest fees are almost universal, with only a single bank (Fidelity) offering true $0 wire transfer fees to all customers [0]. 0 -…
Probably not the right one, but "The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer"[0] sounds like a similar idea which goes from a Freshman Haskell programmer's simple factorial to the abstract heights of a Post-doc Haskell…
Also a Tachyons fan. I looked at TailwindCSS, but stopped at the installation section. The recommended path to get it working with Create-React-App is to install a bunch of JS packages (PostCSS, autoprefixer) and to…