>Gaming is heading in the same direction that TV, movies and music are. I It's much worse with Gaming. At least with TV/Movies/Music there are standards-based 'offline' formats that one could preserve the content.…
>Why Orbital Data Centers Are Harder Than Silicon Valley Thinks Who thinks they are easy? Elon Musk? The guy that spews obvious (even to him) bullshit like we're going to Mars in the next 5 years? I don't even want to…
>Supporting something is infinitely times easier than building it No it isn't. That is patently untrue. I've had to deal with in-house solutions many times in my careers. Inevitably what happens is the original author…
>And sometimes, especially now with AI, coding your own solution exactly tailored to your needs can be simpler than configuring a complex product designed to match as many use case as possible. Coding a solution was…
>Critics call the SAT inequitable and say high school grades are a good predictor of college success. Well .. is it? We have decades of data that should either prove or disprove this. Why is this even an argument? There…
>No country will be truly coal-free Being coal-free is possible. Being fossil-fuel free is harder. Most of Irish energy comes from Natural Gas and Oil - the former is what supplanted Coal, not Wind.
It's not that bad. It's well integrated into Sharepoint, Exchange, and Office, and does the job. I've used both Slack and Teams and if you're using MS365, then Teams is absolutely the better option.
Next up: Raccoons.
> What Mozilla is good at ... Firefox - the one thing they do not want to work on is the only thing that makes them special.
>You don't. When your server crashes, your availability is zero. As your business needs grow, you can start layering complexity on top. The point is you don't start at 11 with a overly complex architecture. In your…
>It's sure a corny stance to hold if you're navigating an infrastructure nightmare daily, but in my opinion, much of the complexity addresses not technical, but organisational issues: You want straightforward,…
>I personally wouldn't like to put caching in Postgres, even though it would work at lower scales. Probably should stop after this line - that was the point of the article. It will work at lower scales. Optimize later…
>So sure, you can make a unscalable solution that works for the current moment. You're making two assumptions - both wrong: 1) That this is an unscalable solution - A monolith app server backed by Postgres can take you…
Or Lake Ontario to Lake New York.
>This is basically an article describing why you can’t just look at an event after it occurs, see that it has some extremely rare characteristics, and then determine it was unlikely to happen by chance. No. That's not…
We're solving real problems now.
Kinda slow when switching sections.
>Being a programmer is not about configuring your development environment. I know what OP is referring to. Back in the day, a programmer was expected to have built their own toolbox of utility scripts, programs and…
Oh come on. I'm sure they care about the users, and they were also hoping to build a business. Why the hostility? You don't have to kick them when they are down.
>I’m sure Uber and DoorDash and Lyft and Tinder and Instagram and WhatsApp are regretting the billions and billions they made doing this. I'm not sure which platforms those companies built their businesses on .. are you…
>Yeah, if you want to pump oil, you better also build your own railways to distribute it You're being facetious, but OP is right. For software platforms, this has been a constant. It happened with Twitter, Facebook,…
>That’s exactly what’s rude about it. By the way, I also hate the "hello"-only message. I am, however, guilty of writing "Hey. Do you have a second to chat" - typically in cases where either through chat or video…
I didn't make a value judgment on the practice, but it is a reason why you may get a "hello" message.
There's another reason for 'hello' ... it's a way to make sure you have the other person's attention before launching into a topic or question.
>Are taxis/ubers really better for the environment than a personal car? Yes. They are part of general non-car transit. You would never build an entire public transit infrastructure on taxis, but they are a component of…
>Gaming is heading in the same direction that TV, movies and music are. I It's much worse with Gaming. At least with TV/Movies/Music there are standards-based 'offline' formats that one could preserve the content.…
>Why Orbital Data Centers Are Harder Than Silicon Valley Thinks Who thinks they are easy? Elon Musk? The guy that spews obvious (even to him) bullshit like we're going to Mars in the next 5 years? I don't even want to…
>Supporting something is infinitely times easier than building it No it isn't. That is patently untrue. I've had to deal with in-house solutions many times in my careers. Inevitably what happens is the original author…
>And sometimes, especially now with AI, coding your own solution exactly tailored to your needs can be simpler than configuring a complex product designed to match as many use case as possible. Coding a solution was…
>Critics call the SAT inequitable and say high school grades are a good predictor of college success. Well .. is it? We have decades of data that should either prove or disprove this. Why is this even an argument? There…
>No country will be truly coal-free Being coal-free is possible. Being fossil-fuel free is harder. Most of Irish energy comes from Natural Gas and Oil - the former is what supplanted Coal, not Wind.
It's not that bad. It's well integrated into Sharepoint, Exchange, and Office, and does the job. I've used both Slack and Teams and if you're using MS365, then Teams is absolutely the better option.
Next up: Raccoons.
> What Mozilla is good at ... Firefox - the one thing they do not want to work on is the only thing that makes them special.
>You don't. When your server crashes, your availability is zero. As your business needs grow, you can start layering complexity on top. The point is you don't start at 11 with a overly complex architecture. In your…
>It's sure a corny stance to hold if you're navigating an infrastructure nightmare daily, but in my opinion, much of the complexity addresses not technical, but organisational issues: You want straightforward,…
>I personally wouldn't like to put caching in Postgres, even though it would work at lower scales. Probably should stop after this line - that was the point of the article. It will work at lower scales. Optimize later…
>So sure, you can make a unscalable solution that works for the current moment. You're making two assumptions - both wrong: 1) That this is an unscalable solution - A monolith app server backed by Postgres can take you…
Or Lake Ontario to Lake New York.
>This is basically an article describing why you can’t just look at an event after it occurs, see that it has some extremely rare characteristics, and then determine it was unlikely to happen by chance. No. That's not…
We're solving real problems now.
Kinda slow when switching sections.
>Being a programmer is not about configuring your development environment. I know what OP is referring to. Back in the day, a programmer was expected to have built their own toolbox of utility scripts, programs and…
Oh come on. I'm sure they care about the users, and they were also hoping to build a business. Why the hostility? You don't have to kick them when they are down.
>I’m sure Uber and DoorDash and Lyft and Tinder and Instagram and WhatsApp are regretting the billions and billions they made doing this. I'm not sure which platforms those companies built their businesses on .. are you…
>Yeah, if you want to pump oil, you better also build your own railways to distribute it You're being facetious, but OP is right. For software platforms, this has been a constant. It happened with Twitter, Facebook,…
>That’s exactly what’s rude about it. By the way, I also hate the "hello"-only message. I am, however, guilty of writing "Hey. Do you have a second to chat" - typically in cases where either through chat or video…
I didn't make a value judgment on the practice, but it is a reason why you may get a "hello" message.
There's another reason for 'hello' ... it's a way to make sure you have the other person's attention before launching into a topic or question.
>Are taxis/ubers really better for the environment than a personal car? Yes. They are part of general non-car transit. You would never build an entire public transit infrastructure on taxis, but they are a component of…