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is Dublin becoming more of a cultural center since Brexit?

can you elaborate a bit? What you're saying sounds pretty interesting but I'm too ignorant to read between the lines

but isn't the whole point of io_uring that it's more performant?

Yeah it's considerably more harmful in professional environments, imo. I forgot to mention in my initial comment that I feel like people underestimate how effective it is to drop the pretense that you already know enough about what's being discussed to learn more, and how 'disarming' it is to people to be asked instead of told.

Disarming in a sense that they will usually be inclined to react in a magnanimous way, instead of possibly adopting some other frictional communication pattern. It really just makes everything easier if you actively try to leave your ego at the door.

yes, there are so many frustrating communication archetypes I feel like there should be a compendium/dictionary of them. Unfortunately, most of them seem ego-driven, so it takes a lot typically for people to grow out of them.

Well, engineers are kind of the archetypal model of the "but ackshually..." guy, so I'd venture to say you're right. I used to be more bold in my pronouncements when I was younger, now I think I like to repeat stuff I've heard like "interesting, I had heard that X was a factor with this, do you know if that's true or not?" In these situations. Having some intellectual humility and actively seeking opinions of people who might be more informed goes a long way.

Bravo. I had a laugh from reading this which quickly turned to horror after I realized it might actually come true

I personally believe FTL is likely impossible so I think the only realistic hypothesis is if we encounter aliens, that they're von Neumann drones on the vanguard edge of a colonization wave from an alien race that's been doing it for millions of years.

If we survive for long enough as a species, either we'll meet races in this manner or we'll be the ones doing it.

For the record I still only assign a fairly low probability that this is what is happening, it's more likely that UAPs are craft from terrestrial origin.

Why does it suck, because it's doing a lot of allocations?

Well in real terms, isn't all it takes is something that's a convincing enough forgery? Like why the turing test was considered interesting at one point. I don't think drawing a line is necessary for us to quickly become caught off guard by developments in this space.

For the record, I don't believe we're close to AGI but I'm also pretty far from knowing anything about that field.

Maybe io_uring?

Hey there! Thanks for your comment. What do you specifically mean by rescale/watermark/scrub content to protect users from themselves?

Well replace "intelligent" with "competent" and what do you get? Should we not expect the people telling us all to give them money because we couldn't hope to make more efficient use of it to be able to exercise the critical judgement necessary to not get scammed by a blatant scam?

Maybe you can totally rank order goals or principles of morality within the confines of a single person, but how could you hope to do that for large groups of people without forcing everyone to assume the same things as you? Long-termism being a great example, because I personally, think the amount we should care about future people decays rapidly as we move into the future. It's not as if their lives don't have value equal to our own, but how can we hope to assess how many of them there may be or what aspects of the realities of human life will change over the next century even? This is like trying to predict the future by reading tea leaves, except you have to pledge 10% of your income to whichever leaf talks about the risk of general AI the loudest.

So should everyone be forced to value all future human lives as being as concretely valuable as our own? In order to put them into a total ordering of morality one is forced to make a judgement call on how many people we think are likely to exist in the future as well as how relevant our musings of today actually capture what life will be like in that future.

Effective altruists like to use exponential growth to beat people over the head with the idea that the future is more important than the present. Do they ever acknowledge the fact that the far future is also exponentially more unpredictable than seconds into the future?

It just reeks of hubris to me. To be a really effective altruist you must first create a time travel device.

Imo there's a huge distinction between microservices in a monorepo or microservices where there are 100s or thousands of git repos.

Monorepo can be much easier as you can at least verify the given build is consistent.

Monoliths don't completely avoid the problem of version compatibility, they just reduce it to a more clear layer of external clients and compatibility between N-1th release and Nth release. That's certainly worth it in the early stages of a project

A relational system with the guarantees usually provided by them seems really difficult to do. Like cockroach db but considerably harder or with considerably worse performance.

I always thought it was more common for stuff like KV stores with looser guarantees

Yeah, that's a great one.

There are huge obstacles for foreigners to move to the US and work, but higher education is also one of the most straightforward paths to the immigration pipeline (afaik as someone who's never dealt with it themselves). I believe that indicates there are two opposing forces, so the relative proportions being off would likely be expected as we don't know which force is stronger.

Why are those questions the end all be all of the discussion? Many good things are done in the world that have a variety of motivations. He could get views in a variety of ways but the fact that he's doing it by helping people shouldn't be dismissed just because he wouldn't spend millions of dollars with no one watching.

Not to suggest he's operating in any way like a non-profit, but they all receive money and then distribute that money in ways that either increase the future money they can use for their mission or directly on the mission itself. The fact that he's built a self-sustaining model for helping individuals without merely forking over his own assets is impressive.

with Rust you could also avoid using a lock on STDOUT and get it even faster!

You could falsely negate a bunch of things by claiming it's premature optimization if you expand it's definition to mean thinking in advance.

That being said I agree with you that interfaces for literally everything is a bad idea. Especially depending on interfaces everywhere, given that it's often quite nice to know concretely what some piece of code is trying to do.

The original post isnt super clear to me regarding how often the author actually recommends using interfaces. The examples used are for storage backends in projects like Kubernetes, which most people would probably agree is a pretty good context in which to utilize interfaces.

What's your point? It's pretty obviously a country ruled by an authoritarian regime with a really low standard of living. Is there something noteworthy about the fact that the US slanders it?

What would make you think that tech offers will go down? Why would a company making X revenue per engineer not offer a maximum of something like 80% of X?

Not to mention inflation and low unemployment numbers. even if what you're saying is true, how could it stay that way for longer than a year or so

I probably wasn't entirely clear in my post that I'm not necessarily a believer in GraphQL. I'm mostly repeating/surmising the reasons that other people are interested in it, and not necessarily myself. You could argue with any of the points, really.

Graphql servers are typically not run in a manner that allows arbitrary query execution, usually only a select set of queries that were written by the devs, tested, and potentially profiled before deployment. from that perspective, if a mobile client is written to work against the interface they provide, then if you need to fix things on the backend, you can potentially do so without the frontend being aware of it. In that sense it's the same thing as a specifically designed REST endpoint, so I'll give you that, but it's hardly a negative in GraphQL's favor.

In my relatively naive opinion, graphql exists to solve a few things (which are mostly benefits for large scale companies):

1. Reduce the total number of HTTP connections required to get the data for a specific component or page. Imo this is presumably less important with http3 but the driving force is probably similar for both.

2. Give backend-for-frontend style services more autonomy to provide an interface that works for a specific feature on the front end without coupling it to specifics of how the backend organizes resources

3. Allow performance issues with frontend query logic to be addressed without changing anything on the front end

I think the situations where it would be useful are large teams that want to operate more independently where the overhead of dealing with graphql is worth it.

An example being someone trying to render a component for a list of comments. It would be great if the front end could just write some "magic" query that gives them everything they want and they don't have to worry about batching requests to specific endpoints and the order in which they should make those requests. That doesn't mean the problem magically goes away, but it's now someone else's problem and that's good: the app development can free itself from things it shouldn't care about.

I feel like people don't go deep enough into how to write 'crash only software' in these discussions. Like what are the options?

1. write ahead log before you do side effects/idempotent side effects

2. double writes to disk to prevent torn writes

3. checksums to make sure we don't make bad decisions based on bad data

4. redundancy/anti-entropy/other distributed system patterns which attempt to obviate the need to be overly concerned with a single process crashing

5. self-healing patterns when bad data is found

anyone have any other ideas?

But he got it back, right? P(recovery) = 0 is a whole different ball game than flip a coin and maybe the bank will relent

I'm guessing the answer to this question is predominantly determined by the price of your lawyer.

What are your favorite books along that line?