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Your place of last resort with kafka is simply to replay the message back to the same kafka topic since you know it's up. In a simple single consumer setup just throw a retry count…

One way to measure this that isn't moral judgements is the ecological depth of an environment. If one part of the system is destroyed (e.g. a blight on plant A) how devastating to …

The story I've heard is that general motors down fall began when they stopped writing loans for other car manufacturers. They used to under write basically every car loan in the US…

I'll throw my hat in the ring for "disagree". Few kinds of work have such clear and unambiguous results as optimization work (its now X% faster!). Few kinds of work have such incre…

Sometimes the vibes are wrong, and things go haywire. This is why zero tolerance policies have to be instituted in schools. That doesnt mean the general idea is wrong. Strict adher…

Would be really interesting to see what it does with clearly wrong EXIF data

Yeah I'd say kafka is not a great technology if your median and 99ths (or 999ths if volume is large enough) are wildly different which sounds like your situation. I use kafka in co…

Follow on: If you're using kafka to publish messages to multiple consumers, this is even worse as now you're infecting every consumer with data processing issues from every other c…

I suppose it depends on your message volume. To me, processing 100k messages and then getting a page however long later as the broker (or whatever) falls apart sounds much worse th…

And now imagine how easy dealing with email spam would be if the marginal fiscal cost was not 0 like physical spam. All the technology and tools available and less than 1% of the v…

> the goal should be to ensure that anyone who wants to do a thing can, with as few third party requirements as possible. This is a good starting point, but if you have no barriers…

It wouldn't, but it might preclude using (future) optimizations that forgo those de-optimization hooks?

I suppose serializing the JVM state itself to avoid the cold start problem might take advantage of this?

The past decade is a difficult framing to ask the question in. Notable breakthrough results are usually understood in hindsight and a decade just isn't a lot of time for that conte…

Ignoring inexperience/incompetence as a reason (which, admittedly, is a likely root cause) domain fuzziness is often a good explanation here. If you aren't extremely familiar with …

You didn't understand the original claim which is that because Pi has an infinite decimal representation, every subsequence of it has a repeat

This isn't true as you can build an infinite sequence that never repeats. An example sequence in binary is (the number of 0s between each 1 increases by 1 every time) 0100100010000…

The goal can't be to solve every desperation case. But if the program wouldn't allow individuals living in dangerous and exploitative situations to confidently leave them (financia…

True. It would be nice to decouple it from children and expand its scope of economic impact dramatically.

$1000/month is $12,000/year. Thats far far below poverty levels. It needs to be enough that people can choose to supplement in order to engage with luxury consumption. If people ar…

If UBI is encoded as a negative tax rate at low income levels, it no longer really makes sense to talk about it as applying to all income levels equally. It naturally gets distribu…

Very much agreed that there should be no cliffs. Every dollar earned should at minimum increase your usable cash flow by at least X amount no matter where you are in the income dis…

My personal position is to abolish the minimum wage and update the tax scale with negative tax rates that support a reasonable quality of life at all income levels. The market will…

> but any user that thinks their media decode libraries will be bulletproof libs free of vulnerabilities are nuts. Sure. And its a high bar to challenge the same or better vulnerab…

That advice has context. Do not roll your own if the feature is not your core product offering . So don't roll crypto if you're not selling crypto. If it is your core offering (and…