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Are there any major benefits to using Tailscale over vanilla Wireguard?

> This cycle of having a few years where the costs of an approach aren't acknowledged, to a few years where the benefits aren't acknowledged, is very lame. Well said. I do sympathi…

> The more hardcore UBI defenders talk about paying Malibu surfers to surf all day, or to write haikus I've been following the UBI space for a long time and I've never seen anyone …

Anyone who's had to parse free-text international addresses can tell you that this is terrible advice. People type things into computers incorrectly all day long . We prompt users …

This makes me really curious about how people with legal mononyms (Ye, Cher, etc.) have their taxes filed or medical forms filled out.

> always just about 'good enough' to solve the issue at hand I've seen this approach really bite teams that only focus on the cost of implementing application behaviors rather than…

You're not missing anything, the argument is for how long this duration should be. The lifetime of the original creator plus $YEARS should be more than long enough for the original…

I agree libraries are great when dealing with very specific domain problems (who wants to hand-roll a datetime module?). But there are also a ton of libraries that aren't for such …

Is the interleaving of redis and db transactions atomic?

The author of Noria, Jon Gjengset, gave a great talk about the system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s19G6n0UjsM The speeds achieved are impressive but you do not get consistency…

I was just reading an article earlier today on the same subject. I thought the "pedagogy" section was interesting when considering if `mut` is the right term to be using for exclus…

> I would strongly advise against using python for anything other than PoC/experimental endeavours. I agree with your points, but this seems to lean a bit too far the other way. Ye…

> it forever mystifies me that it isn't standard I can give a few thoughts on why here: - it doesn't work for collaborative efforts unless everyone is using the same linter or IDE …

Wholeheartedly agree with this. The problem isn't aliasing, it's lazy aliasing which is more I think what GP was referring to (e.g. emp.id instead of employee.id).

> Separation of "developer" and "user" is artificial and more should be done to recognize that. I've seen some company ROI models built in excel that I think would change your mind…

Most ML requires collecting, cleaning, and transforming datasets into something that a model can train on for a specific domain. Codex and Copilot aren't good examples of this beca…

This is right on the money. Everyone wants to do new and interesting work on a product, which naturally means changing things even if it isn't really an improvement. No one is goin…

If you're used to writing embedded code then I'm not surprised - you want to be able to fully introspect everything that is happening since understanding performance is so importan…

Mikovits' claims are bold-faced lies regardless of your opinions on the pandemic. Probably the most hilarious claim from that video was the line: "The controversial article sent sh…

Agreed. I'll admit I didn't notice it on first pass and just thought the Jim Morrison bit was sloppy writing, but reading it again it has all the hallmarks of GPT-generated text. I…

> By contrast, most knowledge work today operates with no deliberate structure at all. Instead of carefully constructed processes to get the most out of each person, we just hand o…

The command line is much more productive for programmers . The entire issue with open source OS adoption is that these systems are not being designed with non-technical users in mi…

I would also vote for "data engineer" (it's my current job title). You very likely don't want a data scientist to be doing a data engineer's job (and they probably don't want to be…

Genocide was committed on both sides, and from a purely numerical standpoint the Haitian slaves had it worse. Why shouldn't France have been forced to pay back Haiti for the enslav…

The Haitian revolution ravaged the new nation's economy. The machinery used to process raw materials for Haiti's valuable export products, in particular sugar and coffee, were most…