Viewing profile — bfz

Some more respectable commentators suggest the current environment is the start of a second tech bust, and although that seems sensational, it might be fair given current trends of…

I was thinking somewhere vaguely along the lines of easy credit as something like heroin addiction/withdrawal, that's where poison came from. I guess it is awkward

It warms my heart to think I could still be graded on language use so late in life. How would you describe it?

Worth recalling there are >5 rate hikes priced in for the remainder of the year, and that the problem with CloudFlare isn't just the speculation, but for their legitimate business,…

Seems that .70 floor might possibly have been due to some mechanics at Binance https://twitter.com/hasufl/status/1523817151471230976

FWIW many of these yield generation products work by selling options under the hood.

I think most of this comment can be answered by highlighting the difference between supposed "Internet friends" and "real friends". Over corona there have been a wide range of stud…

Mostly Asia. I stopped for exactly the reason in the previous comment.. I realized that what initially seemed like a fun and academic idea about the people I was meeting absolutely…

Just for some context, I was nomadic for well over a decade and consider that time an extravagant extension of youth, and a needless stunting of my growth into adulthood in absolut…

I'm not sure I have the faculties to address what bothers me about this comment, but there is so much tied to traditional society the comment seems to ignore. - Voting districts - …

> It is a fundamental problem of a "graph". So why are we using it for so many naturally non-graph problems? 90%+ of developers' exposure to graphs is through tightly abstract inte…

I've yet to encounter a GraphQL off-the-shelf server (from Python and JS spaces) where hitting a slow query didn't immediately turn into half a day's work The whole concept is what…

Perhaps it can also be renamed "SHP" (strict homepage processor) Why would anyone prefer a tool dead set on undoing their productive investments with each new release? Decisions li…

Article makes a variety of already well understood points, but only briefly touches on the most interesting one (from my perspective): durability. If the thing you're integrating i…

Can anyone offer a working link for a Javascript player wired up to a notable example? Weirdly inaccessible world. I found Slouching Towards Bedlam, but the site wants to run a Jav…

cumulative count of posts having matching URL over time

Graphical form: https://imgur.com/6rnFVsl

The story according to Wikipedia is truly amazing, covering multiple acts of obsolescence, lost originals and technology failures, and societal issues (e.g. copyright) that seem ac…

Even where the ports are available, 25 Gbit from a single address is well into the realms of looking like attack traffic in a wide variety of scenarios. Past even 500 Mbit I'm way …

Interest rate increases, selling reserves, RUB sales bans, demanding customers pay for energy in RUB, demanding local businesses sell non-RUB reserves, banning foreign sales of Rus…

> Are there people who believe Disney is somehow pro-LGBT? They're a corporation: they're anti-LGBT and pro-money; the only time they seem to be pro-LGBT is when they think there i…

Intro page could do with some liberal screenshots.. it took 4 clicks into the manual to see references to some kind of UI, before which I wasn't sure whether or not this was just s…