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> Multiple clients racing can't be fixed. Really? You can't think of a single way for multiple clients to operate on the same data without racing? (Here's a hint if you're still ha…

"Expecting basic programming ability" isn't elitism, sorry

I actually can't tell whether you're serious... The article mentions an `append` operation which is obviously not commutative; does that imply memcached needs a separate "appendabl…

hate speech is still protected speech

Yes, bytes from a *logical* stream need to be delivered in order. But in HTTP2 (3) multiple logical streams are multiplexed on top of one physical TCP (QUIC) connection. In the HTT…

> The point is that in some cases the name of the project might itself be considered sensitive in some way probably better to solve that problem by just giving projects easy-to-rem…

I agree. Actually everyone I don't like should be classified as a terrorist and denied any sort of due process or civil rights. It's fine as long as we only do it to really really …

it's irrelevant whether they're "cryptographically" random, all that matters is that account IDs are not controlled by the user and therefore have no logical relation to any access…

That's only for data into AWS though, not data out

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Yes we all know it's possible to lie with statistics. What are your criticisms of this article in particular ? If you don't have any then you're just baselessly casting aspersions.…

No? You don't need parallelism to guarantee global progress as long as the scheduler has the ability to preempt tasks. Of course coroutines (as opposed to e.g. userspace threads) c…

> These are where the news site makes their content available to scrapers and then paywalls humans. This is where the news site is trying take advantage of search engines to get yo…

> extremely weird conclusion I agree, it's so weird that people who devote time, effort, and resources to the production of articles or books somehow think they're entitled to be c…

your social credit score has been increased by 100 points. thank you for your service comrade!

> but it seems more unreasonable to expect anything different from the oligarchy oh my god when the demand for a scarce resource outstrips supply, prices go up. this is high school…

If only there were some sort of a system for translating human readable names to network addresses...

Not to mention the absurd fact that accessing (IPv4) AWS APIs from a private subnet requires paying for either a NAT gateway or an interface endpoint (we got bitten by sending a to…

They didn't, though, they made it available to be looked at alongside advertisements . HN users just love twisting themselves in circles to justify their belief that they're someho…

something something when a metric becomes a target it ceases to be a good metric

> On Facebook if you want to reach your entire audience you need to pay them Yeah, it's a private business, if you want to use them to reach people you need to pay. What exactly is…

> doesn’t entitle them to my attention if you're looking at someone's website then yes they are entitled to your attention. what gave you the idea that you're entitled to consume f…

> ML systems do not guarantee valid output no one said this has to be an LLM or whatever. you could have a compiler that just uses ML-based cost heuristics. iirc some research has …

> Yet I’m powerless to do anything about it. it's called a chargeback. the worst they can do is ban you from their platform