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Setting aside the notion that a site presenting live-editability as its entire core premise is "pretending to be static", do the actual folks at Wikimedia, who have been running a …

Gotta hand it to 'em though - posting this less than a month after the Matrix boondoggle certainly is, uh, audacious.

High volume and inorganic traffic patterns. Wikimedia wrote about it here: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-th...

Another article that, by the third sentence, namedrops seven different AWS services they want to build their app on and then spends the rest of the argument pretending like that ec…

EDIT: I originally had an escalatory reply here but have thought better of it. Trying again but without being an asshole: yeah, what you describe is one way miscommunications can h…

Without wanting to be unkind, this author misunderstands the purpose of the exercise, which is to demonstrate to another human being that you can write code that meets the company'…

You can't programatically detect novel BS any more than you can programatically detect viruses or spam. You can only add the fingerprints of known badness into an ever-growing data…

The whole point of systemic incentives is that there is no conspiracy. Nobody wants a DDOS and every large provider will have people genuinely working to avoid them. But every time…

Whelp, looks like I'm today's Poe's Law poster child. ;)

This seems like a distinction without a difference, since we can never positively categorize any unobserved phenomenon as impossible (vs merely unobservable). To me, it seems ontol…

What does "impossible" mean to you if not that a thing and it's consequences can never be observed?

It's not really a problem in practice (and I love Ruby), but it's still wild to me that they made the parser do this: $ irb irb(main):001:0> def foo(x=70) = x => :foo irb(main):002…

I'd call that reading poorly-supported enough to be incorrect. The report establishes that waypoint names are changed somewhat frequently for reasons that are largely left to myste…

Think of all the algebra problems you got in school where the solution started with "get all the x's on the same side of the equation." You then applied a bunch of rules like "you …

There's no reason the tax needs to directly reflect the environmental impact. We figure out an amount that is enough to change corporate behavior without bankrupting them, maybe wi…

It had done all that by 2010, no? The real hype was about what would come after. I don't think the thesis of most Bitcoin critics is that the math and social engineering involved a…

> Also, with this comment I hope to get some pushback More of a push forward, really: if error-handling guarantees are what's driving you away from dynamically typed langauges, Go …

Without meaning to detract from your point, "no one" is a bit hyperbolic. Elixir, Gleam, Caramel, and LFE all compile to BEAM, and Akka looks like a decent attempt at porting the V…

I think it makes more sense to look at it through the lens of labor distribution. Money is abstract and cyclical and can be inflated and deflated by policy, which makes it complica…

The alternatives aren't frictionless either; many items from that image are not specific to Kubernetes. I personally find AWS API's frustrating to use, so even if I were running a …

Because it works, the infra folks you hired already know how to use it, the API is slightly less awful than working with AWS directly, and your manifests are kinda sorta portable i…

Implementation-wise, yes, but the interface you're exposing is indistinguishable from that of a parser. For all your consumers know, you could be storing the username as a sequence…

No, it's like saying you the employee are a separate entity from the company you work for. To say that Boeing is increasing profits suggests that they are raising prices, doing mor…

Not in all theory - Modern Monetary Theory[1] posits that if you control a mint, your money is effectively infinite and cannot be meaningfully increased. As such, some taxation tru…