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Re:Your Webhook Endpoint Is a Tiny Distributed System on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:40PM (#49631677)
i remember sometime recently that someone talked about how "design a webhook system" is a decent interview question for a infra/backend engineer because of how simple it is on the surface and how complex it can get underneath.
Re:Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong? on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @01:23PM (#49539442)
the interesting question is: what is the barrier we need to cross to trust LLMs with stuff like this? we'll probably cross the barrier but I'd have a hard time setting a true percentage success boundary
Sorry, wasn't specific - and yeah mostly stuff like Pacaso, timeshares, and REITs all deincentivize the creation of low income housing and decrease affordability. This is mostly a personal view, but second home ownership should come with serious costs.

Source for claims on decreased affordability: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026427511...

Re:Are Vector Databases Dead? on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @01:34PM (#38367966)
Dead? No, but definitely overhyped lol
Same with partial housing investments, this is more bourgeoisie garbage. Hope this trend dies.
Re:Supabase introduces MFA support on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:22PM (#33987510)
Gotta love supa, always killing it
Re:Open-Source is the way out of a tech downturn on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:21PM (#33987494)
Realistically, the money is going to the Bourgeoisie either way...
What are your thoughts on Nuxt?
Re:Kcp: Kubernetes-Like Control Plane on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @02:53PM (#33523434)
Cool stuff, a little confused by this quote though:

"The ultimate goal is to be able to use multiple clusters as just compute resources like there is a single big cluster."

- isn't this the point of the underlying K8s nodes?

my hero!
Re:Kindness, Tech Staffing and Resource Allocation on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @12:14PM (#33521436)
Maybe the overstaffing is in middle-management all along...
Re:US marks slowest population growth since the Depression on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @07:57PM (#26963687)
While your arguments make sense, is there any evidence to suggest that it was compromised?
Re:“Wokeness is a problem and we all know it” on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @07:54PM (#26963648)
Yep, it doesn't seem like he has any issue with the content behind the issues that "wokeness" brings light to - title is wildly misleading.
Re:Fintech Is Not New on Thursday September 24, 2020 @01:33PM (#24581137)
Good post, but where's the evidence that people are actually claiming that fintech is new?
Re:Biohacking Lite on Friday June 12, 2020 @03:09PM (#23502543)
I absolutely agree - sugar is definitely the issue. Most individuals don't get enough healthy fats due to marketing tactics. Stuff like Omega 3s and general unsaturated fats are incredibly important for brain function, reparation of tissue, etc.