If you use Alternate Player for Twitch DDG privacy extension was preventing it from connecting with twitch servers and lose quite a bit functionality as you would always stay logged out. Not sure why it was doing that, but just a PSA regarding same extension
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dstola commented on White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note politico.com/news/2022/11... · Posted by u/rmason
You do know Twitter hasn't existed for that long, right. It was founded in 2006.
The @POTUS account wasn't created until 2015.
Twitter in the political space is still relatively new. You're getting flagged for naked partisanship.
Twitter is not new though. It had sway in 2016 and 2012 elections with prominent personalities doing public relation on the platform. Saying its new to political space is pretty disingenuous
> You're getting flagged for naked partisanship
So you're allowed to support democrat agenda "nakedly", but not any other. Got it.
dstola commented on White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note politico.com/news/2022/11... · Posted by u/rmason
This is a community-provided note. Elon had nothing to do with it, but confirmation bias is in full effect.
Have you ever seen White House getting fact-checked with democrats in power before the acquisition? If there is any bias going on its from people that have a bone to pick with Elon and his choices
The fact that my comment got flagged for some odd reason highlights the fact that people (including on HN) dont want to hear that Elon is making twitter better and less biased
dstola commented on Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun techcrunch.com/2022/11/03... · Posted by u/matthieu_bl
> The app is simple but doing simple things at scale is hard. I wonder if we'll see more downtime and issues now.
So, here's what I've never figured out...
Once your app is built, and you've figured out how to scale it, and everything is autoscaling nicely, and you've reached the critical mass Twitter has...why do you still need all the engineers? Why do you need to keep growing?
At some point, isn't the scaling solved? Once you have a platform that can handle 400M MAUs, what more is there to build?
Does it really take 1,000 engineers to maintain? I'd think automation could take care of most grunt work involved with maintenance.
I think the issue with these massive scale apps is that people want better and fresher features which are not always well defined and get lost in the maze of product development of a huge company. They have to make decisions, do we go with web3 stuff or do we improve current NLP system etc etc. Making decisions is much easier for a small startup than a behemoth of twitters size. And yes, it takes many people. 1000 engineers? Maybe not, bloat has set in at that point, but a few hundred for sure.
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dstola commented on Why is Snowflake so expensive blog.devgenius.io/why-is-... · Posted by u/eyeball
"optimization gremlin" = dark-pattern to take as much money away from you as possile
There are some things that are zero sum or reasonably approximated by a zero sum game, and they are increasingly the tickets to multigenerational prosperity, namely real estate, promotions, job offers, and college admission slots. If you are a start up, your market can realistically only support X companies each getting a piece of the pie.
I contend that the rat race exists not because of collective delusion but because of basic economics.
> multigenerational prosperity
With a lot of young people opting out of having kids and trying to find their own way in life, it would make sense that the anti-work and anti-hustler culture is much more prevalent in younger people (millenials being first). Its a generational shift first of all driven by oncoming climate disaster due to over population and will be felt through wars and hungers. Why should young people contribute to such a society and create more suffering in the process.
I am not an anti-natalist, but if we start talking multi-generational that's what it comes down to
dstola commented on SQL language proposal: JOIN FOREIGN gist.github.com/joelonsql... · Posted by u/JoelJacobson
Not a fan since proposal would do an implicit join on foreign keys rather than explicit join on the columns. If you know the schemas its great, but would add an extra step to check FKs on the tables otherwise
In general explicit > implicit, IMO
> rewriting a repository to use a ORM, jOOQ in this particular case with Java8
> spend two weeks on this, write extremely meticulous tests, I am a junior/mid level engineer at this point in my career and this is a game changing ticket
> day of the switch approaches, sweating bullets
> switch happens, so far so good
> This was for a food delivery company so the volume of orders changes throughout the day (lunch, dinner, evening etc)
> at lunch time orders suddenly start disappearing, but eventually over time things go back to normal
> goes on like this for hours, at least a few
> tech team is confused ... why are these orders disappearing into nowhere
> senior engineer is suspicious and reviews my PR from the night before
> I forgot to remove `LIMIT 100` on the GET /order query when I was testing
Still makes me chuckle to this day