One of the great things about reading scifi stories is that most of the time when people talk about some futurstic invention, you would just say like it's like the thing from this story by this author.

Effective way to get instant street creds.

The worst thing a country could discover is untapped natural resources.

Is this a good book to learn about the concept of microservices?

I am halfway in the first chapter. The concepts are introduced with in each iterative step of a system being built. It reads like a case study.

I like the style of this book but are there better books out there?

So what I gather is that microservices are a way of combating against technical debt.

Any system of sufficient size and sufficient age will inevitably accumulate technical debt, this makes it harder to change that system to add new functionality or modify existing behavior. Technical debt is like a cancer, an un-escapeable by product of age and growth.

Microservices embrace this problem and try to limit these technical debts into their own corner of complexity. So it doesn’t matter that any single microservice is full of technical debt, because when you want to add new functionality or modify existing behavior you will always be adding new microservices to accomplish that goal.

This property allows you to build complex systems without falling down the well of refactors. The only requirement for the existing microservices is that they are functional.

The author of this book calls this idea additivity, but it's just the functional programming idea of composition applied at the service level.

DHH doesn't know about transport independence.

This is presented as a bad thing but I actually want to build systems so complex that it's impossible to explain their behavior.

all ideas are bad/dumb stop analyzing just take a chance

fireship made a video about nix
we're finally mainstream baby 😁

https://youtu.be/FJVFXsNzYZQ

David MacKenzie talks about his contributions to BSD and GNU in this video.

https://youtu.be/D7vfI-WSP8Q

I need someone with a higher EQ to let me know what went wrong here.

https://forum.exercism.org/t/allow-users-to-provide-their-token-via-a-stdin-prompt/12492/17

Permutation City

Just finished reading this book. It might be the first hard scifi book i read. It's very concept heavy rather than being character driven. The story explores a world where humans have created a kind of immortality by loading themselves into computers and simulating their lives in virtual worlds. The book explores the implications of this technology very effectively. It even goes into the socio-economic dynamics of the use of this technology.

One interesting example of the concepts from the book, is since the computer simulated copies operate at a slower rate than normal humans living in the real world, people who want to communicate with copies running in the simulation had to slow their brain function, to match the speed of the copies. The number used in the book was 17x slower.

Also, someone should build the JSN and the QIPS exchange, as soon as possible.

burn this shit

why does HCL hate multi line strings

every single time the github release action for sql studio fails, its because of windows, so ...

SSDs want to be fast, as fast as RAMs.
RAMs want to be big, as big as SSDs.