Twirrim

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by Twirrim 1y ago
As a subscriber, I get 6 algorithm suggested videos (even split 50/50 on subscribed vs suggested). Then of course the content is also routinely interrupted by rows that take up more space than a row of video suggestions: * Premium movi
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by Twirrim 1y ago
I'm so past wanting to read meme laden blog posts. Especially when all too often it's just stretching a paragraph of content. Security vulnerability stuff is probably the worst at it these days.
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by Twirrim 1y ago
The labyrinth doesn't have to be fast, and things like iocaine ( https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/ ) don't use much CPU if you don't go and give them something like the Complete Works of Ahakespeare as inpu
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by Twirrim 1y ago
That I know of (and is public so I'm not breaching any NDA) AWS S3[1], Azure[2], GCP[3], Backblaze[4], Facebook's storage layer uses it[5][6], and Oracle Cloud's Object Storage Platform[7]. The economies of scale mean that yo
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by Twirrim 1y ago
In this particular case, Apple Maps seems to have it correct, so at least some official source of data must be right? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=136+W+6th+Ave%2C+Vancouver%2C+BC%2...
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Google Maps can be downright dangerous in its lack of knowledge, and it'll make routing decisions that other GPS devices don't make (despite similarly working around the world). For example, it cannot comprehend the idea of count
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Someone did this a couple of years ago for a major thoroughfare near where I lived. They marked it as one way for a key stretch, and traffic ended up being re-routed down much smaller roads to avoid it. It caused all sorts of chaos, both
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by Twirrim 1y ago
If they care about compression at the ZFS level, that means your file is going to be visible to anyone able to log in to the server, because they're relying on (at best) encryption at rest. That's not a great security model for a
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Backblaze uses erasure encoding, which is currently the best and most efficient way to do storage. It's how every major object storage platform works. The very quick high level explanation is that in storage you talk about "stretc
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Physical servers do. It's always astounding to me how long it takes to initialise all that hardware.
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by Twirrim 1y ago
>chasing dependencies. This aspect of configure, in particular, drives me nuts. Obviously I'd like it to be faster, but it's not the end of the world. I forget what I was trying to build the other week, but I had to make 18 s
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by Twirrim 1y ago
I just did a quick tally. Of the first 26 posts in my feed: * 11 friends/page/groups * 15 groups/pages that I haven't followed or interacted with. Of those, the first post was a friend, the next 5 posts were groups or
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Likewise, Facebook has become spectacularly useless for me. I've missed important moments in friend's lives for several days because Facebook has decided that shoving random fan pages and adverts are what I actually want to see.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
By convention in music, we use Roman numerals to signify what chord we should play relative to the root (key). "I" refers to the root/tonic/key and we count up from there. [1] So, for example, a common three chord progr
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Don't forget all those interconnected microservices, so that every request has to be handled by dozens of machines with lots of json flying everywhere eating up CPU time that could have been spent actually carrying out the business log
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Leverage erasure encoding for durability and avoid both the tripling and local parity. You'll get better durability than 3x while only taking up significantly less than 2x the space Backblaze open sourced their library and talk about i
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by Twirrim 2y ago
They're legal in King County, but they're required to be for business within a certain mile radius. There's several of them along the 522, for example. https://maps.app.goo.gl/cmCVXvJJgfYUAtXF9
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Yup, using iocaine https://lib.rs/crates/iocaine . AI crawlers are getting text generated by a markov chain built from Moby Dick. Is it effective? Eh, probably not. Fun though.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
They did a great one at Amazon several years ago. Engineers had been loudly complaining about the elevators in one building, and how long it could take at lunchtime to get one. All sorts of crap about how the elevator algorithm sucked, etc.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Agreed. Rack density is the biggest thing once you get away from "a handful of servers", be it CPU, memory, or storage density. Side note: I'm curious where this 1:8 ratio of cores:memory came from. Everyone seems to be stand
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by Twirrim 2y ago
They also won't provide any guarantees about components continuing to work, such as booting over thunderbolt that some clouds rely on. There's an awful lot of financial risk in providing MacOS as a service.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
SWF is the Flash format. Not sure why they're targeting that, but there would be lots of flash out there to train on.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I knew someone that used to work on the Alexa team on the language side of things. She had an emotionally terrible few weeks at one stage, because she and her team had to brainstorm (working in conjunction with experts) on just about every
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by Twirrim 2y ago
> it means there is clear demand for these features among users. No, it just means executives want to add AI to things. So many of these "But with AI" are not lead by customers but by executives wanting to make sure their prod
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Support orgs love to measure how long it takes to close tickets, but rarely whether the problem was actually resolved, or customer sentiment. I had a friend who worked for an Cable ISP decades ago in the UK. Management of support managemen
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'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket(websiteplanet.com)
353 points by Twirrim 2y ago|186 comments
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I think, in part, because we don't have the same level of experience with how things are elsewhere.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
There has been a lot of speed ups coming out of that project. It's not being done in one go, though, but spread out over the last several releases. So while individual speedups may not look that significant, remember that it is compoun
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Firefox does, though. There really aren't these wild and crazy speed issues with it at all, even with fresh out of the box defaults. The only time I've had to touch about:config in the last several years was due to some smartcard
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by Twirrim 2y ago
It shouldn't lag the web interface. There are common ways to handle this, such as making all resource mutations asynchronous, or if you want to keep it synchronous, ensuring that control processes get guaranteed CPU resources. It is

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