Twirrim

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by Twirrim 2y ago
This was over 20 years ago, not sure what I'll be able to find. This one is a bit frothing at the teeth, but I do recall a few others from after the congestion charge was introduced. It ended up being a minor controversy, and I could
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Yet another attempt to shift tax burdens to the working class. Yay. (/s if that wasn't obvious)
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Not sure if NYC would do the same stunt, but London saw an amazing improvement in traffic flow after congestion charge was introduced. Turned out for several months prior to it they'd been slowly shifting the timing of lights to make
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by Twirrim 2y ago
> especially for older Sonos devices with limited processing power. That reminds me: When S3 dropped support for MD5 ciphers, it ended up causing problems for a number of their customers who had remarkably old computers connecting to S3
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Even when you have an expensive contract with Microsoft and a direct account manager to help you run the gauntlet you still end up having to deal with awful support people. Years ago at a job we were seeing issues with a network card on a
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Years ago I worked for a company that provided managed hosting services. That included some level of alarm watching for customers. We used to rotate the "person of contact" (POC) each shift, and they were responsible for reaching
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Unfortunately MAY is not MUST. When it comes to RFCs, it's all too common that people won't implement MAYs, and you should operate expecting that. I wouldn't trust any key over 2048 bits to work.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I'm curious, are you just surrounded by "Yes men" at work? Do you actually have people who meaningfully criticise you or decisions from your leadership team?
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Agreed. I don't see anything from a google search that suggests that they cut the number of firefighters, either. Hyperbolic statements like "gutted" are just meant to get the knee jerk, frothing at the mouth "retweet&q
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by Twirrim 2y ago
It has been highly successful in London. Less congestion, better air quality, incentivises the most disruptive things like heavy good vehicles to deliver out of rush hour reducing impact on other traffic etc.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Out of curiosity, I'm looking at the JSON spec. This mildly horrifies me: "This specification allows implementations to set limits on the range and precision of numbers accepted." The spec doesn't specify a precision o
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by Twirrim 2y ago
"(and hopefully decompress)" is a horrifying descriptor.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
This whole introvert/extrovert label drives me a little crazy, just like almost anything that attempts to put people into boxes. Humanity really needs to get past this foolish notion that things are black and white instead of the real
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Sorry, but NDAs mean I can't say any more.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
It's about enforcing that people follow standards. Which is still an uphill battle, but at least it's based in something sane. Their work on this has resulted in improvements to a whole slew of popular feed readers that should m
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Engineers at hyperscalers are struggling through all the bugs too. It's coming at notable opportunity cost for them, at a time when they also want an end to the monopoly. Do they buy AMD and wade through bug after bug, regression after
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by Twirrim 2y ago
OP has never said that this is about financial aspects of things.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
> But then there is the software ecosystem issue. We still have problems with software not being optimised for Arm these days, which is just astounding given the prevalence on mobile devices, let alone the market share represented by App
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by Twirrim 2y ago
> It is literally installed on any *nix OS, macOS included. To my horror/surprise, not necessarily so any more. A whole lot of the OS parts that used perl have been ported away, or no longer part of the OS. It's entirely poss
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Nothing specific that I'm aware of. Off the top of my head, and sticking to things that are pretty safe NDA territory, load balancers algorithms typically do things round-robin style, or least current connections, or speed of response
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Awesome, thanks for the link. Will be interesting to hear how things have developed in the several years since I left.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I'm surprised that S3/AWS hasn't blogged or done a white paper about their approach yet. It's been something like 7 years now since they moved away from standard load balancing. If you think about an object storage platf
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Article should be tagged 2023
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by Twirrim 2y ago
And adapters for the other standard are <$200, and don't take up that much space in a trunk.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
There's also the added fun that using hyperthreading/SMT cores impacts your workload on the corresponding primary cores as well. Depending on your workload SMT can end up being a throughput/latency trade off you might not hav
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by Twirrim 2y ago
In part that'll be because they mandated every service team migrate to ARM. Service teams had to have extensive justification to avoid it. With good reason, too, the reason for the effort was the significant cost savings.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
It's open source under Eclipse Public License version 2.0, GNU General Public License version 2, or GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1. Making it easily fork-able should Oracle choose to do something users dislike.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I go in to this not caring how fast I do it, or how far behind I get. It's just an opportunity to learn something and challenge myself a little bit. At best, I tend to set myself an upper limit for runtime.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I don't think there are enough entries to make it worth the cost of a hash. I know it's not "efficient" exactly, but just repeatedly looping through and counting just isn't that slow.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
This is one of those things where, despite some 20+ years of dealing with NIX systems, I know* it happens, but always forget about it until I've sat puzzled why I've got no output for several moments.

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