Twirrim

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by Twirrim 3y ago
All over the places in cloud infra (I've worked for two large cloud companies). I keep hearing of more and more stuff being based around it and kafka.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Definitely. Occasional verbal references were fine, I appreciated more the subtle little visual references in LCARs interfaces etc more that in dialogue.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
You said no one watches it. I pointed out that's categorically not true. It has hundreds of millions of people watching it. That's not no one. That's a lot of people. More people watched formula e than watched the super b
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by Twirrim 3y ago
>Formula-E is also known as "Formule No-Engines therefore nobody watches it". Sad but true. What absolute rot. Last year had 334 million viewers, putting it above NASCAR in viewership.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Folks that are Star Trek geeks are probably familiar with the number 47, which has a storied history, with claims about how it's is, in fact, the most likely to occur random number, etc. etc, coming out from a society at Pomona College
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Fine on Firefox, Intel GPU, Linux. about:performance shows it at 27MB and 14% CPU usage at peak.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
One particularly memorable on-call shift had a phenomenal amount of pain caused by the use of CSV somewhere along the line, and a developer who decided to put an entry "I wonder, what happens if I put in a comma", or something sim
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by Twirrim 3y ago
I love percentages. 164% up from what, exactly? 164% growth on 100 users isn't that many in sheer numbers terms, a drop in the ocean in the browser segment. I'm happy to see the change that has hit Android and iOS as a result, and
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by Twirrim 3y ago
If it's not hyperbolic, I think we ought to ban this... Call me picky, but I think breaking the only planet we live on right now is a bad idea
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Their pricing page, https://rive.app/pricing suggests that they support MP4/GIF/PNG Sequence and WebM exports? Is that not what you're looking for?
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by Twirrim 3y ago
> There is, however, a healthy kind of dead air This is the thing that drives me nuts. I was really hoping the article would be about the value of dead air, or at least expound on it more, instead there is barely a paragraph. What contin
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by Twirrim 3y ago
It's a very US centric term, in the UK we'd just call them graduates, for example.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Being sqlite backed, it's really fast and threadsafe, the cache is shared safely between all threads or processes. It's a very mature library, too, nice and polished, I've never once experienced a bug with it.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Yeah, I was just trying to show the difference. Doing it without optimisation flags is an utterly bewildering decision by the author.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
So rather than spend 10-20 minutes reading about numpy, the author wrote 3 other implementations...? The fact that they ran the C code without the optimisation flags and compared it that way makes me think Javascript was what they actually
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by Twirrim 3y ago
The thing that strikes me as particularly weird about this is the use of numpy there. In other languages, they're using native code. In python they're reaching out to numpy, which is a great library, but not awesome inside a hot
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by Twirrim 3y ago
For fun and frolics: No flags: 1843ms -march=native: 2183 ms -O2: 423 ms -O2 -march=native: 250 ms -O3: 425 ms -O3 -march=native: 255 ms O3 doesn't seem to be helping in my case.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
If you ever use "grep" on mac, it's also worth installing gnutils and switching to ggrep instead as it is significantly faster.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
I'd be curious how much performance this might bring vs, say, a Linux kernel with an application loaded direct from initramfs. It's not terribly complicated to build a single-purpose initramfs. There's a lot that an operatin
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by Twirrim 3y ago
pure speculation: I imagine it's just "Well, now there will be Linux involved" where previously you'd just be relying on Nanos.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
S3 is a key value store. Just happens to be able to store really large values.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
> It's also the type of compiler that defaults to -ffast-math to look good in benchmarks Not sure if they're still doing that, but in the early days of Clear Linux they were using -ffast-math on everything they compiled, as a w
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by Twirrim 3y ago
There's also a lot of research papers in AI coming out of Chinese universities.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Unless you're part of the large majority of people in the world on slower mobile networks. We keep designing and building for people with broadband / wifi, and missing out just how big the 3G / lousy latency markets are.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
During architectural reviews, I'm often the annoying person grilling the team on the customer experience. If you don't start from how the customer will interact with it, how are you going to create anything ergonomic? All too ofte
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by Twirrim 3y ago
They're even already producing their own Linux distribution, CBL-Mariner, https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Likewise, started password reset process that won't complete, asked my wife to double check my account wasn't compromised and posting cryptocurency crap or somesuch.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
> mirrord lets developers run local code in the context of a remote Kubernetes pod. This lets them test their code in cloud conditions without going through CI and deployment. In most cases, stealing or mirroring incoming traffic from th
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Honestly? No. If I do it's on the order of "once in a year", and usually only sites that are doing something specifically quirky, like particular types of webgpu demos or somesuch.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
What a wonderful security and privacy nightmare that is. Artist tracing through it? Make a transparent pen tablet, not the screen. Even the most ferverent of artists will be spending more time doing other things than actually tracing. If th

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