Twirrim

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by Twirrim 3y ago
Bill Bryson has a bit in "Notes from a Small Island" (I think it was?) about how depressing it is that the British keep taking these older beautiful buildings, and then plonking down uncharacteristic, dull modern style steel and g
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by Twirrim 3y ago
While also getting you more reliable and consistent power generation than anything you'd get from Solar or Wind.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Side bonus, Chekr executives can take under-the-table payments to artificially inflate scores.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Doh, sorry. I'm usually good about not using that acronym!
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Disclaimer: I work for OCI, opinion my own etc. We offer faster NVMe drives in instances. Our E4 Dense shapes ship with SAMSUNG MZWLJ7T6HALA-00AU3, which supports Sequential Reads of 7000 MB/s, and Sequential Write 3800 MB/s. Fro
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by Twirrim 3y ago
How so? I've seen caching clients exhibit some really weird behaviour under heavy load. It's not beyond the pale that, eg, the caching library doesn't do proper locking before writing, resulting in writes stomping all over e
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by Twirrim 3y ago
That seems such an odd and specific depreciation notice to have posted if it's not true. That's not a single engineer "whoops" kind of mistake.
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Sacked Twitter staff in Ghana get pay-off(bbc.com)
4 points by Twirrim 3y ago|1 comments
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by Twirrim 3y ago
It's in the published source code, as a usable feature, just flagged as experimental and not compiled by default. It's not like this is some random development branch. It's there, to be used en route to being stable. Peopl
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by Twirrim 3y ago
You and I have very different notions of "shipped". It's open source code, it's being made publicly available. That's shipped, as I see it.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
I'm inclined to agree with your decision to create and publish CVEs for these, honestly. You were shipping code with a now-known vulnerability in it, even if it wasn't compiled in by default.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
All major tech companies are building up a portfolio of patents, as a deterrent as much as anything else. So that when competitors come knocking on the door, they can use the portfolio to say, "Well okay, but then you owe me license mo
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by Twirrim 3y ago
> of course he pronounces the X in LaTeX Okay.. how is LaTeX pronounced?
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by Twirrim 3y ago
For what it's worth, Oracle is one of the largest contributors to the kernel, especially if you filter out the drivers subtree, which tends to skew the metrics for various reasons (lots of large generated code, almost identical arm SoC
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by Twirrim 3y ago
That's a really flimsy article. Someone is claiming 3 million smart toothbrushes were used in a DDoS, but no one is talking what/who/how. That seems like the kind of extraordinary claim that requires at least some kind of e
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Same for Sun Microsystems.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
> These systems aren't particularly old or out of support. CentOS 7 goes EOL June 30th, so you're pretty close to their end of life (CentOS 8 stream has 2.28, so should still work with the new vscode version, which is why I&#x2
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by Twirrim 3y ago
When it comes to databases, that's when I get the most conservative in tech choices. Stick with the tried and tested approaches. Data/Metadata integrity is generally the single most important thing for whatever I'm working
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by Twirrim 3y ago
I've tried a number of different shell prompt tools over the past few decades. I've disliked them all due to their latency. I don't want to "feel" the delay. They were all in scripting languages, be it native bash,
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Almost every single project that makes it to the front page of HN tells you as part of the opening sentences what language it's in. For a good while it was "<thing>, (re)written in Go". There's nothing special or u
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by Twirrim 3y ago
IPv6 has been supported for ~20 years. Not many devices in any regular use these days with network support, lack IPv6. That pool of devices will be almost entirely gone in 8 years when this is due.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Awful adoption rate? https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html It's sitting just shy of 45%, based on what Google sees, and growing at a steady pace. The main issue is not technical, it'
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by Twirrim 3y ago
A little related, back in the day Sun Microsystems came up with picoJava, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoJava , a full microprocessor specification dedicated to native execution of java bytecode. It never really wen
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by Twirrim 3y ago
That's part of the original design goals for it. Scripting support has been part of it from the very beginning, to allow for time-based animation etc.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Government procurement trends towards broken in most countries. You start out with a nice and clean set of rules, easy to validate. Stuff like "make sure the c-suite aren't relatives of the government officials making the decisio
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by Twirrim 3y ago
> What sort of company would put their Z team on a multi-billion pound contract? A company that stands to make significantly larger profits by doing so. Why pay $$$ on engineers when you can pay $ engineers, and still get a product you c
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by Twirrim 3y ago
I live just outside of Seattle. Major urban area. I got so tired of multi hour power outages, I paid something like $20k to have a natural gas generator installed in March 2022. Since then it has run 16 times (based on a quick read of the m
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by Twirrim 3y ago
I know Marcus, the guy they mention that first caught the problem. He had no end of trouble getting Meta to acknowledge the severity of what he'd found, and they just constantly went radio silence on him, in between not really underst
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Also: Vendor your dependencies. There's zero reason to be wget'ing like that. It's two short perl scripts.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
It's fine with C packages these days, it's increasingly rare to find libraries that it won't work with. That said, it has happened often enough I'm cautious about where I use it. It would suck to be dependent on pypy&#x

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