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by Twirrim 3y ago
Yes, you pay a cost for latency, but you get a phenomal amount of durability at much lower stretch factor. If they make sure they no two shards occupy the same hard disk, they could lose up to three hard disks with your data shared on it an
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by Twirrim 3y ago
I took a few shots at this in rust (following on from https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/18ws370/optimizing_a_... ), and every single time the bottleneck was down to the string parsing, everything els
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by Twirrim 3y ago
It's a good job no one ever learns from experience, eh?
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Just this last Saturday before Christmas, an engineer I know at another company was frantically making schema changes to database schemas to shift from INT to BIGINT, after they hit the limit and everything started failing.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
That Principal Engineer's knowledge came from painful repeated experiences in AWS. When I left AWS in 2016 they were trying to push towards 3 monthly cert rotations, and hoping to get it shorter. A year long expiry isn't frequent
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by Twirrim 3y ago
It's their right to be able to point out language choices that they don't like, just like you've got the right to point out about the rights the author has. Everyone has all the rights, woohoo!
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by Twirrim 3y ago
In a number of his videos, they'll use different colours for different speakers. As best as I can see, while also choosing bright colours unlikely to cause problems for people with colour-blindness. It makes such a difference.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
I gave similar a shot in rust, using build.rs to dynamically create the file, inspired by the blog post. I'd been meaning to look at build.rs for a while. It seems to hit a pretty pathological compilation situation. Done as ifs, rust
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Do this around people with type 1 diabetes, and there's a chance you're wiping out their glucose monitor (a sizeable number of the continuous glucose monitor systems rely on a cellphone app, smartphones are becoming ubiquitous har
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by Twirrim 3y ago
You think someone who among a repeated pattern of hacking, also deliberately hacks to harass and stalk people doesn't count as dangerous, somehow? Instead of throwing him behind bars, they've put him in a place where he can get
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by Twirrim 3y ago
It goes way, way beyond just leaking GTA6. He hacked, got arrested and charged with hacking and had devices taken away, then promptly turned around and hacked committing the GTA6 crime, while his devices were confiscated. He's carried
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Code-Level Attribution of Unnecessary Data Transfer in Microservice Applications(dl.acm.org)
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by Twirrim 3y ago
https://archive.is/s3k80
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by Twirrim 3y ago
The shared class cache was the thing I was thinking of, I think. https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/j-class-sharing-openj9/ Looks like maybe there is similar for OpenJDK & Oracle Java as of version 12 (I thin
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by Twirrim 3y ago
The thing this most makes me think of is Ottertune, that the Carnegie Mellon DB group came up with several years ago for MySQL, https://github.com/cmu-db/ottertune , and eventually commercialised https://otte
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by Twirrim 3y ago
IBM's JVM used to support it at one stage, not sure if it still does or if other JVMs have picked it up.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
It's there, it works. VBA is a very accessible and straightforward language to code in and iterate with. No faffing about with installing external dependencies and library hell, no compilation phase. It's really no surprise that
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Agreed, the JVM's thresholds for method compilation is higher than the test strategy seemed to account for. Also, quoting from the site: TruffleRuby eventually outperforms the other JITs, but it takes about two minutes to do so.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
> It would be fair to say google should put more work into vetting DMCA takedowns They're effectively not allowed to, by the law, that forces them to assume every take down is good, or they end up at legal risk of being liable for t
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Follow the behaviour you're talking about through to the logical conclusion. If your employer is legally liable for things you do on your own time with your own equipment, and required to prove that they weren't involved and that
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by Twirrim 3y ago
On what legal basis? If you start going after the employers for compensation whenever an employee does something illegal in their own time, you're going to completely devastate the economy, and incentivise just batshit crazy employmen
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by Twirrim 3y ago
When something similar happened with an immigrant co-worker in the UK, I quickly picked up a second bank account. He got stuck for about a week and a half with his money all locked up in an account he couldn't access. It was early eno
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by Twirrim 3y ago
I'm the same with: PlantUML - quick and simple text representation of diagrams, really easy to iterate on and see changes reflected live. reveal.js - Quick and simple slide creation, I can reorder slides with ease, tweak wording, don&#
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by Twirrim 3y ago
A nice little Quality Of Life improvement for me with uBlock Origin recently has been using it top block Confluence's pop ups when someone has commented on a page I'm reading. We use Confluence to do document reviews at work, and
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by Twirrim 3y ago
I missed that, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
I've been lucky to work with a series of really good product managers, with one exception who thankfully didn't last long enough to do too much damage (though he did result in me having to attend the single most awkward meeting I&
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by Twirrim 3y ago
On the cloud provider side of things, there is so much demand for Windows Server on Arm, it's astounding that Microsoft still haven't shipped a version yet.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
The 2013 version of SimCity was a disaster for all sorts of reasons, not least of which that they took game devs and just mysteriously expected them to know how to build and run online services, run databases etc. A friend of mine was work
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by Twirrim 3y ago
A research field specific language based off a subset of smalltalk, that has been used for research in to just this kind of work for over two decades. It's not like the author went and chose or created something random. They used wha
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Why surprised? It's rock solid, stable, fast, and does pretty much everything you need, and nothing is hidden behind premium tiers, unlike nginx where they leave bugs and awful behaviour in the open source version that aren't i

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