Twirrim

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811.
by Twirrim 5y ago
Facebook has spent a lot of engineering resources on the kernel. Can't speak to their network stack, but if you want to see what they've contributed, they use emails under the @fb.com domain: https://git.kernel.org&#
812.
by Twirrim 5y ago
With social media etc, I can see it spreading really fast. That would be my bigger fear trying to get a service back up from a very long outage like that.
813.
by Twirrim 5y ago
"We enjoyed seeing some of our most dedicated players figure out our DNS steering scheme and start exchanging this information on Twitter so that they could get “early” access as we brought the service back up." Why do I have a fe
814.
by Twirrim 5y ago
Roblox is not a startup, and has a significant sized footprint (18,000 servers isn't something that's just available, even within clouds. They're not magically scalable places, capacity tends to land just ahead of demand).
815.
by Twirrim 5y ago
The post indicates they'd been rolling it out for months, and indicate the feature went live "several months ago". With the behaviour matching other types of degradation (hardware), it's entirely reasonable that it could
816.
by Twirrim 5y ago
Via TLP on Linux, I've been capping my laptop's CPU (i7-8665U) to 800Mhz whenever I'm on battery. 800Mhz on a relatively modern CPU is quite remarkably fast and sufficient for most things. Out of curiosity I've got CPU
817.
by Twirrim 5y ago
Every now and then I break out dive and take a look at container images. Almost without fail I'll find something we can improve. The UX is great for the tool, gives me absolutely everything I need to see, in such a clear fashion, and
818.
by Twirrim 5y ago
Ampere Altra, for one: https://amperecomputing.com/altra/ , who advertise systems through partner firms: https://solutions.amperecomputing.com/systems/altra#system_2... Some benchmarks: https:&#x2
819.
by Twirrim 5y ago
Ad and analytics money, https://www.thestockdork.com/how-does-imgur-make-money/
820.
by Twirrim 5y ago
Cloudflare started it by attacking Fastly in the first place.
821.
by Twirrim 5y ago
I love starship. Compiled binary, so it's extremely fast. I've tried a number of alternative prompt approaches in the past, but they've almost all been script based approaches, and the delay as the prompt message was genera
822.
by Twirrim 5y ago
Agreed. Power frugality is absolutely crucial, especially at larger, enterprise scale. Unless you're in HPC, you're looking for a good balance of peak performance-per-watt and the lowest idle consumption, with a very good scal
823.
by Twirrim 5y ago
From the details on https://pypi.org/project/pyjion/ > Goal #1 is explicitly to add a C API to CPython to support JIT compilers. Given the plural compilers, hopefully this means it's going to support multi
824.
by Twirrim 5y ago
> abandoned or mismanaged by one bored developer I mean.. you're just at risk of the company going under, or getting bored and randomly deprecating something because they don't care about it. Your risk level wouldn't reall
825.
by Twirrim 5y ago
But the fancy graphics! Got to have the fancy graphics! Form > Function.
826.
by Twirrim 5y ago
Past performance does not guarantee future behaviour. Just because S3 did this at one stage means no guarantee they'll act that way in the future. That's not a bet you should be making with important data.
827.
by Twirrim 5y ago
I've been looking out for OtterTune for several years now, ever since the research paper was published. Congratulations on reaching live product stage! edit: The original research paper: https://cs.cmu.edu/~ggordon&#x2
828.
by Twirrim 5y ago
> Pompom language is so simple that you can implement it yourself just by looking in the source code (you can think that our language is the BASIC language of proof assistants). List | A :: ~ * ~> * => {(list A) :: |new
829.
by Twirrim 5y ago
It never ceases to be amazing how often I have to bite my tongue and not say that during meetings. Someone wants to give us money, for our product, at a price that will make us a profit. Let them.
830.
by Twirrim 5y ago
From folks I know at AWS, services are all being heavily pushed to use Graviton to run their services, to the point of having to justify why they couldn't. The cost savings internally are just as significant.
831.
by Twirrim 5y ago
Use whatever gets your product out the door. Performance, for the most part, can come later. Good enough is good enough.
832.
by Twirrim 5y ago
See also yesterday's discussion on this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28662945
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Simdjson 1.0 Released(lemire.me)
3 points by Twirrim 5y ago|0 comments
834.
by Twirrim 5y ago
I've been having a batch of really obvious spam getting past Hotmail's filtering. After years of Hotmail being bad, Microsoft got really good at spam filtering there and I haven't really had issues with spam for close on a d
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The NanoPU: A Nanosecond Network Stack for Datacenters [pdf](usenix.org)
1 points by Twirrim 5y ago|0 comments
836.
by Twirrim 5y ago
Where is this list defined? If it's not defined specifically, it would seem the intent is the stdlib.
837.
by Twirrim 5y ago
I've been using aria2c for some multithreaded HTTP downloading stuff recently. I surprisingly found it to get bottlenecked on a single core. For torrents, I tend to just use rtorrent, which has worked perfectly for me for probably 15
838.
by Twirrim 5y ago
> Faster, more correct float parsing > The standard library's implementation of float parsing has been updated to use the Eisel-Lemire algorithm, which brings both speed improvements and improved correctness. In the past, certain
839.
by Twirrim 5y ago
The game hasn't happened yet, so far as I can see? Date is still to be determined.
840.
by Twirrim 5y ago
The spec sheet says "ARM Cortex-M0+", which is Armv6-M based.

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