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by Twirrim 1y ago
Or just a really big git repo. Starship includes a timings command, on linux (with an annoying antivirus meddling) this is what I see against one directory: git_status - 6ms - "[!?] " directory - 4ms - &quo
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Yes, but there are no guarantees. In fact, they do quite routinely remove drivers for old hardware, if there is no one willing to maintain them. They removed support for several pieces of hardware in the last release, in fact, including s
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Starship is very fast, taking only a couple of milliseconds to gather the data (and you can easily configure it to minimise what it'll spend time gathering). It's night and day compared to other ones I've tried, where the hun
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Every single time your prompt appears, your shell is doing something. I've tried using various prompt customising things in the past, but they've almost all been written in shell, and always been palpably slow. To the degree that
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by Twirrim 1y ago
https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/#Overview For details about tramp, in case (like me) you had no idea what tramp is.
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by Twirrim 1y ago
So? If I need to consume a resource compressed using bz2, I'm not just going to sit around and wait for them to use zstd. I'm going to break out bz2. If I can use a modern rewrite that's faster, I'll take every advant
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by Twirrim 1y ago
If you're going to use tools to transpile, don't use something that hallucinates. You want it to be precise. https://github.com/immunant/c2rust reportedly works pretty well. Blog post from a few years ago o
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by Twirrim 1y ago
I'm getting the feeling someone has strong feelings about IOC3. From a quick bit of googling that appears to be a Silicon Graphics ASIC
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by Twirrim 1y ago
It's talking about occurrences of the word, not contributions. That's a really lousy way to measure corporate contributions. IBM is contributing a lot. LWN publishes development statistics after each kernel release: https:&#x2F
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by Twirrim 1y ago
I think you've got some "grass is greener on the other side" thinking going on there. There's lots of people just like him, failing upwards in US tech.
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by Twirrim 1y ago
It's been 14 years since THP got added to the kernel[1], surely we're past calling that "recent" :) https://www.kernelconfig.io/config_transparent_hugepage
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by Twirrim 1y ago
While I certainly wish that more software would reach a "done" stage, I don't think jemalloc is necessarily there yet. Unfortunately I'm aware of there being bugs in the current version of jemalloc, when run in certain
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Oh that's interesting. jemalloc is the memory allocator used by redis, among other projects. Wonder what the performance impact will be if they have to change allocators.
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by Twirrim 1y ago
I've found them to be bad, for the most part. There aren't enough blog posts and examples of code out there for them to leach from. Besides which, I would argue the process of writing proof in the language is integral to building
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Google, all sorts of large companies use them, and talk about it, publicly. They've all published whitepapers and resources about them. Microsoft even employs Dr. Leslie Lamport who created and maintains TL
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by Twirrim 1y ago
It's Google. It'll probably only be live for 9 months.
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by Twirrim 1y ago
I ran into it all the time when I had a Mac from work. I even went through the hassle of setting up a hammerspoon script to fix it.
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Valkey has lots of corporate sponsors, including Amazon, Oracle, Google, Percona, and Ericsson. It's a also under the Linux Foundation and will get support and coverage from there (which in turn is sponsored by even more large companie
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by Twirrim 1y ago
You've made some mistakes with the Game of Life rules. You've missed out the overpopulation rule: Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies Nit: > I guess there’s a harsh third rule which is, “if the cell is dead
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by Twirrim 1y ago
> why do you actually accept this is a real narrative real people believe? Because we're literally seeing people being laid off with narratives about being replaced with AI (At a whole slew of companies). Because we're seeing
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Maybe this is the greybeard in me, but I first thought about https://metacpan.org/pod/Moose , and catalyst ( http://catalyst.perl.org/ )
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Would love to see compliance and accreditation coming through for native rusttls, like FIPS. That'll unlock a large potential market, which can in turn unlock other markets. You can get FIPS by using some of the third party back-end i
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by Twirrim 1y ago
That would be contrary to HN's guidlines "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
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by Twirrim 1y ago
The insidious part is it doesn't have to be so blatant as adverts, you can achieve a lot by just slight biases in text output. Decades ago I worked for a classical music company, fresh out of school. "So.. how do you anticipate w
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by Twirrim 1y ago
I use both, blocking all sorts of non-browser traffic. I find I can tell whenever the pi-hole isn't running. On the "less maintenance" front, I honestly don't pay any attention to the pi-hole in any given month. It has
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by Twirrim 1y ago
I don't recall spreadsheets ever having any visible printer formatting until the point at which you print them? So surely it's not even a case of "even if you don't want to print it"?
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by Twirrim 1y ago
I'd target an about page or something similar, just have a sentence or two that get picked at random from a selection each build. Then have a monthly build job that runs and publishes.
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by Twirrim 1y ago
I think you might underestimate how little time hundreds of hours is. It's very, very easy to reach your first hundred hours in a task, e.g. taking a 40 hour week, 3 engineers = 120 hours. If valkey is working, why spend that time rev
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Honestly, they could be really bad. It happens regularly enough. Some people interview well (and so many FAANG interview loops are completely unrelated to the actual job), but turns out that they are actually terrible. I've got lots o
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by Twirrim 1y ago
You'll have a bunch of peers request feedback from you. Your feedback will need to be specific and focused around the leadership principles. It'll need to include some kind of constructive criticism. The feedback you provide plays

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