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871.
by WJW 3y ago
Nomad is a lightweight container orchestrator, not a lightweight Kubernetes. The whole point is to keep syntax, terminology and config options etc as similar as possible between k8s and k3s.
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by WJW 3y ago
Woop! My timerfd change is finally out in the wild! This will make it so that (on systems with timerfd) the runtime will no longer have to wait for the next runtime tick before exiting. This saves on average 5 ms per program run, and up to
873.
by WJW 3y ago
PV has increased from a <10% percent efficiency in the 80s to 25-30% now for commercially available panels. They can grow another 3.3x in efficiency at most, hardly comparable to the doubling every few years that semiconductors have had.
874.
by WJW 3y ago
The problem with that comparison is that we are not even close to the theoretical limits for computational density, while we are quite close to the limits for efficiency in things like turbines.
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by WJW 3y ago
This makes me think: is there some sort of kernel plugin that ECC-ifies existing memory in software? Similar to how you can implement RAID in software. I even vaguely remember a kernel module (?) that transparently performed in-RAM compress
876.
by WJW 3y ago
On exactly 1 platform out of 15 though, and it took several years to rework all the access routes to and from that platform. It is also already much too small for all the extra capacity it will need when Eurostar intends to start using long
877.
by WJW 3y ago
Growing from 0 to ~27% of traffic in 2 years is great, but the graph from TFA shows that it was not a gradual increase but rather two big jumps in adoption: - One in mid 2021, to ~20%. - A second one in July 2022, to ~29%. Since then the tr
878.
by WJW 3y ago
Even though I usually fall more on the "types good" side of the discussion, the advantages you listed are not free at all. They come at the cost of at least: - having a compile step in between writing and running your code. This d
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by WJW 3y ago
In some places you'd be right. But this is a river that would otherwise just flow into the sea. The two biggest rivers in the Netherlands have an average discharge of ~750 thousand liters of water per second . We can spare a few M3&#x
880.
by WJW 3y ago
It's just a twitter take, overcompressed and lacking nuance. By all means write a toy database for learning purposes, but in 99+% of cases you should probably then turn around and use the ones with tens of thousands of engineering hour
881.
by WJW 3y ago
Not really, as the current dominant theory already predicted that gravity affected antimatter in the same way as normal matter. This experiment affirms the standard model rather than disproving it.
882.
by WJW 3y ago
Not anymore than any other type of matter out there.
883.
by WJW 3y ago
Perhaps off-topic, but "north star" is such a hilarious business euphemism. The actual north star is ignored by 99+% of people on the northern hemisphere, not visible at all to people on the southern hemisphere and I bet most peop
884.
by WJW 3y ago
From an accounting standpoint it's funding-neutral: you assume a debt liability with offsetting reduction of the equity liability. This makes the return on invested capital larger, since the same profits get divided over less shares. T
885.
by WJW 3y ago
For an individual, perhaps. Even there some exceptions can be found though: taking on a mortgage to buy a house can be the right decision even though you could keep on renting and don't technically need to take on the debt. For a b
886.
by WJW 3y ago
Let's hope they don't migrate whatever made you decide to get a new brain though. It'd suck if they also migrated mental illnesses and old traumas and stuff.
887.
by WJW 3y ago
I hope not. Imagine having to go through primary school again :(
888.
by WJW 3y ago
Even worse than opening a trading account last week: they've got a looooong history of doing nothing but the most boring buy-and-hold-index-funds investing you can imagine, until they suddenly bought 20k in lottery tickets that just ha
889.
by WJW 3y ago
If they did not usually trade in such options but suddenly started doing so the day before it had a major market-moving event, that could be the type of "reasonable suspicion" that you need to get a search warrant from a judge. Fr
890.
by WJW 3y ago
If you are in the USA, rule 10b5-1 of the SEC [1] "allows insiders of publicly-traded corporations to set up a trading plan for selling stocks they own". Despite the description in the link, as I understand it you can also buy mor
891.
by WJW 3y ago
Do you reject learning any language that has been migrated away from by any company? Why not make up your own mind about whether it is nice instead of depending on rumours about other companies? In any case you could have easily googled &qu
892.
by WJW 3y ago
Old devices getting support from the Linux team is only one of the ways this can play out though. Some other ways I can think of: - Old devices are phased out sooner. - Moving away from linux towards proprietary embedded OSes that do provid
893.
by WJW 3y ago
For sure. The first time I used it I doubted I had used it correctly because I could not believe it had actually grepped through all the ~34k files in my Rails app in under 30 ms.
894.
by WJW 3y ago
Oh I thought it was referencing the SaaS "ramp of death" from https://baremetrics.com/blog/long-slow-saas-ramp-of-death . Shows how much interpretations can change based on what you've already heard of I
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by WJW 3y ago
> The only way out in the end might be to open source the engine. The problem for unity is that it costs a ton of money to develop the engine and not enough people pay them for it. Open sourcing the engine does not help with that problem
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by WJW 3y ago
Companies have been self-immolating for short term gains since basically forever, so that is nothing new. Raising interest rates have definitely pushed some long-term money losers over the edge though. Rather than subsisting on ever more fu
897.
by WJW 3y ago
Petroski was completely wrong about this. It is just that all of the gains from hardware have gone to enabling additional features rather than making the same feature set faster. Things like ripgrep make it more than obvious how fast simple
898.
by WJW 3y ago
Still completely sufficient for the workload, apparently.
899.
by WJW 3y ago
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence I guess. :)
900.
by WJW 3y ago
Not to mention that you get it within minutes of asking for it. I've worked at places where the internal bureaucracy managed to take double digit weeks to deliver a new database instance.

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