alecthomas

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by alecthomas 3y ago
Just wanted to say I loved The Lost Vikings, thanks for many good memories :)
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by alecthomas 3y ago
https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47... is another good one. There are a few different posts on it scattered around: https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-to-save-7m-over-five-
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by alecthomas 3y ago
This paper [1] (PDF) indicates it is likely a complex interaction between multiple parts of the ecosystem. One example is that large cod are apex predators, competing with seals and when those cod were removed, seal populations increased,
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by alecthomas 3y ago
Sadly that is how fishing works. Wild Salmon is endangered in many locations including the US [1] and UK [2], for example. It does also occur that popluations become so low that they can't recover. Atlantic Northwest Cod are the most o
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by alecthomas 3y ago
My M2 defaults to using a "low power mode" when on battery, which I noticed initially because some graphics code I was writing was getting significantly lower frame rates when on battery. Edit: 310fps vs 240fps
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by alecthomas 3y ago
> It’s funny you mention the different C++ compilers consider that Clang is well on its way of becoming the dominant compiler. I'd be interested to know what metric you're basing this on. Outside the Apple ecosystem, LLVM seems
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by alecthomas 3y ago
Are there binaries for ivm? If ivm is intended to make it easier to manage inko versions, having to install it via another language's toolchain (Rust) seems a bit onerous. Edit: Oh I see, ivm itself relies on Cargo to build inko rather
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by alecthomas 3y ago
Reminds me of the sadly dormant @shit_hn_says [1]. I'm guessing it's dormant because the level of discourse on HN has devolved to a point where nearly every comment on HN would now qualify. [1] https://twitter.com/
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by alecthomas 3y ago
I understand there's no CGo specifically, but I'm wondering if the Go runtime when running under WASM still has to manage switching out the goroutine stacks for "WASM stacks" when it's calling out through the WASM V
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by alecthomas 3y ago
I wonder if fmt.Printf() in particular is slow due to the CGo transition? Assuming there even is a CGo transition when compiled to WASM...
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by alecthomas 3y ago
I believe the primary benefit is the sandboxing, but I imagine there are secondary benefits such as that the host platform can be any CPU architecture or OS.
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by alecthomas 3y ago
Interesting but not relevant here - they require a photo of a physical receipt, and they're hand reviewed. Anything is scammable given enough effort though, no doubt.
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by alecthomas 3y ago
https://www.productreview.com.au/ is the only site I've ever seen that does a good job at user reviews. Each review has to be accompanied by a verifiable receipt. Here's their operating model, which sounds like a
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by alecthomas 3y ago
There are a few, but I suspect the most widely used would be wasmtime. It's written in Rust and can be used from Go [2] but requires CGo (as mentioned by GP). [1] https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime [2]
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by alecthomas 3y ago
"Currently RR implements mocks, stubs, proxies, and spies. Fakes usually require custom code, so it is beyond the scope of RR."
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by alecthomas 3y ago
I'd pay that to not have to use their awful mobile app or new.reddit
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by alecthomas 3y ago
As I responded in a sibling comment, this is the point where ChatGPT goes completely off the rails and starts fabricating responses. Temper your awe :)
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by alecthomas 3y ago
ChatGPT's responses start accurate then quickly go off the rails. The section from this point onwards is completely incorrect: > Say I called a bunch of goroutines when I was in the Add function of the example you gave, would this b
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by alecthomas 3y ago
go-binsize-treemap[1] is the best tool for this by a large margin. I came across it because of the exact same reason as you did actually, k8s client bloating my binary massively. [1] https://github.com/nikolaydubina/go-
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by alecthomas 3y ago
> What is the ubiquitous utility for interacting with gRPC? We have curl for REST. What is openAPI of gRPC? grpcurl[1] combined with gRPC server reflection[2]. The schema is compiled into the server as an encoded proto which is exposed v
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by alecthomas 4y ago
> I'm a big fan of advertising the impossible on the front page. Do you mean like Confluent do? https://www.confluent.io/blog/exactly-once-semantics-are-pos...
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by alecthomas 4y ago
That is simultaneously impressive and insane. Respect.
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by alecthomas 4y ago
It's a bit hard to be sure because YAML is so insane, but I would argue that yq's behaviour is not incorrect? It is erroring on `*.html`, which is reasonable because `.html` is an invalid anchor identifier, though the error is not
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by alecthomas 4y ago
Not to understate the impact of the bug, but this is not the default for Go. It is used if CGo is disabled, as the issue you linked to describes.
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by alecthomas 4y ago
> hours of CI testing time introduced by having to run tests on the whole monorepo at each commit instead of just the project that changed. This is rarely the case. Most monorepos shard tests such that wall time is minimised and have dep
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by alecthomas 4y ago
So true :D
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by alecthomas 4y ago
What a patronising response to a report of 500+ results missing from your index :) How will you improve your product if you can't accept feedback? Edit: typo
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by alecthomas 4y ago
> But let me know where it’s not doing what you expect and I’ll fix it. I would expect > 0 results for the above search Same search on SourceGraph: https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+kong.New&pat...
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by alecthomas 4y ago
Great read, but a basic search yields zero results: https://searchcode.com/?q=kong.New+lang%3Ago Same search on GitHub: https://github.com/search?type=code&q=kong.New Edit: there also doesn't seem
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by alecthomas 4y ago
100% agreed there. I've never seen this go smoothly, and usually the monolith lives forever, slowly shedding functionality but never quite disappearing.

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