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by atombender 2mo ago
Our workloads are served by Go processes, so quite lean. But the workloads are relatively CPU-bound and memory-hungry.
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by atombender 2mo ago
It's a little more nuanced than that. At my company we run Kubernetes workloads where we have 20-30 or sometimes more pods connecting to a single Postgres instance, each pod handling hundreds of concurrent requests. If each pod hangs o
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by atombender 2mo ago
The world needs more communicators like Derek Lowe who can give a clear-eyed, de-bullshittified perspective on the world, while also being great writers who are a pleasure to read. I follow his blog, and while a lot of it goes over my head
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by atombender 2mo ago
Maybe not the most discussed author on HN, but still thought I would post. John Crowley was a rare breed among American writers in that he was an accomplished science fiction and fantasy writer who was also recognized by the mainstream esta
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John Crowley Has Died(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by atombender 2mo ago|2 comments
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The Universe May Not Be Accelerating After All(popularmechanics.com)
3 points by atombender 2mo ago|0 comments
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by atombender 2mo ago
This is a while back, and we've since re-engineered it a bit, but we had database shards processing 400-500 rows/sec, maybe more. Vacuum was not able to keep up even with more aggressive autovacuum settings. (To be fair, the write
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by atombender 2mo ago
My secret is paprika powder. It changes the whole flavor profile. A fair amount is needed, and it needs to be pretty fresh powder, not something that's sat in the cupboard for two years. Alton Brown's technique [1] of using two sk
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by atombender 2mo ago
Not true, unfortunately. The dead tuple build-up can happen in a very short amount of time. I speak from having had to deal with this in a production environment that used the SKIP LOCKED method used in the article.
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by atombender 2mo ago
A performance pitfall that isn't addressed in the DBOS article at all is the bloat problem: If you update or delete rows that you consume, dead tuples start to accumulate due to Postgres' way of doing MVCC. This is a serious probl
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by atombender 2mo ago
https://archive.ph/zxECq
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First-of-kind Guillain-Barré drug switches off part of immune system(newscientist.com)
3 points by atombender 2mo ago|1 comments
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by atombender 3mo ago
No, but when the compiler isn't enforcing anything, how do you know which ones are safe and which ones are not? If we ignore declarations etc. and only consider statement lines that read or write memory, then any such line of Zig (or
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by atombender 3mo ago
That is explicitly referenced in the article.
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by atombender 3mo ago
The original Zig code is metaphorically one big unsafe block. Even if the Rust port is made up of 3% unsafe blocks, that still means 97% of the original Zig code has been made safe (in the Rust sense).
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by atombender 3mo ago
This library is based in part on that same paper.
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AliExpress fined €550M by EU for failing to stop sale of illegal and fake goods(theguardian.com)
9 points by atombender 3mo ago|3 comments
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by atombender 3mo ago
> Project Hail Mary was predominantly practical effects Don't drink the Kool Aid. The studios love to make this sort of claim — recent examples include F1: The Movie, Top Gun: Maverick, and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,
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by atombender 3mo ago
Anyone know what he actually did at Google? Was it an active role, did he publish anything interesting? Or was it more of an Institute for Advanced Study kind of position?
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by atombender 3mo ago
https://archive.is/wtC7m
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by atombender 3mo ago
He's also recently been on Empire [1], the Goalhanger podcast — and sister show to the great The Rest is History (which I hope will cover this period someday, though they tend not to go back that far in time) — in a series of episodes
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by atombender 3mo ago
Counterpoint: All of the current Postgres codebase is already wrapped in an invisible unsafe{}. The difference with a Rust codebase like this is that all of the unsafe code has been neatly isolated and clearly marked. The outside code is sa
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Catnip lotion as effective as Deet at repelling mosquitoes, study finds(theguardian.com)
18 points by atombender 3mo ago|7 comments
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by atombender 3mo ago
People bring this up a lot. What I see here is that thousands of potentially (not actually, just potentially) safety risks have been neatly tagged in the code. If you took a program written in Zig, Go, C++, or C, you would have no idea whic
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by atombender 3mo ago
For those struggling to find tech specs: Apparently [1] it has a 2MP CMOS sensor, F2.4 aperture, 24mm equivalent wide-angle lens, and shoots a resolution of 1920x1080. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/toycameras/commen
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by atombender 3mo ago
My memory is fuzzy here, so I may be wrong. But I remember the generation of buggy WYSIWYG editors that preceded ProseMirror, and they were all contenteditable-based. They would typically start by attaching to a textarea, but then replace i
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by atombender 3mo ago
While these use contenteditable, it's not accurate to say they're just contenteditable plus some UI and interop. None of these modern editors (Wordgard, ProseMirror, Lexical, Slate) use contenteditable for the document model. Rath
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by atombender 3mo ago
Hello! I was definitely not looking to block all network access. I would want to maintain a whitelist of hosts and IPs. I don't know if that's possible?
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by atombender 3mo ago
Always interesting to see new HN apps, and this one seems OK. Personally I prefer HACK [1], which is probably the most extensive HN client for iOS. The amount of options for controlling the look of the app means you can influence the readin
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by atombender 3mo ago
You might like HACK [1], then. It has a large set of options (maybe too many!) to change fonts, styles, colors, and spacing. It's probably the most extensive HN client for iOS. [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app&#x2

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