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by chrsig 4y ago
On macOS, most likely not[0]. from the macOS fsync manpage: > fsync() causes all modified data and attributes of fildes to be moved to a permanent storage device. This normally results in all in-core modified copies of buffers for
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by chrsig 4y ago
luckily it was recent and unique -- easy for google to find :) here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32175328
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by chrsig 4y ago
100% agreed. Often limits need to be addressed at the product level. At some point at my $work we started pushing hard enough back at product to say that we're placing a hard limit on every entity. What the limit is can be negotiat
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by chrsig 4y ago
i read a story on HN recently about someone having left a `nohup yes > /some/efs/mount/file.txt` type command running, and not noticing until the bill came due... since then, I'm totally on board with pre-provisi
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by chrsig 4y ago
i'd actually be really into this. even without jira, just something like hugo generate a static site to show others the backlog. also this for confluence. perhaps I'm just getting old, but I'm wanting more and more of my work
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by chrsig 4y ago
when you put it like that, i'm glad they went with acid.
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by chrsig 4y ago
> It feels like you're asking for something HTTP can't really do, so of course http.Server can't do it. This is a fair enough point. I wasn't being discerning enough with my critique of http.Server, and when writing m
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by chrsig 4y ago
> This is a reasonable default - probably the only reasonable default. `TeeReader` and `MultiReader` are easily available if you want to spare the memory. (But you're right that the converse on the ResponseWriter isn't true, it
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by chrsig 4y ago
I dont necessarily agree they should return a value, but I do have some issues with the api: - by default, you can't tell if a handler has already written to the body or emitted a status code. - by default, you can't read the body
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by chrsig 4y ago
s/be really bad/have an interface that precludes many optimizations. By saying things like "really bad", it discourages use at all, and for most uses std::unordered_map is fine.
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by chrsig 4y ago
i mean, i feel like there have been lots of articles about how major metro areas moving to remote work negatively impacted the service/hospitality industry in the area. but also yeah, the red states need to realize that you can't
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by chrsig 4y ago
oh no! I'm really sorry to hear that. Are you able to take any time off to decompress at all, or have a mental health professional you can talk to about it? I'm fighting the urge to tell you all sorts of different things that I&#x
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by chrsig 4y ago
oh, it wasn't real advice -- i was just having a bit of a dark sense of humor about mental health. apologies if this wasn't as obvious as i'd intended. it does work, but as you note, it's not sustainable. It's h
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by chrsig 4y ago
As a person on the extreme end of the ADHD spectrum, this is a interesting take to me. From a strict definition point of view: > pro·cras·ti·nate > /prəˈkrastəˌnāt/ > verb > delay or postpone action; put off doing some
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by chrsig 4y ago
protip: if you develop a keen sense of anxiety, you can short circuit the depression. of course, as a side effect, you'll start to only work, being wonderfully productive as the depression wraps everyone around you in your irritabili
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by chrsig 4y ago
I've inherited code where I thought sections were well written, but probably not an entire project. "good" is incredibly subjective, and subjectivity is temporal in nature. there been times when I thought code wasn't&q
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by chrsig 4y ago
I want to say that it should only be used after profiling and determining that it's a major cause off GC pressure, however I think there are other times when it's obvious that a private scratch buffer would be appropriate. For exa
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by chrsig 4y ago
Usually. Even in languages with a GC, you get into a Bring Your Own Buffer (BYOB) situation when trying to eek out performance. As in real life, one of the best ways to cut down on waste (gc load) is to recycle.
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by chrsig 4y ago
some suggestions: - "pull requests welcome" (This is the polite way to say 'fuck off') - "thanks for sharing your feedback, I don't think this is a feature I'm willing to build or support" - "in
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by chrsig 4y ago
One of the key problems is that in todays society, those high monopoly rents wouldn't necessarily be re-invested in projects
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by chrsig 4y ago
they provide a local dynamodb implementation...i dream of a day when they offer the rest.
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by chrsig 4y ago
i can't speak to trino, but with my experience with aws athena and snowflake, they're roughly on par with each other across the board.
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by chrsig 4y ago
Honestly, as an engineer "Gah" is generally what I do say. When I experience difficulty with software others create, when I discover frustrations with software I create, and when I discover that a customer experiencing an issue
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by chrsig 4y ago
Can you expand on what you mean by "forced the police into survival mode?" SPD is pretty ripe with all sorts of issues (e.g., they thought it was a good idea to teargas capital hill for days on end). They've kind of created
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by chrsig 4y ago
seattle tried that... https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2019/03/licton...
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by chrsig 4y ago
there's actually more than that to it.. the state supreme court actually ruled that an RV is legally someone's home, which really limited the city's ability to do much about the situation https://www.courts.wa.gov
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by chrsig 4y ago
Neither of those things really help when you've got 10 RVs on your street and a random pile of human feces on the sidewalk. or there's someone passed out literally on the doorstep of your workplace. Like...it's just not _acti
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by chrsig 4y ago
Obviously there's a lot of potential options to solving the problem at large, not so much on a small scale. honestly, having been a resident of Seattle, I understand where the people are coming from placing the concrete blocks. I don&#
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by chrsig 4y ago
I'm less interested in what a feature is, and more curious if there's some exhaustive list internally - or if there's even awareness of all of them spread throughout the corporation. That is, in a large org like google (or ms
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by chrsig 4y ago
Not that I think submodules are great , but they can be used while still maintaining atomicity. It's just that the atomic update happens when updating the submodule commit in the parent project. This isn't any different than ho

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