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by codemac 3y ago
Source: me. Feel free to contact me if you have a specific question.
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by codemac 3y ago
You are assuming the data is compacted such that the 90day data is grouped by expiration date. This is not how production deletion works at any reasonable scale where cost of media matters. In reality, the data is all mixed up because data
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by codemac 3y ago
Optical vs. Tape is only a discussion if you intend to archive (and not read!) your data for years. This is a very uncommon workload, and thus the size of the optical market is much smaller than necessary to get the COGS down. The vast majo
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by codemac 3y ago
But the increased density comes with reduced IO, similar to HDD. Most of the "density innovation" of LTO-9 etc comes with either just a longer piece of tape, or increasing the number of read/write heads along the same distanc
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by codemac 3y ago
To the down voters - what storage tech that grew it's shipments... 5% YoY would you call successful?
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by codemac 3y ago
This is because tape as a percentage of the DC storage market is dwindling. There are single hyperscalars that buy more than this much capacity in HDD in a single quarter.
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by codemac 3y ago
This is dumb, Tape as a percentage of data center storage is going down. Yes raw bytes go up, but growth rates mater.
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by codemac 3y ago
So agreed. If you have <100 software engineers, I feel that being in the office lets you move super fast - conversations with sales folks, support staff, management, investors, etc in a very fast iteration loop. I've experienced thi
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by codemac 3y ago
> the same as industry best practices, just scaled up. That's like saying S3 is the same as ext4, their the same, just scaled up! This is a poor argument, you'll note that S3 and ext4 are entirely different things, not "ch
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by codemac 3y ago
Back in the day, NetApp did something similar. It's sad it's not more common, it really helps folks apply for jobs if they don't have a pile of laptops at home. Though, as the price of computers have come down, it's less
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by codemac 3y ago
I think.. this argument is weak. The more comparable example is whether or not BTC could replace USD for day-to-day transactions. The answer is basically no, it cannot. It can only process 7/second, due to how it works. Thus, BTC will
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by codemac 3y ago
> If you can't, you're having it do things you don't even understand and blindly implementing Today's programming is not SICP in scheme, it is more plumbing between very large bodies of code. Using GPT is a great way
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by codemac 3y ago
I've found that the bugs that GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 make are actually... somehow more nefarious because it understands enough to make very complex bugs. The complexity of the bugs you get are usually 10x as complex as the code's main
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by codemac 3y ago
The worst part about going from G to FB was going from buganizer to fbtasks. The internal tool at G has a strict hierarchy called "components", and fbtasks is tags alone. This means if you want to file a bug against anything at G,
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by codemac 3y ago
They haven't released a Dropcam in 8 years? "Nest Secure" was cancelled in 2020.. and now they're saying "hey, we'll actually turn things off in 2024" I think the reason killedbygoogle.com actually exists
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by codemac 3y ago
Small towns have a more closed circle form of gossip
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by codemac 4y ago
COVID taught me to take these changes seriously, the hard way. I told my wife that lockdowns/masks would be at least a two year phenomenon, given how long the Spanish flu took - and our mitigation would make things take longer, not sho
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by codemac 4y ago
Thanks for correcting me! I will hold in my heart that this is chicago-washing, regardless of evidence to the contrary. And Jim Ellison is definitely more knowledgeable than me.
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by codemac 4y ago
Yes! Thank you. Banana peppers are about as giardiniera as it gets most places. Though I will debate you on the sausage location.
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by codemac 4y ago
It upsets me this is called "Chicago" when clearly it came from further east - these "working class pizza taverns" being common across Indiana, Ohio, and PA as well. There are plenty of examples of these types of "n
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by codemac 4y ago
This was posted the week after all management should have communicated AE to A players. I know for senior directors last day of performance review comms was Friday. What is AE? Meta has a program for their top ~1% or so (who knows really) w
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by codemac 4y ago
R7RS is a great improvement over R5RS, and avoids a lot of pitfalls of R6RS. I wish they standardized the filename lookup for libraries as well, then distribution of libraries between scheme implementations would become easier.
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by codemac 4y ago
Yes, I'm trying to state openly that I am in a bubble :P > Facebook [&c] are heavily into CMake As an employee, I can tell you this is not accurate re: C++ dev at FB. I'm sure someone somewhere is using it heavily, but larg
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by codemac 4y ago
Sure, I also don't know anyone who uses jetbrains at work. I've only programmed in C and C++ for 20 years professionally, and I've never used CMake. I'm just in a very specific bubble, so I was curious what the others we
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by codemac 4y ago
Given blaze and it's descendants have all the megacorp mind share, in which industry/environments is cmake king?
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by codemac 4y ago
<source>: In function 'int main()': <source>:6:54: error: conversion from 'absl::string_view' {aka 'std::basic_string_view<char>'} to non-scalar type 'const std::string' {
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by codemac 4y ago
Exactly my read - they're just saying that if you want to pretend you are selling magic that's not allowed. Quantifying your risk does not mean you eliminated all your risk. We allow the sale of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms too.
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by codemac 4y ago
> The goal of software development is not to write code that compiles, it is to have an executing software system that does the right thing. But there are many UB-laden, compilable C++ programs that produce the right result, they just ar
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by codemac 4y ago
I think most people would be fine if we had a national DB for prices. Most people would not be fine if we had 3+ competing private db's with price info used to profit off of others lack of price knowledge.
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by codemac 4y ago
I prefer the office as well. Work 4-5 days / week. A big part is my employer allowed me to transfer to a closer office to my home, so now my commute is ~15 mins via light rail rather than ~1 hours via car.

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