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by craz8 7y ago
I’ve worked in 1 company where we had tools that would re-organize the code to make the common code path be the fall through as much as possible This was done before linking, based on analysis of the common paths from a running program What
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by craz8 7y ago
Although Threadripper 2990 is not uniform to main memory, which adds a wrinkle So now there’s at least 2 levels of Non Uniform access to manage by the Bios/OS
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by craz8 7y ago
For the last few weeks they’ve been hitting me with exactly the same offers as Bite Squad - including free delivery for both last month AND this. Despite the convenience of purchasing with Amazon, it’s just an expensive way to buy food! At
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by craz8 7y ago
It looks like Microsoft is adding code to Windows to schedule threads in a way that works with this configuration of cores and CCXs Is/has Linux added similar code Are we calling this Mini-Numa or something else?
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by craz8 7y ago
The lifetime hosting was clearly never going to work. Even when they launched it, anyone with any sense - and me - knew it. But it got them cash and publicity, and didn’t kill them when they cancelled it, so, on balance, it made their busi
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by craz8 7y ago
I’m using Ruby Shrine in an internal project, and it uses Uppy for the client upload magic We’re not using much of that part yet, but it’s good to know that this is being actively developed Really loving Shrine too!
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by craz8 7y ago
I sent mail from my personal gmail to my company email (different user) for expenses Since money was involved, I paid attention and followed up Our finance person found many emails in Spam that were important and should not be there On the
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by craz8 7y ago
I found that gluten irritated my Crohns. I recently started Remicade - it reduces the immune system to try to stop the auto-immune problem that is Crohns. It was eye opening what other little aches and pains went away once the immune syste
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by craz8 7y ago
I typed in “hacker news comment generator” and was disappointed to not find “I could build this in a weekend” as one of the outputs
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by craz8 7y ago
My case was about time complexity from calling the DB 10x times more than necessary. Even though these things are all fast now, as an engineer, you still need to know the techniques to avoid the slow bits Although my example was only O(n^2
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by craz8 7y ago
Recently, a book was published about implementing Git in Ruby as a way of learning Git internals. There was a long thread here about that, and about others porting the code to their language of choice It occurred to me that a book about bu
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by craz8 7y ago
I fixed a performance bug today that was caused by too many queries across tens of rows of data. Hey, why keep it in memory when the database can get it for you in only 5ms! 80 times per call Admittedly, this was a bit of an outlier case,
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by craz8 8y ago
At least you didn’t by TDFX stock, like I did!
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by craz8 8y ago
They fixed other stuff as well which needed the new board. I appreciate the extra fixes, but was not informed of this specifically until the machine was handed back They did confirm it was backed up when they took it though, so they assumed
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by craz8 8y ago
I will try that with a backup of my backup to see if I can get my data back up
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by craz8 8y ago
I was surprised too! I could find nothing about this online that actually helped in any way Migration during install, migration after install, migration from Recovery system - none of them found anything, and they would hang forever lookin
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by craz8 8y ago
98% of the things I plug in are the power cable and my thunderbolt dock. The power cable was the wobbliest, but is now quite firm again
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by craz8 8y ago
Mine are all remote, and are sparsebundle file systems, which I’ve not yet found a way to read in a reasonable way
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by craz8 8y ago
My USB-C sockets were loose, so they replaced them too - and they’re attached to the motherboard, as is everything else They did tell me, and it’s listed in the paperwork
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by craz8 8y ago
They matched I even ran a chmod to remove all old access control data in case it was some internal user id mismatch Still not visible
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by craz8 8y ago
It might just be me, but my USB-C ports were also physically failing. And since this is also the power port, charging up was becoming trickier Apple replaced them during my update too I’ve not heard about anyone else having this problem wi
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by craz8 8y ago
When you DO a decide to give it to Apple for a week to fix the problem, do NOT rely on TimeMachine as a backup Mine came back with a new Logic Board, with new SSD, and would not recognize my TM backups at all. (I have 2 separate TM disks)
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by craz8 8y ago
I added parallel tests to our app last year. My 4 core/8 thread system runs the tests pretty well with a process count of 6. The suite runs about 4 times faster, which makes a real difference No need to wait for Rails 6 to get this b
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by craz8 8y ago
The numbers on my repair ticket add up to $795 total cost
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by craz8 8y ago
Yup - unless The Tech Industry is going to come in and rewrite all our code into Flavor Of The Month (and do that every 3 months forever) I don’t really care what they “demand” - I’m too busy providing value for my customers to be shaving t
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by craz8 8y ago
I would think about using Cloudinary to process these on demand as needed if your usage can support this Cloudinary Fetch pulls images from your S3, caches them, and serves the size and format you request all without touching the original f
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by craz8 8y ago
A small correction: Costco is now headquartered in Issaquah, but they started out in the city of Kirkland. They moved to Issaquah (a 20 minute drive) in 1994, about the time the Kirkland brand was created
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by craz8 8y ago
For smaller companies, the fit might not be right for certain people, so moving to a company that allows them a path that works better for them isn’t necessarily bad for the company they left
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by craz8 8y ago
I just looked at the Crunchbase entry for my current company It’s terrible Actually, it’s worse than terrible The revenue is several years old, the technology is wrong, the employees listed is laughable (except the founders) From the info I
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by craz8 8y ago
And Ezra jumps right in and writes the Ruby driver just from that post with almost no traction Ezra was one of the good guys

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