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by dist1ll 4y ago
> I could be wrong but wouldn't simple logic dictate that... most people stop doing something that loses them money? Humans aren't meat-based Turing machines, they're living beings with emotions and impulses. Why do you th
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by dist1ll 4y ago
Sure it does if you use redundant storage like cloud. Of course that also has downsides, but I find encrypted cloud backups a solid solution. I personally use pass + encrypted git backups with 3 yubikeys (1 primary, 2 backup, all of them us
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by dist1ll 4y ago
My response was in regard to the bitrot argument.
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by dist1ll 4y ago
Any security-conscious person backs up their password manager.
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by dist1ll 4y ago
Obsessive curiousity and geniune love for programming. Grit, work ethic and growth mindset follows pretty naturally when you love what you do :)
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by dist1ll 4y ago
That sounds awesome!
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by dist1ll 4y ago
How involved was Netflix in the design of the Mellanox NIC? How many stakeholders does this type of networking hardware have, relatively speaking? Also, what percentage of CDN traffic that reaches the user is served directly from your co-lo
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by dist1ll 4y ago
Not only tooling is a problem. Name one FP language that I can use for high-performance and systems programming. Is there any one except ATS? And ATS is pretty hard (unlike C, C++ and Rust). I think it will take a while until linear & d
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by dist1ll 4y ago
> A platform like sourcehut is designed to be self hosted and to allow you to migrate off platform Sounds nice in theory, until SourceHut changes the licensing terms to forbid self-hosting of certain projects. At this point, I'd rat
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by dist1ll 4y ago
Well, DLTs are supposed to abstract away the distributed-ness. The execution layer usually provides computational primitives, basic memory and cryptographic functions. Not much distributed computing there.
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by dist1ll 4y ago
With GPL, source code only needs to be shared to the parties the software is distributed to. A company-internal software can have as much GPL as they want, they don't need to publish any source code. So yeah, MIT and GPL would have exa
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by dist1ll 4y ago
Waiting for the law to change doesn't scale. Gotta be an asynchronous call. Just epoll the legislators.
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by dist1ll 4y ago
> obeying the law would not scale I don't know why, but that sentence terrifies me. It's like the silicon valley version of a dystopia.
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by dist1ll 4y ago
I'm not so familiar with Zig, are you saying that the compiler fails to compile correct (i.e. according to spec) code?
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by dist1ll 4y ago
There are many problems with your resume, and lack of fancy design is not one of them. - Half of your CV is empty space - Dates are formatted really badly, no one would be able to get a good grasp on your project and work timeline quickly -
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Optimizing Assembly – Agner Fog [pdf](agner.org)
28 points by dist1ll 4y ago|2 comments
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Renaming Our Company Revealed a Critical Bug(alic.dev)
2 points by dist1ll 4y ago|0 comments
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by dist1ll 4y ago
Dude, the entire point of crypto is freedom and choice. If you like protocols that don't change their consensus rules, stick with Bitcoin. Nothing wrong with that.
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by dist1ll 4y ago
Several reasons come to mind: - Operating systems, browsers, etc are not distributed systems. Their deployment procedure has no availability or liveness requirement. And they can be done asynchronously, at the discretion of the user. If you
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by dist1ll 4y ago
If you post your subjective view on a public forum, judgement is literally the only opposing force in a discussion (because subjective differences in opinion cannot be rationalized by objective arguments). Unless you want an echo chamber, I
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by dist1ll 4y ago
losing all your money =/= risking everything Many people have more things going on in their lives except their bank account. Family, spouse, children, friends. Losing them is what real loss means to me.
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by dist1ll 4y ago
Maybe I'm a bit cynical, but I don't see anything admirable about this mindset. In fact, I think it's incredibly selfish. What kind of inhumane person would "risk everything" on a business venture? This reads like a
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by dist1ll 4y ago
That's only messages sent . The article cites 2 million queries per second hitting their cluster, which are not served by a CDN. Considering latency requirements and burst traffic, you're looking at a pretty massive load.
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by dist1ll 4y ago
This entire comment is full of mistakes and logical errors. > We are hard wired to feel both in roughly equal measure, regardless of our circumstances [...] So our minds are constantly adapting to our circumstances and rebalancing things
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by dist1ll 4y ago
This is why I hope unikernels & Rust will eventually replace docker & linux for high-performance, high-security production deployments.
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by dist1ll 4y ago
Exactly. The HN crowd is obsessed with minimalism and reducing "bloat". It has become a cult, where availability and scale requirements are apparently fiction. "You are not FAANG, you don't have these requirements."
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by dist1ll 4y ago
Everything is free until it isn't.
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by dist1ll 4y ago
> It’s a shame that more engineers don’t have the time or interest to learn formal verification That's the problem with CS, which is full of beautiful and intriguing topics. Graph theory, game theory, formal logic & semantics, a
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Comparing Yourself to Others Is Fine(alic.dev)
2 points by dist1ll 4y ago|0 comments
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by dist1ll 4y ago
That's not really what's happening in the article. If you read through the single file benchmark, you'll see several clever algorithmic improvements (like rarest byte guessing, building a set of variants for Unicode-aware mul

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