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by dmazin 3y ago
If you were an old timer, I would love to hear, how significant was Evi Nemeth's UNIX administration handbook to you? I myself learned a ton from it, but as I understand, it used to be the bible.
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by dmazin 3y ago
Originally, I was going to explain that I was discussing ext4 specifically but, honestly, can you name a common file system where the page cache isn't involved by default?
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by dmazin 3y ago
I actually want to explore this further sometime. It's not like it's a secret that buffers are everywhere in computers, but I am still surprised at how many buffers one comes across. Like, let's say you are doing some writi
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by dmazin 3y ago
Thank you for engaging. Also, thank you for finding that imprecise language. An original draft had stated that I'm talking about I/O duration, but I lost that language. I will re-add it. My numbers are for "main memory access
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by dmazin 3y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I'll fix it!
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by dmazin 3y ago
Reddit and Discord are private companies, yet because they are held by giant funds which publicize their internal valuations, we get something similar to the valuation heartbeat of a public company's stock price. That said, how come I&
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Rands on Salary Negotiation(randsinrepose.com)
17 points by dmazin 3y ago|3 comments
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How does Linux handle writes?(cyberdemon.org)
150 points by dmazin 3y ago|83 comments
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How does Linux really handle writes?(cyberdemon.org)
5 points by dmazin 3y ago|1 comments
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by dmazin 3y ago
Regarding my feature request: that makes sense to me. At least, it’s undeniable that you spend a lot of time engaging with any user who questions things. This serves a similar purpose to what I was proposing, but at the expense of your own
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by dmazin 3y ago
dang, just so I don't sound crazy: Michael Seibel is on the board of directors of Reddit. I don't know what sama's involvement is with YC anymore, but I would imagine that his wishes are taken pretty seriously in SV. This is
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by dmazin 3y ago
Veen, thanks. dang, I see the value in what you're going for, but I think making the edit clear would go a long way. Consider it a feature request. The new title sucks, but it doesn't matter – the story is off the front page for s
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by dmazin 3y ago
Look, I just don’t think you should editorialize without making it clear. Why is the claim controversial, for example? Edit: I guess we went too deep in the thread, so we're resorting to edits. that was a rhetorical question. It'
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by dmazin 3y ago
This sort of editorializing — especially considering that the article pertains to people that you are incentivized to please — is utterly unacceptable. At the least it should be clearly indicated as an edit by you. In the strongest terms, t
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by dmazin 3y ago
Woah, this is a really good point. That brings up an interesting question: can Reddit stipulate in its TOS that a search engine can crawl the site for the sake of engine indexing, but not train its models on it? I don't see why they
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by dmazin 3y ago
> you're ingesting expert knowledge that's highly specific and only discussed in a few forums. Reddit data could perhaps help with the latter This is exactly where I think Reddit's value lies. I disagree, though, that peop
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by dmazin 3y ago
> If you accept that Reddit could be OpenAI's moat, I think you could explain Reddit's behavior even without OpenAI's intervention. Like the premise here is that Reddit's data is super valuable and so OpenAI would wan
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by dmazin 3y ago
I think that explanation certainly the simpler one (and thus more believable), but one thing that stands out to me is that Reddit's ads are really bad. I don't know how much of a business it is. I think the value as a corpus is mu
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by dmazin 3y ago
I need to stress this more obviously in the article, but the goal is to protect Reddit's future data.
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by dmazin 3y ago
I find the editorialization of my title hilarious. I did not put a ? at the end. The answer to any headline with a ? at the end is “no.” Whoever at HN edited it — this is not alright. Feel free to argue against the piece on its merits.
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Reddit is OpenAI’s moat(cyberdemon.org)
286 points by dmazin 3y ago|304 comments
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Apple Vision Pro: A Watershed Moment for Personal Computing(macstories.net)
9 points by dmazin 3y ago|0 comments
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by dmazin 3y ago
I’m incredibly nostalgic for that time too. When I was 13, I managed to watch TechTV for one straight day while on vacation. Then, TechTV promptly shut down. But learning about Leo Laporte, Kevin Rose, changed me. I wanted to move to San Fr
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by dmazin 3y ago
MySQL backed, in turn, by a log structured storage engine (RocksDB). But the they reason they do that is storage space efficiency rather than availability or performance.
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by dmazin 3y ago
I seem to recall that, years ago, this article's photo[1] of Digg engineers sitting together for the v4 launch used to get posted every now and then. Usually, the idea was to shock people about how awful open offices were. Only today d
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by dmazin 3y ago
i think the angle they are going for is that it’s exactly as isolating (airplane, the experience you MOST want to get away from), or un-isolating (being with kids, the experience you LEAST want to get away from), as you want. and it flubbed
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by dmazin 3y ago
I think, most of all, you should dig through LWN and the kernel documentation. Both are great learning resources. LWN has many introductory/educational articles about the very topics you care about. (Also, Jens Axboe wrote a long and g
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Web3's fake version of Web history(davekarpf.substack.com)
63 points by dmazin 3y ago|35 comments
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by dmazin 3y ago
Nice. Glad you asked. From a developer: “As long as the OS & the HW doesn't crash, the data is safe thanks to the page cache” This is so strange to me. A database that is non-durable by default. OK…
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by dmazin 3y ago
Yeah it’s just… it’s a database. Weird default.

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