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by dmazin 3y ago
Am I the only one surprised to read that this database relies on periodic flushing (every 30s by default) with no manual syncs at all? I guess it’s metrics so 30s of data loss is fine? I dunno about that. Data loss is usually due to a power
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Cold restart whole system after total outage(evalapply.org)
3 points by dmazin 4y ago|0 comments
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I Hereby Declare a Sabbatical(cyberdemon.org)
1 points by dmazin 4y ago|0 comments
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What's Writing to My Brand-New Disk?(cyberdemon.org)
5 points by dmazin 4y ago|0 comments
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Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the “AI pause” letter(dair-institute.org)
6 points by dmazin 4y ago|0 comments
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GitHub Copilot for the Command Line is amazing(christianheilmann.com)
3 points by dmazin 4y ago|0 comments
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by dmazin 4y ago
You can elicit my thoughts to your heart’s content. Of course there’s meaning. That’s different from inherent meaning (imbued into our world via a god or something).
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by dmazin 4y ago
For me, the biggest benefit has been improving my thought process. I generally think better when I write. For example, this helps keep me on track. What hypothesis am I testing? What, in general, am I even doing? I find it just too easy to
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I Hereby Declare a Sabbatical(archvile.net)
5 points by dmazin 4y ago|0 comments
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by dmazin 4y ago
I promise that this is a good-faith question: is MINIX still the best OS teaching tool? Personally, I enjoyed the lectures of https://rust-class.org/ , though the Rust code itself may be a little outdated (it's from 201
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Fly.io Distributed Systems Challenges(fly.io)
4 points by dmazin 4y ago|0 comments
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by dmazin 4y ago
I don't think this is true. In my experience, the employer sees the non-disparagement clause as mostly unimportant[1]. The reason they compensate you is your agreement not to sue. [1] Specifically, when I have asked to remove it, they
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GNU/Linux Naming Controversy(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by dmazin 4y ago|0 comments
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by dmazin 4y ago
Just wanted to say that I recently started reading RSS again and NewsBlur has been excellent. It’s a good aggregator, has a great web interface, and a great iOS app. The free tier is all you need (so I guess I’ll need to pay just out of my
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by dmazin 4y ago
Is there another source for this? Not to ad hominem, but this guy is a crazy COVID conspiracy theorist. He might be right on dioxins, but it’s hard to believe anything he says.
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Turning your side project into a real project(bradfordtoney.com)
7 points by dmazin 4y ago|0 comments
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by dmazin 4y ago
Absolutely would read this.
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A crash course in black-box monitoring(archvile.net)
1 points by dmazin 4y ago|0 comments
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by dmazin 4y ago
Important note: in another YC post the founder said he was inspired by Termination Shock.
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by dmazin 4y ago
Seriously! Why is this a story?
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by dmazin 4y ago
Woah, the Madison voice is quite clearly Julia Whelan.
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by dmazin 4y ago
Thank you for your insightful answer. As I understand, Stripe grew so huge first via its great API (I distinctly remember comparing it against its competitors back in the early 2010s, and even though Stripe was more expensive, the developer
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by dmazin 4y ago
Wait, people are selling off Stripe? I know they called off the IPO and a lot of customers seem to be upset lately (given all the HN posts), and they had layoffs, but the fundamentals seem much stronger for Stripe than the other companies o
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by dmazin 4y ago
Reading this letter, seems like they're also going to try to cut cloud costs. A consultant who wanted to travel around companies and help them lower cloud costs could make a KILLING right now.
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by dmazin 4y ago
In case anyone needs to know, the shouter in question is none other than Brendan Gregg (of flame graph, eBPF, and Systems Performance fame). And the guy who took the video is Bryan Cantrill of Oxide Computer, DTrace, and Joyent.
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by dmazin 4y ago
I think the situation had vastly improved by the mid-late 80s. Contrary to the prediction in the paper in the original post, by the 90s there was a burgeoning software scene in Russia (and I'm sure other Soviet states). My dad worked a
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by dmazin 5y ago
Cool! Do you focus on any subjects? Also, have you seen The Booksellers? It took me a while to realize I was collecting books. Before, the way I thought of it was "I would never walk past an out-of-print book about computing history! I
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Ex-workers say Tesla is still racist(protocol.com)
6 points by dmazin 5y ago|0 comments
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by dmazin 5y ago
So like if I think not using master/slave is not only important morally, but also important for recruiting, is suggesting we remove it for business reasons a political discussion? Hmm.
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Microsoft Kin(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by dmazin 6y ago|0 comments

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