dmw_ng

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by dmw_ng 5y ago
OS packagers have bugs like this every so often, because they still run custom upgrade scripts behind the scenes. Pretty sure I remember one in Debian a few years back (sorry, name escapes), and it was not the first time I remember seeing t
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
I made an earnest effort to switch to Brave, but I'm back with Google for almost all searches because 1100ms+ result page loads are simply unworkable here.
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
I picked 5 at random, but I guess it really depends on where you are. Assuming 5 was the real number, that's only $28k/month bandwidth spend given the average SWE salary in the UK (£38,561 going by google), including 33% for tax a
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
> Lazy loading images is at best user hostile bandwidth saving It can easily be the vast majority of bandwidth spend even on a lightweight site. Add video widgets and bring that closer to 99%. Lazy loading is frequently a "can affor
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Seems like a great time to discount some equivalent fees by a token amount, even if only 1%
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
22% increase in some per-GB costs and 50% increase in some per-request costs of the most fungible, commodity service any cloud offers. Really no idea what to make of this. At least it seems reasonable to expect further pricing changes from
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
HTTPS everywhere very much cuts both ways. We love improvements like encrypted SNI because we think it only means the evil dictator's middlebox won't function any more, when in reality it also enables shit like this. On the whole
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
The invasion was so urgently cobbled together that many Russian forces were using amateur radios to communicate, they had no support infrastructure in place, or even fuel for the vehicles containing that infrastructure. Numerous soldiers we
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
> deeply privileged app compromising the whole system's security doesn't this also describe Google Play Services?
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Their buildings are passively cooled so this sounds quite plausible. Pretty fun video showing the realities of their setup https://youtu.be/5eo8nz_niiM?t=260
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
For a country the size of Canada, they'd be invoking emergency powers just to cope with the number of excess roadside fatalities
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
> It expands the definition of property by institutionally conferring the status of "owned" to a functional configuration of bits distributed over thousands of computers Do Visa and Mastercard count?
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Not sure if there is a better reason, but I think things like this just end up sticking around due to ossification. Almost anything (desktop/embedded OS, routers, ..) with a PPP stack will be built to work with modems with AT command s
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
You can actually find some dissent from one of the core team in the linked thread: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BTgmobuHESqa%3Db5s... Modern PG is already threaded out of necessity for many kinds of query,
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
It originally used a per-process model primarily because of the age of the codebase. It predates commodity SMP hardware (1986ish onwards, starting with Sequent) and standardized threading APIs (1993): > DBMS code must run as a separate p
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Would love to know what kind of approach you're taking for usage-based. Cold start every time, or some container/criu/VM suspend/resume magic?
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
You can squeeze a hell of a lot more perf out of general purpose compute that is maybe an extra 15 ms away than one-shot workers lacking any in-RAM persistence, or ability to do much more than limited local k/v lookups. The equation is
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Looming rate hikes combined with ever increasing correlation of Bitcoin to equities suggests you may even get your day this year.
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
I'd encourage browsing their Trac for context.. the handful of regular contributors definitely don't need any extra bug reporters
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Making code contribution a better experience is in the interests of the project, making it easier to report bugs is not such a clear win. Consumption-centric interactions are a modern concept originally popularized by the structure of the G
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Which regulations and applying to which sectors?
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
> You likely won't be able to get work with any firm that has customers in the financial, military, and medical spaces. This rules out a lot of sectors common to the UK and major cities. No hosting companies, Cloud vendors, service&
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
> My wish is that Gevent had been adopted into core so that it “just worked” with no monkey patching The problem with Gevent is no matter how clean the stack switching, the major liability is other code sharing that stack -- the complete
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Oil and gas contribute 50% of Kazakhstan's electricity generation
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Software can be done at utterly stupid multiples of realtime at SD resolutions with only a few cores, depending on your quality target. Cores are very cheap Fancy GPUs tend to support 8 or more HD streams, even consumer cards using patched
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
It's just packet switching with much larger packets, the streaming you're thinking of is essentially the same, just with 16-50 ms sample size rather than 2-10 seconds.
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
This is how Macromedia Flash handled it a lifetime ago
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Alternative title: Poor Interface Design Makes Most Rust Programs Much Slower That programmers need to consider this stuff on each new project is a failure of the standard library design, it's a problem not even C++ suffers from
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
> Sending your mail yourself is the real hard part It's possible to punt on this by using SES for outbound, while continuing to handle inbound a different way. Obviously SES doesn't count as fully self-hosted, but it does solve
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
From the same era: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_Neutral_Distribut...

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