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by efficax 4y ago
https://github.blog/2018-06-20-mysql-high-availability-at-gi... depends what you mean by massive scale, but mysql can certainly handle a website of say, stackoverflows size, on beefy hardware with read replicas. facebook wo
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by efficax 4y ago
most books are written with no expectation of financial reward. the book that pays the writer well is by far the exception and if books were made free by law tomorrow books would still be written. we’d lose some fiction authors sure, but ev
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by efficax 4y ago
https://www.google.com/books/edition/File_Structures/cqwrnwE... this is classic in the genre, however it predates SSDs, which makes structures like LSM trees and other append-only structures much more optimal
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by efficax 4y ago
it isn't exactly the fact that you got your phd from harvard that makes the harvard degree so valuable, it's that your thesis director is a Harvard professor and your letters of recommendation are from Harvard professors and other
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by efficax 4y ago
how else would you embed tracking params into spam links sent over sms, riddle me that
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by efficax 4y ago
> If I knowingly create a pallet of fake gold bars and sell them to an unsuspecting idiot for far more than they're worth, then was that "real" wealth? I almost want to say this is an impossible question to answer. At the
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by efficax 4y ago
if the wealth never existed then how were some people able to cash out their equities on the basis of the valuation? it was real when it was real and now it’s gone. it isn’t that there is some core of real wealth and the markets are trendin
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by efficax 4y ago
rust binaries are statically linked, that's the big difference. If you included all the libc code statically in most c programs they'd probably also be pretty big
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by efficax 4y ago
why even let people quit? perhaps labor should be mandatory on pain of death
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by efficax 4y ago
it looks like weathernerd uses the darksky api, so it will have to find a new source for weather data or it’s also gone soon.
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by efficax 4y ago
They're out there! I found a gig at a startup not in the blockchain space working with Rust, but felt pretty lucky to find it. Most of the jobs are in crypto nonsense.
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by efficax 4y ago
sort of? when i first learned it there was no async/await, no `?` operator for simplifying error handling, and lifetime elision was a whole other story, and you seemed to need lifetimes for any reference (can't remember but it&#x2
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by efficax 4y ago
It's completely over the top, with absurd action sequences, fantastical characters, dance numbers, melodrama and heartbreak, one sided caricatures of evil Englishmen, and lots and lots of fun. It's excessive in every way, down it&
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by efficax 4y ago
you’re underestimating how good pots call quality was before digital switching and voice compression
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by efficax 4y ago
that’s a lot of money for a password store
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by efficax 4y ago
we levelled fallujah
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by efficax 4y ago
another boring pitch for innovation that really just means “let us drive down wages”. get a new idea
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by efficax 4y ago
the last thing is safe concurrency. this is the greatest achievement of the rust borrower checker imo. the ownership model means data races are detected at compile time, eliminating a huge class of concurrent programming bugs without forcin
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by efficax 4y ago
wild, i don’t have any devices that can max that out even over ethernet
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by efficax 4y ago
what consensus? i think most researchers remain skeptical
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by efficax 4y ago
everyone has a copy. you email patches to someone whose job it is to review them and maintain the release version. they publish that to everyone else who uses it to replace their local version. repeat.
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by efficax 4y ago
once your kids are a little older you’ll have plenty of time to mid life crisis (just in your 50s instead)
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by efficax 4y ago
man it's always a trip to see how much of a jerk torvalds could be, even if exasperation is warranted in this context (i have no idea), by god, this is not how you build consensus or a high functioning team
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by efficax 4y ago
Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition
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by efficax 4y ago
everyone in this industry loves to think that they're surrounded by (and accordingly one of) the smartest people in the world. Sure, some people in tech are very very smart, but many, maybe most, of the smartest people in the world, do
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by efficax 4y ago
what is it about frontend that people have such strong but different opinions? it’s so strange. i think almost everything here is wrong, redux is good, index.js is cursed (love to have five tabs in my editor with the same name, very helpful
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by efficax 4y ago
they are available but just not really something most europeans have had to use in the past. outside of offices and hotels, only the rich tend to use air conditioners and if you are poor, it’s unlikely that you can get one at a moments noti
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by efficax 4y ago
eh, having lived in both chicago and nyc, chicago's transit system is pretty much on par with nyc to me. MTA is all built around going to and from manhattan and it can be a struggle if you have to do something else, like going from par
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by efficax 4y ago
This is a terrible idea for observability. It would be difficult or impossible with most observabilty platforms to make it parse the http response to determine error responses, but when my systems are sending out a ton of 422s or 400s that&
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by efficax 4y ago
crypto solves the byzantium generals problem, sure, but that's not a problem we were struggling with in the financial system, and it creates more problems than it solves

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