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by fdr 4y ago
I also use it like this. I got into it for the sandboxing, although I know there are a "few" lurking issues on this point. But, some of the sandboxing definitely works, and were I a flatpak engineer I'd want to see some indic
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by fdr 4y ago
It is, but my point is referring to the time when there was no cloudfront.
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by fdr 4y ago
The risk. It's probably hard to imagine, but Github was promising, but small back then. You can't put one egg in three baskets.
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by fdr 4y ago
This definitely dates back to when offloading images and other static assets to S3 from your (era-appropriate) Apache or Varnish server was an optimization of the day...now, obsolete, as, at the time, there were not low-friction, lower-cost
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by fdr 4y ago
That does seem like a good application for it. If one thinks something is in the corpus many times (various GTK idioms), chatgpt is pretty good at a type of syntactic composition...e.g., "can you show it to me in rust"
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by fdr 4y ago
I am a big fan of that old Bloomberg column by Grove referenced in this article. I don't think his proposed policy mechanism is either the focus or necessarily a good idea, but in context, it's for illustrative purposes: not the m
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by fdr 4y ago
The AP CSA pass surprises me (I've never taken it myself). I had this thought because I tried to use chatgpt for work programming stuff and it got stuff wrong very frequently. So frequently, and to a great enough degree, that I had to
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by fdr 4y ago
I suggest that Martin Luther King, Jr is more than one phrase in one speech.
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by fdr 4y ago
I’m not sure what you mean. The reservoirs tend to sit at a watershed’s egress point, runoff is obligated to pass through it. If there’s ample room in the reservoir, no runoff is lost. I think a correct reading of the article, which is perh
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by fdr 4y ago
The existing reservoirs are, generally, nowhere close to full. https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/article/Here-s-where-Cal... Looking at the contents of the interview, the problem looks more to be in aquifer rech
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by fdr 4y ago
This phenomena has been somewhat frustrating to me trying to plan hiking routes around North Lake Tahoe and Truckee. It's somewhat vexing how deteriorated recreation in the wilderness is because of this land ownership pattern. Even w
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by fdr 4y ago
Nice to see Escape Velocity in there. It's a shame that its distribution is endangered ever since Ambrosia closed up, without selling or releasing the source and rights.
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by fdr 4y ago
I work on Crunchy Bridge. Mostly, the Ruby parts discussed. I personally find Sorbet more marginal in its benefits than perhaps conveyed here, but the Parlour-Tapioca additions are key parts of making it practical. I'd recommend those
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by fdr 4y ago
The Crunchy Bridge CLI is written in crystal: https://github.com/CrunchyData/bridge-cli/ . The program that monitors databases is likewise a crystal program. There are a few other crystal programs rolling around. M
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by fdr 4y ago
I think most parents do support this, but the amount of control you have over a fifteen year old seems pretty minor: you have to hope the emergent phenomena you get from years 0-10 plus circumstance won't conspire against you.
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by fdr 4y ago
A max of two years over a career of some length (so, presuming there are numerous shorter entries) seems pretty short to me, though two years rates as perfectly respectable tour of duty. On the other hand, by three years, I stop issuing a
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by fdr 4y ago
I personally never found Noah's argument very convincing here. There are people living decent lives that are consuming fewer environmental resources, and all else being equal, they have less elasticity to modify their behavior (whether
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by fdr 4y ago
I did find it useful to scroll up and down with care to understand their annotations in detail.
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by fdr 4y ago
I don't unless I want to use something. The main consideration is hedging against an unusual problem in a new version vs. my software. This may depend on your situation. For example, if you were running a large IT org with a few staff
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by fdr 4y ago
I suppose, Postgres is portable, but it's portable to multi-tasking operating systems with virtual memory (which puts in a rather broad category of programs). This goes beyond wrapping how various system calls work on various platforms
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by fdr 4y ago
The problem is you need operating system features to run Postgres as-is, e.g. mapping memory, forking processes, manipulating files. What is missing is a WASM kernel that skips the x86 emulation but implements enough of the other stuff. For
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by fdr 4y ago
What segment? You don't have mapped memory to overrun in the kernel, so that array would have to be in a very special spot to cause a bus error in such a situation. Also, even in user space, overrunning an array is far from guaranteed
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by fdr 4y ago
It's a joke. Even someone as well known as Peter Norvig is unlikely to be so gauche as to name a "law" after himself except tongue in cheek.
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by fdr 4y ago
Surprised nobody has mentioned LuaJIT. The engineering is very impressive; Mike Pall may know more about writing just in time compilers than any one person. It seemed to have more prominence many moons ago when it supported the latest Lua l
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by fdr 4y ago
Not me personally, but my understanding some Cisco products have Postgres "embedded." If they're not using unix domain sockets, they're at least using loopback. ...come to think of it, they may not be the only network de
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by fdr 4y ago
Personally, I find it a lot easier to address bugs on the producer side of SaaS. Back in the Bad Old Days where I worked on a proprietary database delivered to a customer to run on their servers with general-purpose staff, getting high qual
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by fdr 4y ago
Wasn't always this way...even not that long ago. Back when Heroku was getting serious about building up the Postgres service (I helped some...this is circa 2010) the common question was "that's weird, why not MySQL, isn'
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by fdr 4y ago
All of Linux is in there, too, I think. Postgres-on-Linux-in-WASM
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by fdr 4y ago
I personally don't believe this at all. I think it's almost entirely bureaucratic inertia, and a prisoner's dilemma among the management. One who bloats, floats.
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by fdr 4y ago
They gave up on that, now there's an extra "zone ID" you can read that maps to an absolute address. They used to be extremely cagey about giving out those mappings for your account. Examples about how these relate: https:&#x

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