foobarian

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by foobarian 4mo ago
I would like to but they are frustratingly hard to find
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by foobarian 4mo ago
If he's been blogging as long as it says, he's already part of the collective
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by foobarian 4mo ago
> absolutely zero rope to hang yourself on Yeah I thought so too. Google "memcache slab starvation" if you want the long story
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by foobarian 4mo ago
Can confirm it's not that much faster at k/v. 300 vs 350 microseconds per read on average. The single thread thing doesn't matter much since it's not cpu bound, it's reactive I/O
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by foobarian 4mo ago
You could ask the opposite question too, could you move your bespoke Redis/mcd workload to a boring old database? We have some workloads from 100k-1M ops/s that I would love to streamline but the load is too high. So... 100k in t
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by foobarian 4mo ago
The memcache slab pools are a leaky abstraction that you may end up having to manage operationally, and it's another way Redis is simpler.
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by foobarian 4mo ago
Isn't that a little hyperbolic? Sure cancer rates will be elevated wherever the fallout blows but it's not going to end anything.
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by foobarian 4mo ago
See what you do is make it tele-operated. That way there is no stranger physically in your house, but technologically it's a lot easier to implement than some grand challenge-level laundry folding AI.
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by foobarian 4mo ago
I think he has given away a whole lot more than half a billion dollars when you think of the opportunity squandered to grow CL the way other unicorney companies grew
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by foobarian 4mo ago
I've been getting listicle spam/ads with a CTA promising to reveal why you should always carry one of these in your wallet. To this day I never found out why that is!
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by foobarian 4mo ago
At our shop we're still cleaning up load-bearing tech debt 20 years later, a lot of which seems to have been built with an expectation "nah no way will this still be running next year"
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by foobarian 4mo ago
One thing I find interesting about paper is that wetting and drying it turns it uneven. Even when drying it under a press. And then another ridiculous process not involving paper, but super cool nonetheless is creating a flat surface by gr
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by foobarian 4mo ago
This is actually a fun one, and kinda has some parallels to building a nuclear weapon. I tried this as a grownup because I finally managed to get my hands on saltpeter (could only dream of it when kid). Followed the instructions, mixed eve
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by foobarian 4mo ago
Same, my brain is pretty visually oriented so I kind of like the icons. To be clear I don't really use the icons to pick out a particular item, but they just look nice. It's kind of like pleasant background music in a hotel lobb
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by foobarian 4mo ago
Reminds me of stories from ex-Yu during high inflation periods (e.g. yearly doubling; not counting periods when there were runaway spikes of almost daily doubling) when people would go to remote areas where shops didn't yet get the upd
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by foobarian 4mo ago
So... it's like a kickstarter for real estate!
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by foobarian 4mo ago
What would be doubly ironic is if the gold course windmill farm was sponsored by big oil.
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by foobarian 4mo ago
I didn't build tools in the classic sense of something you build and run semi permanently, like baked into your setup or home server or whatnot; but I found myself building bespoke tools with most new projects at work. Get a new Jira
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by foobarian 4mo ago
How soon until we can just share a prompt://make-me-a-react-app-showing-a-summary-of-war-news-as-a-star-wars-crawl ? :-D
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by foobarian 4mo ago
Elderly people in our village in east Europe used to be super suspicious of the EU project and would say that European countries get along like "a sack of horns." Hopefully they were wrong :-)
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by foobarian 4mo ago
The other nice feature is using standard utility blades. I have several Stanley type box cutters and blade retraction is an infuriating experience on each one because it gets stuck, the lock button gets stuck, it doesn't slide properly
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by foobarian 4mo ago
My related question to this was why isn't China or India better at soccer? Given the population sizes and some reasonable talented soccer player probability you would think they would be outsized. Then you have the tiny East European
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by foobarian 4mo ago
I wonder if they are more than happy to let someone else take on the burden of the massive writedowns that are bound to hit in a couple of years.
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by foobarian 4mo ago
Enterprise pricing is a huge factor.
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by foobarian 4mo ago
Maybe that is exactly the mechanism this happens with. People don't necessarily make these choices consciously, they might be railroaded into them by the environment in an industrialized society
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by foobarian 4mo ago
I'm sure you turned out just fine and don't use goto in Python ;)
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by foobarian 4mo ago
Mostly I have a hard time accepting that a Turing machine can experience "consciousness"/awareness. Therefore I also have a hard time with simulatable chemical processes; it feels like there is some missing link there. All ju
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by foobarian 4mo ago
It's too bad it's so hard to pin down a definition, but in practice I feel like most animals with brains experience degrees of qualia. Some mornings after a night of poor sleep when I wake up super-slow I wonder if that's ho
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by foobarian 4mo ago
Similar, except I saw a bunch of our neighbors doing the same thing which told me it wasn't a branch or similar that would affect just our house. I've never experienced this before so I figure we've witnessed something truly
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by foobarian 4mo ago
> There are no moving parts, I dont think memory chips or GPU chips deteriorate naturally I believe they do, but I too would love to know more details because there are several ways this can happen. Electromigration, package failures, V

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