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by hinkley 10mo ago
I suspect bathrooms aren't big enough to buffer the air pressure but it seems like we should design the air handling so the “fan” is always on in the bathrooms. Maybe a split between several places and taking a bit from the cold air re
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by hinkley 10mo ago
Back in the 00’s I worked at a place where we were still ignoring WLB and would work until seven a couple nights a week on average. But the building AC shut off at 6. A few of us noticed that the later it got the worse our decisions and the
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by hinkley 10mo ago
Have you ever met a submariner? These are not normal humans. That’s some serious cherry picking of data.
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by hinkley 10mo ago
That was already covered in my top level comment though. Geographic redundancy not local mirroring.
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by hinkley 10mo ago
I’d like a turnkey k3s and a 10” rack designed for consumers. Set up to host your Minecraft server, store your media, and be incrementally upgradeable.
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by hinkley 10mo ago
Gamers are the ones building PCs by hand. They have the skills, it’s a matter of motivation.
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by hinkley 10mo ago
Stranger things viewers say shut up and write a finale.
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by hinkley 10mo ago
And you’re ignoring the part where you’re blaming the customer for not reading someone else’s mind. This is feeling like a work argument where the apologists are trying to block UX of DX improvements due to contempt for the people it’ll hel
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by hinkley 10mo ago
Ask Gen X parents if they really believe that. Every one I’ve heard from complains about the quality and quantity.
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by hinkley 10mo ago
Once you include internet latency hard drive latency isn’t that much worse. It won’t help but it won’t stop it.
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by hinkley 10mo ago
I wonder if the act of switching between discord servers works better with our homo erectus brains. You visit your sister who moved to the next village over, and you hang out in that context until it’s time to go home. You go hang out wit
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by hinkley 10mo ago
Subreddits ultimately took over when Usenet moderation failed to keep up. I had chat groups before the Web was really even a thing and they lived on until things like Slashdot and Digg took the reins.
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by hinkley 10mo ago
One of the things I hope will come from the Trough of Disillusionment in cloud computing will be families running redundant file servers hosting the family photos instead of doing everything on IG. Your three tech savvy family members shoul
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by hinkley 10mo ago
I’ve known a lot of neurodivergent and LGBT people, and I was in my late teens when The Internet happened and a young adult when the Web happened. If you’re not within a couple standard deviations of boring, local living is isolating. Al Go
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by hinkley 10mo ago
Someone somewhere probably figured out that it’s more efficient to have five drivers ride in a loop all day than to have each post office drain the boxes inside their postal map. But it’s weird for a pleb to look at a box directly outside a
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by hinkley 10mo ago
Delivering the mail to a drop box is a task often done under duress. This is the same reason we in software have Five Why’s. Someone sitting calmly outside of the problem will always find a way to blame the victim for not reading the instru
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by hinkley 10mo ago
Every voting cycle for at least the last 4 you have seen a certain class of citizen not understand why the early numbers come in from small, rural precincts who can finish early and then the densest areas come in later and vote for other pe
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by hinkley 10mo ago
> For example, at the Stanford post office, the drop boxes outside the post office have Saturday pickup times, but the ones inside the building do not (the signs inside warn about this). That’s counterintuitive though. I can see why peop
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by hinkley 10mo ago
Linear probing could get pretty nasty corner cases in a concurrent system. Particularly one where the table is “warmed up” at start so that 80% of the eventual size shows up in the first minute of use. If that table is big enough then press
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by hinkley 10mo ago
Cliff Click designed a hash table that does concurrent draining of the old table when resizing to a new one. I don’t think he did rate limiting on puts but there are other real time systems that amortize cleanup across all write allocations
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by hinkley 10mo ago
We still haven’t proven whether some quantum effects do or don’t follow this. So there may be a loophole where information can move faster than light but the carrier for that information can not. Which might make ansibles possible some day,
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by hinkley 10mo ago
Yeah those are pretty spendy. I know one comes with extra guaranteed bandwidth which is kind of handy if you’re sharing a small number of cache nodes among a lot of servers. But we were doing okay running r6 for cache, though my coworker wh
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by hinkley 10mo ago
When a law is unjust it will be broken by those on the right side of history. Software can’t tell if a law is just or not. So if you want to support suffragists or underground railroads you’re making software that breaks the law. Really we
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by hinkley 10mo ago
We knew how to print memory long before we knew how to print cores.
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by hinkley 10mo ago
kv stores also exist because for many generations of tooling it was faster to manage read-mostly data off-heap instead of on, and that becomes more true the more processes you run doing jobs that touch the same data.
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by hinkley 10mo ago
I was a Java programmer out of school. My first specialization became performance. It’s the same problem with JavaScript. There’s at least an order of magnitude speed difference between using your head and just vomiting code, and probably m
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by hinkley 10mo ago
Hidden classes is a whoooole thing. I’ve switched several projects to Maps for lookup tables so as not to poke that bear. Storage is the unhappy path for this.
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by hinkley 10mo ago
And I have confirmed to my own satisfaction that both PM2 and worker threads have their own libuv threads. Yes very common in node to run around one instance per core, give or take.
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by hinkley 10mo ago
Libuv now supports io_uring but I’m fuzzy on how broadly nodejs is applying that fact. It seems to be a function by function migration with lots of rollbacks.
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by hinkley 10mo ago
One of the things I’ve been hoping for every time a new EC2 instance comes out is for them to unpin the memory:core ratio a bit. I don’t expect they have enough r# and c# users to completely balance things out so what they’re really doing i

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