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1981.
by hinkley 1y ago
No. Because painful code never gets optimized as much as less painful code. People convince themselves to look elsewhere, and an incomplete picture leads to local optima.
1982.
by hinkley 1y ago
A JSON.toBuffer would be another good addition to V8. There are a couple code paths that look like they might do this, but from all accounts it goes Object->String->Buffer, and for speed you want to skip the intermediate.
1983.
by hinkley 1y ago
Nodejs will never be as bad as VB was.
1984.
by hinkley 1y ago
I think the clues are all there in the MDN docs for web workers. Having a worker act as a forward proxy for services; you send it a URL, it decides if it needs to make a network request, it cooks down the response for you and sends you the
1985.
by hinkley 1y ago
> Based off of my first ever forays into node performance analysis last year, JSON.stringify was one of the biggest impediments to just about everything around performant node services Just so. It is, or at least can be, the plurality of
1986.
by hinkley 1y ago
That just sounds like someone needing to feel smarter than 'multidimensional arrays' sounds. Which if you ask the average unskilled laborer, already sounds pretty damned fancy.
1987.
by hinkley 1y ago
You can tell by looking at those numbers how much of "XX% of all marriages fail" is a consequence of how many people who get divorced 1x end up getting divorced 3 or more times. There's a certain kind of Hollywood story where
1988.
by hinkley 1y ago
I suspect after a tsunami not all of the stones would be found again, so that's probably a good idea.
1989.
by hinkley 1y ago
If the issue is immaturity I suspect they can diverge faster. Some people grown up when they have kids. Others don’t, and that becomes a frequent source of argument. Others collapse their lives entirely, which can be shocking for the person
1990.
by hinkley 1y ago
Japan has a bad habit of considering buildings as disposable. Odd that a land with 1000 year old temples knocks down 40 year old houses with zero remorse, but that seems to be the case.
1991.
by hinkley 1y ago
It has been ∞ years since a tsunami washed away this stone.
1992.
by hinkley 1y ago
Diverging values I think is why it’s not a bad thing that marriage is being postponed closer to 30 now. Promising to be with someone forever when you don’t even know who you or they are yet is wishful thinking at best and lying at worst. If
1993.
by hinkley 1y ago
I’m hoping they pronounce it “beacon” but the off by one error jokes also just write themselves.
1994.
by hinkley 1y ago
“irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a, a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only practitio
1995.
by hinkley 1y ago
You explain the evolution of CPUs but then don’t explain Rank Polymorphism.
1996.
by hinkley 1y ago
JSON encoding is a huge impediment to interprocess communication in NodeJS. Sooner or later is seems like everyone gets the idea of reducing event loop stalls in their NodeJS code by trying to offload it to another thread, only to discover
1997.
by hinkley 1y ago
And danger. Turbines are more powerful at high temps, and now you have hot liquids near your reactor. Or you use molten salt as a middleman so the potential steam explosions are a little farther from the reactor.
1998.
by hinkley 1y ago
Ugh. Didn’t realize this was Altman. That’s disappointing. Seemed like there was a certain amount of magic thinking about neutron damage but a bit less than fission typically does. Guess we’ll see.
1999.
by hinkley 1y ago
Said something about a stock swap so maybe the number was set to almost $25B and then the stock dropped.
2000.
by hinkley 1y ago
If I had to guess it’s related to e. In which case maybe choosing 2 30% of the time and 3 70% of the time is a better outcome.
2001.
by hinkley 1y ago
I’m fine with the random part. What I don’t get is why 2 works just as well as four, or square root of n. It seems like 3 should do much, much better and it doesn’t. It’s one of those things I put in the “unreasonably effective” category.
2002.
by hinkley 1y ago
When the cost of different requests varies widely it’s difficult to get it right. When we rolled out docker I saw a regression in p95 time. I countered this by doubling our instance size and halving the count, which made the number of proce
2003.
by hinkley 1y ago
This was $25B this morning. What changed? > Following the report, CyberArk’s stock surged by 13% in U.S. trading, while Palo Alto's stock declined by 3%. Seems the market is happy for the purchased but not the buyer. Hope that works
2004.
by hinkley 1y ago
I have never been able to wrap my head around why 2 random works better in load balancing than leastconn. At least in caching it makes sense why it would work better than another heuristic.
2005.
by hinkley 1y ago
At least with the diamond formation you have the opportunity of rotation but the two in the middle will still tire quickly, and I don’t know how you safely rotate in that configuration. Any beginning serious cyclist can learn to draft. But
2006.
by hinkley 1y ago
Feels like something a Jepsen or such should be doing instead of competitors trying to clock each other directly. I can see why they would feel uncomfortable about this situation.
2007.
by hinkley 1y ago
In theory, I as the service provider know when my key database has been compromised. In theory. In practice, I will never know if a customer has been compromised, however up to a point a compromised user box can forward tokens to an attacke
2008.
by hinkley 1y ago
There's nobody who really has a library that's set up to feed a sequential task into and have it force a synchronous call to be async with breakpoints to check for early termination. This seems like a problem Sorhus should have a
2009.
by hinkley 1y ago
In the reverse situation, I've worked at places where the IP lawyers basically made it impossible to submit PRs to open source code. But sometimes explaining the exact inputs and the line number where you know the problem is can grease
2010.
by hinkley 1y ago
It's also worth writing yourself some smoke tests that tell you when your very important customer starts sending total garbage to your servers and expects you to just handle it because they're paying you instead of the other way a

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