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by hinkley 3mo ago
> 100s are more than enough to scale Postgres well I'd want to know what the workload is. That's true of lots of projects, especially internal tools (even for multinationals). But for my last project, that would have been tough
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Whups. Sound not light. Sensors around 12.5 inches apart will be a millisecond separated. The actual device was from a fuzzy recollection of a picture I saw, was probably 700 microseconds across. But it was a sphere with many sensor so adja
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Why don’t you give me a paper cut and pour lemon juice into it?
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by hinkley 3mo ago
The army has one of these for sniper triangulation, and Boeing made a civilian version for optimizing sound dampening on the 787. I don’t know if they kept doing that on subsequent planes but I would expect so given how enthusiastic they we
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by hinkley 4mo ago
This sort of Regulatory Capture is quite old in the software field. People were already noticing it in the 90's. Making a spec that contains a venn diagram of most of the features each of the signatories to the specification have imple
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by hinkley 4mo ago
No but I used to read their dev blog and if there was a n app that needed Erlang it was Eve. They would announce the latest strategy they had for big battles and it was always reinventing part of Erlang.
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by hinkley 4mo ago
In retrospect what I wrote became a bit more of a non sequitur than I meant. Trees aren't even accessing water at ground level most times but pulling it up from 5-30 feet down. Fungal distribution is also a capillary action network (wi
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by hinkley 4mo ago
This is still one of my all time favorites, although alveoli work the same way and are more fun to say. The other day my friend said they wanted a new nervous system and my brain went down this route of pulling out the old one and putting i
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by hinkley 4mo ago
This feels like it needs a picture. Any system that only works with Hydrogen is automatically hand-wavy because working with hydrogen is a giant pain in the ass. But it sounds like instead of just a regular compressor cycle, the hydrogen ge
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by hinkley 4mo ago
Resident set size is not the amount of memory that the process wants, it’s how much the OS is willing to give it. So once memory pressure kicks in it stops being representative. I’ve seen this misunderstanding lead to bad decisions a few ti
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by hinkley 4mo ago
I still occasionally use alpine as a base image for containers and it looks like both doesn’t do musl so that’s out.
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by hinkley 4mo ago
When peeled off the trunk it comes off in sheets, which is a bit harder to accomplish than just creating tufts and blobs of moss.
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by hinkley 4mo ago
There’s also a theory that the moss on these trees is mutualism instead of simply epiphytic. The moss holds moisture, which can be accessed by the tree.
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by hinkley 4mo ago
It’s harder to remove the moss from high up in the tree and there are more risks in doing so. I was never clear on how prevalent this shittery was.
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by hinkley 4mo ago
My recollection is that capillary action is a little from column a and a little from column b.
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by hinkley 4mo ago
One of the things Susan Simard proved was that deep rooted trees that had found subterranean water continue pulling that water at full speed at night when transpiration is low, and that water finds its way into the fungal networks in the so
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by hinkley 4mo ago
There are stories that the moss on trees in temperate rainforests allow the tree to pull water from their branches instead of the ground, increasing their max height. For a while there were people poaching the moss that facilitated this, wh
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by hinkley 4mo ago
> We think of Steam Machine as an extension of PC gaming, not as a console. But is that really so bad? I don't want to say 'sell it at a loss' but loss leaders don't need to bankrupt their companies in order to do the
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by hinkley 4mo ago
Very, very few people actually need to drive 500 miles in a day. Tank size is about convenience, about how often you need to go get gas and what times of day the stations are open. You can recharge your car at home every night. At 2 in the
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by hinkley 4mo ago
What are the numbers these days? What percent of projects are running on github versus say <choking noise> Atlassian?
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by hinkley 4mo ago
Honestly, I think if more people actually used git enough that they understood how the git graph worked, we'd have fewer busted graphs. Like CI, you only get better at the tools if you use them more. And people are avoiding using git f
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by hinkley 4mo ago
So I want to be clear that I'm not destroying other people's ability to learn from me. I just don't tell the entire story in the code, but I'm open about it if you talk to me. It's not a long conversation to figure
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by hinkley 4mo ago
Can we agree that this flavor of recipe writing should not be applied to software? That's the point I was going for (hence the ad absurdum header)
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by hinkley 4mo ago
> And personally, I don't remember needing to read main's history more often than probably once a year, and even then mostly out of curiosity. You're probably delegating that work to someone like me who actually figures ou
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by hinkley 4mo ago
> "fixed, added, deleted" I'm saying get rid of those before you invite people to look at the code. Keep the 'code review changes' one because that's comedy gold when the PR changes forced on you by some sno
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by hinkley 4mo ago
If I look in your back yard right now, will I see a stolen giraffe?
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by hinkley 4mo ago
> Main then has a nice single commit with a reference to the branch it came from if you wish to see how it developed. Yeah sorry that's a toy project. You have 50 people push commits for six years and see if those branches don'
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by hinkley 4mo ago
No arguments here. The weird thing is that this was all much more straightforward when we did trunk-based development. You still ended up stashing four different things and having multiple speculative local branches while you tried your cra
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by hinkley 4mo ago
I cook my own commits 75% for me six months from now and 25% for everyone else. I'm literally only doing about 1/3 more work (on the therapy part) than I would have done anyway.
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by hinkley 4mo ago
I was in fact thinking of informants but was a bit fuzzy on my facts so I demured. Sorry it came out a bit of hashed.

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