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by jacques_chester 7mo ago
"Compatible" isn't mentioned on the homepage, though, despite multiple opportunities to do so -- "Create, manage and query serverless PostgreSQL", "Run history, status, and metadata live in Postgres", &quo
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by jacques_chester 7mo ago
> db9 is a PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database. Your data is stored in a distributed TiKV cluster, and each database (tenant) gets its own isolated keyspace. [0] I feel like the lede is a bit buried here, bordering on decept
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by jacques_chester 7mo ago
Quick aside, some dutch folks did a more language-y DSL for tax codes, which might be of interest. I don't know if it is still being used, though. https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/mps/docs
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by jacques_chester 7mo ago
I would be interested in a layperson summary of how this code deals with whacky distributions produced by computer systems. I am too stupid to understand anything more complex than introductory SPC which struggles with non-normal distributi
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by jacques_chester 10mo ago
My guess is that it's a response to "Chainguard are growing so fast that VCs have fought each other to give them hundreds of millions in 3 years despite having no AI play".
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HiRTOS: A high-integrity multi-core RTOS kernel written in SPARK Ada(github.com)
8 points by jacques_chester 10mo ago|1 comments
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Statistical Process Control According to W. Edwards Deming(thomas-huehn.com)
16 points by jacques_chester 11mo ago|0 comments
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Shturmovshchina(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by jacques_chester 1y ago|0 comments
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by jacques_chester 1y ago
I should add, to clarify: I don't work at Shopify anymore and I'm not speaking for them. Purely a personal view.
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by jacques_chester 1y ago
Glad to hear it's all so simple. So you'll have no problem setting it up and finding thousands of volunteers to help, right?
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by jacques_chester 1y ago
At Shopify I was the person who first proposed that we needed to stump up $$$ for RubyGems (and only by implication Ruby Central). This is not what I had in mind and now I'm embarrassed that I helped make it possible.
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by jacques_chester 1y ago
Oh, this old chestnut. "Just do what the distros do". OK, sure, let's pencil this out. Debian has ~1k volunteers overseeing ~20k packages. Say the ratio is 20:1. npm alone -- not counting other ecosystems, just npm -- has 3
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by jacques_chester 1y ago
I disagree with theses in this piece. 1. "2FA doesn't work". Incorrect. MFA relying on SMS or TOTP is vulnerable to phishing. Token or device based is not. And indeed GitHub sponsored a program to give such tokens away to
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by jacques_chester 1y ago
Most of the biggest repositories already cooperate through the OpenSSF[0]. Last time I was involved in it, there were representatives from npm, PyPI, Maven Central, Crates and RubyGems. There's also been funding through OpenSSF's
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Curl Project Status Dashboard(curl.se)
2 points by jacques_chester 1y ago|1 comments
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by jacques_chester 1y ago
Trunk-based development, by itself, is a fool's errand. But combine it with TDD & pairing and it becomes a license to deliver robust features at warp speed.
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by jacques_chester 1y ago
It's not for everyone. Some people have excellent reasons why it isn't workable for them. Others have had terrible experiences. It takes a great deal of practice to be a good pair and, if you don't start by working with an ex
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by jacques_chester 1y ago
Interesting watching this part of the landscape heating up. For repos you've got stalwarts like Artifactory and Nexus, with upstart Cloudsmith. For libraries you've got the OG ActiveState, Chainguard Libraries and, until someone i
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by jacques_chester 1y ago
It's a great feature, but GitHub's parser chokes on it. Compare: https://github.com/jchester/spc-kit/blob/eb2de71d815b0057e20... To: https://github.com/jchester/spc-kit/blo
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by jacques_chester 1y ago
> Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike Most of us aren't Brian Kernighan or Rob Pike. I am very happy for people who are, but I am firmly at a grug level.
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by jacques_chester 1y ago
This triggered some associations for me. Strongest was Cells[0], a library for Common Lisp CLOS. The earliest reference I can find is 2002[1], making it over 20 years old. Second is incremental view maintenance systems like Feldera[2] or Ma
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by jacques_chester 1y ago
Grids! I knew I forgot something in my list. Updated.
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by jacques_chester 1y ago
Fair enough. If it makes you feel better, I have a very different project where I have deliberately avoided any AI-generated code: https://github.com/jchester/spc-kit
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Web dev is still fun if you want it to be(github.com)
124 points by jacques_chester 1y ago|112 comments
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
I'm using "control" in the statistical process control sense, where it means "we can tell if variation is ordinary or extraordinary". To me it seemed clear that the paper is about detecting regressions, which is con
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
SPC gets used on complex dynamic systems all the time. It takes more work and more nuance, but it's doable. I don't see a categorical error here, it's about fine-tuning the details.
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
I think the confusion arises because of the difference between optimization and control, which are superficially similar. Having control lets you see if things changed. Optimization is changing things. This team seems to be focused on contr
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
I don't agree. This is basically an elaborate form of statistical process control, which has been proving itself useful and effective for nearly a century. We can quibble about the thresholds and false positive rates, but I think the i
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
The important difference is that sigstore enables a "single click" signing procedure with no faffing around with key material. How it works is much less important than the user experience , which is vastly better.
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
Nobody said it was. The point is that it's better.

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