jawilson

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by jawilson 3y ago
It would be nice if input could be taken from a command line argument or better yet, stdin so that it is fully scriptable. ollama has a way to do this and lets you play with a bunch of models without being very smart (just do ollama pull &l
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by jawilson 4y ago
Modern machines are optimized to run C which is in fact essentially "stack based" but registers "cache" parts of the stack (often never touching the stack in leaf procedures). There were at least two well known machines
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by jawilson 4y ago
Full software scheduling breaks down on the first data cache miss. Combined with typically much larger icache foot-prints, VLIW just never lives up to the promise. I agree they could be useful for DSPs because the icache problem isn't
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by jawilson 4y ago
For the right definition of "major". Search, Ads, GMail, Docs, absolutely. If you only have 50 million DAU then you may not even have an SRE let alone one in multiple time-zones. Most teams have an on-call rotation and you get a p
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by jawilson 4y ago
It really depends on what is happening behind the scenes. Is it killing an entire server process or just an error in a single thread? Even if it kills an entire server process, Google has lots of these running and the ratio may not be high
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by jawilson 4y ago
As of a few years ago, most engineers in my group had Apple laptops but linux desktops and mostly the laptops were being used as "terminals" via remote desktop and Chrome (as you were not supposed to store source code on a laptop
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by jawilson 4y ago
Technically yes, the promise can first do an RPC to a distributed key/value store, and only then do the expensive computation (which typically is itself an RPC to some other system, perhaps a traditional database). Promise libraries sh
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by jawilson 6y ago
Noise canceling headphone make my ears feel like they want to bleed if I wear them too long. I use foam ear plugs when I'm sleeping. Xanex is awesome though only for really long flights. We've all heard of Ambien on planes stories
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by jawilson 6y ago
He should argue that because of the prevalence of Covid-19 in the United States and the inability of the US to protect even the President of the United States from Covid-19, that extradition is a possible extra legal death sentence.
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by jawilson 7y ago
I've written a few useful scripts that everyone should have. histogram - simply counts each occurrence of a line and then outputs from highest to lowest. I've implemented this program in several different languages for learning pu