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by jdsully 6y ago
In the C standard malloc should return null if it can’t fulfill the request. Linux violates this but it usually works out in the end since virtual memory makes true OOM very rare.
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by jdsully 6y ago
Aaron was super helpful as we went through the S20 batch. I hope his next adventure is fruitful.
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by jdsully 6y ago
In Canada KN95 masks are easily available but nobody in the medical community will use them. I have friends going to work with vulnerable populations using nearly worthless surgical masks because there "aren't enough N95s" e
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by jdsully 6y ago
There's a bit of a chicken and egg problem here. Those excellent returns were extremely unlikely to happen had there been no TARP. Much like leveraged buyouts often end up in bankruptcy due to extensive debt, excessively onerous term
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by jdsully 6y ago
About 5 years ago I made an XBRL viewer. In a ton of reports I tested the data did not match the paper reports. After ruling out bugs in my own software I went as far as emailing a few companies investor relations departments and never go
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by jdsully 6y ago
localhost is slower than Unix sockets on Linux as well. Try a benchmark with Redis or KeyDB and the performance differences are clear.
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by jdsully 6y ago
As with all of this its anecdotes, but out of my 9 friends with trucks only one uses his regularly for hauling hay. That one is a beat up truck that is barely road legal. The rest are as immaculate as when they left the showroom floor. S
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by jdsully 6y ago
I run KeyDB which is a reasonably popular open source database. “Demands” are bad, I don’t work for you. But I love feature requests because the whole point is to make something people want. The best way to be sure of that is someone asking
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by jdsully 6y ago
People don't really buy these trucks for work. The vast majority are just inefficient daily drivers/status symbols. Your not going to throw 2x4s and scratch the paint of your $50,000 pickup truck.
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by jdsully 6y ago
With the $27 trillion in debt we're leaving them, a $1k savings bond seems like the least we could do for the future generation.
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by jdsully 6y ago
I find conspiracy theories fun so I search for them. You can never get the actual conspiracy websites on Google, just debunking articles and often a Google warning box as well. Compare the results for ‘fake moon landing’ on Google and bing.
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by jdsully 6y ago
Cats commonly hunt for sport and have caused the extinction of a few species. Gorillas will go to war with other groups. Plenty of human traits have analogues in other species.
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by jdsully 6y ago
MSVC had this for as long as I can remember. I was a little surprised the major Linux compilers didn't have code to trigger guard pages on large allocations. It's not totally unreasonable to access a large buffer from the top do
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by jdsully 6y ago
I think that's reasonable feedback. We need to do a better job explaining Pro vs Open Source. Our guiding philosophy was Open Source is the best cache database we can make. Pro is the best database and with that comes more grown up
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by jdsully 6y ago
A lot of this comes from database companies not thinking through what they want to give away and what they want to keep as "the secret sauce". With KeyDB we kept it super simple. Open Source KeyDB is open source under a BSD licen
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by jdsully 6y ago
They have applications in the database space, e.g. see Google's spanner: https://www.theverge.com/2012/11/26/3692392/google-spanner-a...
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by jdsully 6y ago
It can burst to millions of IOPS, but you get killed on the sustained write workload. Even a high end enterprise NVMe drive will be limited to around 60k IOPs once you exceed its write cache.
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by jdsully 6y ago
Straight from the source: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas...
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by jdsully 6y ago
Where are you getting this number? NHS published data is less than half this number.
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by jdsully 6y ago
Verilog and other HDL languages work this way, its not an accident humans would start this way as well as the natural world works in parallel.
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by jdsully 6y ago
My understanding is the vast majority of Americans are in favour of harmonization at a federal level. In the original days of the USA I think citizens identified more with their state than the country as a whole. Outside of Texas that is
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by jdsully 6y ago
That made sense before nearly everything was declared interstate commerce. The federal government now directly affects people on an individual level in a way it did not when the system was originally formed.
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by jdsully 6y ago
We actually had a rare experiment to revalidate this in the 2008 recession. The US went with money printing and inflation while the EU chose austerity. The result was the EU suffered a prolonged and deep multi-year recession while the US ha
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by jdsully 6y ago
The reason we prefer inflation is because there is a history of wild swings going from boom to bust. We do not level out at a spot where people have “enough” and retire but instead the economy swings into deep recession and people can’t fee
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by jdsully 6y ago
If Google is falsely claiming your malicious and its harming your business it seems like a pretty clear case of slander/tortuous interference.
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by jdsully 6y ago
They are upset at France taxing tech companies. The targeted attack is very much intentional and intended to be a tit for tat.
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by jdsully 6y ago
The new process seems equivalent to Canada and the United States. I agree its less favourable though.
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by jdsully 6y ago
Jack only owns 2% of twitter, further Twitter is a public company. We subject public companies to higher standards than closely held ones because ownership is broad and diluted.
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by jdsully 6y ago
I like that prediction, but git is actually a bit of a step back from older more traditional source control systems. Rewriting history is far more common with git to the point where teams have to make explicit policies on when that is allo
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by jdsully 6y ago
I've ordered a bunch of DELL monitors over the last few years. All came in cardboard packaging with no styrofoam.

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