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by jesse__ 9mo ago
As other commentors pointed out, 1gb/day isn't a problem for storage and retroactive processing until you get to like, hundreds of years of data. You can chew through a few hundred TB of JSON data in a day, per core + nvme drive.
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
Can't really speak to (1), but (2) and (3) definitely qualify as 'fucked up piles of shit', which is what he's saying the real problem is.
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
I think his point is that instead of hundreds of containers, you can just have a small handful of massive servers and let the multitasking OS deal with it
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
Fair enough :) There's a lot to be said for being comfortable in your environment
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
If that's literally the only thing stopping you.. you could always just write it yourself ..
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
I think OPs point is that people are going to eventually abandon the sinking Windows ship, because gamers are going to soon abandon ship en-masse. That certainly tracks for me (mostly a non-gaming Windows user). It follows that, at some
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
Oh, absolutely.
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
Hahhah, yuuuup. I can maybe make a case for running in containers if you need some specific security properties but .. mostly I think the proliferation of 'fucked up piles of shit' is the problem.
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
Hah yeah, that's a funny one, being able to run circles around the interviewer.
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
Are you saying that running your application in a pile of containers somehow helps that problem ..? It's the same problem as CPU scheduling, we just don't have good schedulers yet.. Lots of people are working on it though
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
yeah man, computers are completely bananacakes
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
I've done that too and, in my experience, people that ask a scaling question that fits on a single machine don't have the capacity to have that nuanced conversation. I usually try to help the interviewer adjust the scale to somet
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
I agree with your observation. My issue is (from experience) it's really hard to tell from the outside if a teams' values align with mine. Many teams talk the talk, but don't walk the walk, as the saying goes. It's ju
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
Meh .. I've played that game; it doesn't work out well for anyone involved. I optimize my answers for the companies I want to work for, and get rejected by the ones I don't. The hardest part of that strategy is coming to t
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
Looks like you pasted the wrong link after Apply:
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
Yeah man, you're running on a multitasking OS. Just let the scheduler do the thing.
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
I've done a handful of interviews recently where the 'scaling' problem involves something that comfortably fits on one machine. The funniest one was ingesting something like 1gb of json per day . I explained, from first pr
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
Took a look at it. I generally don't like sampling profilers, but the live mode is a neat idea.
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
Mostly the latter, but a lot of tools are so slow the former actually becomes a problem, too. Valgrind is a great example. For realtime applications, Valgrind and friends are pretty much a non-starter. To your point about profile results,
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
I remember looking at python profiling tools a couple years ago and being pretty disappointed. Most added a huge amount of runtime noise, the lowest being something like +50% runtime, which to me is completely unacceptable. The profiler I
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
Fair point.
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
From the other side of the table, I love performance comparisons, so I always read these things. I also enjoyed your commentary, thanks for writing it :)
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
"could" and "should" are doing some very theoretical heavy lifting here. Sure, at the limit, I agree with you, but in reality, relying on the compiler to do any optimization that you care about (such as inlining an indir
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
https://scallywag.software I've written a small handful of articles, with the most interesting one being about writing a state-of-the-art AVX2 Perlin Noise implementation, which improved on the then-SOTA by 1.8x
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
Strongly agree. It's like saying using a knife to prepare dinner is immoral because some people stab other people. I'm highly skeptical of AI, but that particular argument makes the whole article fall pretty flat to me.
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
Great, thanks for adding some nuance!
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
Hey, thanks for the kind words! Yeah it was on the front page not too long ago, which felt great
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
Cool, thanks for the response and good luck with your project!
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
I cackled when I read this
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by jesse__ 9mo ago
This is the most grounded and plausible-sounding ai take I've seen. Please keep saying stuff like this.

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