jrockway

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by jrockway 2y ago
I think that's an unfair comparison. By using Nagle's algorithm for interactive work, you save bytes, but the software you're interacting with is that much less responsive. (If the client was responsible for echoing typed c
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by jrockway 2y ago
It's a shame that browser developers have to implement enough of this API to entice people to use it, only for users to install extensions that simply disable it ;)
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by jrockway 2y ago
Does this matter? Yes, there's a lot of waste. But you also have a 1Gbps link. Every second that you don't use the full 1Gbps is also waste, right?
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by jrockway 2y ago
Ultimately Congress should have written the law more carefully. It's their job to balance the various concerns of the government; effectiveness of their law enforcement vs. civil liberties. The FBI's job is only to investigate t
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by jrockway 2y ago
Intel has been pretty intent on making ECC server-only. I used their HEDT platforms for years and never had ECC. AMD is much nicer about the thing; if you want to use ECC on their HEDT platform, you can if you want. It's not super s
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by jrockway 2y ago
The article literally has no substance. Who isn't doing any real work? What are they doing instead? How can companies improve? Literally nothing is said about anything. I clicked through to the linked interview, and it elaborates i
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by jrockway 2y ago
Not having ECC is the biggest scam in computing. Ever hear of "bitrot"? That's memory errors that have been saved to disk. We have made millions of people lose their data so that servers can be artificially more expensive.
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by jrockway 2y ago
Every big building I ever lived in in Chicago had this system but for residential use. I am sure it is expensive when it breaks, but it is also amortized across hundreds of units. I'd go so far as to say it's "industry stan
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by jrockway 2y ago
Yeah, I think MAD and "launch on warning" are distinct concepts. If we survive the first strike, we can rationally plan our second strike. So training tapes being played on the live system won't cause us to accidentally mak
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by jrockway 2y ago
Being able to destroy everyone else is what prevents them from destroying us. Something I think about and feel bad about is the "nuclear sponge". Why do we have a bunch of ICBMs in the midwest? So that if someone wants to nuke N
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by jrockway 2y ago
Yeah, you can put beds in whatever room you want. You just can't sell a room with no window as a bedroom.
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by jrockway 2y ago
As someone who has spent hundreds of dollars on blackout curtains (and sticking electrical tape on every LED in the house), I'd be happy to buy an apartment where few of the rooms have natural light. I know bedrooms have to have windo
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by jrockway 2y ago
This is normal website monitoring. There are a billion services that do this. The cloud providers have them. I use Oh Dear. Something that can happen is that your alerting system stops working. I wrote alertmanager-status to bridge Aler
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by jrockway 2y ago
I don't think the "armed to the teeth" theory is correct. If you were right, people wouldn't honk at each other or otherwise involve themselves in any sort of road rage. But people rage at each other all the time, and
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by jrockway 2y ago
Remembering more than 4096 tokens is my superpower.
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by jrockway 2y ago
For people on the cloud, you can buy new computers and sell them back in a period of time measured in hours, so that's how people are using these systems. It doesn't make a ton of economic sense to me in general, because your per
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by jrockway 2y ago
I don't think that's completely true. There is a combination of market size and regulatory burden; not a lot of people are buying GA aircraft (compared to say, the number of people buying iPhones), so there isn't an enormous
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by jrockway 3y ago
I've never been a big fan of mandatory message retention. To me, it just seems like punishment for the literate. You don't make people under litigation holds carry around a voice recorder all day, so you're giving people an
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by jrockway 3y ago
> it is expected for the same population to have the financial literacy to file their taxes accurately I assume most people have too much money taken out of their paycheck for taxes, so the net result is that the government takes in extr
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by jrockway 3y ago
I mean, the executive branch can pick and choose who it prosecutes. If they are in favor of the program, they can simply not prosecute.
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by jrockway 3y ago
To be fair Congress does some work. They have avoided 2 government shutdowns. They funded the war efforts in Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. They passed the infrastructure bill. The reality is, they just don't care about net neutrality
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by jrockway 3y ago
There can only be a finite number of broadcasters because of how radio works, so it makes sense to regulate. (A little bit of sense, not a lot.) There should be no restrictions on who owns a website. There can be an unlimited number of we
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by jrockway 3y ago
I worked at a startup that got acquired by a big company and we switched our custom proprietary license back to Apache 2 after acquisition. The reason we switched in the first place was because it's what we thought was best when we we
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by jrockway 3y ago
Rather, I think Typescript's philosophy of not having a runtime is simply wrong. Other statically typed languages retain type information at runtime. I don't understand why that was so important to explicitly exclude from Typesc
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by jrockway 3y ago
Do people actually sign up for COBRA? Last time I quit a job it was like $3000/month. I took my chances instead.
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by jrockway 3y ago
I think a lot of organizations think that security is about going through the motions, or something that you can bolt on after the fact, but it's really a state of mind that needs to exist from the beginning.
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by jrockway 3y ago
The replacement can just be called getada2. It worked for Python's standard library (unittest2 and all that).
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by jrockway 3y ago
gofmt is actually a separate command.
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by jrockway 3y ago
I think your theory is people like to do whatever is most illegal, but that doesn't seem right. Mopeds must be preferred over e-bikes for some reason; e-bikes don't require a license, insurance, or plates. (I laugh because this
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by jrockway 3y ago
I will say that we have a lot of e-bikers in NYC as well; but they're the bikeshare bikes. I see those zooming all over the place. I have ridden one and they are quite fast. Actually scares me a little bit.

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