krenoten

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by krenoten 10y ago
As much as I would love to see "Mike #2" publically castrated, there is a fairly high chance of causing an innocent person significant grief by going down this path. Please don't trigger a witch hunt. Justice must be discharg
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by krenoten 10y ago
epaxos is not general purpose replication. It leaves the problem of reconciling multiple replication streams to another layer. I've heard that they do 20+WA (distributed, before you consider on-disk WA) for much of it. shrug
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by krenoten 10y ago
A useful perspective for me has been that C, A, and P are spectra rather than all-or-nothing. A system may bend a bit on availability when some of its replicas are partitioned, because there are fewer servers that can respond at all, smalle
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by krenoten 10y ago
MTBF of 2PC-strapped-to-quorum is no different from MTBF of a 2PC-strapped-to-spof replicas. MTTR is bounded by reelection latency, rather than replica recovery, although you still may eat a write amplification cost for rereplication. write
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by krenoten 10y ago
Aphyr covers the impossibility of practical CA systems here: https://aphyr.com/posts/325-comments-on-you-do-it-too Sometimes it's helpful to consider a distributed system through the lens of "harvest vs yield
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by krenoten 10y ago
The system you describe would typically be referred to as AP, because it maintains availability in the presence of partitions.
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Void: rust personal organizer for the terminal(github.com)
2 points by krenoten 10y ago|0 comments
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by krenoten 10y ago
to the extent that the left is associated with the maintenance of our rights
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by krenoten 10y ago
This needs to be the first thing anyone who works with stateful systems learns. NEVER rm. mv is insufficient. mv dir dir.bak.`date +%s` has prevented data loss for me several times.
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by krenoten 10y ago
everything is broken, and we are usually late to notice due to the infrequency of happy-path divergence.
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NSA now pumps raw feeds to FBI, DEA, DHS(documentcloud.org)
20 points by krenoten 10y ago|1 comments
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by krenoten 10y ago
This is a great one to remind us that we help to shape the world that politics have to operate within. We are not just subject to politicians.
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by krenoten 10y ago
Yo, make node-local a first class citizen already... This is an area where mesos is a far more suitable choice right now for stateful systems.
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by krenoten 10y ago
Joining one of the FANGs as your first job is a great way to kill your chances of developing a highly diverse skill set early on. Good luck doing anything interesting when there are 120 superior engineers who are bored out of their minds al
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by krenoten 10y ago
I've been far happier as an engineer in NYC and Berlin than SF. Gentrification has made SF a pretty boring place to be, and I felt that my overall sense of creativity plummeted there when I was surrounded by so few people from differen
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by krenoten 10y ago
There's a great documentary about this by Adam Curtis called [HyperNormalisation]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fny99f8amM ), discussing how truth is seriously under fire right now.
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by krenoten 10y ago
in the past they've spread servers into different rooms that had interconnects that challenged a team I was on to spend extra time writing compression code. is this better now?
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by krenoten 10y ago
That's a great example of how even some of the most influential minds are fallible. Lamport is sort of the god of distributed systems, having invented vector clocks, paxos which is how there is any sanity in modern data centers (chubby
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by krenoten 10y ago
They had an incentive to doggedly seek IP so that they could remain as entrenched as possible. They didn't plan on actually profiting from it in most cases, they just wanted to be the first ones there so that nobody else could be.
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by krenoten 10y ago
It's totally unreasonable to mandate a particular FS for modern general purpose software. Multiple files does mean multiple threads. Unless you manage to run this without a modern operating system.
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by krenoten 10y ago
This feels like the kind of bug I catch early in implementation using quickcheck x_x Is property based testing used in the development of these kinds of systems?
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by krenoten 10y ago
It's dangerous and irresponsible to build services advertised as such to those you cannot provide the claimed protections to. When we build infrastructure with rotten foundations, people can die.
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by krenoten 10y ago
https://medium.com/@thegrugq/evidence-guccifer-2-0-is-russia...
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by krenoten 10y ago
I occasionally find the client from the arch linux aur repos pegging a CPU core as well. bad syseng :(
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by krenoten 10y ago
America today is not the America of WWII. We are not saving the world from Hitler today, we are blowing up weddings and causing Europe to be flooded by refugees running from the chaos left in the power vacuum we created. The reaction to thi
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by krenoten 10y ago
The preview contains old working exploits. They should release some post-snowden compilable source if they want a little more legitimacy. Python files the russian government picked off a compromised server a few years ago are not interestin
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by krenoten 10y ago
Military misadventure happens all the time. When I was growing up near a military base in Norfolk, Virginia, a family who was friends with ours had a blast of machine gun fire rip through their car while traveling with the mother, father,
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by krenoten 10y ago
Pitchfork is not a publication that is targeted at software engineers.
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by krenoten 10y ago
No, as long as it's 3.10+ (minimum supported version for DCOS generally) it should be good to go.
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by krenoten 11y ago
That's exactly the point. It triggers a reaction. Way better than "blahdb" IMO :)

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