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by lanstin 3y ago
The general principal of alternating soft and hard layers is still a useful design tool. Even starting from silicon with the microcode emulation of the x86 instruction sets, kernel, syscall interface, building an app and exposing configurat
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by lanstin 3y ago
In the 1990s the services in AOL were all written in C, using a very very good event based callback library, which had Tcl embedded in it. We had a very rigorous standard of nothing in the server was hard wired, any change that ops might wa
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by lanstin 3y ago
with robust and potentially high volume code, the most important feature is good behavior in failure domains. disk full, do you abort or continue once the cron job frees some space; cant alloc memory, do you abort or return a static 503 pag
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by lanstin 3y ago
and how many errors are they getting?
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by lanstin 3y ago
i wish people understood this thinking about and handling all errors, as a prime functiom of the code, is why things like Linux and C Python and X server and git and so on are so reliable.
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by lanstin 3y ago
go lang done a few services and CLIs and never had updating deps break anything unless you count newer linters complain about new things.
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by lanstin 3y ago
The article mentions that a thing could change the core magnetic stuff, which deflects cosmic rays, and triggers other changes that in two weeks percolate up to an earthquake. This is a statistical finding, needs a theory to explain. I mean
968.
by lanstin 3y ago
That seems confusing. If I say my new service is orders of magnitude more efficient than previous services, I don’t mean any thing about scaling but current performance, and I wouldn’t say orders of magnitude if it was just twice as many ca
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by lanstin 3y ago
No other metrics really compare to chance my children will die early.And I lived a couple of decades past, and I am happy to still be alive, and looking forward with interest to the next few decades. If you don’t enjoy your time here, consi
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by lanstin 3y ago
“The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.” First sentence. Does he object to the diminution of child hood death or violent death, or in his mind does being alienated from nature (fixable in pri
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by lanstin 3y ago
Big five personality types, fight or flight brain circuits, pause and plan brain circuits, fundamentals drive of brain to predict what happens next (externally and internally), lack of universal emotional responses. The existence of things
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by lanstin 3y ago
People have started testing network failures but so often fail to test slow network failures. All of a sudden your code has 500x more pending open sockets, both in and out, and the memory spikes and it all goes to hell. Even if the fast f
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by lanstin 3y ago
If it is a project I strongly believe in and mostly said we should do, and it is more fun than frustrating, I will get into big focus and work or think about it continually until it is finished, then I slump and relax for a while, going ar
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by lanstin 3y ago
at least at the places i have worked, once the founders leave the policies churn a lot.
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by lanstin 3y ago
God’s truth. I do find debugging/getting to compile with green tests mostly written code combines well with meetings. I can go to next error or failure and keep an ear out for interesting stuff but don’t have some big mental plan that
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by lanstin 3y ago
If there is any random variability in promotion guidelines or policies or even process, then the probability of advancing from level N to level N+1 approaches one over time. For many typical corporations, the policies change often enough th
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by lanstin 3y ago
What was that old definition of ideology, an unreal relation to real facts?
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by lanstin 3y ago
The geologists that died disbelieving in plate tectonics weren’t free of intelligence. The very systems that allow us to find patterns are also liable to get stuck with seeing certain patterns. Not only is it impossible with current human k
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by lanstin 3y ago
Fascinating how good writing and surface intelligence can make absolutely insane ideas seem sensible. Deductive reasoning is, unfortunately, not absolutely reliable for people who have pattern loving brains and good enough memory to make lo
980.
by lanstin 3y ago
If your ideas of how to live include less childhood mortality, and long and healthy lives, then I doubt there is a better time than the last hundred years (except probably the next hundred years). Everyone alive has only been in a modern ti
981.
by lanstin 3y ago
I love helping people, but don’t fucking tap me on the shoulder if I am concentrating on something. Don’t touch anyone at work. If even you stand around looking needy, and I can tell I will suffer a full loss of concentration, at least let
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by lanstin 3y ago
Sample size is just one factor. For example, if you are interested in heights and you measure six people and they are all over 10 feet tall, you can go ahead and conclude they are from a group with different height distribution than the res
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by lanstin 3y ago
Clear thinking at the semantic layer is a gift that the humanities offers, in distinction from the gift of mathematical rigor that the physical sciences offer. The challenge for psychology is to combine them - extremely precise conceptual f
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by lanstin 3y ago
I don’t know if it helps, but I used reverse Polish notation calculators before doing much lisp. To this day for little calculations I will either type an Elisp expression into my eMacs scratch buffer or if i am out and about will use my HP
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by lanstin 3y ago
I use it to provide persistence to an in memory counter server. It is written to in batches of 4096 (total 25k/second). For restarting he server, the server gets a signal, stops listening, flushes the remaining writes to SQLite, and ex
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by lanstin 3y ago
They are free to buy a living room and criticize away. My living room, I am allowed to determine whom to allow and whom not to allow in. And I would like to find online spaces where the loser spam (both commercial and ideological) are kept
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by lanstin 3y ago
On hacker news I mostly never look at the usernames. It is all just hive mind. Unless someone is claiming to have won a famous math contest or something. Or if I am really mad at a post, I might look for additional context in their posting
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by lanstin 3y ago
There was an AOL newsgroup reader, curtesy of Jeff Warrington. The AOL posters were mostly still treated like children, but not unfairly.
989.
by lanstin 3y ago
What you are calling free speech is boring to the audience. Usenet died because the endless unfiltered spam and shit posting was boring compared to slashdot and then reddit and then here.
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by lanstin 3y ago
The old every CPU is sacred idea lives on.

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