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by makmanalp 3y ago
I'm so glad someone else had the experience! Just being that combination of bored and curious that makes you open everything with notepad until you find something cool, clicking through windows registry entries and changing stuff to se
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by makmanalp 3y ago
> Actually, the closest natural viruses to covid were sent to Wuhan for study Please don't "actually" something with an uncited statement without backing it up with any sort of detail. A news article? Anything, honestly. &
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by makmanalp 3y ago
Just off the top of my head I can think of a few cases where we easily have 100-1000x that on a single table in shared node on kube, with an ebs volume (point being, bog standard, if a tad large, commodity hardware). If you properly index t
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by makmanalp 3y ago
> But... didn't Congress pass some corrupt legislation years ago that made it illegal for the government to set up a tax-filing Web site? What happened to this: https://www.propublica.org/article/congress-is-ab
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by makmanalp 3y ago
The likeliest answer is that it's too hard to tell - it's too small of a populace (1-2% or less likely) that's hard to reach in an unbiased way to sample properly for a poll (without it getting expensive, I guess). People are
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by makmanalp 4y ago
Admittedly I could be missing something but isn't this pretty sensationalist? Seems like an expected result of a big new venture that doesn't have time to faff about with scaling up slowly and is dumping money into large up front
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by makmanalp 4y ago
Story time: I went to a small and pretty nerdy tech school (WPI), and there was an IRC channel at the time. One day I noticed that there were messages coming from a user named, IIRC, "compooper". Later I learned while visiting one
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by makmanalp 4y ago
> Real estate prices going down does not affect the costs to the landlord (assuming it is an investment property), their mortgage expenses are fixed Silly question but the fact that their mortgage expenses are fixed works to their benefi
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by makmanalp 4y ago
> I think this idea can apply to "speaking with someone" as well. Again, I'm not saying that if there is a crises people shouldn't seek help. Just that speaking to someone, as far as I can tell, ought to have a purpos
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by makmanalp 4y ago
Don't know why this comment was downvoted - it's the truest take here I can spot. The fact is that the factors that make one versus the other more preferable (the state and quality of frontend / backend tooling and environmen
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by makmanalp 4y ago
Noticing that the above stream of consciousness might have come across as crotchety - that was not my intention! A better way to phrase this might have been "the benefits of memory safety and human conveniences of a modern language can
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by makmanalp 4y ago
> If you’re using a higher level language, you’re not going to have access to how the memory is laid out. A simple change, like removing indirection in our list, was an order of magnitude improvement in our latencies since there’s memory
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by makmanalp 4y ago
Funnily enough I have a pet peeve with Grafana's picker (which is overall quite nice) - I can't copy and paste the whole date range from one window to another in one go. I'm often punching in varies specific datetime ranges a
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by makmanalp 4y ago
MySQL approximates a hacky version of a similar idea with the bufferpool (newest additions don't go to the top of the LRU so they age out faster if not re-accessed) to avoid random full table scans from thrashing the cache: https:&#x2
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by makmanalp 4y ago
You are of course correct that those features are extremely useful and that the JDK authors foresaw these situations long before they were a big deal. But also you do note that it's not widely used which is also correct and that's
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by makmanalp 5y ago
Is this the one with the Devo soundtrack? chiptunes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib8IYfcOnWU original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf8OmnRIBvA
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by makmanalp 5y ago
> Of course this has nothing to do with what system design questions (most) interviewers care about. But this is the system design that matters on the job. Sigh. I just think it's so absurd that "system design" is now an i
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by makmanalp 5y ago
Yeah, that's caching, and it's great when one can do it :-) edit: kidding aside, this is approximately what a database view is, at least in some implementations (though probably not as common as the more simple implementation): a
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by makmanalp 5y ago
This is a great example of how as technology changes, it changes use cases, which can prompt a revisiting of what was once considered a good idea. You'll often see the pendulum of consensus swing in one direction, and then swing back t
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by makmanalp 5y ago
FWIW the scientific computing community (who often deal with petabytes of geodata) has been thinking of ideas like this for a while, e.g. techniques around file formats that are easy to lazily and partially parse, (ab)using FUSE to do parti
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by makmanalp 5y ago
> Problem is that academics are rarely experts at programming or have knowledge of computer architectures as much as someone in the industry. There are various tricks that are never taught at college, therefore academics have no idea som
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by makmanalp 5y ago
Most of this article tracks quite well with my experiences! It's nice to see stuff like this written down. > If the application’s code is in our control we can cache data in a memory store like Redis or Memcached to avoid querying t
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by makmanalp 7y ago
Also to spread out over time the amount of people needing medical help. Perhaps a city can't handle 10k new patients in a day but it could handle it over the course of 2 weeks.
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by makmanalp 7y ago
I'd ask the opposite question - at what scale would you want to have your own custom setup rather than RDS? Managing your own database infrastructure for workloads other than "a few queries a second" is hard work with a lot o
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by makmanalp 7y ago
(disclaimer - worked at Kayak a long time ago) A big part of what made Kayak good was that it was (is?) a solid data product - basically a gigantic farm of scrapers and crawlers glommed together with direct-from-provider (airline, hotel etc
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by makmanalp 7y ago
Fellow WPI grad, in 2012 I paid 275/person/month for an admittedly crappy apartment that I shared with 4 people, and later on 475/person/month for a room in a nicely renovated 3 story house right next to campus shared wi
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Show HN: Auto-generated data-driven analysis and visualizations of econ. growth(atlas.cid.harvard.edu)
3 points by makmanalp 7y ago|1 comments
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by makmanalp 7y ago
"Can I finish before you cut in?" directed at the interrupter seems to work for me - it's a reasonable request, it explicitly calls out what the other person is doing in a way they won't / can't reasonably get
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by makmanalp 7y ago
I like to say that Matlab was designed by applied mathematicians who don't want to care about software engineering, and python+numpy+scipy was designed by software engineers who don't want to care about applied mathematics :P I do
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by makmanalp 7y ago
I have two questions: 1) From the POV of the patient, how bad / invasive is getting a biopsy? Wouldn't you always want the low-risk biopsy over having discovered a problem too late? From a public health / insurance perspectiv

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