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by maxmcd 2y ago
Ah, I will add it to the post, an accidental omission. This was all on `Linux 6.8.0-35-generic`.
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by maxmcd 2y ago
Yes, apologies for the less than satisfying conclusion. I am planning a part 2 of this post where I hope to actually answer the question. In the meantime the discussion on lobste.rs includes some lower-level speculation: https://
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by maxmcd 2y ago
Thanks for noting it. It do indeed mix those two up all the time. Pushed a fix!
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Why is spawning a new process in Node so slow?(blog.val.town)
95 points by maxmcd 2y ago|56 comments
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by maxmcd 2y ago
Hmm, couldn't it be possible to encrypt the file contents in the browser and provide a download link with a secret key in it? I wonder if this kind of service could be implemented without needing to trust the host at all?
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by maxmcd 2y ago
Is there something similar for Javascript?
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Infinite SVG Graph(val.town)
1 points by maxmcd 2y ago|0 comments
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by maxmcd 2y ago
Huh. Does anyone know how it works without additional privileges? I ran syd as a normal user on my system and it blocked network calls. Does it fall back to ptrace? I don't think my user has the ability to create network namespaces. ed
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HTTP Streaming in Val Town(blog.val.town)
1 points by maxmcd 2y ago|0 comments
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ASCII NYC Traffic Cameras(val.town)
3 points by maxmcd 2y ago|0 comments
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Running Go on Val Town(maxmcd.com)
2 points by maxmcd 2y ago|0 comments
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by maxmcd 2y ago
The demo page is great. Really nice to see such rich and fun examples.
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by maxmcd 2y ago
Where in the world are you located? (I work at val.town)
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by maxmcd 2y ago
huh, I originally thought this would create unusually long URLs, but if it's just the sequence of moves it could stay pretty small. might more fun too, representing each state of play instead of just the board position. Also easily com
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by maxmcd 2y ago
yeah, I squashed a few bugs here but there is more weirdness. will check it out edit: ah! regular ol' relative/absolute position (been a bit since I wrote css), this should now be fixed!
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Static Chess(val.town)
501 points by maxmcd 2y ago|114 comments
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by maxmcd 2y ago
I weep for this period of time where we don't have sticky disks readily available for builds. Uploading the layer cache each time is such a coarse and time-consuming way to cache things. Maybe building from scratch all the time is a go
108.
by maxmcd 3y ago
Is there a story about what mobile access might look like? Would be good to have some kind of access on the go even if the macOS app is the daily driver.
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by maxmcd 3y ago
My slight modification on this is: data:text/html,<html><head><title>Notepad</title><style>html,body{margin:0;padding:0;}textarea{padding:10px;font-family:Courier;font-size:16px;height:100%;widt
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by maxmcd 3y ago
This is a bit unrelated, but I've been looking into AWS Lambda or fly.io style scheduling recently. This specific response from and AWS Lambda engineer has been floating around in my brain: https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by maxmcd 3y ago
Wow, I never realized this detail. What a wonderful thing.
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by maxmcd 3y ago
hopefully depot will reply, but from my perspective it is mostly laid out on their homepage. they are comparing against builds in other CI products that use network-backed disks, virtualized hardware, and don’t keep a layer cache around. De
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by maxmcd 3y ago
Yes, please do what Depot does and put fast persistent disks close to builds to cache docker layers. Github action runners and circleci and all the others adding expensive network calls to manually cache layers has always been such a time s
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by maxmcd 3y ago
Another response in the linked twitter thread seems to indicate this is directly affecting US shipping prices: https://x.com/typesfast/status/1743657342280098135?s=20
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by maxmcd 3y ago
See Google's gvisor as an attempt at reducing the attack-surface of a container to make things more secure. I think the general advice is that a single container can never be a robust security boundary because the OS surface area they
116.
by maxmcd 3y ago
What is zlibc? A libc implementation in zig? Googling did not turn up much.
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by maxmcd 3y ago
Maybe "picking alpine images because they are small without thinking deeply about it" is the mistake here? Debian images can end up using a lot of apt-get tricks to install dependencies cleanly. Way easier with alpine. I think the
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by maxmcd 3y ago
Isn't this what you want? You are reliably linking to the specific dynamic libraries you are compiling against. Or was the issue that you expected them to be portable? Or use commonly known dynamic library locations?
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by maxmcd 3y ago
I believe they do not generally support concurrent use and would be challenging/impossible to use with serverless environments like aws lambda
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by maxmcd 3y ago
Any os-level package manager. Also: "npm -g", "pip install", "cargo install", etc.. Lots of programming languages or build systems will look for dependencies in globally-known locations. Other than cargo, pytho

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