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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
We can’t have LLMs giving footguns to our children. ;)
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
Another thing just to mention here is `strip`, which IIRC `cargo build --release` doesn't do by default. I think `stripping` binaries can reduce binary size by up to 80-85% in some cases (but certainly not all; just tried it locally on
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
It was later edited, after it had basically made the rounds.
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
Another point of clarification that is of great importance to the results, and is a common Rust newcomer error: The benchmarks for the Rust implementation (in the original post that got all the traction) were run with a /debug/ bu
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
This is really cool. I used to do a lot of overtone ("harmonic") throat singing and playing with this tool reminded me of those days. For anyone curious, vowels are mostly just how we perceive different harmonic distributions. Put
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
This is a great reference. I hadn’t seen this before. Thanks. No idea about the effectiveness now vs then.
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
Another possible tactic is to trickle your packets back slowly, say trickle 1 TCP packet back to them per second. Sure, they probably have client-side timeouts, but again, if everyone did this, wouldn't it be a pain to scan for vulns?
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
This reminds me of the chat bot tool that was deployed to reply to scam emails and waste maximal time of the scammers by seeming like a vulnerable, gullible target. The chat bot would drag out the interaction slowly, wasting as much time as
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
I think just using it locally in manual or ad-hoc senses is fine, but IIRC it can become tricky or at least a legal grey area if you commit code that automates using GPL developer tooling and/or pulls it into your development toolchain
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
This is some next-level human behavior prediction.
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
Egress is defined as outbound traffic to the public internet. Unless your database is publicly accessible (which it really should not be), its egress should be zero. What your /application/ returns to the public internet, is a dif
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
Do you expect a database to do much egress?
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
How did you arrive at $4000? I used https://calculator.aws/#/estimate and my number is over an order of magnitude less than $8000 for 2 instances with SSDs, 4GB RAM, and 2 cores.
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
Oh man, I was just making an argument for performance goals based off exactly this concept, but I hadn't thought of the framing of "soft orders of magnitude" -- that's a great analogy. Thinking a bit more, I think "
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
I think it's a joke about how all finite sequences will repeat during infinite time. But it doesn't really add anything to the discussion.
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
The crux of the argument is: > I think “the wrong abstraction” is a confused way of referring to poorly-de-duplicated code. But I believe this is similar to a no true Scotsman fallacy. “If you just make the right abstraction, de-duplicat
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
Yes -- I think transparency on the limitations would be a useful step in mitigation. But I ultimately think that it will become a black box for most of those who use it, with a good deal of blind faith in the results. Sounds pessimistic, bu
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
I want to preface this comment so that I don't detract from the idea. This is a really cool product, and obviously has value. There's just one thing I worry about. It's losing expertise in your data model and gaining organiza
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
Did you try disabling the ad blockers to verify that claim? Not trying to be disrespectful, but I think you may have jumped to a conclusion too quickly here -- I suspect a misconfiguration or some other issue (dirty cache, corruption, etc.)
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
Also known as the “jobs to be done” pattern.
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
I assume he just meant running binaries compiled for the same ISA / processor architecture.
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
I also did that the first time when reading the abstract. Very relatable. "It's on the front page of HN, so it must be a remarkable result," my subconscious seemed to assume on my behalf. ;) Fool me once...
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
100 degrees kelvin is about 338 degrees Fahrenheit below room temperature.
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
Oh wow, this looks really promising. I've been playing with a homegrown centralized VCS client and server project, aimed at basically being the VCS host for monorepos, and this looks like a much better foundation for the VCS layer.
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
Any advice for an US citizen expat who wants to found while living abroad? (Tokyo, Japan) e.g. About whether to incorporate locally or in the U.S., and that sort of thing -- anything unique to an expat situation. (This may be out of your wh
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
Totally agree with this nuance. Really depends on what layer you’re working at.
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
Yes, experience in both. I'm considerably more inclined to use Rust for any use case, but I'll freely admit that I'm biased because it appeals to my sensibilities more. IMO the most compelling use case to use Go over Rust is
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
Apologies for being the grumpy guy this morning. I don’t think “we added an in memory cache to reduce roundtrips to the DB” is “solving an interesting performance problem.”
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
Part of mastery is selecting a good tool, or building one if it doesn’t exist.
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by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
Just want to mention this because this parable gets thrown around a lot. The delta between what git is now and what it was when first released is massive. Junio Hamano has been a absolute force of a maintainer and steward over the interim 1

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