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by mmastrac 2y ago
They are ridiculously overpowered for a number of usecases, even the older and cheaper 3 models. I'm running progscrape.com on a 4 and it held up to HN traffic without sweating at all. I had a Pi1 running Stylus for home monitoring wit
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by mmastrac 2y ago
It's fair to say you're sick of it. I never even used the feature myself, but here's the thing: I never even saw it and wouldn't have known it existed if not for the backlash. I had to search through settings to find any
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I still think the backlash was ridiculous and that a lot of people have a lot to apologize for towards the maintainer of this project, George Nachman. I'm surprised that the maintainer actually moved this code out. I would have told pe
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by mmastrac 2y ago
725,696 records according to the dashboard. These are sharded over 10 years, one shard per month which helps with write performance. If you'd like to boot the server to see what indexing looks like, you can find the latest raw data bac
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Thanks! No idea what happened here but it's prob a css breakpoint glitch. I'll try to repro.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Odd. I actually use FF mobile myself and it appears fine, but maybe it's my resolution? I do see that the layout of the metadata row on the homepage is a bit funky and the image in the post is cut off. I definitely need to clean that u
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I had planned on running the site on a resource-constrained device like this Pi the entire time, and Rust is my currently-swapped-in language that I've been using for work for some time. I suspect that a GC language would be easier to
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Thanks for feedback. I'm always trying to figure out how to make it more useful and improve the UI/UX. Unfortunately not a designer so it takes a while to experiment. Always open to suggestions and constructive thoughts like the a
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by mmastrac 2y ago
CPU is about 10% according to grafana and that seems to have been the peak. Search load is approx 1,000 per hour but there are spikes of a few dozen per second here and there, mostly from bots (there's an amazonbot?). That CPU spike ap
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by mmastrac 2y ago
It's a CloudFlare tunnel which saves a lot of infrastructure on my end. There's definitely some caching wins from using CF but a significant amount of traffic still ends up hitting upstream. I think maybe 25% of requests are cache
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Author here: my first computer was actually TI-99, followed by a Coleco ADAM and a number of 8086/80286 systems that I used for a few years beyond their service dates because they were cast off from my dad's workplace. I put &quot
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I had to cheat and look at the examples page -- it's part of the Dr. Pepper logo.
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Cloud Performance on a "Toy" Computer: From Python to Rust(progscrape.com)
79 points by mmastrac 2y ago|33 comments
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Blistering fast Mandelbrot rendering in Rust (2021)(gcardone.net)
12 points by mmastrac 2y ago|5 comments
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Enter paradis – A new chapter in Rust's parallelism story(andreaslongva.com)
2 points by mmastrac 2y ago|0 comments
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Noise Protocol: Crypto protocols that are simple, fast, and secure(noiseprotocol.org)
3 points by mmastrac 2y ago|0 comments
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Use context-free grammars instead of parser combinators and PEG(safinaskar.writeas.com)
100 points by mmastrac 2y ago|82 comments
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Atomic polling intervals for highly concurrent workloads(byronwasti.com)
31 points by mmastrac 2y ago|5 comments
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by mmastrac 2y ago
More likely a radio nerd, John Alvin Pierce, that was just really good at radio and obsessed with oscillators ( https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/60675 ) that inspired a group of distinguished government-employed engi
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by mmastrac 2y ago
> By what, I wonder? At that length of symbol encoding, by hand. :)
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Funny enough, also in Calgary and also seems up to me.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I don't think there's anything new here: https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-running-openais-start... FTA: > "Sam didn't inform the board that he owned the OpenAI startup fund, even though he const
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MP944: The First Microprocessor (2014)(firstmicroprocessor.com)
38 points by mmastrac 2y ago|10 comments
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by mmastrac 2y ago
CuriousMarc has been repairing some of Steve Jurvetson's pieces on YouTube. Fascinating work. I hope that this collection finds its way to the public museums in the future where it can be maintained in perpetuity. The current curator s
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by mmastrac 2y ago
It looks like there was a bug with certain search queries that wedged a mutex because they failed to parse on my end. Deploying a fix now. Thanks!
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Major props to the authors of this library. I re-built https://progscrape.com [1] on top of it last year, replacing an ancient Python2 AppEngine codebase that I had neglected for a while. It's a great library and insanely f
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Interesting read. I don't think this came up in my stats classes: > Gosset solved many problems at the brewery with his new technique. The self-taught statistician published his t-test under the pseudonym “Student” because Guinness
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Seeing Like a Data Structure(belfercenter.org)
6 points by mmastrac 2y ago|0 comments
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by mmastrac 2y ago
The article takes about 66% of its content before it actually explains why "Majorana" -- from the theoretician Ettore Majorana: > So far the only known particles that are their own antiparticles are all bosons, particles that o
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Even with my electrical engineering degree, four years of hard math, signals courses and understanding all of this at an abstract level, it all seems magical to me when it works in practice. Thanks to all the tireless engineering of all the

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