ngrilly

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   by ngrilly 6y ago

   There is not a lot of critics about the lack of ADTs because most people have never been exposed to them and don’t even know what they are and the concepts of product and sum types. Generics are much more common.
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   by ngrilly 6y ago

   Great to see this point in the design space explored! Looking forward where it goes.
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   by ngrilly 6y ago

   WireGuard is amazing, but I don't want one network interface per service. We have TCP/UDP ports for this.
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   by ngrilly 7y ago

   Looks like the new XPS 13 has a 16:10 ratio screen :)
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   by ngrilly 7y ago

   Maybe, but the Go authors never banned people expressing disagreement or people forking the compiler or the tools. Almost all programming languages have features being asked by the community and not available as soon as one would hope. Modu
6. 636.▲
   by ngrilly 7y ago

   I read the post and I don't see the same behaviour in the Go community (the core team banning people who express disagreement or fork the compiler).
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   by ngrilly 7y ago

   Agreed, except for routing which is not a part of React per se.
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   by ngrilly 7y ago

   WireGuard fully supports IPv6. So I guess Tailscale should be able to support it too.
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   by ngrilly 7y ago

   Great post! Can Tailscale be used to create a network between 10,000 IoT devices and a few servers? Is it scalable enough to support 10,000 peers on each node? Is it possible to script the registration of each IoT device to the control plan
10. 640.▲
    by ngrilly 7y ago

    > we find a replica that is as up to date as the user's saved LSN The article doesn't explain how they know the current LSN of each replica?
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    by ngrilly 7y ago

    Yes, I got this. But if your server is compromised, then the attacker can erase your backups, which ruins the point of doing backups in the first place. This is why there is an append-only mode.
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    by ngrilly 7y ago

    Yes, but which server will run the purge command? It cannot be the same server as the one you are backuping, since one of the goal of the backup is to protect the server if it is compromised.
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    by ngrilly 7y ago

    Reminds me of the military concept of "commander's intent". By knowing the broader purpose of a mission, subordinates are able to take initiatives if and when necessary.
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    by ngrilly 7y ago

    Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21529692
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    The interesting connection between the .Org deal and ICANN(domainnamewire.com)

    4 points by ngrilly 7y ago|0 comments
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    by ngrilly 7y ago

    Exactly.
17. 647.▲
    by ngrilly 7y ago

    It's a press release. These are conventions used in press releases: mentioning the location, using the third person, etc.
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    by ngrilly 7y ago

    I appreciate the design and marketing effort, but the split between golang.org and go.dev, and godoc.org and pkg.go.dev, is confusing. Newcomers may wonder what is the official website.
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    by ngrilly 7y ago

    In response to this article, I was expecting insightful comments on the neural network itself and how to improve it, but instead I'm mostly reading funny attempts to play with the scoring :)
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    by ngrilly 7y ago

    Thanks for sharing your experience here! > Without that feature, these tools would need to construct a dependency graph and create tables in a specific order (and/or defer FK creation until after the tables) This problem alone justi
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    by ngrilly 7y ago

    PostgreSQL is not a toy database either, and yet you can do: ALTER TABLE <tablename> DISABLE TRIGGER ALL Or: SET session_replication_role = 'replica'
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    by ngrilly 7y ago

    > For example, while Facebook's largest db tier goes through a dao / writethru cache, there's plenty of other use-cases that are direct MySQL usage. I didn't know about that. That's interesting! > And in any c
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    by ngrilly 7y ago

    Agreed. I think MySQL is still dragging the bad reputation it got in the early 2000s, which is unfair considering how much it improved. And I write that I someone that used to hate MySQL for all its shortcuts. I have one app in production b
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    by ngrilly 7y ago

    Qualifying MySQL as a "toy" database in 2019 is obviously wrong. But I think most companies you mentioned don't use MySQL in the usual way, as they would use a "standard" enterprise database like Oracle, SQL Server
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    by ngrilly 7y ago

    Thanks for the link. It's a very deep and interesting technical post.
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    by ngrilly 7y ago

    Sure, punched cards and teleprinters were great for interactive development in the 1960s. You probably live in an alternate timeline ;)
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    by ngrilly 7y ago

    > And yet it still feels like a language out of the 60s or 70s. I started programming in the 80s, and Go feels modern even compared to the mainstream languages of this era (mainly BASIC, Pascal and C). It also feels modern compared to th
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    by ngrilly 7y ago

    True for functions written in Erlang/Elixir, but not in NIF functions implemented in C.
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    by ngrilly 7y ago

    But SQLite provides an API to set memory usage limits [1] and doesn't use background operation as far as I know. I'm not sure about RocksDB (I think the "levels" compaction runs in the background by you can control it).
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    by ngrilly 7y ago

    Thanks for the link. I missed that. It looks like they use BlueStore :)