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by nvarsj 2y ago
Fascinating. It wasn't long ago I did a high performance computer architecture grad class. They covered Tomasulo but no mention of Conway's contributions. TIL.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
The guy was a legend - flew fighter jets, was a test pilot, and then an astronaut. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt - I'm sure he knew exactly what he was doing.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
> What I find most strange about the modern day piracy is quality. For a lot of pirates, it's a niche hobby to preserve the best quality version of some media / art. I see it as an underground librarian archivist movement. In 1
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Best thing that works for me is to try and fit a bicycle in my commute to the office. I also try to find fun things that require exercise/stamina. Like DDR. Exercise for exercise sake is something I just can't do. My brain won&#x2
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Yikes dude, stereotype much? Anime actually got me out of my "hikikomori" phase by encouraging me to study and get a gf. You can laugh but it's true :).
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Even within Google, this is not universal. I doubt the majority of SREs at Google have even read the "Google SRE book". On the other hand, the book has some nuggets that make it worth reading. But it should be treated as a collect
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Interesting. Does this apply to the people making 5-6 figures on paid interview prep sites?
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by nvarsj 2y ago
I’ve had coworkers suggest a technical solution that was straight up fabricated by an LLM and made no sense. More competent people realise this limitation of the models and can use them wisely. Unfortunately I expect to see the former sprea
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by nvarsj 2y ago
The vast majority of engineering design happens async - by typically a single engineer, puzzling/experimenting over possible solutions and then creating a design doc. Discussion then happens synchronously. Solving a complex design prob
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by nvarsj 2y ago
This made me laugh, given my horrendous bike journey today on roads filled with holes in London. I'm pretty sure most of the damage are from construction company lorries. I wonder why the gov doesn't just tax them for their usage&
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by nvarsj 2y ago
I’ve tried this before and the latency was awful. Must be like 200ms+. But I guess casual players won’t really notice.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Indeed. If you have f-you money then sure, why mess around with points programs. But for the rest of us plebs, they can be incredibly rewarding.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Pretty easy with iPhone+AirDrop. Just bring your iPhones together - it asks if you want to airdrop something, select file, done.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
It has a lot to do with scale. There are 5 million Teslas. There are 2 billion iPhones. If Tesla had 60%+ of the car market and engaged in anti competitive/trust-like behaviour, it would also be ripe for action.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Indeed - it's modern day corporate feudalism. Anyone arguing for Apple's side is akin to saying we should all be serfs for the King, because he takes care of us well and protects his kingdom.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
> Dragon ball was definitely the show that popularized Japanese animation in the west. Highly debateable. Saint Seiya was huge in other parts of the world, for example. Also, Sailor Moon and Pokemon - both were arguably larger than DB. F
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Research done by an estate agent? Come on The Guardian. At least put some effort into vetting your sources for bias.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
> It's a disability with very serious consequences for the lifespan of people affected. I think this is the case for those with severe ADHD. They can't really function at all in modern society, it's a severe impediment. V
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by nvarsj 3y ago
This is basically the pop science explanation of ADHD. There is actually no scientific explanation for it.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
You certainly can but everything about the UX seems to redirect you to their algos. I also find it really painful to navigate and organise albums on Spotify (maybe there is a way, but I gave up on it a long time ago). Plexamp / playing
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Getting off of Spotify has allowed me to switch back to album listening. Buy a record/cd player or for the more advanced rip CDs and use Plexamp (or purchase flac albums if available).
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by nvarsj 3y ago
It doesn't drop mid request. But it closes the TCP socket abruptly after any in flight requests are completed. Clients have no idea the connection is closed, and try to reuse it and get back a RST. In heavily dynamic environments where
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Nginx abruptly drops http/1.1 persistent connections on reloads. This has been an issue forever and Maxim refused to ever fix it, saying it was to spec (yes it was, but there are better ways to deal with it). It’s a reason why many lar
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by nvarsj 3y ago
It's certainly possible to get dates without paying. But the difference between paying and not paying is pretty huge on apps like Bumble and Hinge (for men at least). For me, it was a difference between a few matches a week and multipl
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Same for me, in my 40s, living in London. Started on the dating apps last October, and had so many dating opportunities I had to slow down. And now I've found an amazing woman. As a life long awkward geek, I wish it had been this easy
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by nvarsj 3y ago
The way these apps work, you pretty much have to pay as a guy. It's like a club where women get in free. The algorithms will derank you very fast unless you're a 10/10 male, and you will basically get no matches from then on.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
It's already starting to happen (see Japan). As population growth plummets, governments will have to get involved.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
SPTP does look a lot like NTP over PTP. I’m guessing they deployed this last year when nothing like it existed - the ietf draft (dated Jan 24, 2024) came much later after. They might even be involved with it. Anyways, it’s nice to see progr
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Not that unpopular. I use wordpress too. But the mobile editor is really awful, so I keep thinking of finding something else. I agree with OP in that I really, really dislike SSG (always fiddly, I waste too much time on maintenance/set
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by nvarsj 3y ago
It's kind of the modus operandi of Kubernetes since inception. The core model is okay, but ops was always a barely constructed afterthought. And the network stack (kube-proxy) was literally a summer of code project. I'm thinking a

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