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by nvartolomei 16d ago
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98...
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The experience of mathematical beauty and its neural correlates (2014)(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by nvartolomei 4mo ago
How? Have you tried contributing a reasonable implementation with test coverage and it was rejected?
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by nvartolomei 6mo ago
> changes are aggregated and committed back to S3 roughly every 60 seconds as a single PUT Single PUT per file I assume?
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by nvartolomei 7mo ago
Upgraded to one of the latest iPhone recently. First time I clicked on “transfer data from old phone”. I’m used to reinstalling the operating system every couple of months from when I used Windows. It took maybe 15 minutes with close to 0 i
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by nvartolomei 9mo ago
Wrap gdb in a shell script and you’ve got yourself an actual profiler: https://poormansprofiler.org/
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by nvartolomei 10mo ago
I love P and have used it for personal projects (like OSWALD^1) and at work (for some Redpanda components). I find it very approachable. If you know some basic theory of distributed systems and have been exposed to actors and state machines
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by nvartolomei 10mo ago
According to public information, AWS uses both and not only. AWS wrote a paper on the topic with some details about their applications of formal methods^1. AWS is a large org though, it would be hard to generalise or reduce their approach t
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by nvartolomei 11mo ago
Love that it makes you spell the mangled symbols. Forces the brain to do some proper work.
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by nvartolomei 11mo ago
Please share more about Ray Data use case.
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by nvartolomei 11mo ago
I do often ask Claude Code or Gemini CLI to write commits. I agree with you on why being important. Majority of these being bug fixes accompanied tests where the why is easily inferred from the change/newly added tests and their commen
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Performance Profile Visualization Challenge(matklad.github.io)
6 points by nvartolomei 1y ago|0 comments
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by nvartolomei 2y ago
*Engines That Move Markets: Technology Investing from Railroads to the Internet and Beyond* by Alasdair G. M. Nairn I’ve had a few aha moments while reading this book. Although it's primarily written from an investor's perspective
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by nvartolomei 2y ago
How does something like this scale for more than 10 people? 100? 1000?
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by nvartolomei 2y ago
While I was writing a tool for myself to summarise daily the top N posts from HN, Google Trends, and RSS feed subscriptions I had the same problem. The quick solution was to use beautiful soup and readability-lxml to try and get the main ar
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by nvartolomei 2y ago
Power Nap is another feature rather than a bug https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh40773/mac
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by nvartolomei 2y ago
Example: https://delta.io/blog/2022-05-18-multi-cluster-writes-to-del...
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by nvartolomei 2y ago
You’ll love to learn more about Chernoff faces! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face
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by nvartolomei 3y ago
The page says they hold the trademark to “Amazon Athena”. Does this come into conflict with a project named “AthenaDB”?
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by nvartolomei 3y ago
This sentence is explained on their homepage: > it takes 2 RTTs to complete a consensus request from the view of a client. One RTT takes place between the client and the leader server, and the leader server takes another RTT to broadcast
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by nvartolomei 3y ago
> Existing distributed KV stores mostly adopt the Raft consensus protocol, which takes two RTTs to complete a request. Why 2? Isn’t a single AppendEntries request from the leader enough?
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by nvartolomei 3y ago
Adam
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by nvartolomei 3y ago
dlemire, you note that the read ”overflows”. Why can’t you copy just `len` bytes? Does it slow too much because of the branch/more load/store operations?
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by nvartolomei 3y ago
Except Oppenheimer movie, who got it right. Seek to 4m46s https://youtu.be/kqYenzBwlkU?si=y87R0XvuWL8_7t6Q&t=286 If my memory is right, the actual scene, and delay, is longer than it is in this clip.
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by nvartolomei 3y ago
Commit Mono font does something similar and calls it “Smart kerning”. Visit https://commitmono.com/ and click on the “04 Intelligent” tab for details. In practice this is unusable. Because the width of the letters now depen
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by nvartolomei 3y ago
Thread-per-core software architectures are doing this https://penberg.org/papers/tpc-ancs19.pdf Real world examples are scylladb and Redpanda, both built on the seastar framework (C++ https://seastar.io&#x2F
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We built Restate. Resilient applications using distributed durable async/await(restate.dev)
6 points by nvartolomei 3y ago|0 comments
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by nvartolomei 3y ago
What’s inside: - Importers: create LifeLog entries from several data sources (already available: Apple Health, Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Spotify, Venmo, Libby, Google Photos, Google Location, Facebook posts) - Data Visualization: a ReactJS-bas
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by nvartolomei 3y ago
“The vision of creating a timeline of your life experiences has been around for decades. We're releasing TimelineBuilder to spur more work towards the vision. It includes a few importers (photos, maps, shopping), episode inference and
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A public release of TimelineBuilder for building personal digital data timelines(github.com)
1 points by nvartolomei 3y ago|3 comments

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