nwmcsween

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by nwmcsween 2y ago
100%, technology evolves, sometimes to a dead end but it keeps moving and it's an interesting, frustrating and fun ride.
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by nwmcsween 2y ago
I expect this to rise dramatically in Canada, Canadian tech salaries are a race to the bottom due to companies exploiting students for PR where they can advertise barely livable wages for something in the states that would get $150-250k. If
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by nwmcsween 3y ago
Can this be renamed "setenv() is not webscale"?
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by nwmcsween 3y ago
This is the difference between Rust and C like languages, one optimizes for the usual case and has a simple implementation and the other goes to great lengths to be correct in corner cases at the cost of a lot of complexity.
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by nwmcsween 3y ago
And how do you propose banning it? Should libc track function calls? Maybe when the linker links setenv we just print out the man page for setenv.
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by nwmcsween 3y ago
I would go with managed bare-metal, it's a step up from unmanaged bare metal cost wise but saves you on headaches from memory, storage, network, etc issues.
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by nwmcsween 3y ago
eh, to a degree, having to deal with failed hardware and worse buggy hardware is just a pain and really time consuming.
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by nwmcsween 3y ago
Once AI can create itself, we will most likely be redundant.
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by nwmcsween 3y ago
If I'm reading this right socket-to-socket latency hasn't really improved much in a long time, why?
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by nwmcsween 3y ago
Apple 100% knows Windows and Linux does memory compression, this is just a way of deflecting the actual issue of tiny amounts of ram.
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by nwmcsween 3y ago
Hmm could this go one level higher? Could cosmopolitan be used to create a super portable bare metal unikernel applications?
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by nwmcsween 3y ago
Just wondering have you worked on any large DCs or large NAS or SAN systems? Drive failures are a daily occurrence in places with a lot of spinning metal, having things fail to boot by default would be a nightmare.
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by nwmcsween 3y ago
Yeah this is the probably the worst default for a fs that supports raid.
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by nwmcsween 3y ago
Ideally you decouple this and store the creds in a key vault or whatever, this way you have to explicitly grant access to the service principal to access the kv secret. Decoupling usually fixes other issues as well such as expiring creds fr
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by nwmcsween 3y ago
Haven't RTFA but would zeroing registers fix this (-mzero-caller-saved-regs=used)?
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by nwmcsween 3y ago
This seems kind of wasteful, would it be better to estimate entropy across random blocks in a file and then compress with $algo?
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by nwmcsween 3y ago
IIRC the average qsort len is less than 20 according to debian code search.
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by nwmcsween 3y ago
A less painful alternative to dancing around the issue is just to use the filesystem itself as a global database.
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by nwmcsween 3y ago
This is actually more responsive than the Windows 11 Desktop..
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by nwmcsween 3y ago
For this to be true IPC would have to have stagnated for 10 years which is not the case. Look at Agner's instruction tables for different uarchs and compare.
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by nwmcsween 4y ago
Know that you can't use crunchydata pgo in prod without a subscription as per their licensing terms for the docker containers
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by nwmcsween 4y ago
So how does this compare to PDQ, Crum, flux, etc? Do you have preliminary results?
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by nwmcsween 4y ago
So, the average wage of a nurse is ~$35/hr, the average price of a house in Canada is ~$680,000. As someone who has family working in hospitals the issue isn't a worker shortage, it's a CoL issue.
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by nwmcsween 4y ago
Kubernetes without a proper Gitops (not half Gitops half manual) will devolve into a mess, similar with cloud infra without IaC, this needs to be front and center.
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by nwmcsween 4y ago
Then you realize you need monitoring, then logs, then containers, then internal DNS, then service discovery, then H/A storage, then... I've gone down this road with virtual machines then docker swarm and to an extent early nomad.
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by nwmcsween 4y ago
~67% of tech graduates at large Canadian universities move to another country. As someone who has done technical hiring in Canada there is a absolute massive influx of immigrant tech workforce, nearly 10:1 on job applications.
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by nwmcsween 4y ago
So, the big issue everyone seems to be ignoring here is momentum and control, controlling a 20,000lb tractor is going to be hard and incredibly dangerous in bad conditions.
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by nwmcsween 4y ago
Is there a reason LibreSSL seems less bumpy than a multicorp sponsored OpenSSL? Is it just more development takes place in OpenSSL vs LibreSSL?
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by nwmcsween 4y ago
So as someone who has "interviewed" the lower class immigrants and TFW, it's truely a depressing situation, a particular one showed me they lived in a converted garage with units similar to a storage locker (6x6ft) while payi
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by nwmcsween 4y ago
Freq/Power will be linear to a point, it's possible the point differs on different processors but maybe not.

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