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by physicles 11mo ago
Linux grew its share by 14% in one month? Amazing.
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by physicles 11mo ago
Which frame do you use? I’ve been looking for this for a long time, but I wasn’t aware color e-ink was good enough for this yet.
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by physicles 11mo ago
Agreed, and Carmack as always was ahead of the curve here. In case anyone here hasn’t seen it, here’s his famous essay, Functional Programming in C++: http://sevangelatos.com/john-carmack-on/ He addresses your point: &
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by physicles 1y ago
I wrote some tooling to help debug sql queries with many CTEs. It parses the sql, finds all the CTEs, and prints the result of each CTE formatted as csv. If the .sql file changes on disk, it reruns the query and tells you which CTEs’ output
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by physicles 1y ago
Why do you need a warm standby for production? Do you need >= 3 nines? Our staging environment has its own instance that is rebuilt from prod, with pii removed, every day outside working hours (this normally takes about 15 minutes). It’s
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by physicles 1y ago
What do you propose instead?
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by physicles 1y ago
Interesting idea! But the PC it’s attached to is a mini PC, so I don’t have motherboard access.
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by physicles 1y ago
Windows as a platform lost the war many years ago when the web (and then mobile) took over, and is no longer a key part of Microsoft’s business since the CEO switch in 2014. Microsoft’s current strategy is to 1) keep a stranglehold on enter
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by physicles 1y ago
I have a similar experience with my GPU. Got a 3090 and found that nvidia’s linux driver enforces a minimum GPU fan speed of 30% regardless of temperature. That’s unacceptably loud if you’re in the same room. After hours of searching online
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by physicles 1y ago
Don’t rule them out. I was in the same boat, doing most text navigation on the keyboard and fully adapted to the quirky arrangement of home/end/pgup/pgdn of the Microsoft natural keyboard elite I’d been coding on for 23 years
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by physicles 1y ago
Could you give some specifics? For example, does this look like repeatedly trying things that make you a bit uncomfortable, and CBTing when you have those uncomfortable feelings? Is it helpful to do this with people you already feel safe ar
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by physicles 1y ago
This is one of the reasons why I’m getting familiar with self-hosting. Local models are improving shockingly fast. I use Gemma3 27B for generating summaries of podcast transcripts, for instance.
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by physicles 1y ago
Ironically, the hardest level for me was selecting which faces are AI-generated
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by physicles 1y ago
I bought a Voyager about a year ago. On day 1 I nearly had buyer’s remorse because I topped out at about 20wpm, even though all my keyboards have been ergo since 2001. After more practice, and after swapping out the key caps, I now think th
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by physicles 1y ago
Love seeing meaningful stdlib improvements. I just ran our full suite of a few thousand unit tests with GOEXPERIMENT=jsonv2 and they all passed. (well, one test failed because an error message was changed, but that's on us) I'm es
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by physicles 1y ago
Is that intended to be a good example? There's still tons of duplication between the environments. Kustomize eliminates the vast majority of the duplication (i.e. a unique fact about the cluster being expressed in more than one place),
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by physicles 1y ago
For toy projects, sure. For production, the probability that the LLM would sneak in some subtle typo is just too high.
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by physicles 1y ago
We have about 30 services running in 4 environments, including dev. I desperately want a better kustomize that removes most of the boilerplate and adds linting (like, every process should have a ram limit, but no cpu limit). I estimate abou
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by physicles 1y ago
I had this problem on the latest Pop OS LTS (I know, I know). Took about 4 hours to find the magic incantation that would let me install podman >= 4 without breaking anything else.
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by physicles 1y ago
Could you describe what made those tests effective? I just wrote some tools to write concise tests for some analytics queries, and some principles I stumbled on are: - input data should be pseudorandom, so the chance of a test being “accide
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by physicles 1y ago
Who did you buy your domain from?
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by physicles 1y ago
I’m trying to choose between Ente and Immich. What helped you make your choice?
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by physicles 1y ago
Love the visualization, and the scenario of sharing your real-time location with anyone is important. I don’t know if Uber has that built-in, but Didi (in China) does and I use it frequently. If anyone’s looking for a more plug-and-play opt
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by physicles 1y ago
That’s funny, I assumed it was called Kafka because the act of processing items in a queue over and over could be described as kafkaesque.
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by physicles 1y ago
Totally agree with this. I’ll add that replaying your data needs special tooling to 1) find the correct offsets on each topic, and 2) spin up whatever daemon will consume that data out-of-band from normal processing, and shut it down when c
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by physicles 1y ago
MQTT and Kafka solve different problems. At my current company, we use both. Kafka isn’t a queue. It’s overkill to use it as one. Kafka is a great place to persist data for minutes, hours or days before it’s processed. It fully decouples pr
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by physicles 1y ago
Reminded me of this gem from Brian Kernighan: "Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?"
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by physicles 1y ago
Are there good tools that can dump a database schema to files that are human- and AI-readable? We use migrations as the source of truth for the prod database schema, but they’re also a pain when you want to just see the latest version of a
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by physicles 1y ago
I’m finally waking up to how great views are for building abstractions within the database. They’re not as versatile as actual code, but still worth thinking about. Triggers, however… as the years have gone by, I like triggers less and less
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by physicles 1y ago
Data on the impact that such measures would have, should they decide to implement them in the future.

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