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1. 121.▲
   by random3 6mo ago

   lol - the long tail of international standard dissent in US
2. 122.▲
   by random3 6mo ago

   Ring buffers never get old. Here’s a useful mention of some of the most extensive technical work by LMAX team over 15 years ago https://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html
3. 123.▲
   by random3 6mo ago

   Apple just launched a $600 amazing laptop and the top models have massive performance. What are we talking about here?
4. 124.▲
   by random3 7mo ago

   So AI won't surpass humans, because Chris Lattner can do better than a model than didn't exist two years ago?
5. 125.▲
   by random3 7mo ago

   Can you elaborate?
6. 126.▲
   by random3 7mo ago

   Check out Urs Schreiber if you want to get over it
7. 127.▲
   by random3 7mo ago

   I understand your position and I think it's the norm. Yet I find it difficult to comprehend how it's not self-evidently absurd. Do you feel like software transcends pyhsics, mathematics and logics? Because that's what the sta
8. 128.▲
   by random3 7mo ago

   as programmers we like to use all this jargon like "leaky abstraction", but never bothered to understsand it beyond the PL paradigms we use. There's no formal definition and simply makes them good terms to abuse, and throw in
9. 129.▲
   by random3 7mo ago

   IDK what Dijkstra believed in terms of how programmers should have looked like, bu the did seem to have a sense (and taste) of a direction of programming that was lost within practicing software engineering and their prefered PLs. My own in
10. 130.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    I think the "and" is for "stopped (both) A and B"
11. 131.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    I knew there must be some good news today
12. 132.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    They do have nice pictures
13. 133.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    I call these "romantic definitions" or "gesticulations". For private use (personal or even internal to teams) they can be great placeholders, assuming the goal is to refine vocabulary.
14. 134.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    These charters are as useful as new year resolutions.
15. 135.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    Hahaha! True. I was pointing out the beginnings of modern GPUs and NVidia, but yes heard the cassette screeching before the modem screeching indeed.
16. 136.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    Fun times. Coolers, paste, fans, supply watts, dip switches and jumpers. Quake, Voodoo 3dfx vs NVidia GForce. This is where it all started, kids. I was in high school and was running a "computer games club" (~ Internet cafe for ga
17. 137.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    Consumers are usually a whole different beast. Everything is different with consumers from sales and marketing to regulation, particularly in the financial sector. I don't see how it could be a natural move, especially not with a treas
18. 138.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    I think it depends what you're building. I find it fun, once in a while, an engineer to "not go shoeless" and get some of things I need done.
19. 139.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    Good luck! Fintechs targeting SMBs is a go-to-market strategy template that makes sense until you go to market and realize that if you have a better product, there's a better, bigger market and that market is the mid-market... The thi
20. 140.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    Interesting. Are you generating revenue or, otherwise, what productivity are you measuring? Without generating revenue (which to be clear is a very good proxy to measure impact) everyone can be indeed very prolific in their hobbies. But lab
21. 141.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    Hahaha. Always cool to find users of the tools/products you build, including the obscure ones, and on HN no less :))
22. 142.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    It looks like there's a a bit of reversal in some areas (e.g. ML) and it may make sense to have more geographically distributed (edge) compute so maybe we'll get more diversity in the currently cloud-dominated space. This said, it
23. 143.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    This was around when we were trying to get Flash to work on the first iPhone, so we had a hackathon for a week. Since I was a distributed systems "hacker", I ended up doing what was needed :) and there were lots of questions relat
24. 144.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    I built a flash crawler to index all Flash while at Adobe. It started with Alexa top 1M I think then crawled. This was 2008-2010 I think so we had to do a lot of custom stuff, but we basically crawled then ran a headless Firefox with a cust
25. 145.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    This has been a thought theme throughout my career and have a good set of scenarios I never ended up publishing. It's not just the most "elaborate system". The same thing happens in so many other ways. For example a good&#x2F
26. 146.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    maybe you're overthinking it a little. You could make it of a default setup like the one you use for the sandbox, or some curated fast-loading one
27. 147.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    This https://fortune.com/2026/02/27/openai-in-talks-with-pentagon...
28. 148.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    Its called “agreeing in principle” - useful for negotiations :)
29. 149.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    and everythign ended in "this is the way!"
30. 150.▲
    by random3 7mo ago

    Gotta love PR embracing the many definitions of "made in"