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by rixed 8mo ago
FYI, speed of light in fiber is much less than 300Mm/s. a simple rule of thumb is that a signal using optical fiber for communication will travel at around 200,000 kilometers per second -- https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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I'm surprised by how many people think that SRE's job is to debug. SRE's job is to make the software reliable, for instance by adding telemetry, understanding and improving the failure modes, the behavior under load etc. So a
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by rixed 9mo ago
Thank you for that link. That's rare not to be disappointed by a podcast. The level of chit chat is tolerable in my opinion, and the offered insights seem legit. My guess is the commenters who didn't like it had other reasons than
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by rixed 9mo ago
Exact same here; not that I was expecting otherwise, but publishing on HN was a personal milestone. Seeing the flood of low ambition projects led me to think about the issue. I was wondering if we needed a kind of "proof of work"
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by rixed 9mo ago
Are you expecting people who can't detect self-dellusions to be able to detect sarcasm, or are you just being cruel?
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Show HN: CloudyWithAChanceOfLatency: testing the water for a net monitoring app(cloudywithachanceoflatency.net)
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I don't think we speak the same language. I was refering to the use case (in C) that's been described by sph. Where you indeed malloc only the relevant size, and you have to manually and carefully check the tag before casting the
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by rixed 9mo ago
Evidence seems to be lacking though. Do you have any specific source in mind?
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by rixed 9mo ago
Ok, yes I think it helped me to understand what you had in mind. I'm not interrested in the mind of violent sociopaths as much as I'm interrested in that of the decent people who have to accept to live under their rule, not only b
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by rixed 9mo ago
When I said this discussion about international law was not worth taking place on HN, I actually meant it, sorry.
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tagged unions (not enums, sorry) are not a dynamic type system concept. Actually, I would not be able to name a single dynamically typed language that has them. As for the memory allocation, I can't see why any object should have the s
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by rixed 9mo ago
Starting from scratch or did you try to start from some open-source tools? I'm sure there are dozens of note-taking apps on f-droid for instance.
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by rixed 9mo ago
A new visualisation tool for large networks. I've actually been working on this for a while and had planned to show a prototype tomorrow, just a bit late for this "Ask HN". Will update this thread with a link, hoping to get s
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by rixed 9mo ago
Could it be because democratically elected governments are becoming a thing of the past?
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Zweig yes, but I can't remember it well enough to connect it to this story. Could you elaborate a bit just to give me a clue?
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by rixed 9mo ago
"Be the change yo want to see", I guess. So, my pet peeve theory is that "the rule of law" is not something the ruling class needs to cover their track; it's something the ruled class needs to cover their shame. Sha
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by rixed 9mo ago
Just browsed the doc to get the answers to two burning questions, which I will dump here in case it saves some time to others: - uses LLVM (so: as portable as LLVM) - sadly, does not support tagged enums Apart from that it adds a f
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by rixed 9mo ago
What I find interresting and would like to see discussed more, is the psychology at play that makes us believe this is another "exception to the rule of international law". I wonder if one could generalize the terror management th
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by rixed 9mo ago
Does 10 undersea cables damaged in 3 years sounds a lot to you?
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by rixed 9mo ago
Sure enough, if you model life experience as a 2d plot, you are going to have to simplify things quite a bit. Yes, time "felt" longer for a child (especially when the child has to wait or wants something yet to come, less so when
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by rixed 9mo ago
Ah! And don't get me started about how specific its energy source must be! Pure electricity, no less! Where a human brain comes attached with an engine that can power it for days on a mere ham sandwich!
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Those users will either check the source code and compile it themself, with all the proper options to match their system; or rely on a software distribution to do it for them. People who are complaining would prefer a world of isolated apps
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by rixed 9mo ago
Make "show HN" your landing page get back the hacker spirit, maybe?
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Feynman was the epitome of "think outside the box" for physics, revisiting most topics with a personnal, "back to first principles" angle. Therefore his lecture notes are engaging and entertaining like no others, and a p
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A "well educated" international worker willing to relocate in Germany would probably learn the language.
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> I am reminded that the only real power comes from violence Rather from numbers in my opinion. "Divide and conquer", or its modern equivalent "confuse and manipulate", is what makes violence effective. It is always s
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by rixed 10mo ago
I once (>20 years ago) had luch with our sales representative in ... was it Malaysia or the Philippines? In his custom made blue suit, he told me in perfect Oxford English how his grand father had to kill several fighters from enemy vill
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by rixed 10mo ago
> You're struggling to see how glorifying language, culture and ignoring context triggers people? Yes, actually, I am. And not only that, I'm also wondering why you think the linked post is "glorifying" anything.
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by rixed 10mo ago
Oh come on! Every state has a long history of opressing others, I'm sure Russia did it too, but to be honest being from western Europe I have my own colonial history to come to terms with before looking at others'. What I know abo
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by rixed 10mo ago
Your comment is troubling. I am really struggling to understand how so many human brains routinely confuse such different things as a cultural artifact (like a language) with a violent act (a military invasion). This is disturbing to me bec

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