rossmohax

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by rossmohax 5y ago
In Apple defense, sloppy fsync behaviour is clearly documented: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Sy...
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by rossmohax 5y ago
Docs [1] suggests that even F_FULLFSYNC might not be enough. Quote: > Note that F_FULLFSYNC represents a best-effort guarantee that iOS writes data to the disk, but data can still be lost in the case of sudden power loss. [1] https:&#x
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by rossmohax 5y ago
Equinix market cap is 62B and 10000 employees Akamai market cap is 18B and 8300 employees
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by rossmohax 5y ago
> When human-scale firms like Linode get acquired by massive companies, they lose their way. Packet.net seems to be doing well under Equinix
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by rossmohax 5y ago
TIL it is possible to add arbitrary "headers" , like 'golang-hg' to commit objects in git.
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by rossmohax 5y ago
It is not much different than having birthday of your family members in the calendar. It is just a tool to remind you to make contact, what contact will be like is entirely up to you.
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by rossmohax 5y ago
I went on your page, and it looks like I am your target audience - relatively tech savvy, want to ungoogle myself, ready to pay for convenience of doing so, yet I got confused quickly. 1. What do you sell? Hardware or some kind of managemen
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by rossmohax 5y ago
Because what linked is just a promo for the book by Spencer Jakab "The Revolution That Wasn't"
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by rossmohax 5y ago
Too bad there is no IPV4 ETF, would be a good investment even now.
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by rossmohax 5y ago
You made me curious to look up how SIX survives then. Apparently they entirely depend on donations, many of which are not monetary, but essential infrastructure (racks, power, fiber connections etc)
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by rossmohax 5y ago
If AMZN posts bad earnings tomorrow markets are doomed.
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by rossmohax 5y ago
Negative growth rate is still growth :)
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by rossmohax 5y ago
Didn't they have actual error rate graphs on that page back in a day?
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by rossmohax 5y ago
looks like many syscalls will eventually be replaced by io_uring acting like a job queue. Not just network, but any interaction with the kernel.
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by rossmohax 5y ago
When content is not provided by HN itself, HN is not liable: https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230
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by rossmohax 5y ago
AFAIK Kodak strength was film, not cameras or lenses.
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by rossmohax 5y ago
I wonder why they introduced new diff mode, rather than making diff3 better.
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by rossmohax 5y ago
TIL there is a `--histogram` diff mode, producing more readable diffs.
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by rossmohax 5y ago
Reminds me of BBS.
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by rossmohax 5y ago
Maybe you can explain why there is still no in place upgrade for CloudSQL PostgreSQL?
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by rossmohax 5y ago
Migration tool capable of handling background migrations will be a miracle we all have been waiting for. Example of background migrations is nicely explained in the gitlab handbook https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development
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by rossmohax 5y ago
Also prompt departure of their VP of compliance after her concerns about discriminatory practices where dismissed/ignored in the open discussion thread.
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by rossmohax 5y ago
This explains why some negative Gitlab mentions are taken off from HN front page so quickly.
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by rossmohax 5y ago
For Mozilla as a company, as a business, is there a benefit of pouring resources into own web engine?
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by rossmohax 5y ago
From comments in Bugzilla learned about https://profiler.firefox.com/docs/#/ , looks super cool! C/C++ tooling improved a lot in last decade.
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by rossmohax 5y ago
Isn't test automation and demise of manual QA are just consequences of large increase in the test surface? Many more features, greater hardware variance, changes to underneth tech stacks, etc all lead to a combinatorial explosion of wh
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by rossmohax 5y ago
Who counts in CD-ROMs in 2022?
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by rossmohax 5y ago
Where is Mill CPU? Been almost 10 years since they started talking about architecture, but nothing tangible emerged yet.
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by rossmohax 5y ago
SQLite authors avoided it so long, why now?
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by rossmohax 5y ago
What is this magic? > Effectively, this allows us to look at the past 12-16 months (each country is slightly different) before vaccine administration began, this is called the pre-intervention period, and utilize that data to project whe

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