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by sargun 3y ago
err, CockroachDB would like a word... Although, I'm not sure if its just data serving that's active-active, or query execution is distributed. Also, Cassandra is active-active as well. I'm sure there are others, but I'm
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by sargun 3y ago
Does Astrobotic have the cash to try again? This is their first mission, and most of their money has been contracts from NASA, and such.
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by sargun 3y ago
ePassports use public key cryptography to sign them. I don't know if the picture is in the ePassport data, but I believe that there's an approximation of a low resolution version. The ICAO even maintains its own sort-of-PKI system
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by sargun 3y ago
Having run Oracle RAC, MySQL circular replication, Postgres replication since 9.X, Amazon RDS, and others in production, I can say that Oracle RAC was the worst experience. We had to provide our own active / active storage backend, and
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by sargun 3y ago
Also memory usage. An interpreter per active request would chew through RAM. I forget which Python project it was, but it introduced forking per request, and man that saved a lot of memory.
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by sargun 3y ago
This was likely always the path forward for Isovalent. Thomas Graf was at Cisco prior to building Isovalent (where I believe he was working on eBPF stuff too). Their series A had Cisco in it: https://www.crunchbase.com/fundi
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by sargun 3y ago
You can already use certificates to login via SSH. Usually you setup your own certificate authority and sign your own certs because they need special attributes.
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by sargun 3y ago
This is based on the assumption that Azure has modern tech, hires well, DR, and better resiliency than LinkedIn's "cloud" for LinkedIn's needs. There's a bit of a problem around incentives here, where Azure is built
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by sargun 3y ago
I’m not following how this is a google problem, and not a feds problem. It sounds like the the used their power to render his account unusable, and as a secondary effect all data was lost. What company would preserve your data in light of f
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by sargun 3y ago
I hope that the Government Surveillance Transparency act gets some legs. See: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-daine... At least in turn, we could get a level of insight into how much these w
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by sargun 3y ago
Really, I think it’s about competition and monopolies. If enough vendors get behind the ISA, we could see a massive ecosystem flourish, and cheap RISCV chips that are widely available. A bonus would be if enough people are working on the ec
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by sargun 3y ago
I can’t wait until 60 GHz is available en masse, and I can deploy an AP in every room.
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by sargun 3y ago
I have a hard time saying that this is big tech's fault, or that tech should try to come to the rescue. Especially when San Francisco has been so overtly anti-tech. Examples: https://missionlocal.org/2017/06/q
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by sargun 3y ago
Can you point me to an RTO that was board driven? Or by some group of people whose wealth was so concentrated in commercial real estate that it would make a greater dent than their knowledge work investments taking a massive efficiency hit
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by sargun 3y ago
It’s funny, all the humanities types try to push the proliferation of languages, but the engineering types keep trying to reduce the language barrier.
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by sargun 3y ago
Why would we keep them secret forever?
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by sargun 3y ago
We've been doing it for thousands of years. Probably far before we've knew the negative side effects of it.
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by sargun 3y ago
They’ve been doing custom accelerators for Bing for a few years. See: project catapult (2012). It’s all on FPGA, but similar. In some ways, Microsoft was 10 years ahead, but they are terrible as an organization at proliferating research pro
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by sargun 3y ago
My guess is that Microsoft booked capacity years ago. Either by strategic decision, with the belief they could yield the capacity to someone else, or through their other hardware divisions (see: Xbox). It’s very likely they knew something l
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by sargun 3y ago
So, it wasn't actually synchonrizing all of the I/Os onto one thread , but I wasn't getting any parallelism due to the amount of time required to dispatch I/Os. Essentially, my program was highly concurrent, but I wasn&
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by sargun 3y ago
Right, I think async is bad. We have threads, and operating system level isolation with processes. For the most part, these primitives work fine. My code wasn't blocking, but it did a very small amount of computation, locked on what wa
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by sargun 3y ago
I was a huge opponent of Rust, but finally decided to give it a try in anger once again. I began writing a large application, and noticed that many of my libraries only offered async versions, and the promise was quite appealing -- not havi
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by sargun 3y ago
So, AFAICT, pricing hasn't been officially released on this, but the original source ( https://www.beagleboard.org/blog/2023-11-02-beaglev-fire-ann... ), states around $150. They had announced this board sometime ag
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by sargun 3y ago
Fair, CUE health built RT-NAT COVID tests, and I imagine that same tech can be copied to HIV testing (provided there is a cheap-ish way to detect HIV RNA).
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by sargun 3y ago
My data point is that every woman under about 30 wants to use condoms. Above 30, there is a lot less of a concern.
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by sargun 3y ago
One thing I'm confused about is why HIV at-home tests are not more available. There's Oraquick ( https://oraquick.com/ ), which in bulk is $15/test, whereas its about $40 retail. On the other hand, we've g
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by sargun 3y ago
Dumb question, is this not a readily available IP block that you can buy? Better yet, why haven't industry partners licensed royalty-free IP for this?
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by sargun 3y ago
So, I don't think that this optimization is new (fast path for commutative operations), but it's very difficult to get correct AFAICT, because in order to garner full optimizations, you must know about the invariants being preserv
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by sargun 3y ago
Seccomp BPF is great. There was some recent issues due to IO_uring and extensible syscalls, but I believe for now, those issues are avoidable. I believe the next generation looks something like landlock ( https://docs.kernel.org&#
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by sargun 3y ago
Dumb question: how do these work? Specifically, how does the network know where to transmit the page, and whether to stop retransmission (if the pager is offline when originally paged).

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