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by schmichael 1y ago
Hey Mitchell! Leave it to me to bait the comments. :) Thanks for validating my assumption that once you introduce a big blob o' C all bets are off and you're back to Valgrind (or similar tooling). > One argument is that the ric
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by schmichael 1y ago
Indeed, but I'm curious about the second class of memory correctness issue he mentions: > 2. All other memory issues revolved around C API boundaries. Is this something Rust, or any other language, has the ability to prevent any mor
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by schmichael 1y ago
I'm curious if Rust would have prevented the memory correctness errors assuming it replaced Zig in this scenario. It sounds like the vast majority were due to Zig/C interactions which makes me believe Rust would have had the same
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by schmichael 1y ago
Oregon at least makes it 50% IIRC. Anything less than 100% seems useless though. Usually when taking a new job in the same industry you expect a pay bump, so even a 100% rate is likely leaving money on the table.
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by schmichael 1y ago
Pushing a malicious app update creates an inspectable artifact. Researchers can discover exactly when it happened and therefore who is vulnerable and which messages. This is a much much much better situation than handing someone your keys a
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by schmichael 1y ago
> Writing forces you I agree entirely with you except for the word "forces." Writing can cause synthesis. It should. It should be graded to encourage that... ...but all of that is a whole lot of work for everyone involved: st
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by schmichael 1y ago
> I really don’t think there’s a coherent pro-genAI case to be made in the education context. I think it’s simple: the reign of the essay is over. Educators must find a new way to judge a student’s understanding. Presentations, artwork,
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by schmichael 1y ago
My unprofessional nutritional advice is: do what works for you! So if that’s calorie counting: great! No need to give it a second thought. But if you are interested in critiques, a fair summary might be: calorie counting is at best extremel
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by schmichael 1y ago
Same! Mark Rober is what changed my mind about YouTube for kids. He's a wildly popular creator that's even shilling a product and yet... I'm ok with all of it? He seems to very legitimately care about sharing getting kids exc
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by schmichael 1y ago
[Citation needed]
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by schmichael 1y ago
The concert/bar example allows stalking without knowing someone’s name.
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by schmichael 1y ago
That’s perfect for finding out where someone lives. Drop it in their bag or jacket at a concert/bar/work/whatever-in-the-evening, and the place they’re likely at in 4 hours is their home. Not trying to be creepy, I’m just try
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by schmichael 1y ago
A great point! All of the libraries I mentioned are created and maintained by corporations. Hobbyists, as always, are free to do as they please without judgement from me. :) I will say I get great satisfaction from the little envparse libra
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by schmichael 1y ago
We need a term like “Mature” or similar for dependencies that are done. Mature dependencies have two characteristics: 1. Well defined scope 2. Infrequent changes Nomad has many of these (msgpack, envparse, cli, etc). These dependencies go y
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by schmichael 1y ago
> You're not supposed to trust the tool This is just an incredible statement. I can't think of another development tool we'd say this about. I'm not saying you're wrong, or that it's wrong to have tools we c
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by schmichael 2y ago
I need glasses to see and still find sight invigorating. I love cycling. Even without electric assist I find using mechanical advantage invigorating. No one is forcing an exoskeleton or ebike on you. Why can’t you be happy for the people wh
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by schmichael 2y ago
I don't think you have to be paraplegic to have a condition that prevents you from enjoying an invigorating hike. If this gets more people who aren't in perfect health out and exercising, what an incredible win.
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by schmichael 2y ago
Lots of HN are not US Citizens who frequently visit the US for work, school, and/or vacation.
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by schmichael 2y ago
Thanks for supporting us!
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by schmichael 2y ago
Thanks! I think this is a really insightful comment because Nomad is more opinionated than I think we let on. The subtle interactions between signals, service discovery, health checks, templates, etc. all have a big impact on the reliabilit
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by schmichael 2y ago
> I am sad to see you go. I'm not going anywhere! My grammar isn't always the best, so I apologize for the confusion.
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by schmichael 2y ago
<3
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by schmichael 2y ago
> Nomad allowed us to build out a large fleet of servers with a small team I really love these stories. Our customers constantly shock me with how large of clusters they're able to manage with just a few people. >10k nodes by &l
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by schmichael 2y ago
Thanks! We have kept an explicit community rotation and issue triage policy for Nomad's entire life. Definitely one of my hard lines. I know we aren't perfect. In fact it's my turn this week, and I've utterly failed at k
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by schmichael 2y ago
Glad to hear Nomad is working well for you! It always means a lot. We as the dev team spend all day staring at bugs and missing features, so it's nice to be reminded of what's working well! No one files an issue for a happy cluste
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by schmichael 2y ago
I joined HashiCorp in 2016 to work on Nomad and have been on the product ever since. Definitely a lot of feelings today. When I joined HashiCorp was maybe 50 people. Armon Dadgar personally onboarded us one at a time, and showed me how to u
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by schmichael 2y ago
Don’t worry: we’re indirectly thinking about Rome by thinking about their perception of ancient Sparta. Rome is the Kevin Bacon of western historical thought: we’re never more than 6 hops away.
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by schmichael 2y ago
This is absolutely true! I haven’t stared at a JVM GC graph is over 8 years.
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by schmichael 2y ago
Go optimizing for latency over throughput means the GC very rarely interferes with my applications SLO at the cost (literally $) of presumably requiring more total compute than a GC that allows more fine tuned tradeoffs between latency and
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by schmichael 2y ago
I think the difference is that what VSCode is doing is not an SSH Session like you get in a terminal with the ssh command or putty. VSCode is installing a remote agent on the target machine that happens to use ssh as its transport protocol,

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