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by sly010 2y ago
> I'm sure somebody has written a book already about how ostensibly wealthy societies can fail at basic infrastructure that they previously mastered, driven by greed and complacency and other socioeconomic factors. How about Foundat
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by sly010 2y ago
Hah. At a previous place I found that our cloud cost consisted of 90% storage costs. The data? Tens of thousands of incomplete backups of the in-office file server. 3 years of the NAS continuously trying to back itself up to S3 and failing
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by sly010 3y ago
I feel you. Protobuf is the organizational equivalent of adding more lanes to congested roads or mandating more parking spaces. It leads to more cars.
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by sly010 3y ago
Sounds about right. Hiring pipeline is probably too long to guarantee anything, but most people don't work out, so recruiters want to keep good leads in the pipeline as long as possible, just in case something comes up. Never attribute
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by sly010 3y ago
Note that I meant "handling (forward) pressure (or preventing back-pressure) can be done by simply having your system be performant enough. Of course this is not a dynamic property you can adjust at runtime, just wanted to add for the
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by sly010 3y ago
Edit: I think the article also misses one of the most important ways to release pressure. And that is scaling throughput either horizontally (e.g. by adding more servers) or vertically (e.g. by optimization of software)
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by sly010 3y ago
I like the article, but I am not sure that I agree with the terminology: I would not call "buffering" a form of back pressure. Imho there is really only one type of back pressure: the one the author calls "control". The
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by sly010 3y ago
Not being able to do N+1 queries would be a feature in my book.
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by sly010 3y ago
Just take the product of the two independent states. If you had 5 + 5 states, now you have 25 superstates each representing a potentially unique situation. As long as the sub-states are enumerable, the superstates will be enumerable too. O
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by sly010 4y ago
> I surmise the reason we see it moreso on minivans is because 1) it is particularly difficult to work up enough energy to properly latch a sliding door, due to losses from the 90-degree change in direction at the end, and 2) violently s
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by sly010 4y ago
You mean the colon?
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by sly010 4y ago
Is it just me or this should have been called "enhance"?
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by sly010 4y ago
nitpicking but "changelist" sounds like what meta would call a diff-stack (aka multiple diffs). don't forget Incident = SEV = DEFCON = 911 ...
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by sly010 4y ago
Indeed. Reading SICP should be a requirement for starting a YAML company.
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by sly010 4y ago
This just looks like a frontend over kubernetes.
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by sly010 4y ago
Code.
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by sly010 4y ago
or python https://www.python.org/
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by sly010 4y ago
Assuming no technical obstacle, this would be a very cheap PR move. They should definitely wait until last minute though :)
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by sly010 4y ago
""premature optimization is the root of all evil" is the root of all evil."
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by sly010 4y ago
Software often has built in back pressure. Most IO syscalls block, TCP surely does, so everything built on TCP does. Belt is memory. The full belt equivalent of software is OOM. If memory allocation can't be done everything comes to a
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by sly010 4y ago
I don't believe the article says it's electron. Just that gimmicks are a trap an that _other_ terminals are even worse (because they use electron).
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by sly010 4y ago
One issue with them, (specifically the crossnut variety) is if you don't use the correct tool a crossnut might start spinning in the metal. If that ever happens when your final bolt is already in, it's like having a nut on the bli
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by sly010 4y ago
Is it just me, or is this a move towards pay per visit in the future?
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by sly010 4y ago
And similarly, very few algorithms are better than O(n), because something as simple as adding 2 numbers can be O(n) where n is the size of the number in bits :)
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by sly010 4y ago
Presumably because it would already have all the necessary code to find/enumerate existing resources.
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by sly010 4y ago
Re: handling unmanaged resources, you have 2 options: 1. Everything not declared is unmanaged. Deleting is done by a "deleted" attribute of some sort. The resource is declared as deleted. 2. Everything unmanaged is declared as unm
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by sly010 4y ago
As a vim user I don't use org-mode, but I take notes in way too many places: google keep, docs and random text-files. Then I always forget about where they are and trying to find them in the wrong place. So I spend a lot of time daydre
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Is VISA down everywhere in the US?
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by sly010 4y ago
> Certainly you wouldn't want to slam the brakes for a plastic bag floating in the wind. Maybe not )slam_ but if I am not confident what's the thing on the road ahead of me, I slow down. At night, when oncoming traffic can blin
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by sly010 4y ago
> And I much prefer code formatted to be 80 chars wide, with functions that fit within a page or two of text. Wouldn't you agree that largely depends on the code in question? Of course I also "prefer" shorter lines in gene

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