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by t8sr 3y ago
To me, much of this reads like the author wants to do something bad, the language doesn’t let him, and he views that as a pain point. For example, killing a thread at an arbitrary line is a terrible idea, and the fact that Go doesn’t have t
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by t8sr 3y ago
I’ve seen it replace Python and Java. In both cases, Go was a massive win from a readability and operational predictability POV. Of course I’m not talking about data science Python, which is hard to displace, but “microservices Python”, whi
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by t8sr 3y ago
The irony of a blog about software performance going down after being on HN for 2 hours is too much. (I know, it’s just Wordpress, I’m just being a grump.) The archive version seems to be missing the branchless versions of the algorithms -
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by t8sr 3y ago
> It seems ironic to me because rust is clearly designed much more pragmatically than golang. That’s a big “citation needed”. Why is it clear and what do _you_ mean when you say pragmatic?
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Interesting. I learned German in Switzerland and the only people who ever use sie are all over 50. Everyone you meet is addressed as du, except maybe in formal letters. I’m wondering if some weird looks I sometimes get in Germany might be b
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by t8sr 3y ago
Not everything is about the only thing that’s been on _your_ mind lately. Other stuff exists, and it doesn’t all have to fit a single narrative.
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by t8sr 3y ago
This is over 10 years out of date. Pinterest today has literally 40x the number of users this article is talking about, and I’d bet the architecture is very different. It might still hold lessons for scaling today, but things sure have chan
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by t8sr 3y ago
I don’t like it either, but apparently semi-structured data is the future. It’s proving easier to build systems that tolerate bad data and broken references than it is to get our data normalized and cleaned. I’m the guy on most teams pontif
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by t8sr 3y ago
As someone who works in security (both pre-fail and post-fail), 95% of incidents happen because things are not configured correctly. Actual vulnerabilities in Linux are expensive, and any attacker competent enough to have one, also will not
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by t8sr 3y ago
I posted another comment with some examples, but I think the general answer, IME, is that it's usually easier to do the wrong thing than to do the right thing. Security boundaries in Cloud-style Linux are typically hard to configure an
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by t8sr 3y ago
Yeah, lots. The reasons are many, and pretty diverse, otherwise I think it'd be easier to fix. Some examples: - You need to mount a filesystem, use a raw socket, etc. and Stack Overflow / ChatGPT tells you to enable a capability,
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by t8sr 3y ago
I don’t think it’s misleading - working in security, I can tell you that containers are misconfigured with too many privileges everywhere you look. SWEs like focusing on cool stuff, like kernel exploits, to the detriment of basic production
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In practice, though, containers are given these capabilities all the time, and in infosec people do refer to these as escapes. Generally, it’s not the stuff the container is intended to run that’s doing the escape, though. This is usually t
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by t8sr 3y ago
Well, we started talking about drug policy. If you would like to do a comparison between American and European right across a range of issues, then I will subscribe to your newsletter :) But at any rate, I think European healthcare systems
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by t8sr 3y ago
I mean, "poor" might mean different things to different people. Call it working class? I'd rather commute from the Bronx for $2.90 than from Croydon (in many ways the Bronx of London) for, like, $7. I'd much rather get h
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by t8sr 3y ago
Hm, maybe? Public transport, for example, I very nice, I agree, but in fact it’s less affordable in most places than, say in New York. I’d much rather be poor in NYC than in Paris, London or Prague. At least in NYC, you don’t get charged mo
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by t8sr 3y ago
Fair enough, my knowledge of the situation in Lisbon is mostly second hand from some friends there. When I visited them, there were definitely areas that were pretty dodgy in what seemed to me to be the downtown. Now, I’ve been to places th
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by t8sr 3y ago
The programme in Portugal requires people to check in with the authorities, seek treatment and move off the street corner. It by most accounts worked ok for a while, but downtown Lisbon started to look pretty bad recently, and I think they’
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by t8sr 3y ago
> “ compared to a lot of the rest of the world, almost every US politician is conservative.” As someone from the “rest of the world” I don’t know what people mean when they say that. I think this claim is based on a broad misunderstandin
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by t8sr 3y ago
I don't see anything about this post that's against the guidelines. The topic is eminently relevant. I agree with others who have said that this is getting flagged simply because people disagree, on an emotional level. Maybe that&
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by t8sr 3y ago
This article makes me sad, because: 1) It's completely true that the EU's economic outlook is dire . 2) Most Europeans (I am one) do not want to hear it, will not discuss it and will flag this article to avoid having to think abo
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by t8sr 3y ago
Well put. It's a shame that the domain a lot of European countries decided to bootstrap tech hubs around was crypto and not AI.
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The US is a huge market with rules and culture completely different from the rest of the world. If you're building a product for the US market, you just can't beat a local team, who understand the customs, regulations and don&#x27
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by t8sr 3y ago
Hah, indeed. Before Brexit, I used to take the Northern line in rush hour and it cured me of any desire to live in London, unless I can walk to work.
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by t8sr 3y ago
You're right about London, although I explored it not long ago, and having an EU/EFTA passport and a job in tech seemed to basically guarantee it. As for Switzerland, you don't need it. As the Swiss government itself says: &q
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There are many more feedback loops than meets the eye and not only corporations are rational economic actors. The in-demand talent tends to move to high CoL locations. Former low CoL locations become high CoL when successful. Especially whe
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by t8sr 3y ago
It’s funny now, but OKRs as originally conceived were the simple, “just set a simple goal and work on it” lightweight thing, standing in opposition to the old way of corporate planning. I used to have goals like “try X and write a paper abo
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by t8sr 3y ago
Well, it’s more that the problems in an area like ML or security were solvable if you generally knew how computers work and were smart and good at learning new things. Switching to a new domain took a few months, but ultimately there wasn’t
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The industry has changed in a few important ways that I think make this kind of culture difficult to maintain. First, in the boom prior to around 2015, most software problems were accessible to a smart generalist, but nowadays I don't
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by t8sr 3y ago
Google in 2015 had probably 30,000 employees, maybe more. And it was still completely open internally and had a real community feel to it. One time, I was stuck in Montreal for 7 days for personal reasons (a vacation plan that exploded). I

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