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by taywrobel 4y ago
Well, a Ph.D.-level explanation wouldn't be nearly as approachable or interesting to the 1.2M people that watched it.
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by taywrobel 4y ago
Man, this disappoints me. I was a tech lead on the packages project about 3 years ago, specifically on the redesign for OCI container support and making anonymous downloads of public packages as reliable as possible was a top priority. If t
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by taywrobel 4y ago
"Web2 Databases were meant to deal with datasets that change frequently. They have to provide ACID guarantees to ensure correctness." Having dumped several large blockchains into Scylla with indexing in Elastic, I can't imagi
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by taywrobel 4y ago
God forbid we actually talk to people to learn something… Google will give you an expansion of the acronym and a generic business definition, sure. But I think it’s nice to be able to contextually tailor the response to the presumed audienc
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by taywrobel 4y ago
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted, this is a primarily tech forum and a SPAC is a primarily business concept. It means a “special purpose acquistion company”. It’s effectively a company set up for the express purpose of facilitating an
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by taywrobel 4y ago
This skips over one other big way that I’ve always seen JWT implementations fall over - sign out/session invalidation. A JWT has all the information for verifying its own lifetime contained within it, which is cool in that you don’t ne
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by taywrobel 4y ago
While I definitely agree climate change is a clear and present danger, how do you know that your migraines are weather related? Sounds like a conflating of correlation and causation.
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by taywrobel 4y ago
I actually just moved to a house with an all-electric range. We use the wok too often for that, so grabbed a butane burner for ~$50 on Amazon. Can also find them at camping supply stores. The one we got is 15,000 BTU, which is frankly too m
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by taywrobel 4y ago
True, but worth noting that they usually also come with machine oil on them. It’s very important to correctly clean and season before first use, same as with cast iron.
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by taywrobel 4y ago
This does miss one huge drawback of cast iron for cooking some dishes - heat control. Cast iron retains heat like crazy and doesn’t change quickly. Get that thing up to a searing temperature and it’ll be 10-15 minutes before you can get an
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by taywrobel 4y ago
Tiny amount of UI feedback; I automatically wanted to click “cloud-synchronized” at the top to find out how it works technically, since the text is blue and I’d expect it to be a link. May be better to just italicize or bold that rather tha
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by taywrobel 4y ago
Saying “The running systems can be seamlessly migrated to StoneDB without any code changed” seems a bit disingenuous given the number of limitations this imposes over standard MySQL. If your code ever deletes data or uses an index this cert
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by taywrobel 5y ago
I worked at GitHub up until last October. I’m keenly aware of the challenges of maintaining it, and how much hard work the teams puts in. However I think it’s hard to ignore in light of recent issues that there has been a large amount of at
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by taywrobel 5y ago
Live in the DB and use data from the DB are two separate things. Packages has its own dedicated MySQL cluster for all package related info. Auth also lives in a separate database. But it still needs to access org or repo information in many
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by taywrobel 5y ago
That’s what happens when all your best DB engineers jump ship to go to PlanetScale I guess.
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by taywrobel 5y ago
Former tech lead on Packages here (no longer at GitHub). > New services like Packages and Codespaces rely on the `mysql1` primary db. A lot of this is due to that DB handling core data to GitHub (notably organization and repository data)
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by taywrobel 5y ago
You’re falling into the same trap as tech enthusiasts in web1. Sure, you could scan blockchains and extract NFT data yourself, and sure you could run your own node for every blockchain that interests you (paying god only know how much for s
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by taywrobel 5y ago
Probably would be better to try this as a layer on top of FoundationDB. It was kind of designed to be a distributed systems building block that you can develop interfaces on top of without worrying much about implementing the durability, co
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by taywrobel 5y ago
Yes - https://0ver.org/about.html “ZeroVer is satire, please do not use it”
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by taywrobel 5y ago
Former Apple employee here. They’ve been using it extensively in production for years. Pretty much all of CloudKit is run using FDB for storage. Public source for that info, so I don’t get accused of NDA violations - https://yout
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by taywrobel 5y ago
If that's the only thing that pisses you off about Confluent, I think you've got it pretty good.
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by taywrobel 5y ago
I never trust articles without a byline. Who wrote this? Who funds them? How can I know that they aren’t introducing bias to their assessment in their own self interests?
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by taywrobel 5y ago
In semantic versioning parlance those would all be considered "patch" releases, not a "minor" release. The minor version segment in a semantic version is the 2nd number, so most people would consider the next "minor
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by taywrobel 5y ago
That’s quite a big presumption IMO. Training sets need to be quite large in order to produce reasonable output. My understanding is that these companies provide the model themselves, which seems like it’d be trained on more than one company
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by taywrobel 5y ago
It’s already fairly commonplace for news agencies to generate articles using ML solutions such as https://ai-writer.com/ So by your logic ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC have all been plagiarizing and violating copyright for doing s
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by taywrobel 5y ago
I worked at Apple for 3 and a half years, leaving a few years ago. I think the thing to remember about Cook is that he’s a process and money guy, previously being the COO. I don’t think anyone at Apple would call him a “visionary” like they
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by taywrobel 5y ago
Depends on what you need to do, but asciinema is pretty much exactly that use case: https://asciinema.org/ Wouldn’t work in this case with the overlays and styling tho.
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by taywrobel 5y ago
I don’t see why unchecked and uncontrollable deflation of a “currency” wouldn’t be sustainable.
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by taywrobel 5y ago
Was trying to find actual info on frame rate and couldn’t locate any, but I did find this demo video that makes it look to be in the 5-10 FPS range - https://youtu.be/WT031cs-tjo So probably good enough for reading/cod
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by taywrobel 5y ago
Do you have any data around how many people in practice rank candidates between 2 and 4 (assuming a 1-5 scale)? Given how polarizing politics tends to be, especially in a two party system such as America, I’d wager that most people put all

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