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by the_duke 4y ago
I watched the talk now. The last benchmark column touches 1gb of memory,while the second just allocates without modifying the memory, so I guess all that overhead is page table CoW mapping. During QnA they also talk about exposing as many c
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by the_duke 4y ago
What kind of workloads spawn so many processes that saving microseconds becomes relevant? I guess shells (eg with xargs) would be one example. Edit: the talk mentions build systems as a motivating use case.
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by the_duke 4y ago
The big takeaway here for me is that Akka has changed license to BSL. It's almost crazy to me that such a fundamental and widely used project would switch to such a restrictive license. Some more details here: https://coralo
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by the_duke 4y ago
OP was clearly talking about team size and change velocity, not code size. 5 contributors, with over 70% from a single person is indeed small.
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by the_duke 4y ago
How wouod you do code reviews then? Git style mailing of patches?
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by the_duke 4y ago
That loss if for Rolls Royce ...
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by the_duke 4y ago
There often is a renewable energy surplus at night (wind /hydro) and more recently even around noon, thanks to solar. And renewables are constantly expanding. The whole problem with renewables is the temporal variation and lack of larg
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by the_duke 4y ago
Let's Encrypt played a tremendously important part in furthering HTTPS everywhere. One might argue that it was the right idea at the right time, and someone else would have come along and done the same thing. But I can easily see us st
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by the_duke 4y ago
Firefox is also full of bloatware, telemetry and potential privacy concerns. Try enabling a firewall for Firefox and see how many domains are contracted on startup ... I've sadly felt like I had to switch to Librewolf, a fork of Firefo
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by the_duke 4y ago
> or a better arbitrary runtime like WASM > It's the component and security model itself. WASI and the WASM component model proposal [1] are moving to a capability based system (enabled by unforgeable references aka `reftype`) an
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by the_duke 4y ago
You are spot on. I see this attitude in many domains, even among younger generations in startups where the majority of co-founders aren't developers, or after the original co-founders are sidelined by business people. Software is just
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by the_duke 4y ago
Can you share your nix package?
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by the_duke 4y ago
Benchmarks are often not a great indicator for real world performance, especially for Javascript. Benchmarks are very constrained, repetitive and often numerical code that is executed a lot of times with similar input. This gives the JIT a
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by the_duke 4y ago
Certainly not at all what I'm witnessing. Instagram seems to still be used by teens, but slowly fizzling out. Tiktok is popular. Snap seems the preferred chat app for most.
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by the_duke 4y ago
Would be great if you could share your 3-5 most exciting developments that weren't discussed mich here.
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by the_duke 4y ago
Direct to cell service will be very slowand restricted. Not comparable to Starlink powered service you will be able to get on flights.
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by the_duke 4y ago
Postgres forks off a new process for each connection. This introduces lot's of overhead across the board. * Cross process communication is a lot more expensive (done via shared memory or as here via the file system) * Switching between
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by the_duke 4y ago
A Starship launch is months away at best. I'm betting on 2023. Unless there are some serious issues with SLS it will launch first. Significant delays would be really, really bad for SLS. They already extended the lifetime for the SRBs.
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by the_duke 4y ago
I'm sure Postgres is full of these inefficiencies and suboptimal system designs. The process model is known to be pretty horrible. Considering the huge engineering teams SqlServer and Oracle have, I'm always amazed how well Postgr
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by the_duke 4y ago
To be fair: if you have hundreds (or even tens) of developers that extra infra expenditure is relatively meaningless.
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by the_duke 4y ago
I don't really see the big value proposition here. Sure, deploying a single app config is much more awkward than it should be. (Build config: Helm, Jsonnet, Cue, kustomize,...? How to deploy: Gitops/CI, manually , Octopus, Tekton,
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by the_duke 4y ago
Small bit of feedback: as a Nix fan and user I love to see a more usable veneer over nix tooling, but I feel the repo should give a bit more credit to Nix and explain how Devbox works.
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by the_duke 4y ago
As others have pointed out, SpaceX recently ammended the licensing request to launch v2 sats on Falcon 9.
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by the_duke 4y ago
Also the benefit of time. Kuiper hasn't launched anything yet, and all their launchers are still in development - BOs own rocket New Glenn, Arianne 6, and ULA Vulcan. Vulcan probably isn't too far off, 2023, but they will need ti
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by the_duke 4y ago
That's still often the case in enterprise environments. There's a reason companies use Openshift instead of plain Kubernetes (despite it being a bloated mess), or Redhat over Debian, or Sqlserver instead of Postgres, ....
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by the_duke 4y ago
The difficulty is , as always, incentives. Brave is an ad company, in the sense that their only revenue is from ads. Brave has every motivation to make external tracking as useless as possible, because it increases the relative competitiven
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by the_duke 4y ago
The component model [1] with interface types will enable nicer tooling for things like linking and combining different languages, but it's been very slow moving and is still in flux. [1] https://github.com/WebAssembly&#
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by the_duke 4y ago
Typescript doesn't have semantics on its own. It's a syntax for JavaScript with a static type checker on top. A lot of JavaScript isn't really suitable for a low level language because of GC, heavy use of very flexible object
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by the_duke 4y ago
Is your work public? I'm also working on a (loosely) datomic inspired database with pluggable backends, so this might be very interesting for me.
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SurrealDB: Scalable, Distributed Document-Graph Database for the Realtime Web(github.com)
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