thraxil

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by thraxil 5y ago
I think it would depend a lot on the size of the company. In the article, they mention "Now repeat this for 50+ teams across the organization". At the company I work for, we only have about a dozen developers total. If they have m
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by thraxil 5y ago
If you have no control at all over the client, then ultimately, you have to just take it and build your service to handle that amount of traffic. Adding jitter is a technique that you use when writing clients. That's why I mentioned
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by thraxil 5y ago
Retries without jitter are indeed a common source of thundering herd problems. Even with exponential backoff, if all the clients are retrying simultaneously, they'll hammer your servers over and over. Adding jitter (just a random amoun
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by thraxil 5y ago
Your intuition can carry over in specific cases like a gradient descent algorithm, but you'll get into trouble if you assume that your 3-dimensional intuitions work for other problems in higher dimensions. Eg, sphere packing is sensib
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by thraxil 5y ago
I'll second Strang. I recently re-read his Introduction to Linear Algebra and was struck with how clearly he explains things compared to most other math textbooks (which I've been reading a lot of lately).
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by thraxil 5y ago
Maybe it's just my personal workflow, but I rarely feel the need to go forward/back by word. Beginning or end of line are common and useful, but otherwise if I want to get to a specific word/line that I'm looking at, I w
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by thraxil 5y ago
Yeah, that's pretty much the standard approach to teaching calculus and I would guess that the majority of people with any understanding of calculus understand it roughly that way. It probably is the most intuitive and easiest way to
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by thraxil 5y ago
> I'd say, what are you coding where you don't benefit from home and end? In emacs, it's just Ctrl+a and Ctrl+e to go to beginning of line and end of line respectively. Those don't involve taking my hands off the home
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by thraxil 5y ago
You can (and pretty much always have been able to) take your babies to any pub in the UK and it's not exactly like pubs are unpopular as a result.
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by thraxil 5y ago
So, I've developed some software, gotten a bunch of users and developed a bit of an income stream, then there's a big bug and now I have no chance of future earnings from that software. I'd probably abandon that project and m
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by thraxil 5y ago
SQLite has a DO-178B "inspired" test suite and apparently has achieved 100% MC/DC [1]. Unfortunately, that test suite isn't public. I'd love to see more non-trivial examples like that made public. 1: https:/&#
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by thraxil 5y ago
One of my friends got an internship doing dev there in like 1999/2000. They were already using 2FA (with a chunky but functional hardware dongle that had a small 8-segment display that updated every minute or two) to secure SSH access.
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by thraxil 5y ago
"A Geometric Approach to Differential Forms" by Bachman is the one that's in my Amazon shopping cart, but I'll take a look at those others as well.
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by thraxil 5y ago
Yeah, I watched his video series on Youtube a couple years ago and really enjoyed them. Definitely a good introduction to the topic.
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by thraxil 5y ago
I'd definitely recommend having taken a college level Calculus course before and you'll get more out of it if you are basically comfortable with Abstract Algebra (know what sets, groups, rings, and fields are, and be able to think
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by thraxil 5y ago
Does math count as "technical?" I was originally a Physics major and lately I've been on a kick of filling in the mathematics that was used in my Physics classes but that I feel like was never really gone into in much depth.
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by thraxil 5y ago
I love that somewhere out there is a developer who doesn't even work at Fastly but just innocently pushed a change to their Fastly config and basically broke the entire internet. I'm actually jealous. If it was me, I'd put th
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by thraxil 5y ago
> Not heard it blamed for using up hard drives before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_(cryptocurrency)
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by thraxil 5y ago
> There is a synergy that humans could never find with logic. Perhaps, but there is no science that demonstrates that. It sounds like you are looking at this research and coming to stronger and more general conclusions than they claim. A
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by thraxil 5y ago
Taurine, omega 3, calcium, and vitamin D, the nutrients discussed in the article are all available from sources other than fish. If you take someone who has a diet that's deficient in one or more those and give them sardines, then it&#
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by thraxil 5y ago
Not getting into anything else, but I will remark that I got in trouble in 5th grade (in a US school) and a letter sent home to my parents about my bad attitude and showing of disrespect towards my teacher after she asserted that Mexico was
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by thraxil 5y ago
That might not be a great example. The meat industry is pretty notorious for euphemisms. They're usually called "meat processing plants" rather than "slaughterhouses". When farmers need to conduct a mass exterminati
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by thraxil 6y ago
I'm a US citizen living in the UK. They cut me off after less than two years of not being in the US. How long you had your Fi account before you are consistently outside the US might be a factor. I switched to Fi shortly before going a
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by thraxil 6y ago
The other thing to be aware of with Google Fi is that they will eventually cut off your data if you spend too much time outside the US.
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by thraxil 6y ago
> Seriously? I surrounded myself with a metric ton of rigid metal and bazillion safety systems (and pay ridiculous sums for that, mind you) to protect myself and my family in a deadly environment. Cyclist chose to go there practically na
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by thraxil 6y ago
Yeah, I started out on Red Hat (maybe 3 or 4.x) and spent years fighting with RPM dependencies. At one point I installed one of those source only distros on a spare machine for fun ("Source Mage", before Gentoo took over that spac
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by thraxil 6y ago
I haven't really written any Perl in probably 15 years now and I mostly avoid it if I can. But put yourself in my shoes back in 1996 or so as a student. Didn't own a computer of my own but had access to random computer labs on cam
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by thraxil 6y ago
Yeah, I switched to Python in 2002-2003ish when I started noticing that all the interesting new things I was seeing were using it (and I had to do some scientific/graphics stuff where Numpy and PyGame were much nicer than any of the Pe
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by thraxil 6y ago
- SSH. Maybe not in terms of performance or efficiency, but before SSH, we were using telnet everywhere and just sending passwords in plaintext all over the internet. Plus, you could give someone your public key and they could give you acce
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by thraxil 6y ago
Yeah, there isn't really anything that you just can't do at all without Docker. The question is whether it's a net positive or negative on your architecture as a whole. Eg, I deploy some Go apps using docker (basically buil

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