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by thundergolfer 11mo ago
Ironically this post is written in a pretty bland, 'blogging 101' style that isn't enjoyable to read and serves just to preach a simple, consensus idea to the choir. These kinds of posts regularly hit the top 10 on HN, and ev
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What Now? Handling Errors in Large Systems(brooker.co.za)
17 points by thundergolfer 11mo ago|1 comments
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by thundergolfer 11mo ago
No, as in Lambda itself uses FUSE as an implementation detail of their container filesystem.
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by thundergolfer 11mo ago
AWS Lambda uses FUSE and that’s one of the largest prod systems in the world.
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by thundergolfer 11mo ago
This is the 'Zero Defects'[1] mode of development. A Microsoft department adopted it in 1989 after their product quality dropped. (Balmer is cc'd on the memo.) 1. https://sriramk.com/memos/zerodef.pdf
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by thundergolfer 11mo ago
Fair. I agree that saying "it's the unwrap" and calling it a day is wrong. Recently actually we've done an exercise on our Worker which is "assume the worst kind of panic happens. make the Worker be ok with it"
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by thundergolfer 11mo ago
Fly writes a lot of Rust, do you allow `unwrap()` in your production environment? At Modal we only allow `expect("...")` and the message should follow the recommended message style[1]. I'm pretty surprised that Cloudflare let
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by thundergolfer 11mo ago
The numbers represent progressive stages of growth away from socially abnormal behavior. Numbers 1 and 2 represent the author's abnormal behavior. Numbers 5-6 are their later stages, where they've achieved competency in social n
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by thundergolfer 11mo ago
My perception (engineer at modal.com) is that Replicate lost out to Fal.ai more than they lost to Together AI and Fireworks.
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by thundergolfer 11mo ago
I don't think Slack does, nor Github, which is where I most find screenshotting being a problem.
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by thundergolfer 11mo ago
This is rule 7 of 10 in my post 'How to Ask for help in Slack'[1] 1. I have ‘rubber duck debugged’ my own question. 2. I checked that this question hasn’t been asked before. 3. I have noted in my message what I’ve tried. 4. I have
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by thundergolfer 11mo ago
This isn't a new problem at all. If you only started noticing it as a problem with "AI", as the author apparently did, then you were blind to how our mediums and tools have always shaped us, alienated us from the world and ea
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Copy Edit This (2016)(nytimes.com)
2 points by thundergolfer 11mo ago|0 comments
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by thundergolfer 1y ago
I was motivated by your back-and-forth in the original AWS summary to go and write this post :)
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by thundergolfer 1y ago
It's the length of the outage that's striking. AWS us-east-1 has had a few serious outages in the last ~decade, but IIRC none took near 14 hours to resolve. The horrible us-east-1 S3 outage of 2017[1] was around 5 hours. 1. https
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by thundergolfer 1y ago
It wasn't too bad! The annoying bit was that the offsite schedule was delayed for hours for the other ~40 people not working on the issue.
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by thundergolfer 1y ago
This is widespread. ECR, EC2, Secrets Manager, Dynamo, IAM are what I've personally seen down.
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by thundergolfer 1y ago
This is widespread. ECR, EC2, Secrets Manager, Dynamo, IAM are what I've personally seen down.
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by thundergolfer 1y ago
Can someone with both Bazel and mise experience comment on whether mise fulfils its promise of being a "sweet spot" between Bazel and anarchy? I've used Bazel a lot and contributed to it, but don't feel like it's ad
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by thundergolfer 1y ago
gVisor has implemented a lot of them, but every few months we have an application that hits an unimplemented syscall. We tend to reach for application workarounds, and haven't yet landed a PR to add a syscall. But I'd expect we co
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by thundergolfer 1y ago
This is a good explanation of how standard filesystem sandboxing works, but it's hopefully not trying to be convincing to security engineers. > At Greptile, we run our agent process in a locked-down rootless podman container so that
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by thundergolfer 1y ago
It sounds like you overall had a positive experience grinding though, and just because he didn't remember your name you'd say that you regret it? I think he should have remembered your name, but he hadn't forgotten you. Who k
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by thundergolfer 1y ago
Is the network just slow, or just it have outages?
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by thundergolfer 1y ago
Expected some digging into the implementation of a for loop in cPython, maybe with use of the `bin` module. This isn't an anatomy lesson, it's an orientation tour.
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by thundergolfer 1y ago
The article is pretty useless at explaining the difference, I agree. It makes claims about Docker that aren't true (e.g. single container) while making inadequate reference to the OS features likely involved in making "system cont
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Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)(gregoryszorc.com)
212 points by thundergolfer 1y ago|201 comments
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by thundergolfer 1y ago
Lovable runs on Modal Sandboxes.
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by thundergolfer 1y ago
We've run gVisor for over 2 years at Modal, and it's been a huge unlock for us. We get a secure sandbox with GPU support that can run on VMs. Just recently it allowed us to checkpoint/restore containers AND its GPUs[1]. gViso
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Transcribe speech 100x faster and 100x cheaper with open models(modal.com)
4 points by thundergolfer 1y ago|0 comments
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by thundergolfer 1y ago
You have P4 twice in there, latter should be 3

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