tobz

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by tobz 11y ago
I mean, yeah, it makes sense. You can reasonably expect chargers/cables not to be quite this jacked up, and in turn, you save space in a space-constrained device. It's just a hard pill to swallow thinking that a stray cable coul
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by tobz 11y ago
In this case, it's DC over the USB-C cable. Reverse polarity protection is 1) easy and 2) cheap. That's the most striking part to me, and I almost thought the original post was a joke... because it seems insane there wouldn&#x27
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by tobz 11y ago
So there's the issue of software being "open", as in being able to see the source code. Then there's the part about who is running the software. Do you personally feel more safe, or better, whatever the adjective you wa
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by tobz 11y ago
Totally fair. Having to make a new account for every project is definitely not ideal, and I wish Slack had better integration for more seamless sign-up using existing identity providers. Slack does have a few ways which can make it a littl
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by tobz 11y ago
This was definitely confusing at first for me, too, but with a little work, you can clean up your imports/requires with just a few lines: https://github.com/tobz/scryer/blob/master/webpack.config.js
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by tobz 11y ago
I don't think that aspect is a pro of Slack. However, the UI capabilities of Slack are certainly pros. Devil's advocate: the only way to have a single "account" for all of your projects on IRC is if they all use the sam
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by tobz 11y ago
So, for the sake of argument: - I'm an author of some FOSS software - I use Slack as the communication platform for said project for XYZ reasons How do you suggest I word the README for my project? Do I tell/advise people to try
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by tobz 11y ago
Who is the other side of the conversation you mention in your first paragraph? It seems incredibly reductive to state that using proprietary software, in any way, somehow makes a FOSS project send an implicit message that it... I don't
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by tobz 11y ago
I take your comment to mean that you find the BPG version of that engineer picture -- being "overly smoothed" -- to be unrealistic, comparatively. I think the face, as a whole, looks crisper. Even though the sharpness isn't
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by tobz 11y ago
Ah, unfortunately, it looks like you need to sign up to even see what features it has. Do you know of an alternative feature list or have some things off the top of your head you could say about it?
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by tobz 11y ago
I've never been a manager, but one of my managers really sticks out in my mind. I'll tell you what I thought they did really well, and why, as an individual contributor, I respected and trusted them. #1 - He bridged the personal&
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by tobz 11y ago
How long is it before JetBrains comes out with something more like Eclipse or Atom? You have IntelliJ, PyCharm, RubyMine, CLion, and now this. That's excluding plugins for other IDEs. All of their IDEs basically look and feel the sam
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by tobz 11y ago
I just don't get this. Maybe I haven't read deeply enough, but... - what is preventing the companies signed on to the Free Basics platform from being accessible in India? is it technical? political? - what does Free Basics actua
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by tobz 11y ago
What cost? It sounds like the parent is possibly suggesting the opposite of a backup power solution: transfer switch where you're in solar mode 99% of the time, and if things break or you need to do work, you switch over to grid power
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by tobz 11y ago
Most of the usefulness of this service is that you need a NAT gateway if you want instances to be created with private IPs only but also be able to access the internet. The IPv4 point isn't wrong but it misses the mark, I think. You c
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by tobz 11y ago
I commented earlier to sort of the same effect, and was thinking a little more about this. I don't think the goal, or desire, is to be told the full extent or impact of a problem. The goal is to be alerted to spots that may lead to a
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by tobz 11y ago
Right, this feels like a way for Facebook to simply not payout a bigger bounty after they realized how big an appropriate bounty would be. If the author submitted the RCE, and nothing else: is someone at Facebook actually going in and tryin
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by tobz 11y ago
The key is that the request rate be independent of the latency of individual requests. In the case of wrk (the original wrk, not Gil Tene's version), you could use this version to check for maximum RPS / bandwidth. This is becaus
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by tobz 11y ago
As a small follow-on, there is also Barrage [1], which is more of a framework than anything else. kellabyte wrote it to benchmark changes to Haywire [2], so it's geared towards configuring your client and server, and then collecting a
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by tobz 11y ago
(Toby from Localytics here) Yep, this is a great point. The data locality/reducing IO is huge, but the way things actually play out for us when data isn't segmented/partitioned properly, it chews up CPU/memory. This is
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by tobz 11y ago
Heyo! Sorry about the attribution. I'm trying to find who controls the blog as we speak so I can have them add it. (I work at Localytics, but I'm not the author.) We've gingerly explored flame graphs to understand Vertica be
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by tobz 11y ago
There should probably have been a little more of an explanation on the post, but: 99% of the connections that touch Vertica, for us, are read-only. Actually, we have no system in which there is mixed read/write to Vertica. Either a s
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by tobz 11y ago
Do you have an example in Python of doing fan-out/fan-in? I've done it in Go before, and didn't find it particularly nice to look at (although it did work, and worked well).... so I'm curious what a Python example would
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by tobz 11y ago
(SRE at Localytics here.) I think one of the biggest things for us is that, primarily, we run Rails on the frontend and Scala on the backend. Elixir is exciting because we could potentially replace a lot of our frontend stuff with it, whil
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by tobz 11y ago
You could have CloudFront in front of your application servers, though, and it could be doing passthrough requests for non-cacheable assets. Not that I'd ever want this, because CloudFront is dog slow compared to other CDNs, but yeah..
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by tobz 11y ago
I've been told it's nginx, in the same style of how CloudFlare uses it for their edge locations.
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by tobz 11y ago
The OpenBSD folks are notorious for presenting extremely basic formatting on their sites, articles, presentations, etc. I think the Comic Sans is most likely a troll of other websites where the formatting, UI, etc, look like they got more
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by tobz 11y ago
Right. There's a lot of simple choices you can make -- SQS instead of RabbitMQ, ELBs instead of HAProxy -- that aren't going to cut your burn rate in half or anything. The estimation part is definitely very hard to do for the thi
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by tobz 11y ago
Spitball some calculations? You can start with just a few EC2 instances, so conceivably, you could everything on those you'd do with a VPS. Maybe you decide that managing a database is taking too much of your time, so now you're l
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by tobz 11y ago
The only thing that seems like it's missing here, in the instructions for the project, are that it should be pulled down with go get instead of git clone , which would have resolved the dependencies for you. Obviously, correct me if

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