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I'm unsure why the author is upset about being unable to fork and still calling it Rust. That feels perfectly reasonable: They're the ones that get to call it Rust. The copyright license still lets you hack on it and distribute th
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You can definitely use it for debugging infrastructure you don't own/control just fine. You just need to understand what it's telling you and not believe that it's telling you anything else beyond what it is. It, as well
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I think the "The Worst Diagnostics In The World" section is a bit simplistic about what traceroute does tell you. It can tell you lots of thing beyond "you can reach all the way". Specifically, it can tell you at least s
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by yuliyp 2y ago
Note that latencies between regions are subject to change: individual links can go down or become overloaded, resulting in traffic needing to take alternate (longer) paths. Unless you have a contract specifying a specific latency, you shoul
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Yeah there are lots of reasons to go into the warm case: in addition to genuine effort on the asker, urgency, criticality, or relationship building can all tip the balance.
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Sometimes a cold handoff is appropriate. If the team initially asked has nothing relevant to offer besides a guess at who owns it, having the extra person around in the discussion is just wasted effort and attention. If it's a related
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Not at all. I'm saying that they should reflect the unereliability inherent in distributed computing rather than pretend it can't exist with such false notions as "retries will fix it" or "this call can't fail&
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Sure they're retryable. But those retries might never succeed (user wipes their phone or uninstalls the app or logs out or clears local app data or a buffer fills up to come up with a few scenarios. Either the request didn't matte
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by yuliyp 2y ago
I loathe the over-abundance of "Optimistic Without Feedback Pattern". It is used as a crutch for "I don't want to bother implementing error cases". Even the pinned chat example they use is just a bug factory. Stat
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The problem with this is principal-agent problems. The owners of the business don't want it to fail. The people working there want to make money. They generally live their life and enjoy what money they make before the chickens come ho
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I am fairly sure those should have been per kilobyte, not per byte.
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I'd guess the average revenue per passenger to be on the order of $200 / day so for that 10k passenger ship that's about $700M of revenue per year. If they can put $200M of that toward the cost of the ship that'd pay for
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a lot of code is shared between different tools. Busybox has one copy of those. Before you mention shared libraries. There is still overhead, as well as complicating the usage (it needs to find a shared lib when starting instead of just hav
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by yuliyp 2y ago
Garnishment can be too slow to deal with the victim's liabilities, and even still has no guarantee of ever repaying the loss.
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by yuliyp 2y ago
The point of mandated auto insurance is that a lot of people don't have an extra 30k, but we want even those without that extra 30k to be able to drive without those they might get into an accident with having their car damaged through
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by yuliyp 2y ago
Yes that's entirely the point. Ideally peoples' share of wealth should go down with time. Return on capital after taxes shouldn't enable people to continue growing their wealth relative to society forever. They should have to
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by yuliyp 2y ago
If those pieces of data are strings or more complicated that might be manipulated/freed later you might need to do something more like copying.
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You have to be careful in deferring such work. It may end up more expensive if it means you have multiple threads accessing that data, and/or needing to extend the lifetime of an object so the logger can access it.
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I think the idea is that any strictly decreasing sequence of positive integers starting at N is a subsequence of (N, N-1, N-2, ..., 1) which has N elements, so any such sequence must have a finite number of elements. So if you manage to pro
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by yuliyp 2y ago
That assumes that every fraction has a unique simplest form. The first section of the article makes no such claims about the existence of a simplest form of fraction. The proof uses just algebraic manipulation, the fact that a sequence of s
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by yuliyp 2y ago
Some traits are mostly-negative traits. That's just the nature of life. I'm fat/obese/overweight/slow/thick/plus-sized/curvy. It's a negative trait I have. Someone referring to me in that way can
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A monotonic clock is a bit trickier when dealing with timestamps being written to / read from a separate database, but I agree with the sentiment. Hence why the chosen implementation was buggy :-)
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My favorite DST bug was a system that was supposed to run every few seconds taking a nap for an hour. It was an event loop thingy that had a few different types of tasks it might do. When it finished one of those tasks it'd record (in
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by yuliyp 2y ago
When I find someone claiming a suspicious data analysis result I can ask them for the SQL and investigate it to see if there's a bug in it (or further investigate where the data being queried comes from). If the abstraction layer betwe
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Huh? The ways to be cash flow positive but unprofitable are borrowing/investors putting money in, depreciation adjustments, or growing accounts payable. All of which eventually stop.
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Circles was part of G+ (it was their audience selection model to contrast with Facebook's friends)
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having a pos in places without a reliable internet connection is enough of a reason for stored value cards to be a thing. Some things shouldn't require the mothership to be alive and reachable to work.
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Sure it might contain some such data, but I strongly doubt that would be 60%+ of the dataset.
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it's a dataset of information about people in the US (given it comes from US public records), of which there are far less than a billion. There's no possible way it could be "billions of people". That conclusion requires
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That's somewhat the nature of sports: the actual results always have some amount of variance. The differences between athletes are often minute enough that with slightly different circumstances the result would have been different. Yet

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