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by zbentley 11mo ago
I think “most people will have to turn on the setting to make things fast at the expense of durability” is a dubious assertion (plenty of system, even high-criticality ones, do not have a very high data rate and thus would not necessarily s
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by zbentley 11mo ago
Not GP, but … because the overwhelming majority of programming is done in support of businesses selling things? I’m not just talking about people who program for a living. The majority of academic CS chooses its research directions because
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JavaScript eval considered crazy (2012)(wingolog.org)
1 points by zbentley 11mo ago|0 comments
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by zbentley 11mo ago
> Rubyists vs. Pythonistas isn't any better. Eh, in different ways. Ruby people often felt a little smug/over-emotive about how much joy using their tool could bring programmers. TFA is spot on about Perl: Perl folks often fel
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by zbentley 11mo ago
> However, if you try `dis.dis('ATOMS_IN_THE_WORLD = 10*50')` you will get LOAD_CONST 10, LOAD_CONST 50... I do not get that, I get LOAD_CONST 500. Tested on: Python 3.9.3 MacOS (Apple provided), 3.13.3 (uv provided) MacOS and
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by zbentley 11mo ago
Then we come to the rub: if "don't show me adverts" suddenly made common tasks (checking email, using a search engine) cost a bit of money, how many people would go for that?
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by zbentley 11mo ago
Curious, not critical: got links to the warnings that were given about this approach over the years? I’m interested in learning more about the history here.
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by zbentley 11mo ago
> setting up a "process" (thread) to do that batching is not hard Processes and threads are different things with specific meanings. How would this approach work in an application server that implements concurrency with forking
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by zbentley 11mo ago
GP asked about data plane consensus, not metadata/control plane.
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by zbentley 11mo ago
Sounds like we should federally fund campaigns and place strict limits on non-federal campaign funding/PACs/etc. There's a very thorny line we'd have to draw there re: speech and protection--what's a forbidden PAC a
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by zbentley 11mo ago
> a single write connection ideally behind an MPSC queue That’s a pretty tall order. What if I want read-after-write consistency for code that issues a write? Did you mean some kind of a fair mutex around writes instead (in which case, h
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by zbentley 11mo ago
Say more? That sounds like an old codebase, and poor programming practices. What about the codebase and your struggles with it suggests that a rearchitecture is in order? What about it suggests that microservices might be the right solution
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by zbentley 11mo ago
Not what I said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46116920
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by zbentley 11mo ago
I didn't say radiation exposure , I said radioactive particulates in my body . 0.1% increase in radiation exposure is a high altitude plane flight. Nothing to be concerned about as you say. 0.1% increase in radioactive particulates i
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by zbentley 11mo ago
Eeeh ... the gap between "full access for all apps" and "lockdown mode" is wide. Casuals are in there--nontechnical folks for whom "brick breaker deluxe wants to access your contacts" might raise an eyebrow. Th
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by zbentley 11mo ago
> You switch from spotlight to Firefox, there's the wheel; leave computer alone for sometime and comeback there's the wheel. You are definitely not alone: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1979283 h
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by zbentley 11mo ago
Does it? Interesting, I thought it was a pretty robust take with specific parts I hadn't seen before. Perhaps the phrasing/sentence construction is a little stilted, but conclusions-drawn wise it seemed good to me. Maybe AIs are g
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by zbentley 11mo ago
Depends on your definition of “compete”. Compete for VC funding and continually increasing growth? You’re right. Compete as in stay profitable and have a future? Less clear-cut.
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by zbentley 11mo ago
> .1% at most. Is it a big deal? Not in my opinion. Depends. .1% increase in the number of calories going into my body? Not a big deal. .1% increase in the number of radioactive particulates going into my body? Big deal.
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by zbentley 11mo ago
What characteristics define "legacy hell"? I'm curious, and the specific list of problems and pain points (if--big if!--everyone there agrees what they are) can help more clearly guide the decisions as to what the next archit
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Developers: Let Distros Do Their Job (2021)(drewdevault.com)
2 points by zbentley 11mo ago|0 comments
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by zbentley 11mo ago
Not the case; there's a fascinating history here. The technologies that enabled containerization (namespaces, chroot, and cgroups, and their predecessors on BSD/Solaris) were created specifically for security and resource isolatio
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by zbentley 11mo ago
Space is the least nation-state-independent place to do computing in existence. All proposed space computing has an incredibly short orbital lifespan (less than 5y). Every single space launch capable rocket provider in the world is financia
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by zbentley 11mo ago
Selection bias. Science is very very very rarely disrupted by a small group of visionaries in the same way business or technology are. Substitute “perpetual motion machines” for “datacenters in space”. For very Heisenberg and Einstein the
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by zbentley 11mo ago
The opposite is true. Containwrization systems were built into operating systems as security features. The whole “Linux packaging is a hellscape of self-induced problems, so let’s duct tape a squashfs onto the side of this new security isol
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by zbentley 11mo ago
Bold presumption that businesses have any useful way to evaluate agent fitness. Hell, they struggle to evaluate human fitness and do basic things like plan and execute OKRs. What makes you think they’d be any good at continuous quality im
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by zbentley 11mo ago
We have historically intervened socially (via state regulation, taboo, or censure) in areas where the likelihood of misbehavior was high or the result of misbehavior was severe enough. For example: nuclear material possession or refinement;
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by zbentley 11mo ago
Formal verification is well and good, but that is not what unsoundness means. If a proof trivially demonstrated that a given program’s behavior was indeed “proceed if a condition is satisfied, crash otherwise”, then what? Or do we not trust
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by zbentley 11mo ago
> Not being able to envision how it is in fact possible to write code with these invariants encoded in the type system is a fundamental fault in one’s ability to reason about this topic, and software correctness in general, in the first
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by zbentley 11mo ago
I’m not sure that panic (speaking generally about the majority of its uses and the spirit of the law; obviously 100% of code does not obey this) is the equivalent of an Erlang process crash in most cases. Rather, I think unwrap()/panic

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