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by zimbatm 7y ago
coz requires the user to instrument the code. So it's interesting but also much more costly to run experiments with. I suspect it's cheaper to start with callgring to get an idea of the hot spots in the code base, find the low han
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by zimbatm 7y ago
AWS regions are independent from each-other. An outage might happen but it tends to be localized to a region or even a zone. AWS is not good at reporting errors, there were plenty of times where their dashboard was green but we had issues.
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by zimbatm 7y ago
Weighting is certainly a difficult exercise. Even for engineers where the problems are more concrete, it often relies on building some sort of shared vision that is used to infer a future prediction. In fact most of the disagreements I see
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by zimbatm 7y ago
The same is happening a lot in the media as well. The first step is to project the complex problem into 2D space. Then retrofit the arguments so that they fit the narrative. I suspect that somebody who consumes a lot of that type of media w
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by zimbatm 7y ago
This is pretty true for every artist out there. If you code for the passion and want to survive on donations then it's quite close to being artist.
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by zimbatm 7y ago
There is no such thing as completely anonymous data. If the data is of interest is has some uniquely identifying feature. Even anonymized data always contain some bits of information that can be correlated to de-anonymize a user.
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by zimbatm 7y ago
It also doesn't take into account the habituation process that all humans are subjected to. Employees might work harder when the 4 days workweek is introduced. And might return back to a lower normal once they get used to it. And if th
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by zimbatm 7y ago
wow nice!
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by zimbatm 7y ago
Imagine if CloudFlare or another CDN provider were to automatically public websites on Tor. This would be huge to drive legitimate traffic into the system. It should be trivial to publish your content on Tor as well as the clear web.
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by zimbatm 7y ago
There are a lot of different types of cities. European cities tend to be more dense and walk-able for historical reasons. Not everyone has the luxury of living in such nice environment or even moving places. Even as a walker, cities would b
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by zimbatm 7y ago
> Too ambitious? Not nearly enough. What we need are breathing cities. Cities that are more friendly to humans and that function well. The problem with cars is that they are dangerous. On top of that they also create air and noise pollut
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by zimbatm 7y ago
Or just actively punishing Firefox because blocking tracking is also blocking ads, which is their revenue model. Why spend money optimizing for a browser that doesn't generate revenue? If Firefox becomes the bastion of privacy sensitiv
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by zimbatm 7y ago
Maybe they know that statistically, based on their historical traffic, there are between 28 and 45 people visiting the page. Calling 28 + rand(45 - 28) is certainly much more efficient than fetching the data on the fly. That would be the mo
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by zimbatm 7y ago
The problem of donation links from Google's perspective is that they are not getting their 30% cut. You might think that this is unfair, but the app is using their distribution platform. It's possible to make open source applicati
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by zimbatm 7y ago
There are a lot more things at play. Hong Kong is ideologically closer to American's values, and so having China take it over can be seen as a form of indirect threat. It also plays into the whole trade war going on at the moment. Fina
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by zimbatm 7y ago
Yes, can you create an issue there with the details and CC me? ( @zimbatm ). I haven't worked on netboot but can point you towards the right people.
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by zimbatm 7y ago
RMS is too black and white. It was probably a good thing to get the project started but I believe that it's counter-productive now. It's a bit like some people are good founders, but then you need a proper CEO to run the company.
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by zimbatm 7y ago
Every nation is doing the same thing. Remember Cuba?
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by zimbatm 7y ago
It's already the case with credit-rating companies that slowly nudged themselves everywhere and are even being used by the government to check your identity. I bet that having a mistake on file at Experian can make your life a nightmar
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by zimbatm 7y ago
especially since it supports WebAssembly as a backend, it would be nice to get a online demo page.
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by zimbatm 7y ago
One thing that makes programming difficult is how much context needs to be held in the live part of the brain. Past N items (let's say 4), the brain has to swap those values and it makes programming much much slower. Most of the articl
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by zimbatm 7y ago
I don't understand the utility of the wiki. Markdown is already rendered in the repo and can live next to the code. Meaning that merge requests can update both the code and documentation at the same time. And GitLab / GitHub have
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by zimbatm 7y ago
Note that ZeroTier recently switched to the Business Source License 1.1[1] that adds some restrictions. For example you are not allowed to re-sell ZeroTier as a service, and it restricts Government uses. It seems like a good thing, but also
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by zimbatm 7y ago
To put things in perspective, 45 employees represent ~0.14% of all the women working at Google (based on wikipedia and [1]). Given my perception of humans and abusive corporate structures, I am actually quite impressed! Obviously the articl
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by zimbatm 7y ago
> Verify Your Identity to buy/sell Are there any ways to acquire HNS without sending a photo ID to a centralized party?
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by zimbatm 7y ago
Companies don't have feelings. The only ones weeping are the VCs that invested into Docker :-D Docker played its role and introduced the majority developers to containerization. This is a major success for the industry.
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by zimbatm 7y ago
That's a really good idea. The format is simple and will probably be readable for many years to come. And it works with the user's preferred editor. There is also gopass[1] who is compatible with pass and has a few more nice featu
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by zimbatm 7y ago
there is also https://f5bot.com/ which allows you to monitor certain keywords on HN, Reddit and Lobsters. I find it quite useful.
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by zimbatm 7y ago
Today's equivalent is https://neocities.org/ . Free 5MB account to upload your raw HTML&CSS. If you feel nostalgic, have a look at https://districts.neocities.org/
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by zimbatm 7y ago
Thanks, this was great to watch. Now I'm looking forward to my next talk to be applying some of those techniques!

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