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by zinodaur 3y ago
Would be nice if ripgrep was drop in compatible with grep. I'd feel like a dick writing a shell script for other people to use and forcing them to install a new grep
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by zinodaur 3y ago
> "It's really a cultural issue. It doesn't have to be that way." > "overflowing garbage cans" Hmm something doesn't add up here
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by zinodaur 3y ago
I work at a company that recently tried to shift our (on prem, sharded, 2-metro, 6 replica) mysql deployment to AWS. Any way we sliced it, even after steep discounts, we were seeing massive TCO increases, often up to 10x - the math just doe
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by zinodaur 3y ago
Yeah! pyinstaller is an example. They do it by bundling a standalone python interpreter (x-platform ones too) with the necessary python libraries bundled in, just like you suggested
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by zinodaur 3y ago
yeah, but in 1975 the average household income was 50k. Now its 92k. The cost of a house in Toronto (and everywhere in Ontario) went from being 60k (120% of annual average family income) to 1.1m (1200% annual average family income). "G
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by zinodaur 3y ago
"You can only call this RPC while standing on one foot, with your hat cocked to the side. There's no way for you to find this out except calling it in a test and getting a weird error"
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by zinodaur 3y ago
Yikes. I use a company Macbook to WFH - the company also offers Linux desktops that you have to self-admin, I wonder if "no one develops for linux" is actually a feature, and would let me avoid the bossware.
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by zinodaur 3y ago
"When working with large amounts of data, steal as many ideas from databases as you can" They have a lot of really simple, good ideas that can make your life a lot easier. Attempting to work on data intensive applications without
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by zinodaur 3y ago
I liked the article! Do you know of MMOs that try to use database techniques like write-ahead-logs and log-sequence-numbers for persistence/replication? The nice thing about these techniques is that you can replicate state in a consist
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by zinodaur 3y ago
I was really in to this stuff as well - eventually I just settled for awk, it works pretty well
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by zinodaur 3y ago
i think your python version of `ls` is missing a few options
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by zinodaur 3y ago
We've been exploring ways of getting external consistency for our data model - but our Sequencers are different enough that I don't think we can use the FoundationDB approach. We are trying out a version of what CockroachDB does -
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by zinodaur 3y ago
Good point about the batching! Any idea what kind of ReadVersion qps throughput you can get this way? And yeah, 2-3s unavailability seems fine.
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by zinodaur 3y ago
My understanding of ReadVersion is that the only point of calling it is to be able to read your own writes - so staleness wouldn't be good. There was another sibling comment that says the ReadVersion requests are batched up before hitt
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by zinodaur 3y ago
If theres just one Sequencer, and every ReadVersion request to the Proxy eventually hits the Sequencer 1-1, how does the Sequencer not get crushed? Or is a scaling limit just "the number of ReadVersion requests a Sequencer machine can
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by zinodaur 3y ago
I can't wait for the games that let you talk to NPCs in natural language, and have them respond in natural language. They might even be able to take limited actions based on the outcome of the conversation. I 100% support bleeding what
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by zinodaur 3y ago
Hah, fair. I guess my main gripe is that there doesn't seem to be any avenue for backpressure - the security team makes an edict about how things have to be in order to be secure, and after that there's no reasoning with them. No
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by zinodaur 3y ago
The security team at work implemented these policies. The first time we saw the alert it was exciting - they have fired enough that now everyone ignores them Is it normal for the security team to be hated at a company?
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by zinodaur 3y ago
I get what you are saying - but school is such a wonderful opportunity to expand your mind and find things to care about. If some kid is all juiced up and excited about something, its tragic for the school to stamp that out through neglect
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by zinodaur 3y ago
> What governments should be doing is set up their own social media servers sharing across all open protocols As a Canadian - our government makes uniquely shitty websites. We can't even successfully pay a private company to build t
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by zinodaur 3y ago
I bet they need time to ramp up their manufacturing. In the meantime - they can either artificially restrict the purchase of these things (what they are doing now), or have scalpers camp outside the stores and resell for 2-3x what apple are
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by zinodaur 3y ago
Man, I wish we had this guy leading our org. The higher up the chain you go in my company, the more grasping and inhuman the people become.
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by zinodaur 3y ago
Great writeup. I use a KV store for work, but only because the alternative for our data size (>1PB, >1 trillion keys), sharded sql, is totally awful. Distributed KV stores like foundationDB, dynamoDB actually do offer transactions , w
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by zinodaur 3y ago
I work at a company that did similarly large layoffs despite record profits. In our case, the cuts were conducted by an MBA. Many important revenue driving products have been mangled by having their teams entirely removed, with pages going
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by zinodaur 3y ago
i could tell just by how long it was. Chatgpt always seems to spit out too much text
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by zinodaur 4y ago
I love it! So petulant and conceited. It's great to hear what these CEOs are like without the Corpo-speak PR filtering system
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by zinodaur 4y ago
He mentioned one of the pages was querying a db
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by zinodaur 4y ago
it stopped syncing symlinks to other machines - but you could still do what the parent was describing
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by zinodaur 4y ago
I think the biggest way to convince people on this is Point 1 in your argument. The prevalence of this activity is much more widespread than I have seen publicly acknowledged anywhere. I worked at a large cloud company (smaller than iCloud)
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by zinodaur 4y ago
Not OP, but I am also in the camp of "like goroutines, not a fan of channels". Low cost threads are great - but channels can represent so many intermediate states, especially when error handling is involved. I wish there was a sim

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