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by zokier 2y ago
My problem with this "hydraulic" analogy (first time I've seen it called that) is that I feel most people don't have that good intuition on hydraulics either, so you are just trading one poorly understood subject with an
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by zokier 2y ago
UTC, and leap seconds, originate from (military) navies of the world, with the intent of supporting celestial navigation. It is already dubious how useful leap seconds were for that use, and much more dubious is its use as civil timescale
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by zokier 2y ago
Strictly speaking Unix time is monotonic, because it counts integer number of seconds and it does not go backwards, it only repeats during leap seconds.
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by zokier 2y ago
For practically everyone the local civil time is off from local solar time more than 30 seconds, because very few people live at the exact longitude that corresponds to their time zone. And then you got DST which throws the local time even
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by zokier 2y ago
The Unix time article has concrete example with tables which should clarify the matter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#Leap_seconds In that example, Unix time goes from 915148799 -> 915148800 -> 91514880
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by zokier 2y ago
That is pretty ridiculous complaint. Your problem is that they allow configuring instances smaller than your arbitrary baseline? Especially as AWS allows you to pick 2/4/8 GB per vCPU for general purpose instances. And the smalles
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by zokier 2y ago
I'd argue the key difference between Turing machines and real-world computers is that computers do IO, respond to events, have real-time characteristics, and are interactive. All of these are key features in making computers useful, bu
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by zokier 2y ago
To me the bigger question is why aren't these polyglot/universal build tools more widely adopted and adapted? Why are we still spending so much effort in developing and working around language-specific tools that inevitably fall s
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by zokier 2y ago
That's not particularly novel observation; people have been pointing out the equivalence between checked exceptions and Result types for pretty much forever. See for example this thread from decade ago: https://news.ycombi
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by zokier 2y ago
Well, I wouldn't call it trivial, but it's not completely outlandish idea. There is prior art in this Ringo kit, which does almost 90% of what's required here: https://github.com/CircuitMess/CircuitMess-R
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by zokier 2y ago
> The F-16 is the fighter jet that has been used for several decades by nearby Nordic neighbors Norway and Finland. Just to be clear, Finland has never operated F-16. Royal Norwegian Air Force retired their F-16 fleet few years ago, repl
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by zokier 2y ago
We are barely only planning a pnt constellation on Moon[1]. Setting up Martian constellation is significantly more complex simply due the distances involved; pnt is not fire-and-forget system, you need constantly track and tweak the satelli
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by zokier 2y ago
doppler effect.
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by zokier 2y ago
The benchmarks are bogus at the least, you are essentially just measuring the startup time of the executable/runtime and not your hash function.
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by zokier 2y ago
As Evans explains, its not about technical capability, but about respecting users choice of colors/theme.
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by zokier 2y ago
On Unix programs get arguments as array of strings. On Windows programs get command line as single string. Strictly speaking that does not explain where globbing happens, but it does help understanding where they come from.
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by zokier 2y ago
code can be thought of as serialized ast, and you need to serialize ast somehow anyways for storage
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by zokier 2y ago
Things like difftastic work perfectly fine with git https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/
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by zokier 2y ago
Temporal has "PlainTime" https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/plaintime.html > A Temporal.PlainTime represents a wall-clock time, with a precision in nanoseconds, and without any time zone. > Tem
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by zokier 2y ago
AMD has patches for all impacted platforms, and a method to verify that patch has been applied.
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by zokier 2y ago
the issues of sspl have been frequently and loudly been brought up previously, and nothing has happened. just to reiterate, this section is ridiculously expansive: > “Service Source Code” means the Corresponding Source for the Program or
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by zokier 2y ago
The built release packages have full set of man-pages for you to familiarize with.
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by zokier 2y ago
It's neat hack, but I'm not sure if there is much use for it. Of course this is much faster than doing CRT emulation, but in what context is that performance difference relevant? And I don't know if there are any other major
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by zokier 2y ago
> The benefit of this is that a lot more work is done _close_ to the data. But isn't that fundamentally at odds with the central idea of disaggregation > At a fundamental level, scaling compute in a database system requires disag
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by zokier 2y ago
What I meant was that you can not put any trust in the contents of DNS labels, they should be handled as opaque blob-like identifiers. The only meaningful thing you can do with domain name is to compare it's labels to some reference.
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by zokier 2y ago
> the QP can ask storage to do work like filtering, aggregation, projection, and other common tasks on its behalf. Unlike SQL designs that build on K/V stores, this allows to DSQL to do much of the heavy lifting of filtering and fin
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by zokier 2y ago
My personal opinion is to skip dns64 in the transition path and instead rely on clat completely. The intersection of devices that support op108 but don't have clat is pretty small, so you are not really gaining much with dns64 imho. It
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by zokier 2y ago
It's not just selecting the service. It's also trying to decipher which parts what docs apply to when reading. Or how different services interact. Or getting any understanding what "Aurora" means in different contexts. J
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by zokier 2y ago
There is no domain trust problem, because there is no trust to be had on domains.
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by zokier 2y ago
How many multi-region active-active PostgreSQL clusters have you operated?

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