WookieRushing

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The Art of Being Lazy(log)(warpstream.com)
1 points by WookieRushing 7mo ago|0 comments
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by WookieRushing 8mo ago
These show up once you have a certain scale where it is either cost inefficient or the hot spots are very dynamic. They also try to avoid latency by being eventually consistent sidecars instead of proxies. I’ve seen them used for traffic ro
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by WookieRushing 2y ago
Yup! This is the reason why its so cheap for them. Other companies in similar positions have cache nodes in the ISPs and this dramatically lowers the cost
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by WookieRushing 3y ago
Why do you think its easy? There's a lot of systems where you can easily take down some hosts, but taking down more than N% at a time causes issues. If your fleet is large enough then you are limited by the largest set of hosts where y
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by WookieRushing 3y ago
My bet is on cache servers having a bad release
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by WookieRushing 4y ago
It’s millions a year and ms teams is near free. In a cost cutting environment this is near perfect.
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by WookieRushing 4y ago
Why is there input lag? I’ve used something identical and mosh makes this just work. Most devs at that company swear by remote builds and hate laptop builds
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by WookieRushing 4y ago
They can get it from your android phone or from chrome if you’re running it
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by WookieRushing 4y ago
No, cryptocurrency cannot be used as a normal currency. Nothing as easy as handing cash to someone else exists in cryptocurrency. There's one giant benefit of using cryptocurrency and a few smaller niches. It is a currency of last reso
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by WookieRushing 4y ago
Its like Fish shell vs Bash shell. Bash has weird defaults so you end up googling for everything. In fish, it just works and you barely need to search for anything. Sane defaults matter. With hg, I don't need to struggle to get it to d
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by WookieRushing 4y ago
When risk to society becomes high enough then it becomes necessary. See paying taxes, conscription, jury duty Though judging the level of risk is very hard and there is often not a clear line of when force is needed.
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by WookieRushing 4y ago
It wasn’t when I last saw it. Rocksandra ended up being a stepping stone to fbs most common distributed db, zippydb https://engineering.fb.com/2021/08/06/core-data/zippydb/ Zippydb is honestly one o
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by WookieRushing 4y ago
What psaux mentioned makes more sense. A node == one Cassandra agent instead of a server. Past 100k servers you start needing really intense automation just to keep the fleet up with enough spares. If you’ve got say 10k servers it’s much mo
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by WookieRushing 4y ago
I was also surprised by this. 300K nodes for a distributed DB is kind of crazy. I’ve worked with similar systems but they stored much more than 100 PB with 10x less nodes Apple is using less than one TB per server… But when you see the 1000
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by WookieRushing 4y ago
What happens is you work somewhere that has stacked diffs and suddenly you learn how to shape your diffs to make them easy to review. Thinking of how folks will review your code in chunks while writing it makes it cleaner. Having small but
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by WookieRushing 4y ago
Yup, the core part of Tor is written in C so it can't get much speedier. Rewriting it in rust is almost is entirely to reduce the footguns you get in C
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He used AI to win a fine-arts competition. Was it cheating?(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by WookieRushing 4y ago|3 comments
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by WookieRushing 4y ago
Yup, stacks are wonderful for new features. Typically I run a stack of 5 for new features. First one is the API/interface with null implementations. Then subsequent ones each implement a method with associated tests
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by WookieRushing 4y ago
Mercurial solves this 90% of the way with hg absorb: https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2018/11/05/absorbing-commit-ch... Its extremely close to magic. You make all the requested changes on the PR4 and type h
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by WookieRushing 4y ago
While isolation is important for managing state, the other side effect of isolation is allowing separate scaling of resources. If you can scale up your number of workers for a particular emergency then things get easier to handle.
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Facebook removed the news feed algorithm in an experiment(bigtechnology.substack.com)
156 points by WookieRushing 5y ago|139 comments
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by WookieRushing 5y ago
Nope, looks legit: https://www.google.com/search?q=livermorons+site:www.reddit....
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by WookieRushing 5y ago
Atomic rename is useful, but one of the points of not having it is that it makes these giant distributed file systems much much easier. Building DBs on top of these systems is done, but they always try to be shard aware to avoid cross shard
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by WookieRushing 6y ago
It’s now EEA 2
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Why do we have to wait one month for Quicklisp updates?(lisp-journey.gitlab.io)
2 points by WookieRushing 6y ago|0 comments
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by WookieRushing 6y ago
I’m not so sure. Moxies reasons about how federation leads to protocol development slowing and then freezing are solid. It’s why we re not using smtp for chat. SMTP can’t be extended enough so replacements are built instead. Similarly if si
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by WookieRushing 6y ago
This only works for stateless services. If you’ve got frontends that take longer than 10 mins to serve traffic then you have a problem. But if you’re running a DB or a storage system, 10 mins is a blink of an eye. Storage systems in particu
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by WookieRushing 6y ago
This is really common and works pretty awesomely. MySQL is extremely battle tested and there’s lots of experts out there for it. FB built a similar system to maintain their graph: https://blog.yugabyte.com/facebooks-user-db-
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by WookieRushing 6y ago
I highly recommend A Fire Upon the Deep. Its a rare mix of really interesting hard scifi with an actually good story and characters. Hard scifi often has very flat characters but this is not a book which suffers from it. It has a very very
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by WookieRushing 6y ago
Yeah I totally agree, especially with the blocking entry nodes part. There are many other ways to detect TOR connections or nodes and block them. Theres enough that there are a whole set of ways of obfuscating traffic called pluggable trans

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