anonacct37

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by anonacct37 2y ago
What I think is funny is that circa 2008 I had a manager who used to work at Amazon who told me that "a surprising amount of Amazon artificial intelligence is artificial artificial intelligence, low paid workers". I heard this was
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by anonacct37 2y ago
I really think that they bury the lede: > As a setuid program meant for elevating privileges, all code that is compiled into sudo-rs has the potential to accidentally (or intentionally) give access to system resources to people who shoul
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by anonacct37 2y ago
I used it and even took a class taught by salt stack employees. I really was not a fan. I think one of the core problems I ran into was that the tool attempted to layer on rpc behavior to what was fundamentally a broadcast. So you'd ap
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by anonacct37 3y ago
I'm not sure if I follow but it does occur to me that being thrifty and changing from a aerospace engineering company to a financial engineering company can be two different things that might end up categorized as "accountants are
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by anonacct37 3y ago
This is a very sharp tool and I find it's really rare to need it. I do alot of profiling and performance optimization. Especially with go. Allocation and gc is often a bottleneck. Usually when that happens you look for ways to avoid al
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by anonacct37 3y ago
Going on 5+ years using a single giant org file. It's the only system I've ever been able to stick with for more than a couple days. I think of it as my labbook.
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by anonacct37 3y ago
I love and hate this. On a visceral level I don't like dealing with issues via malicious compliance. OTOH I absolutely agree this is a good call if your goal is for more users to be able to run more software on your platform, even if p
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by anonacct37 3y ago
> DNS without CGO works perfectly It does not. I know this because it impacts my daily work and the work of others. Honestly if you could make my day and go figure out exactly what's going wrong with the pure go DNS implementation i
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by anonacct37 3y ago
I do like this about go. And on Linux it arguably makes sense (I say arguable because DNS without CGO is still a common cause of issues and incompatibility). But Linux has, to the best of my understanding said "yes, we are ok with user
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by anonacct37 3y ago
There's a lot of subtleties. It's really easy to accidentally load test the wrong part of your web application due to differences in compression, cache hit ratios, http settings, etc. Shameless self promotion but I wrote up a bunc
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by anonacct37 3y ago
> My initial requirement was to send requests with unique parameters. To the best of my knowledge, no tool could do this. wrk does this with lua. https://github.com/wg/wrk/blob/master/src/wrk.lua
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by anonacct37 3y ago
Android has a BLE scanner app that can passively read info. I don't know enough about the protocol to know if that is the same thing you are referring to.
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by anonacct37 3y ago
No memory leaks (unless you use shared memory). No weird connection pooling and caching issues or delays in picking up a config change. Every request is a fresh start, enforced by the OS. Buggy code (like image processing can only crash the
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by anonacct37 3y ago
The actual damage is that it's pretty common (my last team has this happen) for a team to setup a cert, verify it works, and then when they deploy the cert it works some of the time or "works on my machine" and so the failure
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by anonacct37 3y ago
cryptography. Things that really need to be constant time and not be "optimized" by the compiler. See the .s files in: https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.21.5:src/...
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by anonacct37 3y ago
text/template is probably ok... For some version of text. ditto with jinja and most templating languages. The cardinal sin of DevOps is using text macros to produce structured data. It only exists because unfortunately there is no oth
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by anonacct37 3y ago
I also ran into spooky negative dentry issues. On a fleet of seemingly identical physical machines one machine would constantly check for files that didn't exist (iirc it was somehow part of nss and a quick Google search seems to confi
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by anonacct37 3y ago
It's the old "you are not the customer" but applied to management. I really really want to be told what the high level goals are and come up with a solution. So of course when I started managing people I worked really hard to
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by anonacct37 3y ago
This is an underrated capability (patching up requests) that many devops folks often take advantage of in platforms like haproxy, nginx, etc. I once worked at a company where someone pushed a release that added timestamp based cache busters
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by anonacct37 3y ago
Like laws? Or rules? Sure. They are methods of control.
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by anonacct37 3y ago
Sorry, but that's not true. I wish it was. But running anything that bridges google3 and GCP is a nightmare. Outside of acquisitions and OSSish stuff like chrome, it's really rare to see GCP used. Oddly enough their corp eng team
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by anonacct37 3y ago
I think this is a great idea. In the old days before fuse was so widely used I saw this same idea used in the jvm since it supports custom protocol handlers that you can use for vfs operations.
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by anonacct37 3y ago
It's basically still the only game in town for a high performance shared posix filesystem with multiple writers and builtin support in basically all operating systems. As an application developer, I probably wouldn't choose to des
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by anonacct37 3y ago
I have a simple guess. We are in a post zirp (zero interest rate policy) world. I've seen very large companies embracing degrowth. Quite possibly Microsoft told it's subsidiary GitHub that they needed to spend less money and this
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by anonacct37 3y ago
I've noticed that this week. After spending a little time just reading on how to correctly write posix compliant code that was also guaranteed to do what I want, it's hard to come to any other conclusion than "posix is a last
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by anonacct37 3y ago
I don't think it's literally impossible to avoid the same mistakes as our predecessors. But I do think that the default position that "oh we modern innovative companies won't end up like those stodgy old companies"
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by anonacct37 3y ago
Can't answer your question directly but I've touched a few of those here and there. Clickhouse was deployed to replace a home grown distributed storage system that at one point in time a long time ago was much cheaper and faster t
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by anonacct37 3y ago
I wish Sentry would stop free riding on Free Software movement by pretending their product is part of it. Their product isn't Free Soft anymore. They feel that they can increase revenue with a more restrictive license, a business move
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by anonacct37 3y ago
That makes sense. I hope my first comment came across as I intended, which wasn't as criticism of the product but a suggestion about how to talk about the value of the product.
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by anonacct37 3y ago
I do like the approach of static code analysis. I found it a little funny that their big "win" for the nilness checker was some code logging nil panics thousands of time a day. Literally an example where their checker wasn't

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