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by asymptotic 8mo ago
https://archive.ph/LzV2M
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I’ve never written code, but I just passed a Google system design interview(interviewing.io)
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by asymptotic 3y ago
At AWS, the hierarchy of service priorities is crystal clear: Security, Durability, and Availability. In that order. Durability, the assurance that data will not be lost, is a cornerstone of trust, only surpassed by security. Availability,
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by asymptotic 3y ago
I misread the article when it stated: > Traffic regularly exceeded 1,500 queries per second (QPS) at peak times It may be quite cost prohibitive to use a managed service like AWS Global Accelerator.
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by asymptotic 3y ago
While HTTP3 does provide some improvements, it's clear that further optimizations are needed, particularly for users in Europe and Asia. One potential solution that hasn't been discussed much here is leveraging AWS managed service
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by asymptotic 3y ago
I’m familiar with Lambda and DynamoDB. When I left in 2022 they both had strong automated or semi-automated AZ evacuation stories. I’m not that familiar with S3, but I never noticed any concerns with S3 during an AZ outage. I’m not at all f
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by asymptotic 3y ago
When I worked at AWS there was a similar scenario in eu-west-2. There was a fire in one of the availability zones (AZs). The fire suppression system kicked in and flooded the data center up to ankle or knee height. All the racks were powere
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by asymptotic 4y ago
In a technical blog or dashboard I like to see 1) avg mean (for throughput estimates), 2) p50 (typical customer / typical load), 3) p90 / p99 / p99.99 (whatever you think your tail is) 4) p100 (max, always useful to see and k
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by asymptotic 5y ago
If you walk as if you’re happy, talk as if you’re happy, and quack like a happy person, then you are happy. This is the Way.
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by asymptotic 5y ago
> the best you can do is write a thread pool that spawns a Tokio LocalSet to run !Send futures Can you go into this a bit more or provide a code reference? I'm new to writing async Rust code and am interested in this idea.
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by asymptotic 5y ago
Congratulations! I did the exact same thing; made an app to help name my first child. I've slowly developed a method which incorporates 1) culture, 2) popularity in different countries, and 3) pronunciation of names and attempts to rec
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by asymptotic 6y ago
FWIW Amazon / AWS also use YubiKeys.
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by asymptotic 6y ago
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-wit... “To identify the location of your resources relative to your accounts, you must use the AZ ID, which is a unique and consistent identifier for a
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by asymptotic 6y ago
I haven’t read the paper. But if the researchers were bringing in children regularly for testing involving eye tracking equipment, why not also test their ability to manipulate physical objects, recognize faces, and track faces? That all se
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by asymptotic 6y ago
There is a quote from Jeff Bezos: "Good intentions never work, you need good mechanisms to make anything happen.". Hence at Amazon (ideally) any suggestion that a manual step or bureaucratic approval could improve a process is alw
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by asymptotic 6y ago
You are correct, I misread this.
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by asymptotic 6y ago
API Gateway came out with a cheaper variant (called HTTP APIs, admittedly a poor name) that is $1 per 300 million requests (114 requests per second for a month): https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/pricing/ You ca
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by asymptotic 6y ago
I successfully used Rust to create a shared library in a Flutter project that works on both iOS and Android. So far I've only published the iOS app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ezmempass/id1490538369 I
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by asymptotic 7y ago
I agree that AWS doesn't yet provide a clean all-in-one package for static website hosting. I think AWS Amplify Console [1] is the current official "all-in-one" service but I haven't used it. With the recent GA of AWS CD
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by asymptotic 11y ago
When would you want to block as you insert tasks into an ExecutorService already executing N concurrent tasks? Why not use "newFixedThreadPool" and don't block but stil keep a maximum of N concurrent tasks? Honest question, n
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by asymptotic 11y ago
If you're on Mac just create a sparse encrypted DMG using Disk Utility, put it into Dropbox, bam you're done. http://blog.fosketts.net/2011/07/05/mac-dropbox-encrypted-vo... I prefer applications to
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by asymptotic 11y ago
I might be being pedantic, but the only mention of 2FA in the OP is: "As a security conscious user who follows the best practices like: using unique passwords, 2FA, only using a secure computer and being able to spot phishing attacks f
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by asymptotic 11y ago
You can register for domains through AWS Route 53 and it'll automagically register on Gandi with WHOIS protection and link it up inside Route 53. You then don't need to leave the AWS UI, it just seems like it works magically. (I t
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by asymptotic 11y ago
For the deep learning vertex the OP states: "At the right vertex, we have Breiman's know-nothing approach—high-capacity models like neural nets, decision forests, and nonparametrics that will fit anything given enough data. This i
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by asymptotic 11y ago
I was also concerned about this when I was looking into Arq, so I wrote a cross-platform restoration tool that'll also work on Windows and Linux (not just Mac): https://github.com/asimihsan/arqinator This is purel
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Generating NSA codewords(coderwall.com)
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Show HN: Use textual queries to filter HTML tables(github.com)
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by asymptotic 15y ago
I love the author's complete disregard for what science actually is, and instead using the word as a synonym for something unstable and dangerous: "WHO KNOWS WHATS GONNA HAPPEN. DO IT FOR SCIENCE." It reminds me of Looney Tunes car
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by asymptotic 15y ago
While our universities are turning out very able graduates, well versed in the sexy new languages of Java, .Net and the like... ...BUWAHAHAHAHHA. The number of serious problems with this statement gave me a good chuckle.
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by asymptotic 15y ago
It's the knowledge that no matter how sucky a day turns out to be, I have done something to better myself. This, a hundred times. Especially if you do this first thing in the morning; keep this up on regular basis and you

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