avdempsey

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by avdempsey 2y ago
Internet Archive | https://archive.org | Full-Time | Remote PT-ET Hours | Non-Profit Help build web crawlers, preservation, and public access services for over one thousand partner libraries and other cultural heritage instituti
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by avdempsey 3y ago
Our department is still in a world of ansible and VMs, so we can't yet take advantage of some of the work that's gone into making it easy to run in k8s. We're using Postgres for Temporal's persistence because we're
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by avdempsey 3y ago
We’ve been using temporal (the Python SDK) for some new projects at Internet Archive. It’s early days but we’re very excited. We run our own infrastructure, and we get more power-loss events or other intermittent issues than most. The durab
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by avdempsey 4y ago
In my career I've seen resources pulled away from QA teams (sometimes completely disbanding). It would be interesting to see things swing the other way.
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by avdempsey 4y ago
I'm more or less waiting on the same thing, but wonder how many it will be able to pick up. The maintainer states somewhere that many of Pylint's remaining checks involve type-checking and inferring types for less than fully typed
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by avdempsey 4y ago
Internet Archive | Data Engineer | Remote (US, CA) | Full-Time | archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit building a free library of all of the published works of humanity to share with the world. We're not there yet, but we'v
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by avdempsey 4y ago
Does ActivityPub support hierarchical federation? Or could it be grafted on?
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by avdempsey 4y ago
The meat and meatspace “replacements” are bridge technologies that reduce the suffering of animals and people respectively. Sometimes a vegan just wants a burger. Sometimes an exec just needs a little help to let go. Sure these bridges have
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by avdempsey 4y ago
You can get pretty far if you don't have much in the way of concurrent writes. Concurrent writes can be safe mind you, but that safety comes from locks that are polled against at increasingly long intervals (at least in my experience b
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by avdempsey 4y ago
I don’t think there is any scheduling. Each connection polls to see if the write lock is available up to the max busy timeout setting. The connection polls at these intervals: static const u8 delays[] = { 1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 25,
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by avdempsey 5y ago
Internet Archive | Software Engineer | Remote | Full-Time | archive.org How do you build a machine that preserves the ever-changing cultural expression of humanity and make it free for all? https://archive.org/about/job
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by avdempsey 5y ago
Internet Archive (archive.org) | Multiple Positions | Remote (SF HQ) | Full Time Interested in a mission-driven job ensuring perpetual open access to information for a global audience? Enjoy helping scale the use of services and products cr
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by avdempsey 5y ago
Internet Archive (archive.org) | Multiple Positions | Remote (SF HQ) | Full Time Interested in a mission-driven job ensuring perpetual open access to information for a global audience? Enjoy helping scale the use of services and products cr
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by avdempsey 5y ago
Internet Archive (archive.org) | Sr Software Engineer | Remote (SF HQ) Interested in a mission-driven job ensuring perpetual open access to information for a global audience? Enjoy helping scale the use of services and products critical to
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by avdempsey 5y ago
That claim struck me as extraordinary, but sure enough: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_sea_level
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by avdempsey 6y ago
Check out the, serious, Pleistocene Park project: https://pleistocenepark.ru/ The basic argument runs like this: reintroduce still living species (and then megafauna), megafauna turn forests into grasslands (see what modern
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by avdempsey 6y ago
Internet Archive - Web and Data Services | Software Engineer | San Francisco & Remote https://internetarchive.applytojob.com/apply/6tYI5QGrTE/Seni... The Internet Archive is a non-profit working to provide uni
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by avdempsey 6y ago
Do you have some recommended reading? I enjoyed reading Neil Postman’s Technopoly, but any contemporaries you find particularly insightful?
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by avdempsey 6y ago
The temporal dimension is just as important as space. Adding a year between eating meat and a plant-based diet also makes the alternatives more appealing. After being meat and dairy free for awhile my cravings changed. I guess our brains ar
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by avdempsey 6y ago
Your phrase "each layer of indirection" made the following analogy pop into my head: eating meat is like using an electron app running in a VM. I suppose "bare metal" would be if we could ourselves photosynthesize, alas.
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by avdempsey 7y ago
While this link is very interesting, its advice doesn’t seem to completely pertain to the kind of “single deployment” APIs most of us are probably making. From the draft: “This document specifies best practices for writing specifications th
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by avdempsey 7y ago
Sure enough, the rich text formatting is copied. The workaround I have for this is the Get Plain Text app. It strips all formatting from copied text (either automatically or on a keyboard shortcut). Sad it's required for this use case.
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by avdempsey 8y ago
I think you’re right that they need to be more affordable, and I think they will be as the market grows.
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by avdempsey 8y ago
It can be surprising how little code you're actually using from the Go-Kit project, and how it's really more of a structure for your app. It will not save you time typing: each route can have a transport request decoder and respon
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by avdempsey 9y ago
Fascinating! I don't think the article went into what physically encoded numbers into the probability streams to begin with, only mentioning that this is simple. Does anyone know about that? Is this happening on the analog to digital c
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by avdempsey 9y ago
If you can make a transition to a high protein, mostly plant-based diet work in the U.S., then that gives you an existential proof that it would someday be possible for countries further back in the consumption curve. At the same time, we a
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by avdempsey 9y ago
By the same token, a gradual increase in the legal and customary respect shown to animals could inculcate a growing respect for our fellow humans.
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by avdempsey 9y ago
This looks pretty sweet so far. I love having multiple panes, multiple tabs, and good shortcuts. When you click on a row it also appears in a vertical orientation in the sidebar on the right, that's a nice touch. Today, I use mysql in
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by avdempsey 9y ago
There are some short term wins of course, especially as they can use this to paint their competitors’ business model and strengths as a negative. But I think this approach will pay additional dividends when they move deeper into healthcare
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by avdempsey 9y ago
My understanding is they try to mitigate this by having a minimum account balance to participate.

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