baronvonsp

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by baronvonsp 1mo ago
Actually, funnily enough. I grew up in Texas and customarily say "howdy" as a greeting, and I grew up using it just as you say. I found it confusing for a while that coworkers who weren't native English speakers, particularly
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by baronvonsp 3mo ago
Yeah that's called survivorship bias. The ones that make it to market can be wildly profitable to manufacture . Doing all the work to sift through what does and doesn't work to discover new vaccines wouldn't happen without
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by baronvonsp 4mo ago
> AWS makes it annoying to be resilient as AZs aren't transparent to their users What does transparent mean here? AWS is super clear what resources are zonal and provides tons of guidance around making things multi-AZ. AZ outages ar
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by baronvonsp 6mo ago
Ha. Different bug (sentient yogurt cultures) but sort of explored quite amusingly by Love, Death & Robots Season 1 - https://lovedeathrobots.fandom.com/wiki/When_the_Yogurt_Took...
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by baronvonsp 2y ago
Those sound to me like the very definition of optimizations that are not premature though. His goal was to teach foundational elements of running programs on computers. Loops and sorts are used all over the place and improvements scale with
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by baronvonsp 2y ago
They're distinct words that say exactly what they do. They're only hard to keep straight if you haven't taken a few minutes to understand the underlying concepts (and, in a field of complex and nuanced concepts, these are har
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by baronvonsp 2y ago
These are widely-used industry terms that have been used for decades. If that was a problem, surely we would have seen it by now? Replacing terms - that have been around so long that many systems' behaviors map to them closely - with n
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by baronvonsp 3y ago
The exact analogy that came to mind for me. Plus, relational databases don't just sit under a single application. There's usually multiple applications/services talking to them. Worse, humans connect to them an do all sorts o
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by baronvonsp 9y ago
While fewer workloads today are CPU-bound in general, these will probably be an especially big win for commercial software use cases in particular. Customers running workloads with processor-based licensing (think databases) now have more o
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by baronvonsp 9y ago
Totally agree. There's a lot wrong with them[1], but the audio is good enough and overall I find myself using them way more often than the EarPods so there's some proof in the pudding. [1] - BT just isn't great tech and there
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by baronvonsp 10y ago
Sure. Why would you want to?
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by baronvonsp 10y ago
A single radar return at just he right angle might make the soda can look huge. But with multiple sensors moving relative to the soda can and sampling at 10Hz, you end up able to form a "real" composite of the object