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by bminor13 10mo ago
> I think SQL is great for building everything Are you saying that you prefer SQL over PromQL for metrics queries? I haven't tried querying metrics via SQL yet, but generally speaking have found PromQL to be one of the easier query
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by bminor13 2y ago
Location: Raleigh, NC (US) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Backend programming (Go, C++, Rust), scripting (Python), build tools (Bazel, Buildbarn), and infra (Docker, Kubernetes) (and more!) Résumé/CV: h
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by bminor13 2y ago
In order to be in the same G-node, they'd need to have the same rank and be close in value (such that they were not "broken up" by a value in the next highest rank), right? Seems like brute-force search for adjacent values wi
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by bminor13 3y ago
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by bminor13 3y ago
> it seemed natural to have a set of generations for items that have only been seen once, and then another generation for things that have been more active Have you looked at ARC? It sounds similar - it is a cache split between LRU and M
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by bminor13 3y ago
Does anyone happen to have expertise/pointers on how ZFS' ARC interacts with Linux disk caching currently when using ZFS-on-Linux? It seems like the ARC space shows up as "used" despite being in a similar category of &qu
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by bminor13 3y ago
Check out https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/export-data-big... - you can configure GCP to spit out pricing data to bigquery, to be queried however you like. (I don't think it produces a volume
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by bminor13 3y ago
proto3 messsage fields allow for detecting set vs. not set; other field types (repeated, map, int32, string, bool, enum, etc.) have this "default value if not set" issue. The canonical way of handling this is to use wrapper messag
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by bminor13 3y ago
I can definitely sympathize here - in every context, just straight JSON/YAML configuration seems never expressive enough, but the tooling created in response always seems to come with sharp edges. Here are some of the things I apprecia
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by bminor13 4y ago
> shifting default workflows away from the standard client is one of those changes that doesn't serve users There is no "default workflow" for git - Git can be used in a variety of ways; everyone has their own personal pre
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by bminor13 4y ago
Question about this part of the hypermedia vs data APIs essay: "This new end point is driven entirely by hypermedia needs, not data model needs. This end point can go away if the hypermedia needs of the application change" Presuma
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by bminor13 4y ago
> but if we changed the culture to become more emotions-aware, people would know how to help each other and themselves far better. > Fixing psychological and emotional problems through cultural change just doesn't solve anything.
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by bminor13 4y ago
My only short exposure to Prolog was trying to implement custom submission rules in Gerrit. It made an utter fool out of me at every turn - it really seemed like an insane interface, compared to e.g. a Python or Javascript function that cou
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by bminor13 5y ago
No experience with Firecracker specifically, but if squashfs images are sufficient, one should be able to build a tar archive of the filesystem without root (where all the files have the correct owners, mode, etc.) and then convert it to sq
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by bminor13 5y ago
Location: Remote from US (currently CA) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C/C++, Embedded C/C++, Golang, Rust, Bazel, Docker, Postgres Resume: On request via email Email: hnjobs *at* scottminor.email Hey, I'm
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by bminor13 6y ago
I'm a fan of consistent behavior, but actually I'm on the side of not sleeping with a display plugged in. Going to sleep when there are no peripherals plugged in is only a sane default because there's no way to actually use t
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by bminor13 6y ago
That's true; inside `hello_i_accept_pointers` there's no syntax at callsites to indicate that a mutable pointer is being passed. However, the variable being passed is of pointer type, which is readily apparent from the context of
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by bminor13 6y ago
> the idea that Widget& implies something different about the likelihood of modification compared with Widget* is quite foreign to me. this is precisely what Widget const & is for. The issue is not ambiguity in the declaration, b
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by bminor13 6y ago
I have some nitpicks with the advice given in the table: > Q1: Yes Q2: - Q3: No Argument: `Widget& widget` ...or `Widget* widget`, which has drawbacks but makes it more clear at the callsite that the argument passed may be modified.
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by bminor13 7y ago
But this excerpt says that this technique obviates the need for a server process? Are they saving the contents of memory into files using mmap, and then using this state on every run?
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by bminor13 7y ago
A minor note in the article reads: > To minimize I/O and take advantage of operating system caching, csearch uses mmap to map the index into memory and in doing so read directly from the operating system's file cache. This make
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by bminor13 8y ago
Factorio is one of the most stimulating games I've ever played. It forces one to think about not only layout/design of a system but also the project management aspects - which parts to build when, when to take on "technical d
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by bminor13 9y ago
I used to work for Google - voluntarily left earlier this year. I'm not sure how much I am allowed to disclose about internal tools and processes, so I'll refer you to this article: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines&#
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by bminor13 10y ago
It may be only tangentially related to the genre, but Factorio has stolen far too many of my hours and is definitely worth the $20. It is engaging and challenging like no other game I've played in the past couple of years.
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by bminor13 10y ago
You can use the keyboard to move your army - moves get queued up as long as they're along friendly territory. Moving into enemy/neutral territory is more time consuming than along friendly, so part of the strategy involves conquer