dmw_ng

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by dmw_ng 4mo ago
Fixed just for you :) I always forget that <meta> tag.
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The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription(thoughts.hmmz.org)
388 points by dmw_ng 4mo ago|243 comments
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
I'm a restic user, but have resisted the urge to attempt a bikeshed for a long time, mostly due to perf. It's index format seems to be slow and terrible and the chunking algorithm it uses (rabin fingerprints) is very slow compared
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
That's been a feature of S3 for quite a long time now, called S3 Select https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/select... Despite it being an awesome feature I've been itching to use,
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
Modern .net on Linux is lovely, you can initialize a project, pull in the S3 client and write a 1-3 line C# program that AOT compiles to a single binary with none of the perf issues or GIL hand-wringing that plagues life in Python. Given mo
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
I recently bought an n100 and within a matter of days got buyer's remorse and impulse-purchased an n305 to go right beside it, which is currently sitting with a wildly overpriced 48 GB stick installed and 2TB SN850X, it's an absol
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
Seems like a massive distraction from their offering for a small company, wonder why they didn't consider something like tight integration with OnlyOffice or similar. Setting out to build a new office suite feels about as sensible as b
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
> converting huge amount of xml files > pickling Sounds like if this is the tooling and the task at hand, about the most complex things that should be passing through the pickler are partitioned lists of filenames rather than raw data
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
It's comical to see the sudo codebase mentioned in the same breath as increasing auditability here
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
Sufficiently fast software often allows leaving out whole layers of crap and needless indirection, the most common being caching. Fixing an algorithm so you can omit a dedicated database of intermediate results can be a huge maintainability
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
I've had similar times with DuckDB, it feels nicer to use on the surface but in terms of perf and actual function I've had a better experience with clickhouse-local.
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
SPF+DKIM+DMARC are a classic case of Goodhart's law, the amount of spam they stop these days (at least anecdotally) is minimal. Most spam I get seems to come via SalesForce infrastructure, and a variety of similar bulk email marketing
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
> Linux with HiDPI, is such a chore There's a simple broad-spectrum fix for that. For the odd occasion I want to view high definition photos in Linux I just switch screen mode temporarily, for the rest it is sooo not worth the hassl
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
CloudFlare does not provide unmetered anything, at best they provide services on a discretionary basis while trying as hard as possible to make it appear this is not the case. It's better to think of their product line as a CRM system
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
> do lots of useful work for free Have often wondered about this in terms of some of their control plane APIs, a read-only IAM key used as part of C&C infrastructure for a botnet might be interesting, you get DNS/ClientHello sig
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
I prefer your version: Barr replies to a tweet before gatecrashing the next S3 planning session. "A customer is hurting , folks!". The call immediately falls silent with only occasional gasps heard from stunned engineers, and the
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
Can't imagine a change like this would be made without some analysis.. would love an internal view into a decision like this, I wonder if they already have log data to compute financial loss from the change, or if they have sampling in
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
He did not "win in court", a consent order means both parties agreed to a mutual resolution prior to a judgement occurring. If I had to guess it was settled this way because of the time, misery and tremendous cost that would other
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
We only very briefly had that around the start of Win95, by the time 98 came around (IIRC) Explorer and definitely IE already had flat toolbar buttons that only had bevels when hovering. I remember fetishizing how clean those new style cont
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
I'm not promoting one way or the other, just pointing out why things are the way they are. Restarting a service with stateful networking is reason enough to avoid it where possible, watching entire buildings melt for 15 minutes because
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
There's a reason pretty much everything that does not require low latency replies avoids stateful networking - everything from RSS to video streaming prefers stateless polling designs because it is vastly easier for both parties to imp
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
AWS already give you intelligent tiering for this, it's a very nice product but it's also just a nice way of hiding the same fees. Your $0.004/GB becomes $0.023/GB on first read for 1 month then $0.0125/GB for 2 mon
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
At least magnetic disks are iops constrained, lower iops loads conceivably allow higher density, or packing different load patterns to the same devices. Say a 8 TB / 100 iops disk reserves 90 iops for a 1 TB a database service, that&#x
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
Try saying it out loud with 1 TB to recompress and host for a fraction of users to save some CPU, because if we're talking CPU we're talking latency, and there's not much point in changing if you're running zstd --ultra
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
A very happy moment for Yann no doubt, he mentioned Google's competing compression efforts directly impeding his work during a corecursive podcast interview ( https://corecursive.com/data-compression-yann-collet/
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
My best guess is their primary product is a Windows (I think) backup client that has a place for smarts allowing them to paper over problems, or something along those lines. Feels like an "oh Germany is down again, when is Frank back f
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
Nice to see this idea written about in detail. I had thought about it in the context of terrible availability bargain bucket storage (iDrive E2), where the cost of (3,2) erasure coding an object and distributing each segment to one of 3 reg
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
it is rumoured Flash Crabs will be out in the fall
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
I didn't read heroics in the above tweet and I'm more than a little confused about the sour grapes here. Is it too much to forgive inaccuracies in a 29 year old memory for such a low stakes issue, especially when there is a huge b
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by dmw_ng 2y ago
Tech has all the attention span of a goldfish https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/21/redis-labs-changes-its-ope...

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