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Distributed Systems Classics (2017)(nvartolomei.com)
349 points by grep_it 5d ago|75 comments
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by grep_it 19d ago
Did you read the article? “[…]because we can generate 1.2 METRIC BAJILLION valid URLs just for a single fork of linux.git.”
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by grep_it 21d ago
Sibling comment touched on it, and I guess rust does offer just that, but void casting and doing explicit offset checks for a field is one reason. You can kind of think of it like a tuple in that way and a db engine might use a similar tech
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by grep_it 21d ago
I think the size of linked binaries and simplicity were always the main features?
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by grep_it 22d ago
This reminds me how you can save a bunch of bytes just by making sure your structs are aligned. In go for example: type Wasteful struct { a int16 b int c byte } type Aligned struct { b int a int16 c byte }
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by grep_it 2mo ago
I always come back to this game whenever I'm at a hotel for a conference waiting for the elevator.
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Paxos Made Simple (2001) [pdf](lamport.azurewebsites.net)
65 points by grep_it 2mo ago|7 comments
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by grep_it 3mo ago
Awesome resource, thanks for sharing!
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Open Source Low Tech(opensourcelowtech.org)
675 points by grep_it 3mo ago|140 comments
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by grep_it 5mo ago
Except that eventually you'll find you lose a write when things go down because the page cache is write behind. So you start issuing fsync calls. Then one day you'll find yourself with a WAL and buffer pool wondering why you didn&
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The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) Berkeley DB(aosabook.org)
89 points by grep_it 8mo ago|12 comments
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by grep_it 8mo ago
Last I heard, DuckDuckGo backend was Perl.
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Load Balancing (2023)(samwho.dev)
5 points by grep_it 8mo ago|0 comments
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Clock synchronization is a nightmare(arpitbhayani.me)
232 points by grep_it 9mo ago|159 comments
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by grep_it 10mo ago
Relevant: https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2022/cidr2022-p13-crotty.pdf
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SO-YOU-DONT-HAVE-TO INCORPORATED'); DROP TABLE companies; --(sydht.ai)
3 points by grep_it 10mo ago|0 comments
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by grep_it 10mo ago
I love the authors style!
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PGM Format Specification(netpbm.sourceforge.net)
2 points by grep_it 10mo ago|0 comments
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by grep_it 11mo ago
Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications 2nd Edition is free to download for personal use at https://szeliski.org/Book/
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by grep_it 11mo ago
Really enjoyed this article, thanks for sharing! I had recently learned about using image pyramids[1] in conjunction with template matching algorithms like SAD to do simple and efficient object recognition, it was quite fun. 1: https:&#x2F
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Modulo Bias(irreal.org)
1 points by grep_it 11mo ago|0 comments
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by grep_it 11mo ago
I'm actually not all that opposed to some of these features, but the way it's implemented is so clunky. The UI make it feel like a half baked browser extension.
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Smooth weighted round-robin balancing(github.com)
29 points by grep_it 1y ago|3 comments
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by grep_it 1y ago
Is this rage-bait? A language alone doesn't dictate reliability. There are tons of large scale systems out there running on Python. As for the language being, "flawed irreversibly", I'd be curious to hear you expand on t
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by grep_it 1y ago
I still use pycharm, but these days I satisfy my debugging with pudb ( https://pypi.org/project/pudb/ ) which has been amazing and a good middle ground for the integrated debugger feel.
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AI is different(antirez.com)
499 points by grep_it 1y ago|887 comments
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by grep_it 1y ago
These are all great projects! When I find myself getting burnt out in my job I find that writing a little toy project usually helps be get back some spark. Some projects that weren't listed that I've enjoyed: - GUI based bot for a
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Implementing a Toy Optimizer (2022)(pypy.org)
3 points by grep_it 1y ago|0 comments
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Learning about Serializability Theory(siemens.blog)
3 points by grep_it 1y ago|0 comments
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by grep_it 1y ago
> Why Not Redis? I have a single VPS, so I can get by with a simple SQLite database. If I had many instances of my API on separate servers Just to push against this a bit. Redis can be very low memory cost and is very easy to run (I give

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