md5person

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by md5person 6y ago
> "While technically true... I don't see how it contributes anything useful to the conversation, so I downvoted it." If you don't see how it contributes to the conversation - why not just ignore it then? Just because
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by md5person 6y ago
Your explanation doesn't make sense to me. > "you commit the result if no other thread has stomped on your data" What does "committing" mean here? If it means performing an atomic write (a-la CAS), then you'
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by md5person 6y ago
I wonder why every single comment I leave in this thread is getting down-voted. This community has truly deteriorated over the years.
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by md5person 6y ago
Yes, that aligns more closely with my mental model of a "lock-free algorithm", but what I see in practicality is people avoiding (or re-inventing) synchronization primitives, thinking that they don't belong in a "lock-fr
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by md5person 6y ago
> "the lock duration is strictly bounded; it is determined by the application or the thread-scheduler" Practically speaking - wouldn't the exact duration be heavily influenced by the countless layers of abstraction beneath
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by md5person 6y ago
> "lock-free" I never liked that term. Lock-free algorithms will usually boil down to some combination of polling, waiting (sleep(), futex-style), or use what are essentially more fine-grained, hardware-backed locks (CAS, memor
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by md5person 6y ago
> "6% get 1.3% => 5x too little. I think we can cry a little." Surely there's more to it than just percentages and genders? First, how many companies are we actually talking about here? The Nordics are a smaller market
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by md5person 6y ago
> "In reality very very few ISPs are giving one IPv6 address per customer" In actual reality, global IPv6 adoption is at ~33% [0, 1], so I'd say this is, at best, a premature and naive presumption. ISPs actively engage i
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by md5person 6y ago
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted, but I think it's yet another confirmation that this place has gone full Reddit.
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by md5person 6y ago
> " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G6oRuu9tLg " Content aside - I feel like this video is terribly edited, scripted and produced. It's impossible to follow - thanks to all the shallow jokes, weird cuts and
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Ask HN: People with custom domain names: what's the plan if you lose the domain?
10 points by md5person 6y ago|6 comments
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by md5person 6y ago
To people using custom domains (for email, etc): what is your plan in-case you end up losing the domain name (either temporarily, or otherwise)? How do you prepare for this, reduce the risk, etc? Losing your domain name can happen due to an
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by md5person 6y ago
> "What I see here is a senior manager type, maybe a VP or a bit below it, who needs numbers that go dramatically up and to the right in the short term and is thinking about their own personal success." I mean, there are plenty
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by md5person 6y ago
I think some of the artifacts on the video at 0:12 (handbag thing) are very noticeable. Same thing at 0:19 (cat)and at 0:28 (cat again). Otherwise, looks nice :)
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by md5person 6y ago
> "In my coffee analogy, the promotion of the fair-trade alternative would be based on the fair-trade mechanism for ensuring the lower levels of the production chain receive a fairer share of the income. Whether or not the author pa
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by md5person 6y ago
> "I gave you an example by quoting how expensive it is to run a "free" jitsi service." That's an entirely meaningless argument. Here's what you're doing: > "I run a large-ish jitsi instance: ap
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by md5person 6y ago
> "You seem to fail to grasp the difference between "free as in beer" (gratis) and "free as in freedom" (libre)." Why are we going back-and-forth about this again? I previously asked whether there were concr
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by md5person 6y ago
This isn't an accurate analogy, is it? We're discussing an educational institution with power and authority (MIT), which promotes drinking "free coffee", whilst simultaneously portraying it as somehow morally superior to
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by md5person 6y ago
> "Sussman means free as in freedom, not free as in beer :) (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software)" Sure, but conveniently enough, the software listed in the parent article [0] all happens to b
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by md5person 6y ago
What's wrong with having to pay for software? Or learning to accept that some software is proprietary? Or even with learning to use the right tool for the job, even if that "right tool" may sometimes come at a cost? Students
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by md5person 6y ago
I think it's because the generated text will generally follow a reasonable "structure", it's "framed" relatively well and you (as a person) will recognize those patterns quickly. There's plenty of "gl
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by md5person 7y ago
Who is this for exactly? I don't see how the target can be entirely non-technical people, since this still assumes some knowledge around databases/functions/REST/HTTP/Schemas/etc. Technical people have very lit
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Ask HN: Secure Domain Consignment
2 points by md5person 7y ago|2 comments
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by md5person 7y ago
> "Who cares if an application's UI elements look the same across platforms?" Designers. End users simply want a functional, working product. Polish on top is a nice added bonus, but these days it's been turned into t
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by md5person 8y ago
I appreciate the idealistic take on what a "principal" role should be like, but in all actuality, principal engineers are commonly the ones that simply stayed there long enough (ie. to survive multiple re-orgs), and played their p