megamalloc

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by megamalloc 24d ago
Obviously the menu should be named "Translation Unit" right?
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by megamalloc 1mo ago
Unless it can load old programs off cassette tape I'm out. No way I'll be re-keying them again! I remember transcribing long BASIC programs from printouts in an enthusiast magazine my dad subscribed to when he got the TRS-80.
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by megamalloc 3mo ago
I don't believe it does. As I understand it, the load balancer has a queue in which it can buffer infinite requests, but it drains that queue by pushing work to the backend servers in what's probably a round-robin fashion. So th
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by megamalloc 3mo ago
No, I mean when you have a queue broker that the backends can pull work from when they become idle, rather than relying on load balancing which will send work to backends while they're still busy.
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by megamalloc 3mo ago
What's conspicuously missing is the plot of performance when you do have a well tuned queue in front of the service. Yes, having a queue becomes less important the more backend servers you have, but here even with 10 servers the plot s
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by megamalloc 5mo ago
I think you confuse beliefs with values by placing that at the root. I'd have a problem with it if my tax bracket were determined by whether I loved the Christian Lord rather than any other deity. People of different faiths band togeth
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by megamalloc 7mo ago
Many, many years ago I was a dedicated Emacs user. My recollection is that there was a very lightweight binary that would launch a single window utilising an existing Emacs process that (of course) you usually alrwady had running, to show a
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by megamalloc 1y ago
The bad thing about these sort of tools is when you work in a shop where multiple platforms are used for development and one of the platforms doesn't support the tool, or the tool fights with other tooling on that platform. You should
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by megamalloc 1y ago
Very interesting take that is probably true in my experience. (And not to say I doubt you at all but would be interested in a citation for that correlation.) I think also that bright people like to solve problems, and not all bright people
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by megamalloc 2y ago
Mostly pretty sound advice here, but oh, this rankles! -- "In situations where bugs aren’t mission critical (ex. 99% of web apps), you’re going to get further with shipping fast and fixing bugs fast, than taking the time to make sure y
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by megamalloc 2y ago
Fact checking : the monarch does not have to ask permission to enter the City. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=City_of_London_...
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by megamalloc 2y ago
For direct user interactions (such as opening a combo box) the threshold of perception is actually much closer to 30ms than 300ms. 300ms is usable but far from a pleasure to use. I found myself interacting with a Windows Server 2008 VM t
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by megamalloc 3y ago
I strongly disagree on this. If a search with no results costs them about the same amount of compute as one with results, then satisfying that requirement would give them a commercial incentive to lie to you about whether they have any goo