mleonhard

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by mleonhard 2mo ago
The problem is that the system is RAM-constrained but the work scheduler doesn't use a RAM pressure signal. We could solve this with a crate that rate-limits new tasks based on heap usage. We could build this into the runtime and make
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by mleonhard 2mo ago
It's hard to tell how much care was put into futures_orchestra crate. The docs are generated. I don't see any benchmark in the repo. Performance claims without measurements are a red flag.
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by mleonhard 6mo ago
> Inexplicably, major advances in this area 15-20 years ago under the auspices of government programs never bled into the academic literature even though it materially improved the situation. Would you please share some more info about t
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by mleonhard 8mo ago
s/Prolificacy/Verbosity/
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by mleonhard 8mo ago
Over-exaggeration also works well when learning to play stringed instruments like cello.
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Taming the CI Monster: How I Slashed Our Monorepo Build Times by over 66%(kmaliszewski9.github.io)
3 points by mleonhard 9mo ago|1 comments
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by mleonhard 10mo ago
Is any datacenter's water use significant compared to other industrial installations? According to that article, all datacenters in North Holland use 550 Ml/yr. North Holland has 2.95M residents [0], who use 129 l/person-da
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by mleonhard 11mo ago
> // Start a background task that takes the lock and holds it for a few seconds. Holding a lock while waiting for IO can destroy a system's performance. With async Rust, we can prevent this by making the MutexGuard !Send,
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by mleonhard 11mo ago
I spent some years working for a large NGO (Opportunity International) and living with people who work for NGOs. NGOs must constantly raise money to fund their operations. The money that an NGO spends on fund-raising & administration i
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by mleonhard 11mo ago
When I used AWS startup credits in 2019, the AWS console made it very difficult to estimate the bill after the credits ran out. I lost a lot of trust in AWS. Also, there were buried mines in the APIs, like the risk of bad logging running
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by mleonhard 1y ago
I think that async in Rust has a significant devex/velocity cost. Unfortunately, nearly all of the effort in Rust libraries has gone into async code, so the async libraries have outpaced the threaded libraries. There was only one thre
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by mleonhard 1y ago
I think Cisco SNMP vulnerabilities have been appearing for 20 years or more. I wish someone would add a fuzzer to their release testing script.
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by mleonhard 1y ago
I took an "Architecting on AWS" class and half of the content was how to replicate complicated physical networking architectures on AWS's software-defined network: layers of VPCs, VPC peering, gateways, NATs, and impossible-t
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by mleonhard 1y ago
How does one handle errors with MESH? To handle errors in HTMX, I like to use config from [0] to swap responses into error dialogs and `hx-on-htmx-send-error` [1] and `hx-on-htmx-response-error` [2] to show the dialogs. For some components
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by mleonhard 1y ago
Yes. With HTMX, one can put a page definition and its endpoints in one file. It has high cohesion. There's no integration with routers, state stores, or rpc handlers. There are no DTOs shared between the frontend and backend. It ha
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by mleonhard 1y ago
VPN providers do not have reputations for making secure or reliable software. Here's a good privacy proxy (VPN) setup: Set up a second wifi router, enable the "Internet kill switch", and connect it with Wireguard to a reputab
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by mleonhard 1y ago
According to IIHS insurance loss data, https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/auto-insurance/insurance... , here's the chance of being injured while riding in one of these cars (and filing an insurance claim) re
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by mleonhard 1y ago
BART is a government organization and all California government employee pay is public. You can see that BART has about 40 software engineers and they earn about 70% of the market rate: https://transparentcalifornia.com/sal
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by mleonhard 1y ago
Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Rust, TypeScript, Golang, Java, Ruby, Python, Postgres, htmx, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, AWS, ECS, Kubernetes, Datadog, Sentry, React, HTML&#x2
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by mleonhard 1y ago
> There is no “simplifying force” acting on the code base other than deliberate choices that you make. Simplifying takes effort, and people are too often in a hurry. There is a simplifying force: the engineers on the project who care abo
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Thermal facial image analyses predict age and metabolic diseases(cell.com)
3 points by mleonhard 1y ago|0 comments
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by mleonhard 1y ago
If the leaders of these companies actually cared about worker productivity, they would grab the low-hanging fruit and give their employees workspaces where they can concentrate, not crowded open-plan offices surrounded by meeting rooms.
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by mleonhard 1y ago
Does it have tooling to help keep Python [0] and TypeScript [1] DTOs in sync? [0] https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar-fullstack/blob/0996... [1] https://github.com/litestar-org/lites
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by mleonhard 1y ago
Please explain.
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by mleonhard 1y ago
Your comment expresses what I've been thinking. Doing the Staff Engineer role requires close alignment with one's management chain. Working at level 2 (working for the success of the company) is only possible with a manager who
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by mleonhard 1y ago
I found a useful intro "Mastering Claude Code in 30 minutes - Anthropic" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eBSHbLKuN0
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Ask HN: How to learn SOTA LLM-assisted coding skills?
1 points by mleonhard 1y ago|2 comments
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by mleonhard 1y ago
https://github.com/Themaister/pyrowave
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by mleonhard 1y ago
Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: within the SF Bay Area Technologies: TypeScript, Rust, Golang, Java, Ruby, Python, Postgres, htmx, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, AWS, ECS, Kubernetes, Datadog, Sent
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by mleonhard 1y ago
I solved my RSI symptoms by keeping my arms warm all the time, while awake or asleep. Maybe that will work for you, too?

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