nickmonad

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by nickmonad 13d ago
TigerStyle is strictly concerned about dynamic allocation from the perspective of the OS. Once you have that pool of "objects" that can be recycled throughout the lifetime of the program, you have a guarantee that actual allocatio
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by nickmonad 20d ago
Speed doesn't mean anything if you end up driving off a cliff.
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by nickmonad 1mo ago
> Our experience is that vendor should make the new upgrade available and notify the customer, customer can run its change-control pipeline and approve the version, the control plane automates rollout/health-check/rollback, etc
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by nickmonad 1mo ago
I work on a pretty large BYOC deployment that we market as such, but is squarely in the "self-hosted" / on-prem model. We don't maintain any connection back to our environment and updates are driven by customers. It&#x27
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by nickmonad 2mo ago
If anybody is reading this and wants to hire somebody with said Zig experience, call me. (Link in bio)
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by nickmonad 2mo ago
I'm not as interested in game development but I'm one of these web/cloud people who finds graphics work extremely therapeutic. I made a box move around on the screen with various easing animations and it was some of the most
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by nickmonad 2mo ago
I haven't written any serious Rust in a while, but I assume there is some kind of lifetime annotation involved. The "objects" allocated in the arena have to be explicitly given the same lifetime as the arena itself. I have no
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by nickmonad 2mo ago
Zig still offers a lot of great additions that make systems work more reliable. Optionals and comptime are two helpful things C does not have, and there are plenty others. One of their core devs addressed this in a thread over on Lobsters [
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by nickmonad 2mo ago
He's not. > "There's a dichotomy being presented here where you have to either choose a "style guide" or a programming language feature in order to avoid bugs. The sleight of hand misdirects the reader away from
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by nickmonad 3mo ago
Andrew doesn't strike me as someone who does any marketing at all. He just wants to make the language he wants to use, and does it well. Sometimes its just right time, right place. But also, Zig has received attention via projects like
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by nickmonad 4mo ago
Yep. He mentioned recently in his JetBrains interview he wants Zig to be a language for the next 50 years. Rushing 1.0 for the sake of signaling to the wider industry today would be actively harmful to that goal.
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by nickmonad 4mo ago
Yeah or anybody who can still actually read code.
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by nickmonad 5mo ago
Sure. I'm just saying in the context where fully-managed SaaS was already decided not to be an option, and a customer is deploying vendor code in their environments, the update mechanism can in fact be a problem. It's not just poo
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by nickmonad 5mo ago
I agree that keeping things up to date is a good practice, and it would be nice if enterprise CISOs would get on board with that. One challenge we've seen is that other aspects of the business don't want things to be updated autom
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by nickmonad 5mo ago
> So you're stuck debugging a system you don't control, through screenshots and copy-pasted logs on a Zoom call. This is very real. I work with a deployment that operates in this fashion. Although unfortunately, we can't m
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by nickmonad 5mo ago
On the streaming side, are you looking for Change Data Capture? https://docs.tigerbeetle.com/operating/cdc/
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by nickmonad 5mo ago
Did you try asking the model?
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by nickmonad 6mo ago
Spam bots.
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by nickmonad 7mo ago
> It's a type of team building, improves employee morale and humanizes management. All lead to improved productivity in the long term. Yes, but the important distinction is that its intention is to bring people together face-to-face
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by nickmonad 7mo ago
I agree to a point. Although, alcohol (when consumed responsibly) has a social element to it, so companies having a "beers on Friday after 4pm" just feels different than "here's nicotine so you can be more productive and
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by nickmonad 7mo ago
Not allowed.
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by nickmonad 7mo ago
Yeah definitely something that would've been posted as a joke in a "HN front-page 10 years from now" kind of thing.
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by nickmonad 7mo ago
You turn it on, and it scales right up.
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by nickmonad 7mo ago
Unless you're doing OLTP. Then, TigerBeetle ;)
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by nickmonad 8mo ago
https://nickmonad.blog/ Trying to blog more frequently with shorter posts!
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by nickmonad 8mo ago
Narrowing in on background color is an extreme oversimplification of what Tailwind provides. I found it to be a great tool for working with CSS, especially for layout. Business viability can be debated, but the value is way beyond what you
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by nickmonad 8mo ago
I agree with the sentiment that companies should help fund open source they depend on, but I think it's a stretch to say those business succeeded "only" because of Tailwind. It's a great project, although I'm pretty
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by nickmonad 9mo ago
Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying! I guess I wasn't super concerned about the 'try' failing here since this code is squarely in the initialization path, and I want the OOM to bubble up to main() and crash. Although to be fair, 1.
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by nickmonad 9mo ago
Would love to read this, although I'm seeing some pretty horrific code formatting issues in both Firefox and Chrome.
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by nickmonad 9mo ago
Hey matklad! Thanks for hanging out here and commenting on the post. I was hoping you guys would see this and give some feedback based on your work in TigerBeetle. You mentioned, "E.g., in OP, memory is leaked on allocation failures.&q

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