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by philippta 12d ago
I benchmarked Postgres in single- and muti-node setup against CockroachDB a while ago and my findings match what this post is talking about. https://github.com/philippta/postgresql-cockroachdb-benchmar...
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by philippta 15d ago
I recently learned that Odin has fully-featured text editing primitives in its core library. Coupled with the bundled raylib library, it should be fairly easy to build a GUI text editor from scratch. https://pkg.odin-lang.org&#x2
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by philippta 17d ago
I think TVs are just used as a residential proxies. No remote controlled chrome is running there.
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by philippta 17d ago
Having watched both, they cover completey different topics.
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by philippta 20d ago
I recently heard a great analogy for this exact problem under the premise of "Make it work, make it right, make it fast". Assume a sorting algorithm as a metaphor for your whole program. You make it work by implementing the simple
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by philippta 1mo ago
That might apply to personal users. But to businesses the switching cost is just too high. We had a discussion about it on our team. It was decided to keep using GitHub unfortunately.
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by philippta 1mo ago
The most shocking thing to me about the entire GitHub fiasco is: No matter how bad the uptime is, no matter how bad the UI is. We will keep using the software / service we depend on. Why do we as software engineers have set fault toler
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by philippta 1mo ago
See Casey's code snippets here: https://github.com/unclebob/cmuratori-discussion/blob/main/c...
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by philippta 1mo ago
> There are surely cases where having an interface as an abstraction and multiple implementations makes sense. I think most people aren't aware of the alternative, which is: A function that can call different implementations based o
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by philippta 2mo ago
Even in memory safe Rust, out-of-bounds array access also results in crashes. The whole point of memory safety is that bugs can not be exploited. A memory safe program does not mean a crash safe program.
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by philippta 4mo ago
To me this looks like a cool demo product. Yet, the problem it's solving could be equally solved by a well integrated all-in-one business suite. I don't run a small business myself, but I assume the scope of administrative tasks i
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Number. Everyone gets one. (App)(yournumber.app)
2 points by philippta 4mo ago|1 comments
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by philippta 4mo ago
Not my app. Saw it online and found it funny. I'm #27
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by philippta 5mo ago
In the recent Dwarkesh Podcast episode Jensen Huang (Nvidia) said that virtually nobody but Anthropic uses TPUs. How does that add up?
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nbio: A non-blocking I/O and event loop abstraction in Odin(pkg.odin-lang.org)
2 points by philippta 5mo ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Did you ever consciously create technical debt?
2 points by philippta 6mo ago|3 comments
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The Missing Piece of AI Discourse Is Trust(philipptanlak.com)
1 points by philippta 7mo ago|0 comments
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by philippta 7mo ago
Wookash Podcast
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by philippta 7mo ago
That's completely relatable, and also a major point in my original argument. Using heavily abstracted frameworks will automatically cap you performance wise. The only way out is to not use a framework or one that's known to be lig
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by philippta 7mo ago
Nobody expects you to know that, but I'm curious to hear how do you know it for backend code but not frontend code. Have any examples?
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by philippta 7mo ago
It's not too diffcut in the browser either. Consider how often you're making copies of your data and try to reduce it. For example: - for loops over map/filter - maps over objects - .sort() over .toSorted() - mutable over imm
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by philippta 7mo ago
It always comes as a surprise to me how the same group of people who go out of their way to shave off the last milliseconds or microseconds in their tooling care so little about the performance of the code they ship to browsers. Not to disc
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by philippta 8mo ago
> They use Claude to skip the typing, not the thinking. They're 10x faster than two years ago. I'm not sure a 10x increase in typing speed makes you a 10x developer.
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by philippta 9mo ago
I've raised this exact point to many team leads throughout my career. Yet, they unanimously said, they are interested or need to know the progress. I can't say if thats what they have to report to their managers, but I assume it&
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by philippta 9mo ago
For the handful of regularly visited websites, I wouldn't mind.
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by philippta 9mo ago
When I connect my server over SSH, I don't have to rotate anything, yet my connection is always secure. I manually approve the authenticity of the server on the first connection. From then, the only time I'd be prompted again woul
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by philippta 9mo ago
Perhaps our industry should adopt a different approach, that fills in the gap between those. - You host open-source software on your own hardware. - You pay a company for setup and maintenance by the hour.
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by philippta 9mo ago
> I saw from the SSD was around 800 MB/s (which doesn’t really make sense as that should give execution speeds at 40+ seconds, but computers are magical so who knows what is going on). If anyone knows what’s actually going on, pleas
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by philippta 9mo ago
> LLM-generated code should not be reviewed by others if the responsible engineer has not themselves reviewed it. To extend that: If the LLM is the author and the responsible engineer is the genuine first reviewer, do you need a second e
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by philippta 10mo ago
That would be shared ownership again.

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