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by pkaler 7d ago
I'll most likely be at Polyglot. I did a very small part to help organize one of the very early ones.
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by pkaler 7d ago
I'm sitting here at my desk overlooking Cordova Street. The street that Apache Cordova is named after. I've seen this debate for almost two decades now. Teams jump on the latest cross-platform framework assuming that it will red
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by pkaler 2mo ago
My mother worked in a factory that sewed drapes for film sets before she retired. My brother-in-law used to be an operations manager for a warehouse that rented equipment to film sets. There is just a very long tail of services and a robus
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by pkaler 3mo ago
I was never a prolific blogger. I do write a LOT internally at work and I write very long messages in group chats. With the advent of LLMs, I've felt even less need to publish publicly. It's as if an LLM can either produce somet
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by pkaler 4mo ago
I found the accompanying blog post excellent. In my experience, systems go from a monolith to a distributed monolith to a reliable distributed system. A durable workflow engine is one of the pieces that is required to get to target state.
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by pkaler 4mo ago
I'm also currently reading "On the Calculation of Volume". It is fantastic. Meta-comment about the post. I used to read and write book reviews like this all of the time. Not anymore. ChatGPT and Claude can do a just a goo
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by pkaler 5mo ago
Yup. Woke up at 6am. Child 1 woke up at 7am. Dropped her off at daycare at 8am. All the other children were being dropped off by their dads, too. Full day of work ahead. Dinner at 6pm. Bath at 7pm. Bedtime and story at 8pm. Usually
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by pkaler 7mo ago
As others have said, levels and titles are generally for compensation and performance reviews. Each company has their own bespoke ladder but it generally maps to: - L1: Intern with undergrad degree - L2: Intern with graduate degree
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by pkaler 8mo ago
SIMD and data locality. You probably want to check across three vectors simultaneously and load the coordinates next to each other. I'm guessing here. I haven't written video games in 20 years but struct packing/alignment w
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by pkaler 1y ago
I'm actually working on an app for myself to remind me of that. For example, there is a full glass of water sitting on my desk from 9am. It's noon. I haven't taken a sip. Until now. Constant reminders do work.
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by pkaler 2y ago
Agree! Most orgs should just be shipping features. Before starting an Experiment Program teams should be brainstorming a portfolio of experiments. Just create a spreadsheet where the first column is a one-line hypothesis of the experiment
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by pkaler 2y ago
Beg to differ. I live in Yaletown in one of the Concord Pacific towers. David Lam Park and George Wainborn Park are vibrant as is the whole seawall. My kid goes to the daycare along one of the parks. I'm sitting at my desk in an off
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by pkaler 2y ago
I have a 9 month old and we are drowning in toys. We have bought very few of them. The article is clearly not written by a parent because it barely touches on Buy Nothing Groups on Facebook. We've barely bought any clothes either. T
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by pkaler 2y ago
I sleep with Breathe Right strips. It's changed my life. Whoop band and 8Sleep confirm.
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by pkaler 2y ago
This is great. This reminds me of Chris Hecker's Rigid Body Dynamics series from GDMag/Gamasutra that I read (checks watch) almost 30 years ago! This is the classic/canonical set of articles. https://chrishecker.
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What if recent apartment buildings in Vancouver were 20% taller?(doodles.mountainmath.ca)
1 points by pkaler 2y ago|0 comments
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by pkaler 2y ago
(Aside: My goodness, Medium has gotten terrible. The article will not scroll for me because of some random overlay that won't dismiss. Why do publishers stay on Medium? I regret it every time I click a link.)
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by pkaler 3y ago
I don't have Instagram, Facebook, TikTok accounts. I don't watch Netflix. I don't play video games. Magically, I have hours per week to read books.
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by pkaler 3y ago
The term that you're looking for is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/jumpstart-fo...
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by pkaler 3y ago
> I never understood those annual release cycles anyway. Too artificial, too forced. Great for marketing hype, accumulating bugs, and missing out on documentation. Bad for quality. False! A foundational concept in Constraint Theory is t
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by pkaler 3y ago
>> A little insight on Vancouver: PRC investment firms decided that the steady growth of the North American real estate market looked to provide great returns on investment. So, these firms started buying up large numbers of single-fa
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by pkaler 3y ago
> I'm a fan of Arnold, but I think it's pretty clear that he suffers from issues stemming from his rough relationship with his father. Read the book and watch the Netflix documentary. I’m pretty sure Arnold is self-aware of his
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by pkaler 3y ago
I had a chance to look at an early version of Unblocked. I think the huge benefit is when you work in a microservices environment or with many clients. Over time, engineers get comfortable working on their own microservice but don’t have t
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A review of Number Go Up, on crypto shenanigans(bitsaboutmoney.com)
1 points by pkaler 3y ago|0 comments
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by pkaler 3y ago
GraphQL makes sense when you have: - Many teams with many micorservices with many underlying stores - A fetch-based architecture Each team can be responsible for implementing the resolver for their service along with caching, scali
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by pkaler 3y ago
This is Google at its 1990s COMDEX/Microsoft Vapourware worst. There is no product to try, no code samples, no documentation. Just an animated GIF of what the experience may be like and a signup link.
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by pkaler 3y ago
> Dumb question, what are invariants? The term that you want to Google or ask ChatGPT is "Design By Contract". An invariant is something that is true during the lifecycle of a class, function, loop, service, system, etc. Inva
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by pkaler 3y ago
This is a blast from a previous lifetime! I worked at Relic Entertainment during that time. Both Relic and Radical's offices were in Yaletown in Vancouver at that time, IIRC. Radical ended up moving to Main & Terminal. I worked
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by pkaler 3y ago
> He only really excelled at creating inhumane structures that only serve to impress the intelligentsia. It's not like you'd ever want to live in his austere glass boxes I read your comment while perched on a stool next to my k
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by pkaler 3y ago
This is for FreeBSD Firecracker. This means this is used for AWS Lambda and Fargate. A whole bunch of 2ms wins is how one would improve cold start time.

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