rwiggins

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by rwiggins 1y ago
Hmm. I stick to jq for basically any JSON -> JSON transformation or summarization (field extraction, renaming, etc.). Perhaps I should switch to scripts more. uv is... such a game changer for Python, I don't think I've inte
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by rwiggins 1y ago
Oh wow, that's fantastic. I love that it includes real values while still summarizing the doc's structure. I'm going to steal that. I'll probably keep jq-structure around because it's so easy to copy/paste path
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by rwiggins 1y ago
Oh, fantastic. jq has become an integral part of work for me. I'll use this opportunity to plug the one-liner I use all the time, which summarizes the "structure" of a doc in a jq-able way: https://github.com/
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by rwiggins 1y ago
> how clear and useful it is. Perhaps, but do you really need all that? Do I need clear and useful things? Maybe not. Would I like to have them anyway? Yes. Years ago, I configured a Java project's logging framework to automatic
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by rwiggins 2y ago
It's been so long that I barely remember the details, but yes, we used a gnomon to calculate several things... the earth's circumference, our local solar noon, latitude and longitude, etc. I specifically remember that we measured
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by rwiggins 2y ago
> Have you ever done the experiments to prove the Earth is round? I have, actually! Thanks, astronomy class! I've even estimated the earth's diameter, and I was only like 30% off (iirc). Pretty good for the simplistic method an
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by rwiggins 2y ago
Setting aside that you can enable mouse mode in vim and use the mouse to your heart's desire -- and setting aside the "declarative" vs "imperative" nomenclature debate -- vim is pretty dang efficient. Typing `gg` to
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by rwiggins 2y ago
Yeah, having the read the article, my conclusion was that you should avoid honeycrisps from like February through ~August. i.e. only buy them when they're vaguely in season, or not too long afterward. Anecdotally, I had some pretty del
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by rwiggins 2y ago
Errr, not in the rural area I grew up in. Gravel driveways are super common, gravel roads not so much. To give some specifics: I only remember driving down an actual gravel road (like, for public use) a single time. In 18 years. Even my f
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by rwiggins 2y ago
Maybe area-dependent? I grew up in an extraordinarily rural area in Tennessee. Most roads were paved (asphalt). Even ones out in the middle of nowhere. The conditions of some of the remote roads might not have been great, mind you... and
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by rwiggins 2y ago
I felt the same way initially, but the language has grown on me. The turning point was writing a lot of Go, like full-time project work for a few months. But as I've gotten older, I've started striving more and more for simplic
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by rwiggins 2y ago
It's a link to source code on GitHub. It could be marketing too, but it's absolutely, incontrovertibly source code.
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by rwiggins 2y ago
> show us the code if it's that easy to give to others See https://security.apple.com/documentation/private-cloud-compu... disclosure: work at Apple, opinions absolutely my own.
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by rwiggins 2y ago
I haven't used Terraform in years (because I changed jobs, not because of the tech itself), but back in the day v0.12 solved most of my gripes. I have always wished they'd implement a better "if" syntax for blocks, becau
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by rwiggins 2y ago
Out of curiosity, how would you describe TCP in these terms? Does the TCP stack's handling of sequence numbers constitute processing (on the client and server both I assume)? Which part(s) of a TCP connection could be described as deli
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by rwiggins 2y ago
Page not found - is that a private repo?
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by rwiggins 2y ago
The source is on GitHub: utils.js, which contains the (de)serialization code: https://github.com/ccbikai/loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... tool.js, which does the serialization: https://github.com/cc
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by rwiggins 2y ago
Unlike SO, it's common to have very situation-specific questions posted on YAQS. In fact, my team preferred random one-off questions to go through YAQS (our contact golink pointed you to a monitored YAQS queue) precisely because they
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by rwiggins 2y ago
Exactly this. It's not uncommon to ask a coworker how to do something, get a response, and then send them a follow-up CL adding that information to a playbook or doc somewhere so others can reference it. Heck, sometimes I responded to
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by rwiggins 2y ago
Best/worst. I worked at an e-learning company that, thanks to ancient e-learning standards, really tried hard to figure out when a user is leaving a web-page to handle session exits gracefully. sendBeacon was dead on arrival, for tha
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by rwiggins 2y ago
There's a fourth use-case: occasionally, gaming. I play Final Fantasy XIV, an MMORPG - apparently, supposedly, the peering connection between AT&T and FFXIV's US ISP (NTT) was particularly bad. [1] This manifested as pretty se
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by rwiggins 3y ago
Super cool. I always enjoy reading about systems that challenge, well, "ossified" assumptions. An OS not providing a shell, for example? Madness! ... or is it genius, if the OS has a specific purpose...? It's thought-provokin
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by rwiggins 3y ago
It has indeed been a strange time for Google SRE recently. However, they're definitely not planning on shutting down SRE - at least, if you can trust what Google leadership's actual explanation of what that meant. Supposedly, the
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by rwiggins 3y ago
GCE local SSDs absolutely are on the same host as the VM. The docs [0] are pretty clear on this, I think: > Local SSD disks are physically attached to the server that hosts your VM. Disclosure: I work on GCE. [0] https://cloud
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by rwiggins 3y ago
There's something super weird going on with those line numbers. They don't align for me either (Firefox on Windows 11). In the web inspector, the line numbers are rendering with Courier New as the font, whereas the code itself is
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by rwiggins 3y ago
You know, in retrospect, I think Kagi expects O(thousands) searches per month per user, so doing per-user usage accounting in the DB is fine -- thanks to row-level locking. Well, at least until you get a user who does 60k "in a short
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by rwiggins 3y ago
Aaaahhh, it's crazy how much this incident resonates with me! I've personally handled this exact same kind of outage more times than I'd care to admit. And just like the fine folks at Kagi, I've fallen into the same ra
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by rwiggins 3y ago
I like 'BigTech' -- it just sidesteps this issue.
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by rwiggins 3y ago
IMO, an LLM-generated summary is almost never a useful post without further comment. I don't trust current LLMs to correctly summarize complicated and nuanced text. Now, if someone with the relevant expertise wanted to carefully read a
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by rwiggins 3y ago
> because this entire "region" is actually housed in a single datacenter From the incident report you linked: "a cooling system water pipe leak occurred in one of the data centers in the europe-west9 region [...] Europe-we

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