thezorg

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   by thezorg 3y ago

   Poor [Cloud Tasks]( https://cloud.google.com/tasks ), they're the actual GCP message queue, but everyone forgets they exist and use Pub/Sub instead. What's funny is Pub/Sub is a fundamentally different mod
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   by thezorg 3y ago

   I recently learned about the `])` motion (and similarly, `]}`), and it's probably my absolute favorite. I used to rely on e.g. `df)` to delete function parameters. The problem is that 1. it doesn't work when the function call span
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   On the surprising behaviour of memory operations at high thread counts(medium.com)

   3 points by thezorg 12y ago|1 comments
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   LTTng: An open-source tracing framework for Linux(lttng.org)

   68 points by thezorg 12y ago|15 comments
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   by thezorg 12y ago

   Speaking of B-trees, I find CouchDB's implementation really interesting: the backing file is append-only, meaning that modifying the tree implies appending the modified nodes at the end of the file (for example, if I change a leaf, tha