tweenagedream

5 ms·

1.
How fast is go? simulating particles on a smart TV(dgerrells.com)
2 points by tweenagedream 1y ago|0 comments
2.
by tweenagedream 2y ago
Which ones? According to https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en pixel 5a is getting eol this month, with the next security update dropping for pixel 6 starting in October 2026 "Last gen&qu
3.
by tweenagedream 2y ago
Who says you have to purchase a service with dollars?
4.
by tweenagedream 2y ago
I mean they did say almost no breaking changes, depending how much has changed in the language, a small handful of breaking changes in niche use cases may be considered almost none by some. I'm not sure I would say the comment is absol
5.
by tweenagedream 3y ago
I experienced this just last month! Except, I didn't know it at the moment. I was participating in a design review while wfh on meet. We were having some good discussions, which I participated in. Partway through the meeting I start to
6.
by tweenagedream 3y ago
Can you please link to the incident where the "full region" was down for weeks?
7.
by tweenagedream 3y ago
This is because of the way tcp congestion control works. In order to achieve higher speeds, tcp has a "window" that grows, essentially the amount of data in flight, that has not yet been acknowledged by your client. That window do
8.
by tweenagedream 3y ago
I don't think that is true. MKBHD just came out with a video demonstrating using a video wall that updated in sync with the camera frame rate. Allowing two cameras to see different backgrounds, e.g. two different colors or even two dif
9.
by tweenagedream 3y ago
For gRPC, the protobuf is the API specification, a service definition with endpoints, what requests to those endpoints should look like and what responses look like. Of course, there are better and worse implementations, e.g. a well comment
10.
by tweenagedream 3y ago
I work at Google so am perhaps biased, but that article is from 2019 and cloud is now a 20B/yr business and growing. Why does it keep coming up?
11.
by tweenagedream 4y ago
Usually a connection is defined by what's called a 5-tuple. Source up, source port, dest up, dest port, protocol (e.g. tcp or udp)
12.
by tweenagedream 5y ago
Indeed, it's a publicly documented feature: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en#:~:text... .
13.
The Walrus Operator: Python 3.8 Assignment Expressions(realpython.com)
7 points by tweenagedream 5y ago|0 comments
14.
by tweenagedream 5y ago
I think down leveling is quite common, especially at higher levels as the expectations grow quite a bit between senior and staff. Depending on the position, actually filling it with +/-1 of the target level is a win. Interviewing is ex
15.
by tweenagedream 5y ago
Seems like there are quite a few options that show up pretty quickly when searching for multipath udp e.g: https://github.com/angt/glorytun Would that work for you?
16.
by tweenagedream 5y ago
I was a simple customer since before the BBVA acquisition, but once I heard that they were shutting down the main service I moved everything over to a cash reserve account in betterment, which I already had for investing. Since then I'
17.
by tweenagedream 6y ago
Generally RAM doesn't burn out, so I don't think that will be the reason. My guess it will be around capacity, though if the LEO ISP market has multiple players all covering the same areas, there is a chance we don't fall int
18.
The Philosophy of Svelte(blog.scottlogic.com)
2 points by tweenagedream 6y ago|0 comments
19.
USB-C programmable power supply for any project(hackaday.com)
2 points by tweenagedream 6y ago|0 comments
20.
by tweenagedream 6y ago
DNS doesn't really redirect, but DNS is the answer. What you're talking about is split horizon, this is most common when you have an authoritative server for say a corporation, but can be applied here as well. That said, I have a
21.
by tweenagedream 6y ago
Except, sometimes a data center goes down and no one notices. So if a data center goes down, and no user around notices, is it really down?
22.
by tweenagedream 6y ago
Yes.
23.
by tweenagedream 6y ago
For the most part, other services take care of network resources. Borg might have some host level network limits, but I haven't seen them used much.
24.
by tweenagedream 6y ago
I've asked that my number be unable to be changed to a different sim over the phone. So to change it I need to go into a physical store and present proper ID
25.
by tweenagedream 7y ago
Usually grpc connections are left open after a message is sent and received. And since it's based on h2, multiple message streams can be multiplexed over a single connection. That is part of the benefit of grpc, establish a long lived
26.
by tweenagedream 7y ago
I've reached out to some folks on the gtm team to look into this.
27.
by tweenagedream 7y ago
You have the gist I would say. It's important to understand that Google separates the control plane and data plane, so if you think of the internet, routing tables and bgp are the control part and the hardware, switching, and links are
28.
by tweenagedream 7y ago
What does your stack look like? It's hard to tailor a postmortem like this to everyone's individual experience but it is surprising to me that your experience is so different.
29.
by tweenagedream 7y ago
Isolation is often done in software, Google has invested a lot of effort in making sure the distinct services that they run e.g. Youtube transcoding on the same machine search is running on don't interfere with each other. Whether thro
30.
by tweenagedream 8y ago
This is a problem in the web ui creating additional node pools, there is a very simple workaround to use gcloud. What major impact are you referring to? It's likely the fix is checked in and will start roll out on Monday. Disclaimer:

More ›