Hacker News: dotnwat

New comment by dotnwat in "Meow.camera"

dotnwat — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:40:13 +0000

Found a hedgehog https://meow.camera/#4228782262731189648

New comment by dotnwat in "When Work Didn’t Follow You Home"

dotnwat — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:06:02 +0000

Would be interested to know which lighting products you are specifically using. I've started dipping my toe into the pool of improved lighting, but the number of products out there is quite overwhelming.

New comment by dotnwat in "/Uses: A list of /uses pages detailing developer setups, gear, software, configs"

dotnwat — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 14:58:18 +0000

How do I stop the animated icon in the chrome tab? It's cool, but very distracting to keep the tab open.

New comment by dotnwat in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

dotnwat — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 19:31:11 +0000

https://makedist.com

New comment by dotnwat in "Implementing a distributed key-value store on top of implementing Raft in Go"

dotnwat — Thu, 25 May 2023 20:21:13 +0000

epic

New comment by dotnwat in "Minix development has been abandoned?"

dotnwat — Thu, 25 May 2023 00:27:01 +0000

He is one of the folks behind https://www.electoral-vote.com/ which I think must take up a lot of time.

New comment by dotnwat in "LLVM 16.0.0 Release"

dotnwat — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 19:58:37 +0000

Very excited about this release. Just tried out clang-format on a code base with a lot of concepts, and finally, the formatting looks great.

New comment by dotnwat in "Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?"

dotnwat — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:07:12 +0000

We've been a CMake shop from the beginning, but have recently been testing out Meson to see if it could work for us and we've been pleasantly surprised by how nice it is.

New comment by dotnwat in "Litestream live replication has been moved to the LiteFS project"

dotnwat — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:43:16 +0000

What is the status of FUSE on macOS?

New comment by dotnwat in "Human brain compresses working memories into low-res ‘summaries’"

dotnwat — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:30:42 +0000

Same here. Recently tried to explain this to someone who has vivid imagery, but it was challenging. It seems we do have a wildly different experience of life in this aspect.

New comment by dotnwat in "K Programming Language"

dotnwat — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 19:21:47 +0000

What does "k4 is proprietary" mean? Does that mean one way run into problems building an open-source implementation of the language itself?

New comment by dotnwat in "Thread-Per-Core Buffer Management for a modern storage system"

dotnwat — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 20:49:17 +0000

Having not tried, I would expect ksql to not work until transaction support lands. That said, perhaps there are some ways to configure it to avoid dependencies on those underlying APIs.

New comment by dotnwat in "Thread-Per-Core Buffer Management for a modern storage system"

dotnwat — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 20:26:24 +0000

In progress right now are transactions and ACLs. A preliminary form of ACLs with SCRAM will be available later this month. Transactions will come early next year. Those are probably the most visible differences.

New comment by dotnwat in "Thread-Per-Core Buffer Management for a modern storage system"

dotnwat — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 19:34:56 +0000

Noah here, developer at Vectorized. Happy to answer any questions.

Ask HN: How tolerable is infrastructure to skilled worker availability?

dotnwat — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 15:50:11 +0000

Looking at reports this morning about delivery drivers showing up to work sick, I started to wonder how much tolerance various parts of our infrastructure have to fluctuations in the worker pool.

If we constrain the question to only consider the maintenance aspect of power plants, water systems, undersea cables, satellite control, etc... what level of tolerance is there to worker shortages? It seems unlikely that any one of these would have any sort of equivalent to a operational manual that a layman could use.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22655851

Points: 1

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New comment by dotnwat in "Teenage Engineering has won over kids and professionals with a synthesizer"

dotnwat — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:45:42 +0000

Do you have any recommendations on getting started with Auxy, either Auxy specific or resources for things _like_ Auxy that translate well?

New comment by dotnwat in "The Legion Parallel Programming System"

dotnwat — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 22:45:13 +0000

The first time Legion really clicked for me--and when I could place it in context--was reading the first few chapters of the Legion thesis [0].

[0]: https://legion.stanford.edu/pdfs/bauer_thesis.pdf

New comment by dotnwat in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

dotnwat — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 02:44:36 +0000

Been happily hacking away on zlog [0] a distributed shared-log that runs on top of software-defined storage like Ceph. I've been working on it for a couple years, steadily getting closer to something stable. It's a lot of fun working through all the many supporting aspects of a project like this: ci/jenkins/cloud-hosting, marketing/promotion, packaging for distributions, learning about tools for communities, etc...

[0]: https://github.com/cruzdb/zlog

New comment by dotnwat in "Fast key-value stores: An idea whose time has come and gone"

dotnwat — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:19:05 +0000

ITT: the mix of haters, supporters, and curious observers is the exact type of reaction that the HotXXX series of workshops is intended to surface.