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New comment by forgot_old_user in "Lock-Free Rust: How to Build a Rollercoaster While It's on Fire"

forgot_old_user — Fri, 16 May 2025 04:26:47 +0000

definitely! Reminds me of the golang saying

> Don't Communicate by Sharing Memory; Share Memory by Communicating

https://www.php.cn/faq/1796714651.html

New comment by forgot_old_user in "Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL"

forgot_old_user — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 22:00:40 +0000

haha I couldn't help but silently mouth "BUT WHHYY" before I clicked this link

New comment by forgot_old_user in "Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin"

forgot_old_user — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 01:39:45 +0000

I think its great for recruiting. This signals to the world their investment in making Devs happier (one of top two reasons mentioned was "devs were happier with Kotlin")

New comment by forgot_old_user in "Learning to Reason with LLMs"

forgot_old_user — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 20:44:38 +0000

well it could be a lot cheaper to hire the AI model instead of a human?

New comment by forgot_old_user in "The Seamless Communication models"

forgot_old_user — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 18:50:17 +0000

> You need to wait a bit before you can start faithfully translating the meaning

I guess it's possible that the AI learns about a specific person over time? That way it can be confident about what's being said as soon the person starts saying it

New comment by forgot_old_user in "When can two TCP sockets share a local address?"

forgot_old_user — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:35:31 +0000

But wouldn't the same issue apply to user-space TCP implementations too? User-space TCP implementations too could have "path-dependent sequence of accidents" which a power user might eventually need to figure out?

New comment by forgot_old_user in "The Astonishing Transformation of Austin"

forgot_old_user — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 19:57:29 +0000

where did you end up going? I love Austin but its a little too hot during the summer.

New comment by forgot_old_user in "ChatGPT Plus"

forgot_old_user — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 19:33:31 +0000

I think getting customers to sign up is the hardest part. Next they could start adding opt-in features (probably already in the works?) which cost an extra few dollars a month each?

New comment by forgot_old_user in "Avoid exception throwing in performance-sensitive code"

forgot_old_user — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 02:51:41 +0000

I'm a little disappointed that the author doesn't explain why throwing the exception is much slower.

New comment by forgot_old_user in "Laying myself off from Amazon"

forgot_old_user — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 02:00:43 +0000

But the problem is, fixing existing broken stuff might not be rewarded as much as working on the "new feature". This means that if I focus on just fixing the broken stuff, I'd be managed out. Even say I put in the extra effort to fix the broken stuff, and deliver my new features, other thousands of engineers won't do that same- meaning I can't make a meaningful dent.

(i dont work for amazon, but I can imagine it's similar everywhere)

New comment by forgot_old_user in "Cassandra at Apple: 1000s of Clusters, 300k Nodes, 100 PB"

forgot_old_user — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 07:12:46 +0000

hmm you expect to see 300,000GB or 300TB per node? What does that mean?

New comment by forgot_old_user in "Newsom just signed California pay transparency bill"

forgot_old_user — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:33:56 +0000

>Keep in mind that a freeze could slow down application processes for things like a loan, a job, or social service benefits

hmm.. what does that mean? I can be refused a loan if I forget to unfreeze before applying?

New comment by forgot_old_user in "One million queries per second with MySQL"

forgot_old_user — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 19:21:09 +0000

says this in the article at the end:

>We ran this benchmark against a single-tenant environment, with levels of resources that we reserve for our enterprise customers.

New comment by forgot_old_user in "IPv6 support for cloning Git repositories from GitHub"

forgot_old_user — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 16:28:35 +0000

This is sad :( hetzner charges extra for ipv4 address, and this means I couldn't run `git clone` without paying extra.

New comment by forgot_old_user in "Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]"

forgot_old_user — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 18:17:20 +0000

thank you!

New comment by forgot_old_user in "IPv6 Only Cloud Server"

forgot_old_user — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 04:16:05 +0000

>It's on the todo list however

I'm curious, how would you support this usecase?

New comment by forgot_old_user in "Twitter Layoff Started Today"

forgot_old_user — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 22:13:21 +0000

cant that be said about buying a home anywhere?

New comment by forgot_old_user in "Super Simple Storage Service"

forgot_old_user — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 23:30:12 +0000

oh wow really?

New comment by forgot_old_user in "US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent"

forgot_old_user — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 18:55:56 +0000

hmm why wouldnt Biden sign?

New comment by forgot_old_user in "U.S. eliminates human controls requirement for fully automated vehicles"

forgot_old_user — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 17:52:12 +0000

Folks are workin on it https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-autonomous-car-is-co...