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New comment by sanxchit in "Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax"

sanxchit — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:38:19 +0000

I've used WinMerge, its very different from the above tool because its still a text diff. It often gets the diffs wrong when multiple lines are involved. Take this trivial C# example: https://www.diffchecker.com/gr0H7qA1/

Most diff tools throw out something that is quite difficult to parse, but difftastic gave me the most concise diff so far.

New comment by sanxchit in "Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax"

sanxchit — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:36:52 +0000

What an amazing tool, wish it had a GUI version as well.

New comment by sanxchit in "Top Chess Engine Championship"

sanxchit — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 14:26:01 +0000

Leela Chess Zero is the open source successor of Alpha Zero, and has been the second strongest engine (except a few times where it bested stockfish) for the last few years.

[1] https://lczero.org/

New comment by sanxchit in "Common Causes of Bad Decisions"

sanxchit — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 16:21:41 +0000

While I agree with the point you made, I want to point out that the fatality rate for driving an automobile is much lower than 1 in a 1000. In the United States, the number of fatalities per vehicle-mile driven is approximately 1.5e-8[1]. On your average errand run, you have about a one in a hundred million chance of being killed/killing someone.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...

New comment by sanxchit in "Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox"

sanxchit — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 12:15:56 +0000

Not the original commenter, but Firefox has noticeably poorer performance on my MacBook pro 2018, especially on react-heavy sites like the AWS Console or Twitch.tv

New comment by sanxchit in "We Can Do Better Than SQL"

sanxchit — Fri, 10 May 2019 00:08:19 +0000

Having worked with databases for a while, SQL seems to be useful because it forces you to think about how your data is structured. To me SQL is a thin wrapper around the relational algebra notation. The biggest problem I run into with SQL is that it is hard to tell how performant a complex query is before actually running it.

New comment by sanxchit in "Migrating 23TB from S3 to B2 in 7 hours"

sanxchit — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 23:14:58 +0000

Great writeup on data migrations. I was wondering whether you did a comparison for this method vs using AWS snowball[1] to export S3 Data and B2 Fireball[2] to ingest it.

[1] - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/ug/create-export...

[2] - https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001918654

New comment by sanxchit in "The Efficiency Is Everything Cookbook [pdf]"

sanxchit — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 23:38:37 +0000

Skimming through the recipes, it seems to be mostly meat-based dishes. I would like to see a similar cookbook with plant based alternatives.

New comment by sanxchit in "“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)"

sanxchit — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 01:34:42 +0000

You can definitely build a fully functional web app using just serverless. For an example, take a look at https://acloud.guru . Where I work, we almost exclusively use serverless, and I have found it to be incredibly reliable, and way more hands-off than a docker deployment.

New comment by sanxchit in "If not SICP, then what? Maybe HTDP?"

sanxchit — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 17:34:15 +0000

You're not alone. I forced myself to read through half the book before asking myself what was the point of solving essentially leetcode style problems using only tail-end recursion and glorified linked lists. At no point did I ever feel that the scheme language had any practical applications.

New comment by sanxchit in "Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back"

sanxchit — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:15:58 +0000

Running functions in a VPC cause them to have cold starts of ~5 seconds. Connection pools need to be centralized to be of any use, since lambdas scale automatically.

New comment by sanxchit in "Is the Bitcoin network an oligarchy?"

sanxchit — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 01:00:38 +0000

Pardon my ignorance, but how is it possible to track Bitcoin holders? I thought that it was really easy to create multiple Bitcoin addresses, so if a rich miner wanted to hide his holdings he could create a separate address for each transaction and he would in effect be untraceable right?