Hacker News: wildfire

New comment by wildfire in "Noisy neighbor detection with eBPF"

wildfire — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:37:05 +0000

Aside: Is titus still being developed?

GitHub repo says it was archived 2 years ago: https://github.com/Netflix/titus

New comment by wildfire in "Unbloating the buffers"

wildfire — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 13:08:54 +0000

A bit miffed that there was no mention of L4S though.

Prior HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38597744

New comment by wildfire in "I worked in Amazon HR and was disgusted at what I was seeing with PIP plans"

wildfire — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:06:53 +0000

AWS, like every company, is really the culture+ managers.

Some managers can deflect the culture enough for you to feel "loved".

Others can't. They embody the culture. The AWS culture really is that ruthless.

New comment by wildfire in "Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor"

wildfire — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 22:50:15 +0000

How odd. I have, and continue, to use Signal without auto-update enabled.

I have been prompted, twice in three years to update though.

Perhaps the requirement depends on your country?

New comment by wildfire in "Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions"

wildfire — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 12:49:11 +0000

> Groups do not have guilt, individuals do.

When we can treat corporations as legal individuals, then groups also have guilt.

New comment by wildfire in "The rule says, “No vehicles in the park”"

wildfire — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 15:12:43 +0000

Your comment does not highlight anything which indicates that Australians blindly follow the rules.

I'm Australian, currently live in Sydney and I feel as you do, but none of your examples explain your claim.

No, I don't have time to list the ways Australians follow rules (more so that Germans), it is 1:15am, and I'm going to bed.

New comment by wildfire in "Making infrared lenses out of plastic polymers"

wildfire — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 02:12:56 +0000

A low-cost way to make plastic polymer lenses which enable infra-red photography

Making infrared lenses out of plastic polymers

wildfire — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 02:12:56 +0000

Article URL: https://theconversation.com/weve-created-a-new-lens-that-could-take-thermal-cameras-out-of-spy-films-and-put-them-into-your-back-pocket-206594

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36266863

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by wildfire in "Git archive checksums may change"

wildfire — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 22:07:11 +0000

See https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/45830 for the fallout.

New comment by wildfire in "GitHub breaks all source archive hashes"

wildfire — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 22:05:07 +0000

GitHub upgrades git, decides to "clarify" source archive policy, which breaks Homebrew, bazel, etc.

GitHub breaks all source archive hashes

wildfire — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 22:05:07 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/45830

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34587113

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by wildfire in "JMAP: It’s Like IMAP but Not Really (2019)"

wildfire — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 04:12:02 +0000

I'm Australian and have the direct counter experience. Most of the business I've worked for consider Slack as ephermal.

Email is for significant communications.

Outside of work, I'm using daily for things like booking bands, talking to strata, etc.

While email in a lot of large companies might tend to be becoming a one-way distribution system; it is still vibrant and heavily used in smaller enterprises.

New comment by wildfire in "What makes a senior engineer? Writing software vs. building systems"

wildfire — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 20:19:34 +0000

The bar is per-team at Amazon, which is one of the bug hiring problems.

Worse, your title - and your quality of life at Amazon - is entirely dependent upon what your manager thinks of you.

It matters way more than at other companies.

New comment by wildfire in "Google IoT Core will be discontinued on Aug. 16, 2023"

wildfire — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 23:29:15 +0000

If they were "customer obsessed" even though they are not doing development of a service, they would lauch it anyway in all regions.

By not doing this, they make it hard for their customers to be multi-regional.

It is easy to spin "customer obsession" any way you like.

New comment by wildfire in "Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?"

wildfire — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 09:20:45 +0000

I am skeptical that is actually the case though, there are so many use-cases where you have to think through the consequences too carefully:

- what happens when the source repository rewrites all the commits (to remove one); should the forks also be re-written? - what happens when the source repository disappears?

_All_ of the problems go away when you actually do a "git clone" of the source repository and have your own objects. More storage, yes, but way fewer corner cases to think through.

New comment by wildfire in "I got hacked and Facebook banned me"

wildfire — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 14:00:45 +0000

How did your charity function when Facebook "accidently" removed all AU-based pages during their fight with the Australian Government?

New comment by wildfire in "Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B"

wildfire — Thu, 26 May 2022 13:36:49 +0000

AWS' Hypervisor is Nitro.

Which is based upon KVM - AIUI.

https://www.kovarus.com/blog/deep-dive-into-the-aws-nitro-sy...

New comment by wildfire in "Wp-SQLite: WordPress running on an SQLite database"

wildfire — Mon, 16 May 2022 15:17:11 +0000

This repository is:

- the WP-sqlite-db plugin

- akismet added

- themes before twentytwenty removed

- an empty 'wordpress.db'

- wp-config.db setup set to use the WP-sqlite-db plugin with the right file

- README

Which is all work to do to get setup correctly.

NOTE: the wp-config.php also needs to be modified to remove the keys and salts as well.

(edit: formatting).

New comment by wildfire in "Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation"

wildfire — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 06:03:42 +0000

Why not let the user decide what their personal privacy trade-off is?

That is, fundamentally, what the original post is about.

New comment by wildfire in "United States IPv6 adoption over 50%"

wildfire — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:56:44 +0000

What other things we use daily are "draft standards"?