https://brooker.co.za/blog/2022/02/28/retries.html Seems that retries are good when the error is rare, and bad when the error is common. Typically outages have you transitioning from "everything is fine" to "nothing…
It's less about "can't afford" and more about "don't want to spend".
Did you disable cookies or something? Table of Contents sidebar hides and stays hidden across page loads, browser restarts, etc. Appearance sidebar is the same. Appearance sidebar lets you set the article width as well,…
If you need to grab a particular struct's version of the data, you can via `opts.BarService.URL` or `opts.FooService.URL`: https://go.dev/play/p/MUSYJhmoC2D Still worth being careful, but it can be useful when you have…
There aren’t grid-scale batteries that can handle hundreds of thousands of cycles at an affordable price. If we crack that problem, solar and wind for everything will immediately be the only technology worth deploying…
The appeal back then was being able to get all the shows you wanted on a single platform. Netflix had all of Disney, WB, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc. at one point, including strong original content. Going all in on $10/month for…
US students are expected to be able to read 104 characters by the end of 6th grade. While Chinese students are expected to be able to read 20k words by that time. Characters in Chinese can be combined to make more…
Current models are lossy databases at this point. Carmack looks like he might be trying to get logical reasoning to work (learning something abstract in one context and applying it to a similar context). That is…
> But yes, the equivalent of fnmatch should be a separate module and that could be a dependency of glob. Interesting, lets look at fnmatch: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/f... Well, fnmatch…
You know what’s more fun than having a bad junior write crap code while you point out their mistakes? Writing good code yourself.
Const only saves you most of the time if you have a “const” all the way down the type structure. If I have a type Foo with a field that is a pointer to a mutable value, instantiating a Const Foo just means I’m always…
I do think that game companies have a higher percentage of top-tier programmers. This is both due to pedigree and size of the field. There are some incredible programmers in both big tech and game dev, but big tech has…
Store configs in the program if you can. Store in INI, TOML, or something similarly simple for humans if you must. Never use anything that requires matching syntax as the default (closing tags and matched brackets being…
It ran into a pole… I don’t imagine other cars’ safety systems would fail to brake there
How do we guarantee "T3 submitted at T+300ns" reads the rows that are committed by T1 and T2 at T+100ns and T+200ns? I guess the answer is that the minimum transaction time for consistency is 5 minutes? At that point,…
It’s all about accounting for the spend. Wall Street often looks at Capital Expenditures as a sign of growth or at least net neutral, but they view Operating Expenses as negative. If you can reduce your operating…
This article misses the most important reason to not use Serverless: Cost. It's way more expensive to run serverless than it is to run any other format, even something like AWS Fargate is better than Lambda if you keep…
Yeah they will. Surgeons aren’t in it for the money, they’re in it for the glory. Most doctors, nurses, EMTs, etc. would work for free if they could magically have them and their families taken care of, as evidenced by…
We could make it not opinion with ease. Make the test: “Can the fetus survive without the host body?” That’s a medical question that will slowly move toward not aborting ever. And it solves the medical issues as well.…
Do you want your children to have a better life than you? They won’t unless we start putting in the work to fix climate change. As a species we took on some climate debt to improve our standard of living, and we’ve been…
I can’t find any statistical reporting to back there being millions more undocumented immigrants coming into the country in the last 4 years. Data-backed reporting indicates that we’ve had ~11 million undocumented…
You don’t have time to work two real full time jobs. If you have time to keep 2 bosses happy where both are expecting 40 hours a week from you and you are giving 20, then those bosses suck at gauging performance and…
Amazon has yet to share any of that internal data with its internal employees or the outside world. The only reasoning shared has been vague talk about energy being higher and culture being easier to spread. There is a…
Strategic of them to include the 5-day a week to hide the 15% managerial layoffs. 1 in 8 managers need to be converted into ICs. The average manager has around 8 ICs with the "two-pizza team" ideal, so that means 2%…
Considering many shops are just "implement whatever the business people want" and have things silo'd out across many teams, the autonomy to make a thing you work on and support better is hugely valuable. You can get…
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2022/02/28/retries.html Seems that retries are good when the error is rare, and bad when the error is common. Typically outages have you transitioning from "everything is fine" to "nothing…
It's less about "can't afford" and more about "don't want to spend".
Did you disable cookies or something? Table of Contents sidebar hides and stays hidden across page loads, browser restarts, etc. Appearance sidebar is the same. Appearance sidebar lets you set the article width as well,…
If you need to grab a particular struct's version of the data, you can via `opts.BarService.URL` or `opts.FooService.URL`: https://go.dev/play/p/MUSYJhmoC2D Still worth being careful, but it can be useful when you have…
There aren’t grid-scale batteries that can handle hundreds of thousands of cycles at an affordable price. If we crack that problem, solar and wind for everything will immediately be the only technology worth deploying…
The appeal back then was being able to get all the shows you wanted on a single platform. Netflix had all of Disney, WB, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc. at one point, including strong original content. Going all in on $10/month for…
US students are expected to be able to read 104 characters by the end of 6th grade. While Chinese students are expected to be able to read 20k words by that time. Characters in Chinese can be combined to make more…
Current models are lossy databases at this point. Carmack looks like he might be trying to get logical reasoning to work (learning something abstract in one context and applying it to a similar context). That is…
> But yes, the equivalent of fnmatch should be a separate module and that could be a dependency of glob. Interesting, lets look at fnmatch: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/f... Well, fnmatch…
You know what’s more fun than having a bad junior write crap code while you point out their mistakes? Writing good code yourself.
Const only saves you most of the time if you have a “const” all the way down the type structure. If I have a type Foo with a field that is a pointer to a mutable value, instantiating a Const Foo just means I’m always…
I do think that game companies have a higher percentage of top-tier programmers. This is both due to pedigree and size of the field. There are some incredible programmers in both big tech and game dev, but big tech has…
Store configs in the program if you can. Store in INI, TOML, or something similarly simple for humans if you must. Never use anything that requires matching syntax as the default (closing tags and matched brackets being…
It ran into a pole… I don’t imagine other cars’ safety systems would fail to brake there
How do we guarantee "T3 submitted at T+300ns" reads the rows that are committed by T1 and T2 at T+100ns and T+200ns? I guess the answer is that the minimum transaction time for consistency is 5 minutes? At that point,…
It’s all about accounting for the spend. Wall Street often looks at Capital Expenditures as a sign of growth or at least net neutral, but they view Operating Expenses as negative. If you can reduce your operating…
This article misses the most important reason to not use Serverless: Cost. It's way more expensive to run serverless than it is to run any other format, even something like AWS Fargate is better than Lambda if you keep…
Yeah they will. Surgeons aren’t in it for the money, they’re in it for the glory. Most doctors, nurses, EMTs, etc. would work for free if they could magically have them and their families taken care of, as evidenced by…
We could make it not opinion with ease. Make the test: “Can the fetus survive without the host body?” That’s a medical question that will slowly move toward not aborting ever. And it solves the medical issues as well.…
Do you want your children to have a better life than you? They won’t unless we start putting in the work to fix climate change. As a species we took on some climate debt to improve our standard of living, and we’ve been…
I can’t find any statistical reporting to back there being millions more undocumented immigrants coming into the country in the last 4 years. Data-backed reporting indicates that we’ve had ~11 million undocumented…
You don’t have time to work two real full time jobs. If you have time to keep 2 bosses happy where both are expecting 40 hours a week from you and you are giving 20, then those bosses suck at gauging performance and…
Amazon has yet to share any of that internal data with its internal employees or the outside world. The only reasoning shared has been vague talk about energy being higher and culture being easier to spread. There is a…
Strategic of them to include the 5-day a week to hide the 15% managerial layoffs. 1 in 8 managers need to be converted into ICs. The average manager has around 8 ICs with the "two-pizza team" ideal, so that means 2%…
Considering many shops are just "implement whatever the business people want" and have things silo'd out across many teams, the autonomy to make a thing you work on and support better is hugely valuable. You can get…