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In busy systems, GOMAXPROCS=cpu.limits will still lead to the process exceeding its cfs quota and be throttled as the Go runtime has additional threads beyond just GOMAXPROCS. IME,…

The truth is that most "big data" problems aren't big and can often be solved with awk and xargs.

Clicked expecting this to be about the history ( https://officialrealbook.com/history/ ) of jazz fake books, which eventually evolved into the Real Book!

I remember the pure magic of playing Sierra games after adding a Sound Blaster. Dr Sbaitso was also a hoot.

This is a design flaw in Kubernetes. The article doesn't really explain what's happening though. The real problem is that there is no synchronization between the ingress controller…

Right out of Dvorak Symphony 9!

Hey, this is Aaron from GitHub. We're using devicemapper w/ LVM backed pools. Would love to hear about your experience there. We definitely see this problem during periods of high …

iTerm works with Cmd-[0-9] just fine.

Have you tried `hub`? https://github.com/github/hub ~/src/bar (foo =)$ hub pull-request https://github.com/foo/bar/pull/5 There is also `hub fork` and others: These GitHub commands…

With close to a decade of remote work experience under my belt at companies that are more than 50% remote (GitHub) down to being the only remote guy, I have concluded that some thi…

I have had 3 Ecobee thermostats in my house for over 3 years. They have been extremely reliable and have an API, so I can do all sorts of fun stuff with them. Right now I'm working…

And all of the config management tools have a comparable concept. Ansible 2.0 has 16 levels of variable precedence, Puppet has hiera which gives you arbitrary levels of precedence,…

To make this a fair comparison, you should be comparing chef-solo (or chef-zero) deployments to Ansible since the closet thing Ansible has to a dynamic source of truth is dynamic i…

In what way is attribute precedence over-engineered? You can ignore most of it for most cases and just use default for everything, but when you need it, it's there for you. I don't…

in what way is Chef over-engineered?

It's not a schooner, it's a sailboat!

By now, I have spent more than half of my 15+ year professional career as a remote employee. My first job, back in 2000 was as a developer working for a Boston-based company from m…

I am brand new to Go am trying to learn it together with my bright, but young (6 year old) son. Can anyone recommend some good introductory resources for to better learn the basic …

The second part of your question is a big part of the answer...an IRC server needs to be well tended in order to support the features that people want. I run a Technical Operations…

Unless I'm currently unemployed, if someone asked me to do this I would politely say, "thank you, but no thank you." It has been my experience that there are oodles of development …

This is why I purchased an ecobee (www.ecobee.com) instead of Nest, despite the obviously superior interface provided by Nest.

Strictly speaking they are 16 bytes when stored as binary, which sounds grat, but when represented as strings (as they usually are) they are 36 characters which is 36-bytes in ASCI…