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Eventually every game developer learns the hard way that they must remove the bytecode ability from lua's loadstring() function. E.g. here's a 12 year old blogpost on the topic fro…

Slides: https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/media/all-systems-go-2023/subm...

I’ve spent years of therapy trying to overcome my fear of talking to strangers. Mostly it just feels inappropriate and unwanted; like I would be intruding on people. I can talk to …

Huh, is that the maximum number of students of the same age? To be clear, the Montessori school I went to had a little over 100 students with all 6 class years combined. For contex…

Yes, I went to a Montessori school through 6th grade (now 25 years old). I have mixed feelings about the experience. I agree that it did well to set my up academically. I ended up …

A substantial portion is funded with newly issued debt. https://fortune.com/2019/08/20/stock-buybacks-debt-financed/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-27/debt-fina...…

This article doesn't provide much context on the challenges of the building's architecture. If the exterior[1][2] did not give any indication, the inside is quite difficult to navi…

Location: Boston, MA Willing to relocate: NYC Only (specifically Manhattan) Remote: Yes Technologies: C++, Go, Rust, Java, Postgres SQL, Python, Linux Résumé/CV: https://jpriest.me…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4 Here's a video lecture from the MIT Professor (Dennis Whyte) who was leading the research group that provided some of the key designs fo…

Does anyone have suggestions for how to check if your resume is correctly parsed by these tools?

The notable quote: > That 9 day and almost 14-hour rebuild means that using the WD Red 4TB SMR drive inadvertently in an array would lead to your data being vulnerable for around 9…

It's a combination of a lack of developer bandwidth, fatigue, and typical difficult google customer service. Previously it was just a sole backend developer who also did the server…

Not the person you responded to, but I just joined somewhere new and it's clear Firebase was the biggest mistake / is the biggest source of technical debt. It was helpful for boots…

Perhaps the craziest part of these graphs is the 3970X, this generation's second best, versus the 2990WX, last generations very best Threadripper processor. Both have 32 cores/64 t…

Location: Boston Remote: No Willing to Relocate: Yes (NYC only) Technologies: Rust (since 2014), C/C++, LLVM, performance engineering Résumé/CV: https://jpriest.me/pdfs/jpriest_res…

For anyone curious about using something like this technique, Facebook has a similar tool. https://github.com/facebookincubator/BOLT

Location: Boston Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes (Bay Area, Seattle, New York) Technologies: Rust (since 2014), C++, LLVM Resume/CV: https://jpriest.me/pdfs/jpriest_resume_spri…

I kind of like this trend of power-hungry beastly CPUs. The AMD 2990WX is also rated 250W (but for 32c/64t@3GHz). I have one with a 280mm AIO, and it sees high 60C under load at st…

This is not the first time AT&T has pretended to have a newer network than their infrastructure actually provides. https://slate.com/technology/2012/03/4g-vs-3g-beware-of-the-...