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acj

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About acj

A geek with a camera and a bicycle.

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    More: https://github.com/facebook/jemalloc/discussions/7

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    Comment #44162205

    They un-archived it today long enough to revert a change to the purging algorithm that was merged in March [0]. The first archive date I saw this morning was from the last week of …

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    Comment #40772257

    > failing to load the one part of the map that I want to see. Yep. My partner and I have this problem every time we use the app in our home city. It usually works better when we’re…

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    Same. The guy didn’t change any of my profile or recovery info, luckily, so I was able to get it back. And then he sent me a message from another account asking why I had taken his…

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    Comment #37643439

    rbspy supports pprof output. I haven't tried using it with this tool yet, but it should work.

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    Comment #34270582

    My main use case is upgrading codebases that depend on ffmpeg. I work for a shop that does a lot of media encoding and analysis across several independent systems, and we can’t upg…

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    Comment #32517277

    28:45 in the video. https://youtu.be/_IYzD_NR0W4?t=1725

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    Comment #31901092

    > where I read it (probably xkcd) Yep, it's in the alt text for https://xkcd.com/552/ "Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture…

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    Comment #27997485

    Congrats, Bob, and thanks for all of your time and effort. I enjoyed the illustration videos that you included in the earlier blog post [1] (under "Illustrating by Hand"). That pos…

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    One advantage of CloudFront is support for uploading large files (5GB+) to the origin server. CDNs tend to enforce a low size limit for uploads. It’s probably an uncommon use case,…

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    A tool for visualizing log file volume over time in your terminal [1]. Useful for quickly getting a handle on traffic patterns during a production incident. This began as a scratch…

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    Comment #27177672

    Last year I built a tool for visualizing log file volume (based on time) in your terminal [1]. Similar tools exist, but none were fast enough or easy to set up in a hurry, e.g. whe…

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    Comment #25705434

    A command line tool for visualizing high-resolution ping latency to hosts on your network: https://github.com/acj/ping-heatmap It began as a crude answer to "why is this so slow" a…

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    Comment #22938218

    Not an official statement, but CenturyLink/Level3 is reporting service disruptions due to a fiber cut. https://twitter.com/CenturyLinkHelp/status/12526545920699514...

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    Comment #15415589

    Natron is worth a look as well: https://natron.fr Mac/Linux, Python API, mostly usable docs, and the source is available.

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    Comment #12397823

    Shared spreadsheet in Google Docs. [sigh]

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    Comment #10783703

    "Chasing the Scream" - a timely and interesting summary of the war on drugs and its (in)effectiveness. "Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard" - a fun book about fungi from a mycologist with a …

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    Comment #8601974

    Thanks for the suggestion. I added Flowdock support this week and will add the others as soon as I get some time.

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