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> I think SQL is great for building everything Are you saying that you prefer SQL over PromQL for metrics queries? I haven't tried querying metrics via SQL yet, but generally speak…

Location: Raleigh, NC (US) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Backend programming (Go, C++, Rust), scripting (Python), build tools (Bazel, Buildbarn), and infra (Do…

In order to be in the same G-node, they'd need to have the same rank and be close in value (such that they were not "broken up" by a value in the next highest rank), right? Seems l…

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> it seemed natural to have a set of generations for items that have only been seen once, and then another generation for things that have been more active Have you looked at ARC? …

Does anyone happen to have expertise/pointers on how ZFS' ARC interacts with Linux disk caching currently when using ZFS-on-Linux? It seems like the ARC space shows up as "used" de…

Check out https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/export-data-big... - you can configure GCP to spit out pricing data to bigquery, to be queried however you like. (I don't thi…

proto3 messsage fields allow for detecting set vs. not set; other field types (repeated, map, int32, string, bool, enum, etc.) have this "default value if not set" issue. The canon…

I can definitely sympathize here - in every context, just straight JSON/YAML configuration seems never expressive enough, but the tooling created in response always seems to come w…

> shifting default workflows away from the standard client is one of those changes that doesn't serve users There is no "default workflow" for git - Git can be used in a variety of…

Question about this part of the hypermedia vs data APIs essay: "This new end point is driven entirely by hypermedia needs, not data model needs. This end point can go away if the h…

> but if we changed the culture to become more emotions-aware, people would know how to help each other and themselves far better. > Fixing psychological and emotional problems thr…

My only short exposure to Prolog was trying to implement custom submission rules in Gerrit. It made an utter fool out of me at every turn - it really seemed like an insane interfac…

No experience with Firecracker specifically, but if squashfs images are sufficient, one should be able to build a tar archive of the filesystem without root (where all the files ha…

Location: Remote from US (currently CA) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C/C++, Embedded C/C++, Golang, Rust, Bazel, Docker, Postgres Resume: On request via email …

I'm a fan of consistent behavior, but actually I'm on the side of not sleeping with a display plugged in. Going to sleep when there are no peripherals plugged in is only a sane def…

That's true; inside `hello_i_accept_pointers` there's no syntax at callsites to indicate that a mutable pointer is being passed. However, the variable being passed is of pointer ty…

> the idea that Widget& implies something different about the likelihood of modification compared with Widget* is quite foreign to me. this is precisely what Widget const & is for.…

I have some nitpicks with the advice given in the table: > Q1: Yes Q2: - Q3: No Argument: `Widget& widget` ...or `Widget* widget`, which has drawbacks but makes it more clear at th…

But this excerpt says that this technique obviates the need for a server process? Are they saving the contents of memory into files using mmap, and then using this state on every r…

A minor note in the article reads: > To minimize I/O and take advantage of operating system caching, csearch uses mmap to map the index into memory and in doing so read directly fr…

Factorio is one of the most stimulating games I've ever played. It forces one to think about not only layout/design of a system but also the project management aspects - which part…

I used to work for Google - voluntarily left earlier this year. I'm not sure how much I am allowed to disclose about internal tools and processes, so I'll refer you to this article…

It may be only tangentially related to the genre, but Factorio has stolen far too many of my hours and is definitely worth the $20. It is engaging and challenging like no other gam…

You can use the keyboard to move your army - moves get queued up as long as they're along friendly territory. Moving into enemy/neutral territory is more time consuming than along …