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Combined with a replication strategy and automated health checks, a load balancer could direct traffic to a healthy instance automatically.

I recently purchased Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective [0] and am currently working through it with pen and paper. I've only had peripheral exposure to writing in assemb…

Not mentioned in my initial comment, but yeah, I'm viscerally aware of the affect the time period and resources at the time have on API design in C and other languages from that ti…

Besides my DA/Algo classes in College, I've never used C seriously. And you know, it's semantics like this that really make me go WTF lol.... From strtok man page... "The first tim…

Something very similar to this was pulled of by Ukraine last year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spiderweb

Wow... A speculative branch prediction path actually get's preemptively executed despite the branch outcome? No matter if the execution has side-affects??? That's quite amazing. Ar…

Is this macro mapped in vim or OS level? Sounds interesting.

Congrats on shipping! Two things, does anyone else feel like 2017 was not 9 years ago and rather feels like it was just yesterday? I use a 2017 iMac running MacOS 13.7.8. It appear…

"No client simulation allowed only server." Seriously

Who knows if this is the reason that Trump is putting in place this trade war and increasing tariffs, but this paper is a very interesting perspective on why someone in the positio…

Well isn't that the whole point? At a fundamental level, investment profits are a payment for the risk you take. No risk equals no profit. There are "safe" investments currently. Y…

Does this mean it's impossible in Zig to do strictly Stack related recursion and just by the mere inclusion of a recursive function your implicitly getting heap allocations alongsi…

What is the value proposition for these form libraries? Is it scale? Is it the custom builder? How complex are people's HTML forms these days from a UX perspective? I was browsing …

Super interesting project! I have zero experience writing Postgres extensions, but I was browsing a blog post about an extension the other day. I was curious what ones workflow loo…

Is there a DBMS or storage engine intended for a DBMS that does bypass the filesystem altogether? I'm not aware of any, but at the same time I don't have a full grasp of all the st…

Scrolling behavior is one of my biggest gripes with tmux. I've not done enough digging on terminal emulators and multiplexers to know why this is. Is this an inherent limitation of…

I have been wrestling with having to enter scroll mode for so long now. It's so infuriating. It works without configurations on iTerm, but does not work on a single other terminal …

Being an advanced scuba diver is absolutely no indication of one’s ability to freedive. You Absolutly can not compare the two besides both taking place underwater. On top of that, …

This is exactly what us hunters do year after year, time and time again. Drive for hours, hike for miles. Gathering what information we can. Then at some point we have to make assu…

There's also a great story that speaks more towards the detriment of using Black-Scholes as an investment thesis. https://www.amazon.com/When-Genius-Failed-Long-Term-Manageme...

I'm not familiar with rails, so sorry if your reply above inherently answered this.. So you're enabling the tracing with a call in your controller method, but how is the tool captu…

I'd be interested in talking with you about this

Recently found myself in the same business. Early similar to you. Small business', strictly local. I've got a couple high level questions for someone more seasoned than I. Could I …