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It would be nice if input could be taken from a command line argument or better yet, stdin so that it is fully scriptable. ollama has a way to do this and lets you play with a bunc…

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Modern machines are optimized to run C which is in fact essentially "stack based" but registers "cache" parts of the stack (often never touching the stack in leaf procedures). Ther…

Full software scheduling breaks down on the first data cache miss. Combined with typically much larger icache foot-prints, VLIW just never lives up to the promise. I agree they cou…

For the right definition of "major". Search, Ads, GMail, Docs, absolutely. If you only have 50 million DAU then you may not even have an SRE let alone one in multiple time-zones. M…

It really depends on what is happening behind the scenes. Is it killing an entire server process or just an error in a single thread? Even if it kills an entire server process, Goo…

As of a few years ago, most engineers in my group had Apple laptops but linux desktops and mostly the laptops were being used as "terminals" via remote desktop and Chrome (as you w…

Technically yes, the promise can first do an RPC to a distributed key/value store, and only then do the expensive computation (which typically is itself an RPC to some other system…

Noise canceling headphone make my ears feel like they want to bleed if I wear them too long. I use foam ear plugs when I'm sleeping. Xanex is awesome though only for really long fl…

He should argue that because of the prevalence of Covid-19 in the United States and the inability of the US to protect even the President of the United States from Covid-19, that e…

I've written a few useful scripts that everyone should have. histogram - simply counts each occurrence of a line and then outputs from highest to lowest. I've implemented this prog…