Viewing profile — jeffbee

When they opened retail outlets it was the beginning of the end. That was the peak of their growth rate and the moment when Dell really started to go after them.

traditional physics-based weather models also rely heavily on humans looking at the output and the evaluation of the output to discard wacky runs. Let's not pretend that existing p…

One nice thing to remember is for projects you control, you can dictate the ABI. There isn't a law enforcement bureau that will arrest you for passing parameters in whatever regist…

Tech sector is not the bulk of it, many sectors doing worse and that is why they got the headlines. "Financial Activities" supersector was terrible this month. Another reason is th…

There's always a competency shortage in this kind of aviation because the crew are inexperienced people trying to get a higher rating and a better job. The big transport aircraft a…

I am not sure what you mean here. I just checked my uploads and all my live music stuff is still there, as well as obscure published records.

This isn't true. I have tons of stuff that I uploaded that they've never heard of

> "I am feeling lucky" YouTube Music still has this feature and it even uses the die icon, just like always. > you could upload your library to it. You can also do this in YouTube …

Google itself was shipping transformer-based features to consumers within 2 years, notably BERT for websearch.

Nah. If USA returns to its senses we are going to need tons of tradespeople to build all the stuff we need for the billion Americans.

In addition to cycles, I suggest gathering TLB miss rates. eBPF isn't magical and any maps of significant size may pollute your virtual address translation caches. The last time so…

It's pretty wild that 99% of participants came from Instagram, Facebook, or Tiktok. It never escaped that bubble? The other platforms, Reddit, YouTube, word of mouth only amounted …

Telematics systems for insurance are not even lawful in my state.

Redis uses jemalloc by default, if I recall correctly, but its hostility to the way systems actually work arises from the way that it forks, then changes one bit on every page in t…

[flagged]

Linux also has support for it but it is up to the distribution, or the user, to enable or disable it. The whole discourse was poisoned years ago when the author of Redis told every…

You can disable connectivity in any car by pulling fuses.

One of the drawbacks of relying on the virtual memory subsystem is large page tables, that the machine has to manage on your behalf, and that pollute (or at least occupy) caches. T…

Sure, with LSE. But you have to target LSE and get a system that actually contains it, i.e. not the default compiler flags and not the original AWS Graviton.

The combination of "I have an idea for changing one of the fundamental experiences of modern life" and "my website is obnoxious and hostile" didn't really work for me.

Whether the allocator calls are "naive" or not depends entirely on the allocator in use. If you need thread/core locality and batching you can get that by replacing global new/dele…

The costliest floods in state history were in the winter 1994-1995 which was a weak El Niño year.

I don't think gcp customers were hoping for higher latency, 5% packet loss, and modem speeds.

Twenty years ago this would have been wrong with a kernel of truth. Today, it's just wrong. There were chips that integrated all this but they weren't that popular in the West and …