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Many data centers use evaporative cooling.

I'd guess that Discord's storage systems lean towards processing a lot more writes than reads. Postgres and other databases that use B-tree indexing are ideally suited for read hea…

In terms of the qualities of the wood, the Asian and European Chestnuts are less dense, less strong and has coarser grain structure compared to the American Chestnut. I might be wr…

On bare-metal boot times are drastically different. OSv was sub-second while our Alpine images were 3-5 seconds depending on what services we needed. However, we were focused on ru…

The company I work at started with the idea that we would build an orchestration system for Unikernels. Very much in the same space as the NanoVMs folks. I totally applaud their wo…

I don't think etcd was designed with the idea of competing with larger distributed databases. For example, the maximum database size limit in etcd (as of v3.3) 10GB. This works for…

I try to spend my time doing things that let me create things, get into a flow state or both of those. I'm also a bit of an introvert. At work that has led me into a career in soft…

As can etcd. Edit: Oh right, the fact that etcd is golang might make that an issue for Kafka...

The exclusion zone is actually resembles a wildlife refuge these days. From reports of the numbers of animals present it seems like human populations are much worse for wildlife th…

A demonstration power plant based on the Allam cycle [1] is being tested in Texas. In that process the CO2 is captured while achieving efficiencies that come close to conventional …

This article summarizes why they refueled after takeoff: https://theaviationgeekclub.com/former-sr-71-driver-explains... TLDR: They needed full tanks (more or less) or an inert lay…

Just in case those IPs are within your AWS account: you can apply a single security group to those machines and then use that security group as the destination in the outbound rule…

It's mentioned briefly through a single paragraph but not much beyond that. "He lived through the war under the name Grzegorz Krochmalny and hid in an estate near Lviv and at a man…

In the case of US cities (sorry, I don't know about research that covers Canadian cities) research shows it's a limited supply and failure/inability to grow that makes popular citi…

Well you'll never get your wish if you keep wishing for that! While it's a small sample size, I keep on hearing of friends who want to buy a house but are waiting for the current "…

Certainly! I've never written a line of Java but I had no trouble following the examples in the book. The naming of variables, methods, etc. makes for easy reading without any Java…

I wanted to post this last night but the internet went down in Vientiane (again) so I just went to sleep. Having spent the last couple of months connecting from various parts of SE…

Exactly. Where I used to work, anyone without a quant background would be urged to buy a copy of Grinold and Kahn the bible you suggested above or "Quantitative Equity Portfolio Ma…

I started working through my copy about a month ago and have no regrets about spending a lot of time with it (still have 1 chapter to go). While I might not have felt very enthusia…