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lkurusa

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About lkurusa

Hi! My name is Levente Kurusa, nice to meet you.

Short Bio: OS researcher and engineer. My main research interest is improving scalability across multiple cores and nodes. I also invest in things I find appealing.

Currently: CIO @ a small investment fund

Previously: Core OS @ Apple; Imperial College London; more Apple; Red Hat

My webpage: http://kernelstuff.org/

Email: lev@boilerplate.co

Twitter: @iLevex

PGP: 4EF5D641

Location: Europe

General disclaimer about my opinion not necessarily being the same as my employer's applies.

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    https://gleam.run/ Gleam is super promising.

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    We've been running a large web application backend written in Elixir for over three years now. It's awesome and we've also rewritten some of our microservices to utilize Distribute…

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    We deploy Erlang VMs to EC2 and they communicate just fine. Deploying via a Dockerfile and `mix release` has been a breeze. As a bonus point, no real need for container orchestrati…

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    Hmm. Please could you explain further? I'm genuinely curious what costs you associate with Hashicorp products.

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    We use Nomad from Hashicorp, it's super simple. Never liked the complexity K8s brings along.

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    Congratulations on launching! How does this compare to Fantastical? It does the same for me, just puts a giant Zoom icon next to its menubar icon and clicking on it lets me join my…

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    "Thinking, Fast and Slow" is a book I buy for every person for their first birthday after I met them. It is the book that has had the most profound impact on me thus far.

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    I host my own VPN and it's great. Algo VPN [0] makes it dead simple, as well. [0]: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

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    Comment #20600754

    systemd uses cgroups, yes.

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    My experience with Zulip has also been pretty great. We (a startup) found that it keeps the conversation more focused.

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    Just yesterday I was designing something on my iPad Pro and had to save it to Local Storage (which is another great app, btw) only to use Blink to scp it over. SCP in the end didn'…

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    Awesome! Plugins like this make me want to make the switch to emacs from vim sooner than ever.

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    Correct - there has to be a clear indication that you are consenting. It can't just be hidden away in a 60 page document in a statement that says "I consent to being tracked, etc".…

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    Could you elaborate what issues does it come with? I'm biased since I grew up in an area with street names and a consecutive system, but genuinely interested in hearing more.

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    The idea of avoiding context switches by using memory regions to communicate with the kernel reminds me of FlexSC[0], which was a way to have "async" system calls and "flexible sch…

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    (2017) missing from title.

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    Does vim-racer[0] not work for you? I don't exactly know what you mean by "good autocomplete", but if you are more specific, then maybe we can help you a little more? :-) FWIW, my …

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