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The problem is that the system is RAM-constrained but the work scheduler doesn't use a RAM pressure signal. We could solve this with a crate that rate-limits new tasks based on hea…

It's hard to tell how much care was put into futures_orchestra crate. The docs are generated. I don't see any benchmark in the repo. Performance claims without measurements are a r…

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> Inexplicably, major advances in this area 15-20 years ago under the auspices of government programs never bled into the academic literature even though it materially improved the…

s/Prolificacy/Verbosity/

Over-exaggeration also works well when learning to play stringed instruments like cello.

Is any datacenter's water use significant compared to other industrial installations? According to that article, all datacenters in North Holland use 550 Ml/yr. North Holland has 2…

> // Start a background task that takes the lock and holds it for a few seconds. Holding a lock while waiting for IO can destroy a system's performance. With async Rust, we can pre…

I spent some years working for a large NGO (Opportunity International) and living with people who work for NGOs. NGOs must constantly raise money to fund their operations. The mone…

When I used AWS startup credits in 2019, the AWS console made it very difficult to estimate the bill after the credits ran out. I lost a lot of trust in AWS. Also, there were burie…

I think that async in Rust has a significant devex/velocity cost. Unfortunately, nearly all of the effort in Rust libraries has gone into async code, so the async libraries have ou…

I think Cisco SNMP vulnerabilities have been appearing for 20 years or more. I wish someone would add a fuzzer to their release testing script.

I took an "Architecting on AWS" class and half of the content was how to replicate complicated physical networking architectures on AWS's software-defined network: layers of VPCs, …

How does one handle errors with MESH? To handle errors in HTMX, I like to use config from [0] to swap responses into error dialogs and `hx-on-htmx-send-error` [1] and `hx-on-htmx-r…

Yes. With HTMX, one can put a page definition and its endpoints in one file. It has high cohesion. There's no integration with routers, state stores, or rpc handlers. There are no …

VPN providers do not have reputations for making secure or reliable software. Here's a good privacy proxy (VPN) setup: Set up a second wifi router, enable the "Internet kill switch…

According to IIHS insurance loss data, https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/auto-insurance/insurance... , here's the chance of being injured while riding in one of these cars (and f…

BART is a government organization and all California government employee pay is public. You can see that BART has about 40 software engineers and they earn about 70% of the market …

Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Rust, TypeScript, Golang, Java, Ruby, Python, Postgres, htmx, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, AWS, ECS, Kub…

> There is no “simplifying force” acting on the code base other than deliberate choices that you make. Simplifying takes effort, and people are too often in a hurry. There is a sim…

If the leaders of these companies actually cared about worker productivity, they would grab the low-hanging fruit and give their employees workspaces where they can concentrate, no…

Does it have tooling to help keep Python [0] and TypeScript [1] DTOs in sync? [0] https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar-fullstack/blob/0996... [1] https://github.com/litestar-or…

Please explain.