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I'm confused why BPF exists in the first place. Can't we just compile kernel modules that hook into the tracing infrastructure? It seems like a webassembly for the kernel but local…

Your raid array hasn't failed you until it does one day. Make backups, they don't have to be off-site. Don't wait, speaking from irreparable experience.

Used to use btrfs until I learned about raid5/6 write hole. Using zfs and very happy.

Another solution to this problem would be to extend DNS with port information. For example, if http for foo.com is hosted on a multi-tenant server, a DNS entry that says "access ht…

Jnsaff feels hurt that their even more universal and mainstream goal of being irrelevant and mediocre is being questioned.

Satisfaction or non-satisfaction is totally orthogonal to whether the world is a "better" place or not. Lots of examples of people who were never satisfied who made the world a bet…

Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Drew Houston, Travis Kalanick... The list goes on.

His initial argument is that it's okay to be mediocre because continuous success is just a "paradigm." That much was already clear. His argument falls apart when he tries to justif…

TLDR DHH publicly rationalizes his own mediocrity using various flawed arguments.