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How? Have you tried contributing a reasonable implementation with test coverage and it was rejected?

> changes are aggregated and committed back to S3 roughly every 60 seconds as a single PUT Single PUT per file I assume?

Upgraded to one of the latest iPhone recently. First time I clicked on “transfer data from old phone”. I’m used to reinstalling the operating system every couple of months from whe…

Wrap gdb in a shell script and you’ve got yourself an actual profiler: https://poormansprofiler.org/

I love P and have used it for personal projects (like OSWALD^1) and at work (for some Redpanda components). I find it very approachable. If you know some basic theory of distribute…

According to public information, AWS uses both and not only. AWS wrote a paper on the topic with some details about their applications of formal methods^1. AWS is a large org thoug…

Love that it makes you spell the mangled symbols. Forces the brain to do some proper work.

Please share more about Ray Data use case.

I do often ask Claude Code or Gemini CLI to write commits. I agree with you on why being important. Majority of these being bug fixes accompanied tests where the why is easily infe…

*Engines That Move Markets: Technology Investing from Railroads to the Internet and Beyond* by Alasdair G. M. Nairn I’ve had a few aha moments while reading this book. Although it'…

How does something like this scale for more than 10 people? 100? 1000?

While I was writing a tool for myself to summarise daily the top N posts from HN, Google Trends, and RSS feed subscriptions I had the same problem. The quick solution was to use be…

Power Nap is another feature rather than a bug https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh40773/mac

Example: https://delta.io/blog/2022-05-18-multi-cluster-writes-to-del...

You’ll love to learn more about Chernoff faces! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face

The page says they hold the trademark to “Amazon Athena”. Does this come into conflict with a project named “AthenaDB”?

This sentence is explained on their homepage: > it takes 2 RTTs to complete a consensus request from the view of a client. One RTT takes place between the client and the leader ser…

> Existing distributed KV stores mostly adopt the Raft consensus protocol, which takes two RTTs to complete a request. Why 2? Isn’t a single AppendEntries request from the leader e…

Adam

dlemire, you note that the read ”overflows”. Why can’t you copy just `len` bytes? Does it slow too much because of the branch/more load/store operations?

Except Oppenheimer movie, who got it right. Seek to 4m46s https://youtu.be/kqYenzBwlkU?si=y87R0XvuWL8_7t6Q&t=286 If my memory is right, the actual scene, and delay, is longer than …

Commit Mono font does something similar and calls it “Smart kerning”. Visit https://commitmono.com/ and click on the “04 Intelligent” tab for details. In practice this is unusable.…

Thread-per-core software architectures are doing this https://penberg.org/papers/tpc-ancs19.pdf Real world examples are scylladb and Redpanda, both built on the seastar framework (…