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This is why wait-free and lock-free are separate concepts. Author is not claiming wait-free.

For agentic use it impacts input tokens because the output is fed back into the model as input on subsequent turns.

Note that GPT-5.6-Sol is ~2x as token efficient as Opus/Fable, so a 258K max is equivalent to ~516K on Claude models. You also may just be fooling yourself, as context rot is still…

it does not require training a model from scratch for it to be updated. the entire LLM training process is iterative. essentially each step (there are hundreds/thousands for a trai…

You are correct. As a point of comparison: almost ten years ago at Segment we had a single Aurora PostgreSQL instance with ~50T of data, it was used to index potential identity dat…

I don't know why you're getting downvoted. This is exactly what was reported by curl's creator under the section "Five findings became one": https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/…

Sure, but you still need to design around this problem. It’s going to be a happy accident that everything turns out fine if you don’t.

Biggest thing to watch out with this approach is that you will inevitably have some failure or bug that will 10x, 100x, or 1000x the rate of dead messages and that will overload yo…

This is explicitly called out in the blog post in the trade-offs section. I was one of the engineers who helped make the decisions around this migration. There is no one size fits …

Bricken isn’t just making this up. He’s one of the leading researchers in model interpretability. See: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.14257

The 990 Pros have a temperature sensor issue. See https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/discussions/14793#discussionc...

It's all wood construction, originally stick victorians with 2x4 exterior walls. My "loudest" neighbor is being picked up on 80MHz at -47 dBm.

> It's a much better answer to hook up everything on Ethernet that you possibly can than it is to follow the more traveled route of more channels and more congestion with mesh Wi-F…

This seems pretty bad from the headline but there's no evidence of any in-the-wild exploits or if there is a feasible real-world exploit here. Some other domino(s) have to fall bef…

Magnetic hard drives are 100X cheaper per GB than when S3 launched, and are about 3X cheaper than in 2016 when the price last dropped. Magnetic prices have actually ticked up recen…

Is it bullshitting to perform nearly perfect language to language translation or to generate photorealistic depictions from text quite reliably? or to reliably perform named entity…

> For e-commerce workloads, the performance benefit of write-back mode isn’t worth the data integrity risk. Our customers depend on transactional consistency, and write-through mod…

none of the things you cited are “miracle weight loss drugs.” they are things people did to lose weight. these are the first class of drugs that actually cause people to lose weigh…

If you wanna run thru this list and get a tally, I quickly created this lovable app: https://cocktail-checkered-log.lovable.app/ . I'm at 68/102!

No, wide events are quasi-relational. Read the literature please. I’ve never seen a structured log implementation that is anything remotely relational, it’s just a bunch of random …

architecture docs are scant, but it appears this horizontally scales channels by adding "broker" instances and horizontally scales consumers by adding "worker" instances? i.e. a br…

You're right. Sync writes are ten times as slow. 331µs. write: IOPS=3007, BW=11.7MiB/s (12.3MB/s)(118MiB/10001msec); 0 zone resets clat (usec): min=196, max=23274, avg=331.13, stde…

More specific details for EC2 instances can be seen in the docs here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ec2/latest/instancetypes/gp.html...

> 1. The ratelimit on "IOPS" is precisely a ratelimit on a particular kind of network traffic, right? Namely traffic to/from an EBS volume? "IOPS" really means "EBS volume network …