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1 year ago
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on: An Analysis of the Performance of WebSockets in Various Programming Languages (2021)
http.ListenAndServe is implemented under the hood with a new goroutine per incoming connection. You don't have to explicitly use goroutines here, it's the default behaviour.
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1 year ago
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on: Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems
Will be an underlying safety issue in some system library, but they have only seen "in the wild" exploits targeting Intel. "Defence in depth" - better to push the bugfix to all than to scrutinize ARM security features to understand if an exploit is possible there as well.
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1 year ago
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on: Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference
Yeah you can see the cooling requirements by looking at their product images.
https://cerebras.ai/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Cerebras_Prod...Thing is nearly all cooling. And look at the diameter on the water cooling pipes. Airflow guides on the fans are solid steel. Apparently the chip itself measures 21.5cm^2. Insane.
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1 year ago
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on: Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take on Google
It's not just that there are few signals to prevent the wrong person being put in charge, but this kind of government bureaucratic actively selects for the wrong person. These kinds of government IT projects are often soul sucking to work on, and so they attract a specific kind of applicant.
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1 year ago
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on: M4 Mac mini's efficiency
I mean they aren't designed for rack mounting? It's a consumer product, likely <0.1% of units produced will end up in a rack.
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1 year ago
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on: M4 Mac mini's efficiency
The port on the bottom is really the least offensive element of the design. I know people find it fun to clown on, but if any of them had ever used one for 5 minutes they would realize it's a terrible mouse for a bunch of other more important reasons (weight, feet quality, tracking accuracy, polling rate etc.).
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1 year ago
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on: FDA proposes ending use of oral phenylephrine as OTC nasal decongestant
Regulatory challenge is that the FDA have to combine 3 related but seperate concepts:
1. Manufacturing quality/ingredients accuracy (is the product what is says on the tin)
2. Safety
3. Efficacy
Medicines must pass all three, supplements don't have to meet any.
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1 year ago
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on: Nvidia to join Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Intel
Given that experience, think about what state the alternatives must be in!
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1 year ago
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on: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence
You'll likely run into frustrating app availability issues. Releasing iPhone apps on iPad is not universally done. (looking at you WhatsApp)
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1 year ago
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on: Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence
Court isn't the place for scientific inquiry into these issues. It's just not setup for it. French courts have also found in favor of "electrosensitivity" issues.
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1 year ago
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on: Automating processes with software is hard
Sounds like a really interesting problem space. I'm curious if you have any comments about how you approached dealing with inconsistencies between information sources? System A says X, system B says Y. I suppose best approach is again just to bail out to manual resolution?
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1 year ago
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on: Automating processes with software is hard
One example is that instead of adding support for edge case mutations/changes late in a process, it's sometimes better to force those records to be thrown away and reset with a new record from the start of the process. You avoid chasing down flow on effects of late unexpected changes in different parts of the application.
To give a contrived/trivial example, imagine a TLS handshake. Rather than building support to allow hosts to retry with a different cert, it's better to fail the connection and let the client start from scratch. Same principle can be applied to more complex process automation tasks in business. Imagine a leave tracking system. It might be better to not support changing dates of an existing leave application, and instead supporting cancel & re-apply. Best part is that the user facing part of both versions can be exactly the same.
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1 year ago
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on: WordPress Plugin Mirror Downloader (Proof of Concept)
It's not "until sales shows up", it's until regulators start causing problems for Cloudflare because you are using Cloudflare infra to host a grey market online gambling website.
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1 year ago
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on: Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf]
Harder to justify contributing back when the open source project is so tightly coupled to your biggest for profit competitor.
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1 year ago
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on: It is hard to recommend Google Cloud
Even grosser is that they explicitly limited the iOS version of Google Photos to refuse to work with scoped access. So on iOS the app will refuse to work without being granted whole library access, a permission that Google no longer allows to any third party photo app on Android. Blatantly anticompetitive.
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1 year ago
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on: It is hard to recommend Google Cloud
I'm also completely sick of fielding API migration emails from Google on mobile Android/Firebase. Feel like I get some "action required" every couple of weeks. This stuff saps our resources, both to fix it, and to diagnose if the issue even applies to us in the first place. If you are lucky Google includes details of the app using the API, but often this part is even left out.
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1 year ago
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on: Tupperware files for bankruptcy as its colorful containers lose relevance
What’s crazy is the range on the liability estimate. Maybe there is a good reason for it. But 1b-10b is an absolutely massive window?
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1 year ago
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on: Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC
It does seem weird that there is this separation though. I would have assumed that there is a lot of overlap between machine design and operation.
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1 year ago
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on: GM to Cut More Than 1k Software Engineers, Mostly in US
More engineers doesn't automatically mean better software. Sometimes the opposite.
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1 year ago
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on: The Story of Samsung's failed deal with iFixit, as told by iFixit's CEO
This is a rod Samsung has made for their own back though. Fewer SKU's, and more shared parts between models would be better for consumers and for the planet.
