katnegermis's comments

I really love using dbeaver[1] as a Postgres IDE. It requires a small bit of configuration for me to use it (why are the defaults to automatically lowercase all of my SQL?!). Other than that it's excellent!

[1]: https://dbeaver.io/

Ha, initially misread your question as its opposite (~"would reading technical/non-work related books in my spare time be a waste of time") and immediately thought no, of course not! To me, doing non-work related things outside of working is what makes _both_ activities things fun.

Don't be hard on yourself for not spending every waking minute of your life working, preparing for work, or feeling bad because you "should" be doing one of those two. That's a very quick way get burned out.

YMMV, but in my experience, even if you want to optimize your life for doing the best work possible, not working all the time is a winning strategy!

Not pc, but they did an episode of "How I built this" that: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/06/812853591/stripe-patrick-and-...

I don't remember if they answered exactly what you are asking, but my memory of the episode is definitely positive!

Not OP, but I've recently worked with AWS Parameter Store a lot, and I've been very happy with it so far. We store all configuration (including secrets) using it.

We started by using https://github.com/segmentio/chamber/, but because of the way we decided to structure our secrets we decided to write a clone of it ourselves (https://github.com/micvbang/confman-go).

In practice, we have a client written in Python that grabs configuration from Parameter Store and puts it into the process' ENV variables at startup. This allows us to avoid vendor lockin in the rest of our code, since we still just fetch all config from the environment. I like it so far :)

I think this is what https://tailscale.com/ is trying to solve :)

(I'm in no way affiliated, but stumbled upon it on twitter a few weeks ago)

At noesis.gg we made a small, not-at-all scientific comparison of our JSON and flatbuffers implementations: https://www.noesis.gg/news/player-movement-speedup.html.

The somewhat silly video on that page shows the actual difference in performance our users felt after the change. It was a _huge_ benefit, both in terms of loading time, but also in terms of memory, vastly increasing the number of CS:GO rounds that could be analyzed simultaneously.

I think it is a joke-attempt at getting him to reveal his wifi password :)

I think he's referring to the fact that maps are iterated in random order. Now if you print them directly, you may be lead to believe that the order is _not_ random.

One of my friends came up with a tongue-in-cheek name for your "default to many"-advice: https://theharemrule.com

After being given the advice couple years ago, I found it to be applicable to quite a number of scenarios me and my colleagues faced. In my experience its pretty solid!

I can't think of a worse way to get your point across.

_Please_ let it be intentional that you wrote punished! It conveys the feeling of publishing so well.

I just finished it a few days ago. Read it for the exact same reason. I can really recommend it!

I would _love_ to get me an x320/x330. But I can't for the life of me find a place that actually sells them. The one place that I found is a facebook group where it seems that they have been unresponsive for around half a year.

EDIT: For those who do not want to google it themselves: https://forum.51nb.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1699442&...

https://imgur.com/a/0m3a1#FpKEHYl

I was wondering the exact same thing -- how can CPU-parallelism improve on a task which (to me at least) seems to be disk-IO bound? I'm guessing that my assumption of the task being disk-IO bound is incorrect!