mmcclellan's comments

mmcclellan | 6 years ago | on: CNCF's Cortex v1.0: scalable, fast Prometheus implementation

New to Cortex but when looking at a comparison of Prometheus and InfluxDB (like https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/comparison/#promethe...) it appears that Cortex offers similar horizontal scalability features to the InfluxDB Enterprise offering. The linked comparison does note the difference between event logging and metrics recording but I am curious (choosy beggar that I am) whether others consider them separate tooling or whether it is possible to remain performant using one solution.

mmcclellan | 6 years ago | on: Grace Hopper Explains a “Nanosecond”

Thanks. Definitely worth the 120 billion nanoseconds it takes to watch.

mmcclellan | 6 years ago | on: GitHub Package Registry

Watching the live stream now (https://live-stream.github.com/). Will likely use the Docker support near immediately. Hoping Singularity will be supportable as well.

mmcclellan | 7 years ago | on: Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years

Facebook's press release https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/03/keeping-passwords-secur... on the matter is pretty nonchalant:

>Keeping Passwords Secure >As part of a routine security review in January, we found that >some user passwords were being stored in a readable format >within our internal data storage systems.

Nothing to see here folks.

mmcclellan | 7 years ago | on: K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system

Are these really simpler than an electric kettle and a Hario v60?

mmcclellan | 7 years ago | on: Big List of Naughty Strings

It sounds like the VMWare comment is most likely, but I thought I would share how I learned of the project just yesterday. There was a HN post yesterday about https://sr.ht/ and in looking at that I noticed the project used a blacklist of usernames that I thought was cool, so when I took a look at that project it had a link to this repo.

mmcclellan | 7 years ago

In the OVH case, a modified kernel was being shipped without (apparently) following the guidelines. I've seen an AWS suffix on kernel upgrades and they may or may not have an agreement to pay, but I'm thinking _very definitely_ is stated too strongly.

mmcclellan | 7 years ago | on: Facebook open-sources LogDevice, a distributed storage for sequential data

I had just stumbled across https://github.com/facebookincubator/python-nubia and am anxious to try it out. Was wondering about the internal project it was factored out from. This appears to be it.

mmcclellan | 7 years ago | on: Introduction to Calculus with Derivatives

I have seen this discussed online several times. Here is a HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14192894

that indicates the text Feynman first used was Calculus for the Practical Man by J. E. Thompson. Both are quality texts and as the linked HN thread notes, can be found on archive.org.

mmcclellan | 7 years ago | on: The default OpenSSH key encryption is worse than plaintext

monitoring thread for mentions of tooling. Seen teleport and vault - no mention yet of bless/blessclient yet.

mmcclellan | 7 years ago | on: Reddit Security Incident

I got the email about an hour ago. My first reaction was embarrassingly hipster.

mmcclellan | 8 years ago | on: An Open Letter to Intel

I first heard the Minix thing in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iffTJ1vPCSo which I found, I think via a HN thread. Anyway, most of the articles rehash this talk and IMO its a solid 30 minute investment.

mmcclellan | 8 years ago

That's actually an interesting stat. If there are ~115 million US households and 20% have > $100,000 income, that is ~23 million households. If 18-24 year olds make up ~9.5% of the population, and we 'assume' they are evenly distributed in these households, then this statement (well 18-24) could be true.

mmcclellan | 8 years ago | on: Facebook’s war on free will

vendros - mind blown

mmcclellan | 8 years ago | on: Google VR Blocks: A Free 3D Modeling Tool for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift

Coverage:

Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/6/15929312/google-blocks-vr-...

Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/google-blocks-vr/

Engadget: https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/06/google-blocks-virtual-3d...

mmcclellan | 8 years ago | on: MapD Open Sources GPU-Powered Database

This is where I first got interested in MapD. The author has a new post detailing how to compile MapD: http://tech.marksblogg.com/compiling-mapd-ubuntu-16.html

mmcclellan | 9 years ago | on: A deep dive into APL

I really liked the way that Iverson built up concepts in his [Arithmetic (PDF)](http://www.jsoftware.com/books/pdf/arithmetic.pdf) manual for J. I found it very intuitive and useful even if you never plan to use the language. There are others at the site like his manual for Exploring Math and one for Calculus as well.

mmcclellan | 9 years ago | on: Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog

On the GPU side of things, I can confirm that AWS p2.xlarge has worked well for me. It has one Tesla K80. Azure's offering is similarly priced. Back in November Google Cloud announced P100 GPUs would be available soon; that will be interesting.

mmcclellan | 9 years ago | on: Happy 15th Birthday .NET

I remember back in those early days seeing job requirements that listed 10+ years .NET. Nice to see some people actually have that now.

mmcclellan | 9 years ago | on: Masaya Nakamura, Japanese arcade pioneer, has died

For home play K.C. Munchkin actually turned out to be the better game.