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tweenagedream | 1 year ago | on: Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead

I mean they did say almost no breaking changes, depending how much has changed in the language, a small handful of breaking changes in niche use cases may be considered almost none by some. I'm not sure I would say the comment is absolutely inaccurate.

tweenagedream | 2 years ago | on: A scientific curiosity that happened to me

I experienced this just last month! Except, I didn't know it at the moment. I was participating in a design review while wfh on meet. We were having some good discussions, which I participated in. Partway through the meeting I start to fidget a bit and unplug my mic, untwist it from my headphone cable and plug it back in. Next time I unmute, unbeknownst to me, everyone else starts hearing the local radio station. I was using a schiit fulla DAC, and one of its features is auto gain on the microphone. Well I apparently didn't plug the mic in enough and it picked up the local radio station and then boosted the gain enough that it came through loud and clear over the call. Blew my mind once I learned wtf was going on. Embarrassing in the moment as I was muted twice and told to stop listening to a podcast during the meeting.

tweenagedream | 2 years ago | on: Speed Test

This is because of the way tcp congestion control works. In order to achieve higher speeds, tcp has a "window" that grows, essentially the amount of data in flight, that has not yet been acknowledged by your client. That window doesn't open very wide in the 100kb test because it happens so quickly.

tweenagedream | 2 years ago | on: A detailed comparison of REST and gRPC

For gRPC, the protobuf is the API specification, a service definition with endpoints, what requests to those endpoints should look like and what responses look like. Of course, there are better and worse implementations, e.g. a well commented proto definition explaining what various args do, etc.

In gRPC the definition is a requirement to use, so at the bare minimum you have the typed structure of requests and responses. There is no such requirement for REST

tweenagedream | 4 years ago | on: Hire-to-fire at Amazon India?

I think down leveling is quite common, especially at higher levels as the expectations grow quite a bit between senior and staff. Depending on the position, actually filling it with +/-1 of the target level is a win. Interviewing is expensive and if a candidate is good for the role, but perhaps just a bit below the bar, then a recommendation to hire at L-1 tries to keep the candidate and give them a career path.

This is from my perspective at Google, I've never worked at Amazon.

tweenagedream | 4 years ago | on: Simple bank shutdown goes awry, leaving customers without account access

I was a simple customer since before the BBVA acquisition, but once I heard that they were shutting down the main service I moved everything over to a cash reserve account in betterment, which I already had for investing. Since then I've opened an m1 finance account which had a 1% interest rate and 1% cash back if you use their debit card. (I tend to only use credit cards since the rewards are better)

Closed my account a few weeks ago. sad to see simple go, it was refreshingly easy and just worked, had great features and was something I never thought about since it just worked.

tweenagedream | 5 years ago | on: Surveys: More Americans Want Starlink Than 5G Home Internet

Generally RAM doesn't burn out, so I don't think that will be the reason.

My guess it will be around capacity, though if the LEO ISP market has multiple players all covering the same areas, there is a chance we don't fall into the market segmentation we have now since there will be multiple options.

tweenagedream | 5 years ago | on: The Perfect Media Server – 2020 Edition

DNS doesn't really redirect, but DNS is the answer. What you're talking about is split horizon, this is most common when you have an authoritative server for say a corporation, but can be applied here as well.

That said, I have a local dns server that is pi hole, I've set aliases in that that are preferred over my domains dns which would be used outside my network.

That way you can have pi hole pint to 192.168.0.0/24 and Google domains or whomever point to your vps.

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