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criu has been used for live migration for a while.

Getting a consistent snapshot that you can restore reliably is a hard problem but probably not as big deal for forensic analysis.

I've seen pieces of this without the actual proof of work but with cryptographically hashed inputs and commands such that your test can just be a cache hit.

https://bazel.build/remote/caching

What you say makes lots of sense. I can see how hit rates not being passed down would cause issues.

But anecdotally I think I'm in the same spot many others are. Btrfs let me down a couple times (once lots of truncated files and another time I ran out of inode space on a mostly empty disk iirc) and I'm in no hurry to give it another chance.

zfs has just happily worked for me. I ran it as a root filesystem for years. All the snapshot/send/receive stuff just worked and stayed out of my way.

Note that this was for personal use and with SSDs and later nvme so I wasn't comparing it head to head with anything. Which might be why I didn't notice issues like page caching behavior.

I worked at enough companies to see that many of them have some notion of "centralized config that's rolled to the edge and can be updated at runtime".

I've done this with djb's CDB (constant database). But I've seen people poll an API for JSON config files or dbm/gdbm/Berkeleydb/leveldb.

This can extend to other big red buttons. It's not that elegant but I've had numerous services that checked for the presence of a file to serve health checks. So pulling a node out of load balancer rotation was as easy as creating a file.

The idea is that then when there's a datab outage the system defaults to serving the last known good config.

Not an expert, but I've seen some signs that netlink is used instead of ioctl lately. https://medium.com/thg-tech-blog/on-linux-netlink-d7af1987f8...

You hit the nail on the head, those were my top two complaints, but the rabbit hole goes deep.

It's not an exaggeration to say that trying to keep mysql from corrupting your data feels like a full-time job. Mysql in many ways, especially as used by massive social media companies early on was closer to a SQLish DSL for a non-transactional kv store than a "real" ACID database.

That's why "but it can do 70k rps" is just noise to someone. I don't care how fast it can lose my data.

I'm all for people needing to read the docs but man a database burns trust pretty fast when it's so easy to have it pretend to support transactions or pretend to support utf8.

I moved to Seattle from Utah. I. Utah when it rains it's big fat drops that splash on your face. You almost want to wear sunglasses to see.

That is relatively rare in Seattle area. It is really more of a mist most of the time. Where I live there are so many giant trees that even when it's "raining" you often stay pretty dry.

PR. Attack Google or cloudflare. Wait for them to publish a blog post about the biggest attack ever seen, then tell potential customers of your botnet that you can launch a bigger attack than anyone else and point to the above blog post.

Even a decade ago I was seeing projects stop using ctypes and instead use things like cffi. Honestly I couldn't tell you exactly why ctypes is so bad but I do know that cffi integrates a little closer with the c compiler and has better header support.

As someone who once had access to internal fleetwide profiling information, yes.

There is older evidence based on quirks in encoding. https://multimedia.cx/eggs/googles-youtube-uses-ffmpeg/

Not exactly but the equivalent yes. Workstation and VMs. All tests and builds are basically run in borg by default.

For most Google developer developing on a Chromebook basically means running ssh and chrome remote desktop.

I've done that experiment with zstd before.

https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/programs/zstd.1.md...

Not sure about brotli though.

After looking at the page it seems pretty clear overall but the biggest source of confusion to me is emphasis of "a new stdlib". To me it seems like a good chunk of their goals start with "a new compiler/runtime". They are replacing the go command.

The fact that requires a different standard library seems like a consequence of the first decision but it's unclear.

In fact you don't prove anything in science. You merely fail to disprove something.

I can second this.

Empty backups or exponentially I creasing in size backups of backups. The yin and yang of backup bugs.

I found your comment a bit hard to follow. Did you just blame "ganst" (sic) rap for the increase in diagnosis of gender dysphoria?

How does that work?

Your comment:

> Rick, if you're reading this: you need to do better.

Front and center of Rick's page.

> This is just a hobby of mine, that I thought might be interesting to a lot of people. Some people collect stamps. Others collect coins. I collect dialects. - Rick Aschmann. (Page last updated: May 2, 2018.

In fact Rick is apparently a professional linguist who's day job involves researching "amerindian" or indigenous languages so he's devoted his career to studying the dialects of people of color. Consider cutting him some slack on his hobby.

As far as I know it still is. Just like the default image used for Google Kubernetes nodes, CoS.

Well in the animated Disney documentary Sword in the Stone we see Merlin come back from from Bermuda wearing Bermuda shorts and shirt so we can surmise it's always been the garb of wizards ; ).

I actually have some and I like projecting an air of fun since I'm an introvert.

This is an overly simplistic but also correct answer: clickhouse was developed for analytics on clickstreams.

Technically the overall idea is that if you have lots of queries that only read certain columns and your database stores rows contiguously it's a waste to read a whole row and then discard columns.

Also compression (such as run length or delta or even ztsd) often works better if you give it a block of data that's from one column (such as a timestamp or tag value).

This is my own analogy but think of the concept of pressure and brownian motion. At a micro level pressure doesn't seem to exist in the way we understand it. There's just little spheres exchanging momentum. But at a macro level we can talk about pressure.

My takeaway with many discussions about self and Buddhism is just that it's a macro or emergent property, and not just one "thing".

Language can be imprecise but I think that's what is being referred to when we say self is an illusion.

I work for Google but mostly interface with GCP the same way everyone else does.

The vms are somewhat hidden in the UI iirc but otherwise you can enumerate them via API and ssh to them and debug/profile (which I was doing to get cross-language profiling on data flow pipelines with py-spy and jvm perf output).

It's just a worker vm in your project.

I'm excited to tell you it already exists with kitty and euporie https://github.com/joouha/euporie

In the old days I played with something like this: https://github.com/desaster/kippo

But a more modern alternative seems to be the container based approach outlined here. https://lwn.net/Articles/848291/

The entire page is a joke. First gif is a big hint.

It's really common for CDNs. Definitely for DNS and almost always for http. Anycast routing.

In the past people were concerned more about route flapping disrupting TCP connections. It seems that people aren't worried about that anymore. Google does it.

amd64 uses segment registers for TLS (such as errno).

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6611346/how-are-the-fs-g...

I wish commentors would read the article.

Why didn't they use the os package manager? Which OS? Their build clearly builds for osx, windows, and Linux.

I actually had to recover a deleted file on OSX once. I sure wished the proc filesystem was present there.

I ended up using gdb (or maybe lldb I don't recall) to load a shared object that did a seek()/open()/copy(). Totally hacky but it worked!