bitbckt

BigBrotherBird (now OpenZipkin... thanks legal, sigh) used 128b trace_ids when we first built it at Twitter. I don’t recall the reasoning, but that’s the first system I know of which chose that size.

Dapper used 64b IDs for span and trace, but being locked inside the Googleplex probably limited its influence on compatibility issues.

My point is that 128b is the common standard now, and that’s all that I really care about - that the standard exists and APM systems conform to it. To that end, I am very pro-otel.

Thanks for your work.

I don't use any of their libraries, but follow the spec closely.

At the very least, it's forcing some standardization among APM vendors (DataDog 64b trace_id, I'm looking at you).

Also, related: https://www.w3.org/TR/trace-context/

My family is descended from Rev. John Lothrop[0], who came across on the Griffin in 1634. The high literacy rate among Puritans and their subsequent notability through the colonial years left many, many records of them and their progeny.

He is also an ancestor of the Bush clan - among many others. At some point, everyone is related to everyone. :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lothropp

This is already a thing: https://www.theverge.com/2015/12/29/10682746/boston-dynamics...

No doubt, it will continue.

One JVM is, yes. That’s exactly my point.

Referring to Hotspot as a “feature” of the JVM is a gross mischaracterization.

A JVM is not Hotspot, and Hotspot is not a part of “the” JVM.

There is strong opposition to any sort of national registry which might be used to "categorize" citizens for any purpose. That distrust is further compounded by general distrust in a strong federal government.

The whole concept of a federal personnummer/identitetskort - in their Swedish incarnations - and any benefits/conveniences offered by that sort of system is ideologically abhorrent to a (large?) portion of the US population.

Surely there must be a solution to this problem which involves neither privatization of massive amounts of personal data nor vicarious baptism.

They weren’t always numbered. Up north, there are still people who refer to Highway 40 as Lincoln Highway.

I’ve heard a couple of LA natives say that’s an explanation for SoCal’s affinity for calling them “the 5”: they switched from “the Santa Ana”.

Marmoleum is a common floor replacement in the Eichlers throughout the Bay Area. It's a very nice product, and looks just right to me.

> I have never, ever seen this feature in any other house, and it costs next to nothing.

My house, built in 1956, features these drains.

IANAL, and other disclaimers.

Prescriptive easement is not intended to apply to physical encroachment. It's intended to apply to right of way and ingress/egress issues. Otherwise, it would be an end-run around having to pay for the property.

I don't think that principle would apply in GP's case.

Adverse possession, however, may apply.

More anecdata:

I’ve worked with a handful of EB-1 holders. I wouldn’t qualify a single one as “exceptional.” Fine coworkers, sure, but to a one the justification for EB-1 strained credulity.

I have however worked with several H1-B holders of whom I would say the opposite.

I suggest giving TI (Beagle) a serious look.

> Calling a spade a spade literally sounds like trolling these days.

Maybe not the best way to phrase that these days.

> PICs are essentially obsolete, and none of us would ever consider them for new development. They're annoyingly constrained hoary old beasts.

No argument there.

I couldn’t agree more with the parent.

Further, PIC isn’t the only “non-ARM” in this space. Your average RainBird type water timer likely uses an MSP430, for example.

The idea that ARM should be used in any/all situations is naive.

Some of my ancestors arrived as early as the 1620s. There have been several books about them. Here's one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1333427255

My Civil War era ancestors were in Nevada at the time, where we've largely remained since.

Engineering is at its essence communication of ideas between you and others, be they computers, or other people, or yourself at some future time.

Learn to communicate effectively, and you will not be sorry you did.

Starz is a 20+ year old premium cable channel.

I’ve got a top-spec Octane2 with all the development tools that’s languishing and needs to be put to work.

I’m sure I’m not the only one (though the number is vanishingly small). It’s difficult to know how large the community is without nekochan.

Hope springs eternal. :)

A more accessible version of some of these ideas: https://www.parallella.org/

I only ever use Zoom on Linux (Ubuntu), and it works just fine every time.

My experience with Google Meet matches yours with Zoom.

Interesting. I didn't know about Ink Atlas. Thanks.

I primarily use https://mytopo.com/.

We had one of these guys zip through our house when I was a kid, just after our house cat died.

We had a new cat within a day or two.

It’s in San Jose.

Yes.

This is not a new practice.

For one - admittedly odd - example of training goats for this purpose: http://yogoats.org/

Summer is the slow season for real estate in SF. The peaks are in Spring and Fall.

Look for "### Compiler user-interface and warnings" in the announcement for references to the work.