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chupasaurus

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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/chupasaurus; my proof: https://keybase.io/chupasaurus/sigs/awEGiixoqxZq5v8DxIsQYRG5yKtmfDbOvz2J1xCuAuE ] Russian sysadmin wearing a DevOps mask for profit.
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chupasaurus··on 400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure
There are 2 decades between those 2 points, .NET was -4 y.o. at the first one.
chupasaurus··on Kafka at the low end: how bad can it get?
> 150 million objects / hour

Is not a low volume unless this could be done in batches of hundreds.

chupasaurus··on We were wrong about GPUs
If you throw out the Linux tech from my explanation, it would become a general description which holds up even for Windows.
chupasaurus··on We were wrong about GPUs
> Containers are inherently difficult to sum up in a sentence.

Super easy if we talk about Linux. It's a process tree being spawned inside it's own set of kernel namespaces, security measures and a cgroup to provide isolation from the rest of the system.

chupasaurus··on VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas
Task runners have to interpret the tasks one way or the other. Speaking of crazy stuff, Ansible in general ships out Python scripts to be executed remotely.
chupasaurus··on U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts
One of my all-time favorites: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41595924
chupasaurus··on Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs
IBM employee without a disclosure? /sarcasm
chupasaurus··on Hell is overconfident developers writing encryption code
> I get that. But then, keeping that legacy stuff running is just as problematic as rolling your own crypto.

Both problems are from the lack of knowledge, but latter one is orders of magnitude harder to fix.

chupasaurus··on Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion
Some of those include display latency (e.g. Konsole) because you can't throw lazy rendering out of some terminals.
chupasaurus··on Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years
> AWS probably has something for Route53.

Called alias records.

chupasaurus··on So you want to build your own data center
Well, the alternative name for it is "backwards engineering" for a reason.
chupasaurus··on So you want to build your own data center
The knowledge of blast radii.
chupasaurus··on Debugging: Indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive problems (2004)
Poor Yorick!
chupasaurus··on If we had the best product engineering organization, what would it look like?
If it was using MyISAM relations are in question.
chupasaurus··on Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments easy
IIRC there was some widely used image with many derivatives that redefined locale (the one in Docker Library used POSIX since forever).
chupasaurus··on Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments easy
In Debian build-essential package is only recommended dependency of pip. Pyenv obviously wouldn't work without it.
chupasaurus··on I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?
As a no grad to EE grad: traces mean a bundle of metrics that varies in structure hence you can't store and process them as effective as a list of counters unless you have a distinct bin for each possible trace, combinatorial explosion y'know.
chupasaurus··on Lenovo Officially Announces the Legion Go S Handheld with SteamOS
> Proton, which is a DirectX implementation for Linux

Wine is way more than a DirectX implementation.

chupasaurus··on Stimulation Clicker
All this "game" does is generation of different marketable banana items to "players" running it.
chupasaurus··on Stimulation Clicker
Anti-Idle from 2009 says hi.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/tukkun/anti-idle-the-game

chupasaurus··on SrsRAN: Open-Source 4G/5G
Yep, the word "source" never mentioned.
chupasaurus··on Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts
Different neck joints would spawn different models with ease.
chupasaurus··on Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h?
6 hours is too short for any special trains (i.e. #001/2 is Moscow - St.Petersburg 8 hour night train) so you can expect that at any route, also attendants have to wake up passengers by a rule.

Added: GP is probably talking about a train that didn't cross a border.

chupasaurus··on PCIe trouble with 4TB Crucial T500 NVMe SSD for >1 power cycle on MSI PRO X670-P
Model or at least year of that SSD? Early on Kingston used faulty controllers that randomly fail to initiate and degrade with power cycles.
chupasaurus··on The paper passport's days are numbered
> Putin taking notes.

Russian visas are machine-readable since 1997 to ease the DB request.

chupasaurus··on Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
Not in Windows (pun unintended) where it works only in Explorer.
chupasaurus··on Grayjay Desktop App
Hey, that's NSFW content on HN!

Also I still find it funny that OpenSSH client shipped via feature uses %HOMEDIR%\.ssh

chupasaurus··on UK's Online Safety Act comes into force
To add how the spiral works, those "anti-extremist" laws included the first amendment to the Internet blocking one.
chupasaurus··on Only buy a magnetic keyboard for gaming
> Pro-level competitive players are likely to be so fast and coordinated as to be close to indistinguishable from a well configured macro.

If only configuration includes randomness, is aware of body mechanics like difference between pressing same button strings with different fingers and so on and so forth.

> Really, if you want to have limits on input devices, you need to codify that into the game, not say any advances in keyboard design are cheating.

Smart Tap has been banned by Valve in CS2 precisely because the input processing has codified certain behavior since grandgrandfather of the engine and that code is being bypassed by software that emulates inputs.

If you want software to play the games for you then go for it, but it will be different games. That's why tool-assisted speedruns/superplay have their own place.

chupasaurus··on Only buy a magnetic keyboard for gaming
Love the promotion of cheating features in gaming devices! /sarcasm
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