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kirugan··on What goes into making an animated film?
I wonder why PDI was better than Renderman ?
kirugan··on I'm in a Meeting
haha, now I can always use this website if I don't want to be interrupted lol
kirugan··on Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs
What is the best resource for finding good academic papers on databases that are actually practical to implement?
kirugan··on How fast is N tokens per second really?
Nice, I always thought 15 tok/sec is too "slow"
kirugan··on Customizable HTML Select
HTML is getting complex every day
kirugan··on Understanding Google’s File System (2020)
Awesome! Just checked the whitepaper there was a cluster with 300 machines, so all machines had to be described in configuration file that was used by master, right?
kirugan··on Understanding Google’s File System (2020)
how do you know?
kirugan··on Understanding Google’s File System (2020)
Original whitepaper is a great overview of how the system works, but devil in the details. I still have a lot of questions about implementation, for instance:

from where did master get information about chunkservers (chubby, configuration files) ? did chunkserver know about which master it belongs to? etc.

kirugan··on Reverse-engineering Rosetta 2 Part 1: Analyzing AoT files and the runtime
What mystery?
kirugan··on Sputnik V vaccine peer reviewed with efficacy of 91.6%
Distrust is not because of what the authorities are proposing, but because people are generally distrustful of vaccines.
kirugan··on Pony – High-Performance Safe Actor Programming
Do you need any help with Apple Silicon transition? I've purchased a new mac mini recently and looking for an open-source project to contribute.
kirugan··on The database servers powering Let's Encrypt
I didn't know that, thanks!
kirugan··on The database servers powering Let's Encrypt
MyISAM days are gone, no one will seriously consider it as suitable engine in MySQL.
kirugan··on Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned
If you were in Russia you would know that it's not true) Most of FSB are really stupid and old fashioned. These people very far away from Tech, especially top officials. I'm not a fan of Putin either and truly believe that Russia deserves much better president with more liberal views (in a good way of course).
kirugan··on Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned
No one use "comrades" anymore in Russia) it's old stereotype
kirugan··on Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned
Do you think I'm a bot?)) Lol. Most topics on politics on HN relate to USA, and I have neither interest nor competence to discuss such things.

However, this particular news referring to my home country and I express my own opinion.

kirugan··on Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned
Honestly, I think it's too bold to poison the most popular opposition member even for FSB (Russian FBI). So who knows maybe the person who started it doesn't belong to Kremlin.