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le_didilon Beej's Guide to Network Programming (1994-2020)

great classic !! I didn't know it was still maintained, thanks beej !

le_didilon The Wire in HD (2014)

the books are way better than the series imho

le_didilon The Wire in HD (2014)

If you've enjoyed The Wire, do read David Simon's books, it's outstanding work:

- Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

- The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood

le_didilon Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

Deadwood: The Movie

le_didilon Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust

that's a good point, when playing a bit with rust last year I found that the libraries that deal with "async stuff" (like http clients, db clients etc) are mostly split, some use tokio and some use async-std, and they were incompatible. Not sure if the situation has improved now but it looked like an ecosystem split at the time.

le_didilon Robinhood was indeed too good to be true

aha i see. thanks

le_didilon Robinhood was indeed too good to be true

didn't the customers notice that they were given bad execution prices ? or would that be very hard to notice in practice ? (I'm not a trading expert obviously)

le_didilon Interview with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer

But when funding dries up for startups and companies have to shutter, then all of their digital operation overseas is cut loose. And the people who lose their jobs go into cybercrime. They think, “There's no other options for me. So sure. Let's do it. Lock and load.”

this section is just nonsense. So the crisis happens then devs in "developing countries" become cybercriminals ? total bs ...

le_didilon Hotwire: HTML over the Wire

I don't think this is going to happen. Hotwire-like technologies have existed for a long time with turbo-links, adoption is low and it's very unpractical to work with compared to a split backend api + frontend (framework or not as you prefer).

le_didilon A New species of whale has been discovered off the western coast of Mexico

the docker whale

le_didilon AI that scans a construction site can spot when things are falling behind

Manna ?

le_didilon Netlify raises $53M Series C as microservices approach to web development grows

I think Netlify's success has got nothing to do with "microservices". The new (not so new now actually) trend that allowed it to prosper is when people started splitting up backend-rendered webapps (where the backend was effectively rendering most of the html, classic mvc/rails style) into a static frontend/single page app making api calls to an api backend (or multiple but it doesn't really matter here)

le_didilon Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars

people should ditch their SUVs and get an ROV (Rodent Operated Vehicle as described in the article)

le_didilon A Kubernetes/GKE mistake that cost me thousands of dollars

I would advise reading this section of the GKE docs. It explains the marginal gains in allocatable memory and cpu from running larger nodes https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/clu...

For memory resources, GKE reserves the following:

255 MiB of memory for machines with less than 1 GB of memory 25% of the first 4GB of memory 20% of the next 4GB of memory (up to 8GB) 10% of the next 8GB of memory (up to 16GB) 6% of the next 112GB of memory (up to 128GB) 2% of any memory above 128GB

For CPU resources, GKE reserves the following:

6% of the first core 1% of the next core (up to 2 cores) 0.5% of the next 2 cores (up to 4 cores) 0.25% of any cores above 4 cores

le_didilon Using Go Modules

I agree, I tried go modules a couple of months ago but the VSCode tools were much slower and cpu usage increased when using go mod extensions. I reverted back to not using go modules at the time, will try again soon to see if it improved. I still like go modules.