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onefuncman··on Jepsen: Dgraph 1.1.1
do you have any reusability of the infrastructure for indexing edge properties to reuse in FTS?
onefuncman··on Lambda Store: Serverless Redis
Fargate is serverless and has several varieties of support for stateful workloads.
onefuncman··on I Made a Chess Library in Java
Good job, you crashed GitHub.
onefuncman··on Additional 6.6M File for Initial Unemployment Benefits [pdf]
Austria 8.1% Feb 2020 -> 12.2% Mar 2020

Philippines 4.5% -> 5.3%

Belarus 0.3% -> 0.2% (???)

per https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/unemployment-rate

Israel 18.6% 3/24 to 24.4% today - https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-unemployment-in-israel-up... and https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/The-number-of-unemployed...

I'm not sure why Israel has their numbers available so quickly.

onefuncman··on Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules in place
This is a marathon, not a sprint. A normal retooling for an auto manufacturer appears to take 8-10 weeks.

They should be in time to save a lot of lives.

onefuncman··on Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules in place
Uh, it's absolutely true. I have entire offices (100s of people) that switched from Webex to MS Teams for better video quality.
onefuncman··on Secor: A service persisting Kafka logs to S3, GCS and Azure Blob Storage
It's not a 1:1 write per message, it relies on Kafka offset guarantees to batch messages into S3 at a configurable threshold, 256MB per S3 object is common.
onefuncman··on Remembering the LAN
Your blog post struck much more of a chord with me than any curated content could have, thanks for hitting post.
onefuncman··on Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield on 35 years of making games
That was 1997, you hold a pretty serious grudge...?
onefuncman··on Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real?
Understanding the OS of the AS/400 is a far cry from understanding all the custom software running on it.
onefuncman··on “Just walk out” technology by Amazon
Qualcomm's spinout Gimbal went broke once so far trying to bring this tech to market, but they're still muddling along.
onefuncman··on Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6
I think you're wrong -- containers aren't ready for legacy enterprise, VMs are a better choice of abstraction for an initial move to cloud.

Get your data centers all running VMWare, then VMDK import to AWS AMIs, then wrap them all in autoscaling groups, figure out where the SPOFs have moved to, and only then start moving to containers.

In the mean time, all new development happens on serverless.

Don't let anything new connect to a legacy database directly, only via API at worst, or preferably via events.

onefuncman··on Cambridge Analytica were the tip of the iceberg
Is there any chance there's a recording of the talk by Robert Holczer, may peace be upon him?

edit: found a recording and a transcript, https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504887

onefuncman··on Cambridge Analytica were the tip of the iceberg
It's an in-browser rendering of a graph database... I believe each slide is a live query.
onefuncman··on Amazon Common Software for Devices
Can't you mitigate this completely by working towards being acquired by your platform vendor?
onefuncman··on Disney CEO Bob Iger immediately steps down from CEO position
Weird, techcrunch.com is serving an expired SSL certificate.

    $ openssl s_client -showcerts -servername techcrunch.com -connect techcrunch.com:443
    CONNECTED(00000003)
    depth=2 C = US, O = DigiCert Inc, OU = www.digicert.com, CN = DigiCert Global Root CA
    verify return:1
    depth=1 C = US, O = DigiCert Inc, CN = DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA
    verify return:1
    depth=0 C = US, ST = Virginia, L = Sterling, O = Oath Inc., OU = SecOps, CN = techcrunch.com
    verify error:num=10:certificate has expired
    notAfter=Feb 26 12:00:00 2020 GMT
onefuncman··on A Proof of Useful Work for Artificial Intelligence on the Blockchain
assuming the participants are honest is useful because someone else can prove how to participate in a trust-less fashion, e.g. via homomorphic encryption
onefuncman··on Every Google result now looks like an ad
I installed an SSH client on my phone and my life instantly got better.
onefuncman··on Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time
hi fellow super hero
onefuncman··on Video Gaming Will Take Over
>It’s true that to date, gaming IP has not delivered strong results at the box office.

Warcraft (2016) made $440M worldwide on a $160M budget, mostly in China IIRC.

onefuncman··on On Facts and Thinking
> We may now deploy trust.

Figuring out how to bootstrap trust in a network of anonymous actors is my white whale.

onefuncman··on How to start a blog using Hugo
Absolutely journal privately... then, curate journal entries into blog posts. Information wants to be free.
onefuncman··on Predicting where AI is going in 2020
I agree with you -- we have little idea how much labeled information is encoded in the genome either.

I rather like to think of the genome as the most well trained model of life we have access to.

onefuncman··on Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
are you saying you have a child with a cell phone or tablet that has location services explicitly turned off ?

i dunno, seems negligent to me

onefuncman··on 88% of Americans use a second screen while watching TV
What do you mean, content fragmentation? You just search for what you want to watch on Telegram and pick your preferred resolution for your device and bandwidth. As an added bonus, there's usually better localization available, too!
onefuncman··on Here’s the story of a game I made in 1994, when I was 12
I went through a brief period where I ran out of disks and reformatted all my disks with compressed filesystems to eke out another 300kb of usable disk. Later I went back and tried out a wide variety of compression tools, I preferred .ARJ but I couldn't tell you why today...
onefuncman··on Network.framework: A Modern Alternative to Sockets (2018)
There's terrible dangers that await one who casually throws .Result or .Wait() into an existing ASP.NET application.

The intersection between synchronous and asynchronous code is the ugliest.

The most dangerous is how deadlocks can arise because of the execution context of a running application vs the execution context of your unit tests.

If you're already in .NET Core, you're probably fine.

For more, try https://devblogs.microsoft.com/pfxteam/should-i-expose-synch... or any of Stephen Cleary's blog posts https://blog.stephencleary.com/2012/07/dont-block-on-async-c...

onefuncman··on How to Manage Apache Airflow with Systemd on Debian or Ubuntu
I recall Jupyter being a parallel evolution alongside Airflow+Spark+Zeppelin (or similar mashup) and I think Jupyter has become "better".
onefuncman··on How to Manage Apache Airflow with Systemd on Debian or Ubuntu
Unit files are one of the things systemd got right.

A scripting language isn't well suited for process management, which is a very well specified task.

Now, if you mentioned https://ammonite.io/ you might have got my attention...

onefuncman··on Network.framework: A Modern Alternative to Sockets (2018)
What kind, specifically?

async/await in C# is a flaming tire fire of hot garbage, it's more a virus than a help.

And why isn't an event driven API preferable?

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