dapperdrake

The companies that end up doing this will be more like Google with technical managers.

The other companies will stay where they are at right now.

Learning to manage code bots is way easier if you know code. Managing code bots when you don’t know code leads to how SWEs have been mismanaged in the past.

Maintaining systems is where the costs are at. That is also where the profit is at.

See also:

https://flashdba.com/storage-for-dbas/

Also: DARVO.

Cry in story points. Like a real scrum master level 9000.

It seems like retries are sometimes best left to the human being in front of the screen. Works well enough.

CAP theorem. Pick one of those.

#|))))

Then where are the HDMI ports on Nvidia's current data center GPU product lines?

And the change in failure rate and technical advances are a de-facto change in actual depreciation vs. accounting depreciation.

Electricity gets converted to heat which has to be removed through the cooling system.

Performance per Watt is the key metric for data centers full of GPUs.

Kernel option nohz_full in grub config.

Also disable hardware SMT as a kernel option in grub config. Then the cores can clock down way more often and L1 data cache size doubles.

XFCE and X11 tripled my laptop battery life vs. whatever Wayland+GNOME Ubuntu (2024?) brought by itself.

Powertop and tlp also help.

Happy camping.

EDIT: the lower heat dissipation also halved boot time. That one surpised me the most.

EDIT2: Disable "atime" with ext4 option "noatime". Saves a lot of power, heat, trimming, and re-writes on your SSD/NVMe.

For "faster shutdowns" manually run systemctl start fstrim.service. Not exactly sure why fstrim.timer seems unreliable.

The joke is awesome.

Sadly, monospaced fonts kill sarcasm.

"Everybody has a production system. The lucky ones also have a test system."

Wow. GitHub gaining the same reputation as DNS ("it's always DNS"), printers, OSI layer 8, and PEBKAC is actually a bit of an achievement.

Hat tip to Microsoft.

zpool-replace(8)

https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/master/8/zpool-re...

ZFS got this right. MDADM on ext4 somehow did not.

EDIT: ext4 on MDADM.

How ZFS gets this right: zfs(8) on zpool(8). So, basically, ext4 and mdadm can talk to each other.

ATA (SATA), SCSI (SAS), and NVM (NVMe).

Underrated

Look at flag --standalone. At least for html output pandoc seems to be able to handle something that feels like partial pandoc input in practice and produce html output that behaves like a snippet.

Pandoc AST - format called "native" - parses faster than pandoc markdown.

I saw a presentation about this in 2022.

Someone found a way to get "something like" a tri-diagonal matrix that was equivalent to the LLM they were studying in 2022.

Apologies for being informal and hand-wavey. Been a long time and I probably forgot a few important points.

Not even cross-domain. (Nor cross-co-domain.)

Trigonometric polynomials are also polynomials. And linear spaces are all "the same". That is what the definition is for. Even the transpose-mapping is linear.

First half didn’t sound so bad.

Most of the whimsy vitamins are between the skin and the banana.

And the Internet routes around a problem, yet again.

Good example of the 2020s on why there is practically truly only one Internet instead of many.

Do intermediate values always turn into double floats?

Maybe that feedback loop finally got fast enough to die out.

Am also interested in this. Manufacturing for the win.

Float32Array

Math.fround()

Mostly good. A bit wordy.

Computers are very good at repeating a known "recipe". They can add numbers billions of time per second. Yes, billions with a bee.

The hard part is coming up with a recipe that solves your problem and that the machine can run without breaking things when it runs around with a few billion steps per second. You have to think ahead for it and handle edge cases in the recipe.

That is the really hard part.