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I just used it today to find and reserve a parking spot in SF.

Previously, I used Claude to gather AWS invoices for reimbursement purposes.

Re:Mitchellh starts a new company: Superlogical on Thursday July 30, 2026 @03:49AM (#49107120)
Glad that they picked Los Angeles as one of their main office locations!
Re:Retries – An interactive study of request retry methods on Thursday November 23, 2023 @09:30AM (#38393136)
The animations are so cool!!!

In general the phenomena is known as _metastable failure_ that could be triggered when there are more things to do during failure than normal run.

With retry, the client do more work within the same amount of time, compared to doing nothing or doing exponential backoff.

Re:Distributed Consensus on Friday August 25, 2023 @02:02AM (#37258595)
That's a really nice article! Seeing Paxos from different angles always interest me. I wrote an article about the message flow in Fast-Paxos: https://fadhil.id/blogs/posts/fast-paxos/

My article also mentions the trick of leader with lockID=0 and consecutive lockID used in Fast-Paxos.