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Re:Bun adds pnpm-style isolated installation mode on Saturday July 19, 2025 @04:52AM (#44613749)
Can someone explain what this does differently to the status quo under the hood?
Apparently the source code has been lost so probably not
Re:S6 – skarnet's small supervision suite on Monday September 16, 2024 @05:57PM (#41561462)
We use https://github.com/Yelp/pgctl heavily, which uses s6!
Re:Music recommendation system using transformer models on Monday August 19, 2024 @10:13PM (#41296164)
Has any streaming service trained a model to actually understand the music itself to work out what other songs would be of a similar vibe/genre?

My favorite band (vulfpeck, and more recently jack's solo stuff) often branch out into different genres, and it's a bit of whiplash when it goes to another song just because the artists are similar / appear together in other places.

Re:The Problem with OpenTelemetry on Friday June 14, 2024 @12:59PM (#40682523)
At the risk of hijacking the comments, I've been trying to use OTel recently to debug performance of a complex webpage with lots of async sibling spans, and finding it very very difficult to identify the critical path / bottlenecks.

There's no causal relationships between sibling spans. I think in theory "span links" solves this, but afaict this is not a widely used feature in SDKs are UI viewers.

(I wrote about this here https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specificatio...)

Re:Building a high performance JSON parser on Sunday November 05, 2023 @11:49AM (#38152832)
How big of an issue is this for GQL servers where all queries are known ahead of time (allowlist) - i.e. you can cache/memorize the ast parsing and this is only a perf issue for a few minutes after the container starts up

Or does this bite us in other ways too?

Re:The Federal Helium reserve is for sale on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @10:22PM (#37400690)
I wonder if the price is inflated
Re:OWASP Needs to Evolve on Saturday February 18, 2023 @01:33PM (#34849610)
I’m not familiar with the work that OWASP does, other than the cheat sheet series.

The cheat sheet series is amazing - a great resource to defer to when you don’t know or want to think about how to do <x>, you just want to look up and implement the industry standard.

It’s a great reference, and I use it lot. <3 to the folks working on that :)

Re:GraphCDN is now Stellate and raised $30M on Monday June 06, 2022 @10:25AM (#31640906)
I kinda thought Apollo would buy GraphCDN. Both great products!
Re:Entfer.com on Thursday February 17, 2022 @09:46AM (#30373563)
Oh, this is a good idea. Can’t wait to try it out.
Well I was actually just trying to make a dumb joke about “chip plants” but I see how that comes off now…

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