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Re:Ercot System Status (Dashboard) on Sunday January 25, 2026 @10:48AM (#46755087)
Not my dash, just one I came across that's really neat!
Re:You Should Run a Certificate Transparency Log on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @11:45AM (#44501107)
I wonder how much putting a CDN in front of this would reduce this.

According to the readme, it seems like the bulk of the traffic is highly cacheable, so presumably you could park something a CDN in front and substantially reduce the bandwidth requirements.

Re:Plain Vanilla Web on Sunday May 11, 2025 @04:55PM (#43957084)
Web components are honestly the first time I have seen web stuff in years and thought "that actually looks nice".

Maybe it's time for me to crawl out of my systems-software-only hole and play around with the web again.

Re:Burn Your Title on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @10:35PM (#43768168)
I hit the point recently where upon being promoted, I realized I had hit the point where my title didn't matter - people knew who I was and my reputation was out there.

Most liberating moment of my career so far.

My life is currently dominated by firefighting. I'd like to be at the point where I am worried about bad code changes and not infrastructure fires, but we will need to work our way through Maslow's Hierarchy first.
Re:HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack on Thursday October 12, 2023 @07:05PM (#37864330)
I posted another one the other day which didn't get any traction but probably goes in the list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37835295
Re:Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? on Thursday September 14, 2023 @07:11PM (#37516031)
This is great fun. Even if it's mostly a 50/50 guessing game it's still quite humorous.
I mentioned OSS in a different comment, but it's not the only thing I've noticed this with. Politics at any level in the US (local, state, or national) falls into the same situation regardless of party.

Activism takes time and resources to be successful and get your name out, and the moral status attached to it creates a similar set of incentives such that you end up with the same pattern of lifers who are perpetually broke, independently wealthy folks who can be heavily involved and live decently at the same time, and folks with a dayjob who are involved but never really wield much influence on any level.

It's an interesting problem and I'd argue it serves as evidence that this happens to anything with attached status. Journalism I've heard has the issue as well.

If you're building something that has a big community and sees a lot of use, you've got a lot of different stakeholders with different needs. The folks contributing to the compiler, language, standard library, or build system directly are not your only stakeholders, nor are they your only contributors.

Successful languages don't become successful without a rich ecosystem behind them. The people responsible for those projects are probably more important to your continued success than anyone contributing to the language itself.

What processes you have makes a huge difference in terms of who you give power to. If you have formal processes that ensure that folks have time to weigh in on things, and you make it easy to follow what's going on (signal-to-noise ratio is important here!), you can get much more relevant feedback from a much larger and more important group of stakeholders than if you handle things in a noisy, fast-moving zulip.

FWIW the open source scene (at least in the US) can often have very similar dynamics. I believe it was Ashley Williams who put it best by saying that in the Rust community (where I am), one's influence is determined by one's free time. I've noticed over time that in certain areas it can very much be those with the least experience on a subject (but the most free time) who wield the most influence.
Re:Io Uring on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @07:21PM (#36052076)
Maintainer of tokio-uring here. It uses io_uring for the network APIs as well.
Re:Nobody wants to teach anymore on Monday August 22, 2022 @07:14PM (#32558531)
Any articles or posts on this? I'd like to read further.
Re:Nobody wants to teach anymore on Monday August 22, 2022 @03:55PM (#32556373)
How so? Do schools underfund these programs yet heavily promote them?
Re:You are not Google (2017) on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @06:56PM (#30938497)
I did the same and I am so much happier for it.
Re:Alright, amigo, let's build some affordable housing on Saturday April 02, 2022 @06:54PM (#30892395)
I've also noticed that attitudes towards the homeless are completely different between those who walk and those who drive. I'm personally willing to pay whatever it takes in extra taxes to get them shelter and deal with the current crisis in my city, but I've noticed that people who drive are often far less willing to support action here.
Re:Spam blacklisting is out of control on Sunday February 06, 2022 @11:59AM (#30234311)
I think I understand a lot more about UCEPROTECT now that I've read the message you linked. This is pretty extraordinarily sexist and unprofessional, and you can really get a sense of how much the author despises anyone who criticizes him.

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