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I'd wager the amount on FB is orders of magnitude _more_ than on 4chan. 4chan's average severity is likely higher, though. They're different problems, but saying that online toxicity only exists on anonymous sites is naive at best.
Re:NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them on Monday June 29, 2026 @02:07PM (#48722852)
Heck, we saw crazy performance degradation with redis when its memory usage exceeded a single NUMA block. Not much to be done about that at the k8s level when redis is single-threaded. Have to be super conscious of the underlying hardware at that point.
Re:Jerry's Map on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @07:26PM (#48653059)
It's very similar to styles of generating lairs/dungeons in many TTRPGs. A lot of them come with various tables/dice rolls to help build a layout and then subsequent tables to give a general prompt for what goes in said rooms. It's an extremely satisfying routine, as you're not 100% beholden to every dice roll, but the dice rolls help prime the creative juices and give constructive constraints to the process.

I highly recommend trying it out for yourself!

This has been their MO with their search for a decade+ now. "Native" results hiding actual search results below the fold killed many 2010s era websites that relied on search traffic.
They're not describing working for yourself? At least in terms of financial compensation. A job and some form of communal/familial uncompensated labor are extremely different in this context. Calling them both "work" in this context is muddying the waters.
Re:Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union on Monday December 15, 2025 @05:11PM (#46281479)
Totally true, but we host other people's code (PaaS, etc). We don't get to dictate their working hours.

It also doesn't mean nothing breaks when people aren't making changes. Certificate expiration is the classic example of something breaking _because_ someone hasn't made a change. Or a slow memory leak. There's a whole classification of issues that get worse when nothing is redeployed for long enough.

Re:Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union on Friday December 12, 2025 @01:56PM (#46247383)
Staring down the barrel of being primary on-call over Christmas for a dozen k8s clusters running thousands of nodes. How I wish it were true that we could trust computer programs to just keep running.

PagerDuty wouldn't exist if this were true.

Re:Most Technical Problems Are People Problems on Friday December 05, 2025 @01:32PM (#46165276)
A bit more heavyweight, but we implemented a rotation program when I was managing an internal tools team at a previous company. We'd trade an engineer from our team with an engineer from a feature team for a quarter.

The amount of improvements to our collective understandings was super valuable. Feature devs got to help fix problems with their tools more directly (while also learning that it's not always as straightforward as it may seem), and we brought back much stronger insights into the experience of actually using our tools day-to-day.

Re:Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads on Thursday September 18, 2025 @12:59PM (#45292087)
You should read Ubik
Re:Notion releases offline mode on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @06:16PM (#44956770)
Maybe it's just me, but nothing sounds simple about offline mode. The changeset resolution necessary to resync after going back online sounds TOUGH to build in a way that doesn't result in user data loss ever without being more cumbersome than it's worth.
Sad to hear about how much the Space & Rocket center has been let to deteriorate. That place really sparked my interest in science & engineering as a child. Even went to Space Camp there way back in the day.
Anecdotally, they've gotten much more proactive at taking unprotected lefts in my experience.
Their wait times tend to be worse, but that's getting better too. The trip speed has also noticeably improved. I've taken about 50 over the past 2 years.

Even if they're sometimes slower in pickup or trip time, on average, I greatly value the consistency of the experience over everything else.

Re:In Defense of Y'All on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @05:58PM (#42446362)
That's so fascinating to me! "Howdy" definitely ranks higher on my hokey-ness scale than "y'all".

Love a good "over yonder" though.

Re:In Defense of Y'All on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @04:04PM (#42445299)
Y'all forever. One of the few southern mannerisms I intentionally don't drop as a lapsed southerner in California.

As an aside, I find it strange how many aspects of "the south" are labeled as "Texan" outside the south. I lived and visited all over the Deep South and y'all was standard vernacular pretty much everywhere. I'm not saying Texans don't say y'all, but they definitely don't have any unique claim to using it as second-person plural.

Re:Confusing Git Terminology on Thursday November 02, 2023 @02:19PM (#38117843)
I love this explanation. One unfortunately confusing extra piece that some people might occasionally run into is that there are two types of tag. Most tags are what you describe: pointers (git ref) to a commit (git object) and nothing more. These are usually referred to as lightweight tags.

There are also annotated tags that can contain a message, have a timestamp, and sha, etc. These are proper git objects that behave a lot like commit objects, except they're still typically only referring to another git object (commit).

Oof, remind me not to move there. I wouldn't survive an allergy season. Though to be fair, I imagine most GPs would write a prescription pretty quick.
Interesting, today I learned it had a more specific term. Still, saying something "isn't OTC" implies you need a prescription to most people. At least in my experience.
Real sudafed is OTC, you just need to ask for it at the counter. No prescription is required. They just don't have it on shelves, because they require you to show your ID when purchasing it. I'm assuming this is so they can track how much a person is buying to track people who are using it for illicit purposes.
Botulism spores do not "train immune systems". Babies don't have strong enough digestive systems until they're at least six months old to kill the spores.

https://www.cdc.gov/botulism/infant-botulism.html.

Re:Tesla puts a ‘dummy’ camera in its new vehicles on Thursday March 09, 2023 @06:51PM (#35088564)
A car grille is a much more prominent and expected visual feature of a car, though. This small, tucked away yet realistic-looking camera doesn't seem to fit the same reasoning for me. That said, it wouldn't be entirely surprising if some designer "couldn't stop noticing it missing" or something along those lines.
Re:Tesla puts a ‘dummy’ camera in its new vehicles on Thursday March 09, 2023 @06:32PM (#35088395)
Those are typically just simple pieces of plastic to fill a hole. There is clearly no function to them.

What seems weird is they went through the effort of installing a nonfunctional yet functional-looking piece.

Re:Show HN: Create a Paid Link to Anything on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @04:43PM (#34073056)
You might have noticed already, but your reply is quoting the same person you're replying to.
Re:Making a Go program 70% faster with a one character change on Monday November 14, 2022 @01:01PM (#33598134)
If you're familiar with Python and Go, you'll likely be able to quickly spot the differences in how they handle parameter passing. Python uses references and Go uses value.
Is there an online store for generic "stuff" that doesn't allow 3rd party sellers at this point? Genuinely looking for recommendations.
Re:Bots behind the game console shortage on Friday May 27, 2022 @03:19PM (#31533725)
I'm not even sure what point they could reasonably be trying to make distinguishing between the two. One doesn't really exist without the other.
Re:Why do you waste so much time on the internet? on Friday May 06, 2022 @11:55AM (#31286657)
I find it relatively easy to use YouTube without exposing myself to their recommendations (not that they're ever particularly good, in my experience).

My bookmark for YouTube is directly to my subscriptions, and it's also possible to create a android shortcut link directly to subscriptions. Occasionally, a flow will direct me to the homepage, but that's rare and I usually organically bounce back to my subs without even thinking about it.

There's always recs below a video, but again, those are rarely very interesting to me or they're things I've subscribed to anyway.

Re:Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year? on Friday December 31, 2021 @05:43PM (#29753290)
Turned in my notice yesterday! It was such a weight off my shoulders once I realized it's what I wanted to do. Good luck to you.
Re:The perfect configuration format? Try TypeScript on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @01:34PM (#29256978)
I'm curious what folks who agree with this think about setup.py then? There's been a push to move to setup.cfg to specifically avoid the fact that python libraries run arbitrary code on install.
Re:Lots to See in Firefox 93 on Friday October 08, 2021 @05:22PM (#28804367)
One of the recent Firefox updates fixed this for me fwiw.

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