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Any change that hurts WITCH (Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, HCL) is a good change. If they just plain banned those five, there probably wouldn't even be a lottery.

Tech aside (covered well by other commenters), the presentation itself was incredibly dry. Such a stark difference in presenting style here compared to, for example, Apple's or Google's keynotes. They should really put more effort into it.

Loaded it. Typed "help". Asked me for $5. Closed the app.

You can do that with standard Linux tooling available on every distribution, see https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tc.8.html. What you're specifically looking for is `qdisc netem`, it can inject packet loss, reordered packets, duplicate packets, delay and more.

I am lucky enough to have worked on all three of these systems (TAO, ZippyDB, and currently MySQL) so can shed some light here.

Both MySQL and ZippyDB are datastores that use RocksDB under the hood, in a slightly different way and with different querying capabilities exposed to the end user. ZippyDB uses it exclusively, but MySQL uses both the traditional InnoDB and RocksDB (MyRocks). TAO is in memory graph database, layer above both of these, and doesn't persist anything by itself - it talks to the database layer (MyRocks).

I took a look and don't see any strong reasons not to use and support the official app. Tweetbot was so successful because it was competing against the official client which was (and still is) truly horrible, but I don't see that in this case Ivory has many advantages over the official client.

Most of the "new" features are just eye candy, but usability is still very poor and way behind what they had 10 years ago. You can't do even the most trivial things, like sorting stocks in your watch-list by market value or P/E ratio, comparing two stocks side by side etc.

There is also `colordiff` which works both as a standalone diff tool, but also as a colorizer filter for other diff tools. For example:

  diff -u a.txt b.txt | colordiff

It seems that the person in question was #2 on the "patent trolls top list" in 2016

https://www.rpxcorp.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/t...

Yes, a small but measurable improvement. The biggest perf bump you can get is probably enabling various prefetching, but most of time you are doing a performance/privacy tradeoff (e.g. enabling DNS prefetching)

Manifest V3 and killing web.request API were the reasons that finally convinced me to go back to Firefox. Almost a month later, I didn’t find a single thing that would make me go back to Chrome.

My main complaint about fresh Firefox installations is that it takes a lot of time to fine tune everything. Every single time I have spend hours changing settings in about:config, from disabling telemetry, Pocket, changing networking/DNS settings, pipelining etc. Vanilla installation is just not well optimized.

If you use and like `ag`, I suggest taking a look at ripgrep (`rg`). It seems to be by far the fastest out of three (`ack`, `ag`, `rg`). And it has a pretty interesting codebase (written in Rust).

I wouldn’t recommend anyone to use this. Other than really poor implementation and quality of the algorithms (some of which are totally incorrect), code in that repo is anything but Pythonic - reimplementing a lot of things from the standard library, not using list, dict and set comprehensions, using indexes instead of iterators, copying things around for no reason etc. They didn’t even care to use linter to PEP8-ify it.

People commenting that $35 is too much for the content included - if you want an equivalent set of channels from Comcast/XFINITY, it will cost you almost 3x more. So it's a non brainer for me, and the fact I don't have to deal with Comcast is worth even more than saving ~60% of my monthly cable bill.

Not sure why are you getting downvoted, I came here to make the same comment.

QPM is a useless metric. When talking about distributed systems from engineering point of view, you always want to use QPS. QPM is simply not fined-grained enough to show whether the traffic is bursty or not. For example in this particular case, when you say 1M QPM that can mean anything - they might be idle for 50s and then get 100k QPS for the next ten seconds, or they might be getting 15k QPS all the time (like it's visible on the graph). Distributed systems are designed for the peak workload, not for the average one. Using misleading numbers like QPM leads to bad design and sizing decisions.

The only case where you would use QPM, QPD and similar metrics is when you want to artificially show your numbers bigger than they are (10M transactions a day sounds better than 115 transactions a second). But those should be used by sales, not by engineers.

It's basically the Sieve of Eratosthenes[1] algorithm, and it's possible to do it with regular expressions because numbers here are represented in unary[2] number system, where number of characters/tokens equals the number itself. It's a common trick for testing various Turing-machine stuff.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unary_numeral_system

You don't need grep for that, ss can already filter by state on its own. Use: "ss -o state LISTENING"

For a moment I thought I was reading Buzzfeed, not the Economist.

Because the whole story was bs? Zuckerberg himself commented on that https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10100828955847631

Correct, if you try to open http://<hostname>:9090/ it will get automatically started. I'm not concerned about the resources it uses, I just don't like having services that I don't use installed and listening on ports in minimal install, especially on servers.

One thing that I was pretty annoyed about while testing (server) beta and alpha was Cockpit web UI that is enabled by default. I know it's easy to disable it with `systemctl disable cocpit.socket`, but if you select "minimal/base install" you shouldn't get a full blown web UI management console installed and enabled by default.

Even if API gave you strong durability guarantees, it still wouldn't mean much. Disk caches, big enterprise SAN attached storages etc, they can also "cheat", saying they flushed the cache while they actually didn't.

Wait what? You actually have to pay for Coursera courses nowadays? I remember they used to be completely free (as in "free beer")

slabtop if you're into kernel development and low level debugging

It's very hard to be optimistic about their future when their main competitors are Google (Drive), Microsoft (OneDrive), Apple (iCloud), Amazon (CloudDrive), Box etc. Virtually every single one of big players nowadays offers cloud storage. I cannot see Dropbox succeeding in the long run, especially with the amount of innovation they've put in their product in the past two years (close to none).

OSS (as the name suggests) is about *openness", and that's exactly the point where Slack is falling short and what the article is about.

IRC is constantly evolving as a protocol, and v3.3 is currently work in progress, so improvements are being made. See http://ircv3.net/

$250k is not the same in, for example, California and Iowa. If your family income is $250k in cities like San Francisco or New York, that definitely doesn't put you in 95-percentile.

Right, but my point was that the whole point of this legislation would be to prevent terrorists from using Tor. In reality, it would do nothing to stop them. Whoever really wants to have a way of communicating over an encrypted channel will always find a method of bypassing measures like this.

Even if they pass the law to ban Tor, you could still use it through an SSH tunnel, which is effectively undetectable.