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the_alchemiston Walgit – a Git server that is one binary in front of an object store

I'm confused by the usage of the word consensus in the explanation, to me it seems like a last-write-wins strategy, no consensus involved?

the_alchemiston Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents

It's 'de jour' , which means 'of the day' in French

the_alchemiston Production-Grade Container Deployment with Podman Quadlets – Larvitz Blog

Please elaborate

the_alchemiston N8n added native persistent storage with DataTables

Slightly off topic question , but do you pronounce it n eight n, or Nathan ? I got blank stares when saying Nathan from my colleagues :')

the_alchemiston Is sound gradual typing dead? Performance problems in Typed Racket (2016)

Should add (2016)

the_alchemiston Nixie Tubes (2015)

I love how Petzold's Code went over the details of switching segments for a clock using these tubes.

the_alchemiston Tiered support is an anti-pattern (2013)

Isn't this tiered support a necessity when operating at scale? How can you help thousands of customers where faqs and getting starteds don't cut it? You need a filtering mechanism (L1) to help users directly without overloading the product team with a standard reply rtfm.

the_alchemiston BirdLingo: A birdsong learning game

I like Merlin better, it is the 'live match' version. With birdnet you have to record and submit. Both are from the Cornell Lab for ornithology.

the_alchemiston Study: Water spritz before grinding coffee yields less waste, tastier espresso

Lance Hendrick has a nice deep dive on this paper as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuqVUsMPs-U&

the_alchemiston Show HN: Coerce – Distributed actor framework in Rust

But then the main contributor, Lightbend company, decided to change the license from Apache 2, to BSL.. Now Apache Pekko is the fork that should continue the implementation :)

the_alchemiston Show HN: tere – A Faster Alternative to cd+ls

> "Tere" means "hello" in Estonian. It also feels nice to type.

On qwerty I think that's the case :)

the_alchemiston I won free load testing

What a great post-mortem write-up! Thans for sharing

the_alchemiston Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 degrees above normal

Without paywall on archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20220319112653/https://www.washi...

the_alchemiston IBM open sources fully-functional Lego microscope design (2020)

*Cost will vary by location between $300–$400

the_alchemiston Sudden cardiac death in young people with apparently normal heart (2001)

Title could use a 2001: Cardiovascular Research, Volume 50, Issue 2, May 2001

the_alchemiston Faster Maven Builds

Nice write-up, and good to see that maven also evolves. The use of the daemon is really significant for the build time. Is there any clue what would take 90 seconds everytime you execute the maven process? Is it the creating of the build graph and its dependencies? What would happen when I change my dependencies or module structure, does the daemon still stay on 30 seconds?

the_alchemiston Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems

In the readme it's mentioned. brew bundle dump https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle/blob/master/READ...

the_alchemiston Pwning your web server the easy way or why exposing –/.ssh/ is a bad idea

As long as you keep the public part private, there is no issue ;)

the_alchemiston Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake

Scala happily accepts null as it is the bottom type for AnyRef and needed for jvm compatibility. Kotlin has a compiler check that enforces it, Scala does not.

the_alchemiston Dutch Telephone Outage Takes Out Nation's Emergency Number

This might be your first instinct, but a new contractor would have to gain the knowledge KPN did on preventing these outages, there is no guarantee any other company would have better uptime.

Reminds me of the quote or story that someone rather hired an ops engineer that accidentally dropped a database than someone who didn't. As the first one would go at more length preventing to do it again.

the_alchemiston Autodraw – Fast Drawing for Everyone

That tool saved me many times. It's hard to do obscure symbolic searches in Google :')

the_alchemiston Time Series, the new shiny?

> Riak uses the SHA hash as its distribution mechanism and divides the output range of the SHA hash evenly amongst participating nodes in the cluster.

Wait, Riak uses SHA as distribution hash? Why use a cryptographic hash for distribution and not something like Murmur3, if you're talking about high-performant[0] ?

[0] http://blog.reverberate.org/2012/01/state-of-hash-functions-...