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“Overall, we’ve learned valuable lessons about scaling, resource allocation, storage, execution…#
“Overall, we’ve learned valuable lessons about scaling, resource allocation, storage, execution time, monitoring, resilience, and cost efficiency and how these affect each other. "
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“By building at the kernel level, we can monitor network traffic at the infrastructure level, whi…#
“By building at the kernel level, we can monitor network traffic at the infrastructure level, which gives us new insights into DoorDash’s backend ecosystem that’s independent of the service workflow.”
https://doordash.engineering/2023/08/15/bpfagent-ebpf-for-monitoring-at-doordash
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“So, friends, if you are talking to a compiler engineer, by all means: keep describing WebAssembl…#
“So, friends, if you are talking to a compiler engineer, by all means: keep describing WebAssembly as an virtual machine. It will keep them interested. But for everyone else, the value of WebAssembly is what it does, which is to be a different way of breaking a system into pieces.”
https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/01/08/missing-the-point-of-webassembly
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“Having been coached on incremental prompting to improve results, another student remarked that i…#
“Having been coached on incremental prompting to improve results, another student remarked that it took about the same amount of time to coax a good enough essay from the chatbot as to write his original essay.”
https://blog.still-water.net/ai-versus-old-school-creativity
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@darkuncle Peak 90s portal design: <https://web.archive.or…#
@darkuncle Peak 90s portal design: https://web.archive.org/web/19990125095642/http://www.go.com/
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@darkuncle Yep - espn.go.com :)#
@darkuncle Yep - espn.go.com :)
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Exploring https://linear.app and their focus on keyboard accessibility and compatibility with o…#
Exploring https://linear.app and their focus on keyboard accessibility and compatibility with other tools is excellent. Ctrl+[ / ] does exactly what you’d expect.
I don’t know how well it works with screen readers, but I do wish similarly interactive sites were as keyboard-friendly and responsive.
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@darkuncle go.com#
@darkuncle go.com
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This is a good set of Principles and Practices, including: “Decide and move on There isn’t alwa…#
This is a good set of Principles and Practices, including:
“Decide and move on
There isn’t always a best answer. The important thing is to make a decision, and move on.”
https://linear.app/method/introduction
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I’ve also phrased this as, “Since we can’t prove that our decision will be right, what’s our shortest path to produce evidence that confirms/denies our hypothesis?”
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Navigating US Health Care is not a pleasant turn-by-turn experience.#
Navigating US Health Care is not a pleasant turn-by-turn experience.