Reminder that if your embarrassingly parallel workload is fast enough a single atomic increment for a telemetry statistic can severely limit your CPU scalability. I hit this problem in Haywire benchmark going 20 million requests/sec.
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@adamhjk Same, but we've been doing it with Solr on COTS; hundreds of clusters over a decade. Has everyone given up on running anything that looks remotely like infrastructure?
I just… we knew how to do this. We even learned how to do it on commodity hardware. It wasn’t perfect, and nobody thought it was fun, but we’re all the way to saying you can’t run an elastic search cluster because administration is impossible?
Modern medicine is really boring.
Students of Ayurveda now have the option to study celestial magic.
Ayurvedic students and teachers are living the Harry Potter life, while the real scientific community is full of boring muggles with sky high egos.
Im going to take up Potions.
@oligoglot Yes, Kana is almost universally used for sorting. JIS encoding defines an ordering but it's not of use to humans. And Unicode with its unified CJK is another beast altogether.
Surreal to know Poland is setting up welcome centers for Ukranian refugees. Because Poland is also building high tech wall & detention centers & funding Polish Border Guard to block migration of mostly Yemeni, Egyptian, Syrian, Pakistani, Afghan refugees - as recently as today.
There’s a debate on whether 10x software engineers exist.
They do: I’ve seen several of them.
And their existence freaks the hell out of me. 5 examples of 10x engineers and why you should be afraid when you see one:
@peeleraja There's a deeply entrenched culture of mistreating and just plain looking down on "servants", "domestic help", and pretty much anyone doing manual labour in India. The gig economy companies are continuing in the same vein. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.