Jon Currey

Distributed Systems and Machine Intelligence Research

[Jon Currey @bosconi]

@JaegerTracing peeps, can I submit spans to a Jaeger agent without using a Jaeger or OpenTracing client library? Happy to own construction of HTTP request, UDP packet etc. I understand what I'm giving up. Don't want sampling. Is there an agent endpoint that doesn't use Thrift?

[Jon Currey @bosconi]

@jayfry3 Makes you wonder how often we are stood next to someone with a highly improbable bond and just don't know it. Did someone try an app for that?

[Jon Currey @bosconi]

@jayfry3 Other factors making this more likely than the birthday paradox: Every human has a birthday but we don't wear them on a sign around our neck, we only get one per life, and they're not distributed based on where we were born or lived recently. And Twitter greatly increases reach.

[Jon Currey @bosconi]

@ai6yrham Also, a friend who suffered bad heatstroke in rural India reported that acupressure/foot massage was the local remedy and seemed to be very effective. I can't find details, but maybe on the back of the knee? Plus there are some points on the arm: https://t.co/TiBmahU1ca

[Jon Currey @bosconi]

@ai6yrham I wish they gave guidance on whether or not to ingest ice. I ate ice after I got bad heat stroke in Southern Spain. I started vomiting so I went to a doctor and the first thing he asked was if I had eaten ice. Common knowledge there not to do that. Safer to use ice on the body?

[Jon Currey @bosconi]

@carlo_curino Azure is killing it though :-) And 8 year old is only happy with Linux because Java Minecraft runs well there.

[Jon Currey @bosconi]

@carlo_curino It shouldn't be needed, but moving to 8 core/32GB MBP resolved a lot of my issues with Catalina. Night and day from 4 core/16GB. That said I'm banning Windows from my home. Easier to train an 8 year old on Linux that deal with unending nonsense after each forced Win 10 update.

[Jon Currey @bosconi]

@mitchellh Nicely done! I was going to say get the plane with a parachute, but look what you're standing in front of.

[Jon Currey @bosconi]

@donald_brady Mercifully some have sufficient support to push back a bit. Of course there is no ideal answer in all this, but as you point out, this is a public health issue, not a political one. https://t.co/oYpmRBpQBH

[Jon Currey @bosconi]

@cmeik Is there a subliminal message in here that Go programmers should try Julia?

[Jon Currey @bosconi]

@ezra_marc @ezra_marc thanks for this. As a state school kid at @Cambridge_Uni in the '90s invite-only clubs filled with 'top school' attendees seemed comical. I had no desire to join. How do we inoculate America's youth against this idiocy? Disconnect from housing would be a good start.

[Jon Currey @bosconi]

@teachaged Thank you - and all teachers - for your service to humanity. The level of disrespect shown to this essential, and selfless profession in the US and some other Western countries is shameful. And now all this. Enjoy a well-earned retirement ASAP. Our loss.

[Jon Currey @bosconi]

@frankmcsherry ... most importantly, your hostname highlights the harsh deal monotremata get auf Deutsch. Google translates Kloakentiere as "toilet animals" or "the order of the sewer animals". Faithful to the Latin for their anatomy, but Anglophone zoologists apparently blushed too much.

[Jon Currey @bosconi]

@frankmcsherry Then the question is which apps/websites are asking for your location all the time? If you approve a site once it can go hogwild presumably. I've blocked sites from asking in Chrome, and FindMyMac is my only approved System Service. Manual timezone adjustment is fun! (Well was..)

[Jon Currey @bosconi]

@frankmcsherry Wi-Fi scanning by your local Wi-Fi driver. But MacOS made it do it! Test 1: Run your 1Hz pings to the router and click on the Wi-Fi icon in the menu bar.... Pings spike around the time of "Looking for Networks"? Test 2: Toggling Location Services off/on resolves/induces it?

[Jon Currey @bosconi]

@JonDHill I just became aware of this with the move to Catalina. Capability has been there since USB-C was introduced (2015). But now no option in System Preferences and it ignores unchecking of 'play user interface sound effects' :-/ How long til I need to jailbreak 'my' Mac?

[Jon Currey @bosconi]

@alilleybrinker Because no one has found one that works as well. In this case it's about being memorable. Right rhyming w tight and left alliterating with loose is very user friendly. Clockwise has nothing on it, sadly. Plus am I looking at the clock or being the clock? Normal use there too.

[Jon Currey @bosconi]

@alilleybrinker Ultimately it has meaning because it lets humans successfully disambiguate two actions. As Wittgenstein put it: "meaning is use". Put another way, language is a tool, and makes little sense without context, just as a screwdriver or wrench would if you'd never seen a human hand.

[Jon Currey @bosconi]

@alilleybrinker Objectively correct. The missing element is subjectivity, as in the view point of the subject. While you can tighten/loosen something above eye level, you mostly do these actions (and learn them) looking down at the back of your hand, which moves to the right as you tighten ...