Icathian

Joined 7 years ago

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Aug 10
Currently working with: database internals and distributed systems.

Influences: Ecology academia, BigCo analytics, multiple startups, BigTech.

Interests: Systems, networks, databases, and performance optimization.

Hobbies: League of Legends, yoga, programming.

Important: If you are looking at this profile because you thought something I posted was wrong, dismissive, disrespectful, douchebaggish, what have you -- I would really like to hear from you so that I could understand how you got that impression. I won't get mad, I won't "retaliate" I just want to hear what you have to say. It is important to me to communicate clearly and if something I said struck you that way then I failed and I would like to correct it.

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Comment · 21 days ago
I'd be lying if I said I hadn't spent any hours worrying about it. But on the other hand people pay for exactly that when it comes to law, accounting, actuaries, and whatever other white collar professions. I am nervous but optimistic for the time being.
Comment · 22 days ago
The room comes from recognizing that, in many many domains, you don't even know the questions to ask.
Comment · 1 month ago
Your reply misunderstands the parent comment, I think. MS devs clearly don't understand their output given how garbage it is.
Comment · 5 months ago
Kimwoolf and Aisuru kind of make my point better than yours, I think?
Comment · 5 months ago
Yeah, I'm reminded of 15 years ago being told Linux was super secure because people were popping Windows all the time. Turns out it was mostly just a function of effort pointed at the target, and I don't have any reason to believe that's not the case here too.
Comment · 5 months ago
I deeply appreciate Mullvad's thorough approach to privacy and ethics. In this day and age, you all are an absolute breath of fresh air. Thanks for that.
Comment · 6 months ago
Postgresml closed up shop, the guy you're replying to was one of the key players there. Pgrx is trucking right along, and gaining speed at the moment.
Comment · 7 months ago
Cloudflare's developer platform uses them. That's what their "bindings" are.
Comment · 8 months ago
It is not. They went about 5 years without one of these, and had a handful over the last 6 months. They're really going to need to figure out what's going wrong and clean up shop.
Comment · 1 year ago
Nope. The slope has been slippery, but way back at the top of it there were zero ads on the page.
Comment · 1 year ago
Go sits at about the same level of abstraction as Python or Java, just with less OO baked in. I'm not sure where go's reputation as "low-level" comes from. I'd be curious to hear why that's the category you think of it in?
Comment · 1 year ago
I happen to work at a company that uses a ton of capnp internally and this is the first time I've seen it mentioned much outside of here. Would you mind describing what about it you think would make it a good fit for something like bcachefs?

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