Readit Newscodesparkle commented on Consume Less, Create More archaeologist.dev/artifac... · Posted by u/codesparkle
I know I'm trailing edge (quarter century late?) but I just installed an RSS reader, and found that it cut down on my click-click-click immensely: ("OK, I've finished skimming/reading the latest batch of incoming bitstreams, now time for me to create some fresh outgoing bits").
cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber#/...
Nice! I have tried Mastodon but keep getting sucked back into Twitter, hence the 30 minute daily limit. Perhaps I should give RSS a go as well. Can you recommend a reader?
codesparkle commented on Big O Notation – Explained as easily as possible thatcomputerscientist.com... · Posted by u/optimalsolver
A bad programmer solves their problems inefficiently and a really bad programmer doesn't even know why their solution is inefficient
To any beginners reading this: Solving problems inefficiently does not make you a bad programmer. Most of the time, an "inefficient" solution will be good enough, and optimising for performance comes at a cost.
So sit back, relax, and enjoy the journey.
From the postmortem:
At 9:39 AM PST, we were able to confirm a root cause [...] the new capacity had caused all of the servers in the fleet to exceed the maximum number of threads allowed by an operating system configuration.
On an MBP, I'm using:
for hourly polling; when I swap to its screen, I only ever consult 1 virtual feed: then use either 'o' or ',k' (for HN articles, to open comments) to load whatever looks interesting into tabs (in the browser on a different screen), then ',my' to mark all as read and re-poll.