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stmw commented on MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies   bbc.com/news/articles/cly... · Posted by u/mosura
shrubble · 13 hours ago
Is it true that Brookline had very few murders in the past 5 years? Increases the chance of it being targeted instead of random.
stmw · 12 hours ago
It is a very very safe town.
stmw commented on Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1   jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2... · Posted by u/aphyr
johncolanduoni · 8 days ago
What does bothering to read some distributed systems literature have to do with demanding unnecessary perfection? Did NATS have in their docs that JetStream accepted split brain conditions as a reality, or that metadata corruption could silently delete a topic? You could maybe argue the fsync default was a tradeoff, though I think it’s a bad one (not the existence of the flag, just the default being “false”). The rest are not the kind of bugs you expect to see in a 5 year old persistence layer.
stmw · 8 days ago
Exactly, "losing data from acknowledged writes" is not failing to be perfect, it's failing to deliver on the (advertised) basics of storing your data.
stmw commented on Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1   jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2... · Posted by u/aphyr
stmw · 9 days ago
Every time someone builds one of these things and skips over "overcomplicated theory", aphyr destroys them. At this point, I wonder if we could train an AI to look over a project's documentation, and predict whether it's likely to lose commmitted writes just based on the marketing / technical claims. We probably can.
stmw commented on Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months   pcpartpicker.com/trends/p... · Posted by u/zekrioca
stmw · 13 days ago
Time for Intel to re-enter the memory market?
stmw commented on Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence   eclecticlight.co/2025/11/... · Posted by u/frizlab
stmw · 15 days ago
"Mr. Jobs reportedly asked the assembled engineers and other MobileMe team members, “Can anyone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do?” When one of those employees then volunteered a satisfactory answer, Mr. Jobs followed up with, “So why the fuck doesn’t it do that?”

(source - https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-mobileme-failure-...)

stmw commented on Ask HN - LaunchPad Replacement on MacOS    · Posted by u/zahirbmirza
stmw · 22 days ago
As a side comment, this where the original ideas for this came from in the OS, back in MacOS 7 timeframe, before OS X. https://www.macintoshrepository.org/160-dragstrip-3-x

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KarmaCake day2275October 2, 2017View Original