A similar idea [^1] has cropped up in the serverless OpenTelemetry world to collate OpenTelemetry spans in a Kinesis stream before forwarding them to a third-party service for analysis, obviating the need for a separate collector, reducing forwarding latency and removing the cold-start overhead of the AWS Distribution for OpenTelemetry Lambda Layer.
Absolutely amazing, I know about page tables and the like but tying it to performance analysis with `perf` makes it clear how central it is to throughput
I'm the organizer of a social meetup in Sydney for LGBTQIA+ scientists, engineers and technologists.[^1]
We still mostly find new members through the platform and word-of-mouth (probably about 50-50), but compared to pre-pandemic, the numbers are generally smaller. There is less being organised in general, but I suspect people have competing commitments, or are less enthusiastic about trying it out: I find many people sign up to join the group but only a handful will ever show up at any event. Attendance can be very seasonal too.
As a platform I find Meetup quite expensive given how buggy and slow it is. Participants complain about not getting notifications (it frequently fails to send me anything). There is lots of duplicated and flakey functionality, like chat and discussion groups. I'd love to use something else but I don't know if its worth the risk trying to drive people elsewhere.
Trying to foster a sense of community with tech platforms alone is also a bit futile - it really boils down to the vibe of the group and other participants, and it's a difficult balancing act as an organiser.
The proposed solution to market monopolisation by Amazon seems to boil down to the old refrain, "design better markets", with a lament for the innovation and freedom of the old anarchistic (i.e. unregulated) web.
It's a touch ironic but nevertheless predictable, an old problem wrapped us as a new one, making me wonder: why the book will be all that interesting?
Large publishers have forced DRM and squeezed authors in other media markets such as music or TV and film, protecting their monopolies on distribution and consequent power to market-make. What is new?
i love lazyvim, as someone who is productive with vim movements and keyboard macros, but has zero interest in learning every inch of the vim plugin ecosystem and writing the corresponding lua to configure it.
In fact, I've found it easier to learn the ecosystem of what is going on and feel more comfortable customising it, now that I have a solid base of customisation to build upon.
I just wish the documentation included more commentary on what each plugin does and why it is available - having to click through on each one is a bit annoying.
You could take the perspective that this is art, and sometimes art sets constraints on how the viewer can experience it that be a limitation of the medium or something deliberate on the part of the artist.
I was happy enough to go with it, even though the flashing at first made me feel a bit uneasy. I'm glad people still find joy in this stuff - I remember building Flash animations in the early 2000s and quite enjoying learning about all this cool animation stuff and laying background music I'd ripped off a disc.
WiP implementation of CloudFormation bindings in OCaml, with the intent of being able
to programatically generate CloudFormation JSON
in OCaml (similar to CDK).
It is crucial because new loans generate growth and economic activity. The economy would seize up and enter a deep recession if regular savers stashed their money in 100% reserve ratio bank. (Many would if there was no government-backed deposit insurance for regular-sized amounts.)
I think the reason such institutions don't exist is that they are very unprofitable compared to regular banks and would be expensive to keep deposits in them.
Compared to languages that have a single implementation, have multiple commercial and open source implementations in reasonable states of continuous development seems like a good place to be.
[^1] https://x.com/donkersgood/status/1662074303456636929?s=20