Phil Eaton
@eatonphil
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cheerleader, organizer, software infrastructure
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Joined November 2013
6 levels of OLTP database query latency: Nice: < 1ms Acceptable: 1-3ms Probably fine: 3-9ms Slow: 10-20ms Concerningly slow: 20-100ms Fix it now: 100ms+
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Public service announcement to metascience friends: Vannevar Bush is pronounced "Van-ee-vur" or even "Van-EE-vur," not "VAN-eh-vawr." https://t.co/s5wg7QvhKW
https://t.co/ytMsLbRZOh
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4 months later, DDIA complete. All 12 chapters. Wonder how many people who post about this book have read the whole thing? Parting thoughts: - I see why it's so well regarded. Incredible breadth, well-researched, and many topics backed with examples and diagrams. - Writing v1
I work at a database company and have never read this book. How cooked am I?
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Can't find a single thing about this online, which is one of the things I love about books. Wikipedia remains incomplete.
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That one time in 1929 Coca Cola dutifully reported sales in France of cocaine in the books. Frederick Allen's Secret Formula
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Blog subscription emails will also be coming from SendGrid instead of Mailerlite soon enough. One of the biggest differences is that there'll be no silly link tracking which I could not opt out of with Mailerlite. So no scammy looking links and no browser warnings when ya click
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Deliverability of bcc-ing y'all was going to bits so invites for NYC Systems and the coffee club will be coming from dedicated email accounts and delivered via SendGrid. Please let me know if there's any issues.
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Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I
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I can't believe I only just realized that node.js comes with built-in test suite. It feels good to eliminate bloat 😌
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I started running a few weeks ago and did my second 5k run today! And my best time too. 🥳 If you're on Strava, add me.
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If you're a PhD student traveling to NYC this holiday season, let me buy you lunch. Friends don't let PhD friends travel to NYC without this.
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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
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We're looking to hire an experienced editor with a taste for fancy type-systems to work on education for OxCaml! Please share with anyone you think might be a good fit for this role. (And...retweets wouldn't hurt.)
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EDB's 13th Engineering Newsletter is now out! This little project took on a life of its own and I am very happy to have stepped down as the main editor. It always was, and will continue to be, run by a team of individuals within engineering at EDB. Happy reading!
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@eatonphil I came across your post when looking for help on syscalls in MLIR and it helped me a lot. I encountered segfaults, though, because the asm-constraint was incomplete: The syscall apparently also clobbers rcx and r11, so it should be `={rax},{rax},{rdi},{rsi},{rdx},~{rcx},~{r11}`.
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The Cartiers is a great business history read, 4/5. Covering a hundred years of luxury business spanning three(?) major wars. Next up in the audiobook slot is this history of Coca Cola.
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And Antithesis! On mixing multi threaded Rust with single threaded C++ in their fuzzer
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