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Paul Baumgart
Software engineer (currently: ). Trying to rehabilitate the soul of computing.
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Paul Baumgart 10h
I’m really enjoying ’s recent essay series. Choice quote from the latest: “the value of performance is sometimes well-understood intellectually... but it’s rarely appreciated on a really visceral level, and also is often given lip service more so than real investment.”
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Adrian Colyer Jan 29
"Narrowing the gap between serverless and its state with storage functions" Zhang et al., 'Stored Functions' for serverless workload data-processing efficiency
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Paul Baumgart Jan 26
Replying to @KevinSimler
Agreed, the trend is such that I’d wager some psychedelics will be legalized (at least with prescription) in the US within a decade or two. Regarding cars: it’s a baby step, but I’m curious to see how this turns out:
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Paul Baumgart Jan 25
Replying to @KevinSimler
To name a few: Remote work for software companies becoming the norm. Banning cars and planting more trees in urban centers. Legalization of psychedelics. Japanese-style toilets in new home construction.
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Paul Baumgart Jan 25
Replying to @paulbaumgart
Credit for this lovely illustration goes to my wife, Britta. (If you like it, you’ll find more examples of her work, both past and future, here: )
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Paul Baumgart Jan 25
Happy Lunar New Year!
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Paul Baumgart Jan 22
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Paul Baumgart Jan 20
“Are there internal components that can be factored out to have (relatively) stable interfaces and good test coverage? Even if the overall feature set is changing and evolving, are there some core features that are stable over time you can try to lock down in this way?”
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Paul Baumgart Jan 19
Replying to @paulbaumgart
This write-up goes into more detail: (Note that this is news from August of last year.)
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Paul Baumgart Jan 19
The “nanotube computer... runs 32-bit instructions on 16-bit data and has a transistor-channel length of roughly 1.5 μm. It can therefore be compared to the silicon-based Intel 80386 processor, which was introduced in 1985 and had similar specifications.”
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Otherlab Jan 15
The car loan was invented in the 1920s. The home loan was invented in the 1940s. The invention we need for the 2020s is the climate loan. A mortgage, or credit, is like a time machine; it allows you to afford the future you want, today.
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Paul Baumgart Jan 8
Replying to @vgr
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Paul Baumgart Jan 4
“That’s how it is with mimetic theory, too. Like all ideologies, it replaces a trickle of type II errors with a veritable tsunami of type I errors; and that, in my book, is hardly a great improvement.”
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Paul Baumgart Jan 2
"async/await is great but it encourages writing stuff that will behave catastrophically when overloaded"
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Paul Baumgart Jan 1
The market reacting to SF’s bad housing policies (though I guess this is good news for us renters): “for the first time in a decade, the net migration into the city [of San Francisco] was actually negative”
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Paul Baumgart Dec 31
This is a great summary:
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Rik Arends Dec 31
The most important reason to make the move from a dynamic (JS) to a static compiled language (Rust) is simply because moores law is plateauing. The only path to faster is either be less wasteful, or go parallel. With parallel being MUCH harder to do. Lots to do in less wasteful
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Cindy Sridharan Dec 23
Replying to @copyconstruct
How awesome would it be if I as a developer didn’t have to fuck around with kubectl, terraform, cloud tooling etc. If instead, the PaaS would let me choose where to run my app based on *app leve concerns* like latency, CPU usage, RPS, traffic patterns (bursty vs sustained) etc.
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Cindy Sridharan Dec 23
What are the biggest pain points you believe tooling can address in the next decade (2020-2029)? I’ll go first: - CI/CD. Jenkins is currently the CI gold standard and it’s a very low bar. - Easier abstractions and paradigms for building infra. Kube is too low level + complex.
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Paul Baumgart Dec 22
“if your avowed plan is that this time you’re totally going to get in on the ground floor — well, I’m here to warn you, you may have a long wait in store”
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