Meanwhile, a field engineer for the chip vendor had diagnosed the root cause: Netflix’s Android TV application, called Ninja, was not delivering audio data quickly enough.

The Netflix application is complex, but at its simplest it streams data from a Netflix server, buffers several seconds worth of video and audio data on the device, then delivers video and audio frames one-at-a-time to the device’s playback hardware.

This story really exemplifies an aspect of my job I love: I can’t predict all of the issues that our partners will throw at me, and I know that to fix them I have to understand multiple systems, work with great colleagues, and constantly push myself to learn more.

The press doesn’t care, your investors don’t care, your board doesn’t care, your employees don’t care, even your mama doesn’t care.

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She has been experimenting for over a year to develop the best keto bread recipe, and this is the result of her efforts.

A csv file with 80,000+ tweets from January 6th, 2021 -- the day of the capitol hill riots.

Nowhere close to the size of the Parler data dumps, but anyone with NLP experience might be able to find something useful here.

• "user location" is the user's self reported location in their profile.

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He always regretted making pixels square, describing the decision as “something very foolish that everyone in the world has been suffering from ever since.” [DL Cade]

I’m co-hosting an event on 14th December, and you’re welcome to join me: Fluxx Talks: How successful leaders are looking forward, not back

Tom Whitwell is Managing Consultant at Fluxx, a company that uses experiments to understand customers, helping clients to build better products.

• Drunk shopping could be a $45bn /year industry, and only 6% of people regret their drunk purchases.

Japanese pop fans have been encouraged to buy multiple copies of their favourite releases to win rewards (buy 2,000 copies, win a night at a hot spring with your favourite star).

• SpottedRisk is a disgrace insurance company built on data: “Firstborns are at slightly higher risk of disgrace, as are those… who’ve suffered recent breakups — until the passage of time sends the bereft partner back down the ‘risk-decay curve.’” [Boris Kachka]

When using a unique index (such as the table’s primary key), InnoDB does not need to take a gap lock on the left or right of the selected records since it is sure the values matched by the query are distinct from all others.

When acquiring a next-key lock on the first or last record in an index and the search does not meet the criteria for uniqueness, InnoDB must lock all values towards positive or negative infinity to make sure no other record overlaps this record’s position in the table.

If you're looking for a broader—or more bite-sized—overview of InnoDB locking, I highly recommend InnoDB Locking Explained with Stick Figures by Bill Karwin.

And for it to have any meaning, this evolution must have some kind of pattern, specifically it should start from some value and then get incremented by a value in every iteration.

In LLVM, this is called a scope (when talking about SCEV; the term "scope" has many other uses in LLVM) and there's even a (widely-used) procedure called getSCEVAtScope(), in which we give it a Value and a Loop and it returns us the SCEV of this value inside the specific loop.

The value before the loop is usually useless (or the value hasn't even been defined before the loop), so we're usually concerned about the value after the loop.

An block is always for a type, so, inside that block, means that type:

On the other hand, the Rust compiler helps out a lot.

I also blog about Rust and tweet about Rust a lot, so if you liked this article, you know what to do.

A mini Lisp interpreter in JavaScript.

Supports lists (obvs), function invocation, lambdas, lets, if statements, numbers, strings and the library functions , and .

Thank you to Martin Tornwall for the implementations of let and if.

Inspired by a puzzle, I came up with this deterministic state machine for decoding Morse code.

The counter is not technically part of the state machine — though it eventually overflows for practical reasons, it isn’t really “finite” — but is rather an external count of the times the state machine transitions from low to high, which is the actual, useful output.

I do particularly like the idea of compiler-synthesized coroutines as state machines, though this is a rare treat.

Netflix's documentary offerings are strong stuff, with many of the streaming service's films and series proving some the most talked about watches of certain times in our lives — if you managed to miss the whole Wild Wild Country "tough titties" conversation, we're impressed?

We've rounded up the very best documentary films and TV series on Netflix, so you can load up on some of the strangest, most enraging, most uplifting true stories, all crafted by those determined documentary makers who spend hours and hours editing their findings into a compelling path.

Executive produced by J.J. Abrams and Glen Zipper, four-part documentary Challenger: The Final Flight reminds us of those lost in the tragedy, and examines the technical process that led up to the moment of disaster.

As you might have noticed, writing in wax is pretty much like writing an abstract syntax tree directly!

• wax supports C-like macros, allowing specifying different behavior/branches for each compile target, as well as embedding target code directly.

On compile targets that do support garbage collection (e.g. Java, JS), explicit freeing of resources is not required, and theoretically you can ignore memory management altogether if you intend to compile to these targets only.

I hope you enjoy the data engineering trends 2020, and please share your thoughts in the comments.

The support for ACID transactions, data versioning, auditing, indexing, caching, and query optimization are vital characteristics to build large scale data systems.

Still, the fundamental pattern behind the success of DBT is that the industry comes to appreciate and embrace SQL as the best data abstraction for most of the data engineering workload.

BPF is the name, and no longer an acronym, but it was originally Berkeley Packet Filter and then eBPF for Extended BPF, and now just BPF.

BPF tools can refer to functionality in the kernel or user space that are intended to provide stable interfaces – kernel and user space tracepoints BPF tools can also refer to functionality, such as the names of functions or fields that may well not be stable.

In addition, older kernels will not have the functionality and kernels may not be configured to support BPF so BPF is not universally portable or available.

;; We begin by reading all the numbers into a list of ints.

;; Racket's looping tools are an excellent match for this task.

;; have a nested loop where we are looking for the first occurrence of

I start each of my weekly reviews by re-reading one of my favorite essays of life advice—a different one each week.

I’ll keep this updated as I find more great essays, and I’d welcome other contributions—please suggest your own favorites in the comments!

Sam might have observed more successful people more closely than anyone else on the planet, and the advice is as good as you’d expect.

Welcome back to our Fermi Paradox series, where we take a look at possible resolutions to Enrico Fermi’s famous question, “Where Is Everybody?” Today, we examine the possibility that Earth hasn’t been visited by aliens because interstellar travel is not very practical!

Another key assumption is that intelligent species will be motivated to colonize other star systems as part of some natural drive to explore and extend the reach of their civilization.

Here’s Episode 24: The Fermi Paradox: Where Are All the Aliens?, Episode 110: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Episode 168: Enrico Fermi, Episode 273: Solutions to the Fermi Paradox.

• QuickLook - Free in the Windows Store, just highlight a file in Explorer and press Space to get a preview!

It's free, it's open source and it'll compare files and folders and help you merge your conflicted source code files like a champ.

• Teracopy - While I use the excellent built in copy features of Windows 10 the most, when I want to move a LOT of files as FAST as possible, nothing beats TeraCopy, an app that does just that - move stuff fast.

There are no additional pushes to improve our ability to test, or our supplies of equipment, or to speed our vaccine efforts or distribute the vaccine more efficiently (in any sense), or to lift restrictions on useful private action.

What could be a better way to motivate people wanting the vaccine, than to show our richest, most famous and most powerful people paying really big bucks to get the shot a few months sooner?

Also, I’m not going to link to any of the sources for this (to avoid heat vs. light and toxoplasma of rage issues, among other reasons), or offer a hot take on it, but there are a lot of “experts” and “ethicists” who have stated outright that we shouldn’t prioritize older people over younger people because older people are disproportionately white, so giving vaccine priority to the people most likely to die from Covid-19 is racist.