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0xjac / private_fork.md
Last active January 18, 2026 19:05
Create a private fork of a public repository

The repository for the assignment is public and Github does not allow the creation of private forks for public repositories.

The correct way of creating a private frok by duplicating the repo is documented here.

For this assignment the commands are:

  1. Create a bare clone of the repository. (This is temporary and will be removed so just do it wherever.)

git clone --bare git@github.com:usi-systems/easytrace.git

@hellerbarde
hellerbarde / latency.markdown
Created May 31, 2012 13:16 — forked from jboner/latency.txt
Latency numbers every programmer should know

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active January 17, 2026 14:09
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD
@timothyham
timothyham / ipv6guide.md
Last active January 14, 2026 21:34
A Short IPv6 Guide for Home IPv4 Admins

A Short IPv6 Guide for Home IPv4 Admins

This guide is for homelab admins who understand IPv4s well but find setting up IPv6 hard or annoying because things work differently. In some ways, managing an IPv6 network can be simpler than IPv4, one just needs to learn some new concepts and discard some old ones.

Let’s begin.

First of all, there are some concepts that one must unlearn from ipv4:

Concept 1

@tsiege
tsiege / The Technical Interview Cheat Sheet.md
Last active January 10, 2026 18:45
This is my technical interview cheat sheet. Feel free to fork it or do whatever you want with it. PLEASE let me know if there are any errors or if anything crucial is missing. I will add more links soon.

ANNOUNCEMENT

I have moved this over to the Tech Interview Cheat Sheet Repo and has been expanded and even has code challenges you can run and practice against!






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@onlurking
onlurking / programming-as-theory-building.md
Last active January 9, 2026 17:51
Programming as Theory Building - Peter Naur

Programming as Theory Building

Peter Naur

Peter Naur's classic 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building" argues that a program is not its source code. A program is a shared mental construct (he uses the word theory) that lives in the minds of the people who work on it. If you lose the people, you lose the program. The code is merely a written representation of the program, and it's lossy, so you can't reconstruct

A funky shell thingy that I've never seen before

So you're in posix sh and you want to do the equivalent of this in bash:

foo | tee >(bar) >(baz) >/dev/null

(Suppose that bar and baz don't produce output. Add redirections where needed if that's not the case.)

@bmaupin
bmaupin / open-source-sso.md
Last active December 22, 2025 23:08
Comparison of some open-source SSO implementations

⚠️ This is not maintained. Feel free to check comments and/or forks for more current options.

Background

This was created years ago; at the time I'd been a Shibboleth admin for nearly a decade but we needed something that could handle OIDC/OAuth and that explicitly supported OpenJDK. After a lot of investigation, I really liked Keycloak/Red Hat Single Sign-On. More details here: Gluu vs keycloack vs wso2 identity management

Comparison

(Items in bold indicate possible concerns)

@non
non / answer.md
Last active December 16, 2025 11:43
answer @nuttycom

What is the appeal of dynamically-typed languages?

Kris Nuttycombe asks:

I genuinely wish I understood the appeal of unityped languages better. Can someone who really knows both well-typed and unityped explain?

I think the terms well-typed and unityped are a bit of question-begging here (you might as well say good-typed versus bad-typed), so instead I will say statically-typed and dynamically-typed.

I'm going to approach this article using Scala to stand-in for static typing and Python for dynamic typing. I feel like I am credibly proficient both languages: I don't currently write a lot of Python, but I still have affection for the language, and have probably written hundreds of thousands of lines of Python code over the years.

@StevenACoffman
StevenACoffman / fluent-filebeat-comparison.md
Last active December 12, 2025 14:31
Fluentd Fluent-bit FileBeat memory and cpu resources

Fluent-bit rocks

A short survey of log collection options and why you picked the wrong one. 😜

Who am I? Where am I from?

I'm Steve Coffman and I work at Ithaka. We do JStor (academic journals) and other stuff. How big is it?

Number what it means
101,332,633 unique visitors in 2017