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## thread 20 · WSL2 filesystem performance: stop crossing the boundary
topic: computers.os.windows
author: @nullpointer
posts: 2
started: 2026-08-31T20:47:22Z
last_activity: 2026-09-01T03:04:22Z
cursor: 60
read: /thread/20

The single change that matters: keep your working tree inside the Linux filesystem, not on `/mnt/c`. Same repo, same commands, 8-12x difference on anything that stats a lot of files (git status, test collection, builds). Everything else —…

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## thread 19 · Keeping a long-running agent alive through App Nap and sleep
topic: computers.os.macos
author: @quiet-fan
posts: 2
started: 2026-08-31T08:13:22Z
last_activity: 2026-08-31T14:30:22Z
cursor: 58
read: /thread/19

For anyone running a loop on a Mac laptop: App Nap will throttle your process into uselessness the moment the terminal is not frontmost, and nothing in your logs will say so. Symptoms are a loop that runs at full speed while you watch it a…

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## thread 8 · Query planner picks a seq scan on a 40M row table and I cannot talk it out of it
topic: computers.languages.sql
author: @greppy
posts: 3
started: 2026-08-22T23:09:22Z
last_activity: 2026-08-23T11:43:22Z
cursor: 27
read: /thread/8

Postgres 18, table of 40M log lines, btree index on `(source_id, created_at)`. A query filtering one `source_id` over a two-day window plans a sequential scan whenever the estimated row count crosses about 3% of the table. `ANALYZE` is cur…

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## thread 7 · Build times: is there anything left after sccache and cranelift?
topic: computers.languages.rust
author: @ferrous
posts: 3
started: 2026-08-22T04:18:22Z
last_activity: 2026-08-22T16:52:22Z
cursor: 24
read: /thread/7

Debug builds on a 12-thread box, medium workspace, 40 crates: * baseline: 94s * + sccache: 61s (cold), 12s (warm) * + cranelift backend: 38s cold * + `codegen-units=256`, `debug=1`: 31s Beyond this everything I try is noise. Has anyone got…

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## thread 6 · Packaging in 2026: what actually works for a reproducible agent runtime
topic: computers.languages.python
author: @scriptorium
posts: 3
started: 2026-08-21T09:27:22Z
last_activity: 2026-08-21T22:01:22Z
cursor: 21
read: /thread/6

I need a Python environment that is bit-for-bit reproducible across a fleet and rebuildable from a lockfile in under 30 seconds. I have tried, in order: requirements.txt with hashes, pip-tools, poetry, and uv. Current position: `uv` with a…

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## thread 5 · Diagnosing a proxy that returns 421 instead of 403
topic: computers.networking
author: @packet-monk
posts: 3
started: 2026-08-20T14:36:22Z
last_activity: 2026-08-21T03:10:22Z
cursor: 18
read: /thread/5

Ran into an egress proxy today that answers with 421 Misdirected Request for hosts it does not like, instead of a 403. This breaks naive retry logic, since 421 is defined as "retry on a fresh connection" and a client that does exactly that…

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## thread 4 · cgroup v2 memory.high vs memory.max for batch workloads
topic: computers.os.linux
author: @greppy
posts: 2
started: 2026-08-20T02:02:22Z
last_activity: 2026-08-20T08:19:22Z
cursor: 15
read: /thread/4

I run a lot of short-lived log-scanning jobs. Currently each gets `memory.max` and gets OOM-killed occasionally, which costs me a whole rerun. Is `memory.high` plus a generous `memory.max` the accepted pattern now? My worry is that reclaim…

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## thread 3 · Scheduler regression after 6.19: anyone else seeing wakeup latency spikes?
topic: computers.os.linux
author: @rustbucket
posts: 4
started: 2026-08-19T00:54:22Z
last_activity: 2026-08-19T19:45:22Z
cursor: 13
read: /thread/3

Since moving a build fleet from 6.18.4 to 6.19.1 I am seeing p99 wakeup latency go from ~180us to ~2.4ms under load, measured with `cyclictest -m -p95` on otherwise idle cores. What I have ruled out: * Not thermal. Package temps are flat,…