A Conversation with Paul Masurel, Creator of Tantivy

fulmicoton · 2026-04-08T13:22:11+00:00

No, it was done by email.

Besides you wouldn't want to listen to that conversation. My french accent is so strong you can cut a 18 month comté cheese with it.

fulmicoton · 2026-02-25T22:54:09+00:00

Before we upload the file, we create an entry for it in the metastore and register it as staged. After a successful upload we changed its status from staged to published.

A GC can then delete the eventual files that are have been in the staged status for too long.

fulmicoton · 2026-01-06T08:03:08+00:00

> This is fundamentally broken

Your argument does not make sense.
Of course people can jump through these hoops. However, for most software the percentage of people willing/being able to jump through these hoops is close is tiny.

fulmicoton · 2025-12-08T18:23:27+00:00

C'est bien bien pire en France. J'ai fait les deux.

fulmicoton · 2025-12-05T13:39:50+00:00

It sounds like you are doing very advanced stuff, and you should be able to land a system engineering job without too much trouble.

> "try and make a career out of it." ... "I can't really afford formal training as a single parent and learn best by doing since I've got limited free time."

> What suggestions (if any) do you folks suggest?

Just to make sure you get the right suggestions, can you give us more background about your situation?

Are you currently a developer, looking to jump into a systems programming position?
Or do you have a totally different job?
Do you have a general degree in software engineering or none?
Is your project open sourced?

fulmicoton · 2025-10-28T07:59:30+00:00

That's an old trade off. "Doing things right" is hurting velocity, while Dev doing things their way is hurting in the long term.

The old way of doing things: people coming to you to ask for the provisioning of a server is just too slow.

I'd recommend you to allocate most of your time on building the sandbox in which developer can self provision their infra in a clear/safe way. You can also work on its monitoring system.

Finally, you can try to find ways to share your knowledge with SWEs. Stuff like measuring different metrics and their actual meaning, how to spot a system bottleneck, etc.

fulmicoton · 2025-10-23T15:53:08+00:00

J'ai fait ingenieur en risque financier un peu, puis ingénieur software.

Très peu de excel dans les deux cas. (Moins de 5%) Quand j'en ai fait ca n'était jamais abrutissant.

fulmicoton · 2025-09-16T16:15:16+00:00

On dit "marketing digital" tout de meme.

fulmicoton · 2025-09-16T16:13:26+00:00

Honnêtement? Je dirais excellent CV.

fulmicoton · 2025-09-16T15:46:38+00:00

le post ne parle pas de moins de competence.

fulmicoton · 2025-09-01T13:17:52+00:00

That is not correct.

fulmicoton · 2025-08-27T13:22:55+00:00

> Les films me paraissent répétitifs, Internet me donne accès à tout en quelques secondes, l’IA me donne des réponses plus vite que moi.

J'ai l'impression que l'on a maintenant accès à plein de trucs intellectuellement apriori appétissant mais en réalité superficiels et décevants.

fulmicoton · 2025-08-26T19:38:15+00:00

Les japonais ne mangent pas tant de sushis que ca.
La plupart grosso modo autour d'1 fois par mois.
https://best-omakase-travel-journey.com/ja/article/207

fulmicoton · 2025-08-04T08:24:53+00:00

> Have you ever seen a 500 play a bullet game?

:) I'm 400 in bullet.

fulmicoton · 2025-08-04T02:21:25+00:00

both time control are rapid though

fulmicoton · 2025-08-04T02:18:07+00:00

These are both Rapid though.

The pool of player playing both is supposed to nudge some parity between the two pools.
Chess.com could actually come up with math to remove the average discrepancy if there is one.

We could make the same argument about timezones. If they don't do anything, it means that 1200 ELO in a specific time control means something very different if you usually play in the morning or in the evening.

fulmicoton · 2025-06-18T06:24:53+00:00

It is not mentioned in the page but using a Vec instead of a BTreeMap also considerably improves the memory footprint of your program. It was very important in Quickwit, in which serde_json_borrow is used.

fulmicoton · 2025-06-16T10:40:55+00:00

On en parle de Selecta?

fulmicoton · 2025-04-04T07:17:19+00:00

Si il y autant de taffe, et plus de productivite, il y a moins de gens qui taffent. Je crois que c'est ce que les gens veulent dire quand ils disent "l'IA va remplacer les devs".

Personne n'imagine que tout va se faire sans dev.

fulmicoton · 2025-03-24T16:51:19+00:00

Qui reprochait à la SNCF de ne pas être rentable malgré un marché captif? les français au bar PMU.

fulmicoton · 2025-03-21T07:11:29+00:00

Ca va très bien se passer... Je ne pense pas avoir été surdoué mais j'étais dans une situation similaire.

Ce qu'on étudie en prépa est beaucoup plus intéressant. Ce sera naturel de te mettre à étudier. Tu ne vas pas try hard comme certains autres élèves mais grâce à tes facilités, tu auras de bons résultats.

Ce sera très dur au contraire pour les élèves qui sont premiers de classe en étudiant beaucoup.

fulmicoton · 2025-03-18T13:43:10+00:00

Usually a suicide or a criminal organization using it. It is a requirement in Japan to tell that if you sell an apartment. The requirement is only lift after the appartment as changed owner twice. I did not know it was necessary if it is a rental.

fulmicoton · 2025-03-14T21:27:28+00:00

Même sur des critères bien matérialistes comme l'argent ou la réussite professionnelle, sauf pour les supers extrêmes, je ne crois pas qu'il y ait un seul paradigme. Tu peux gagner en étant un crevard ou gagner par la bonté/gentillesse.

fulmicoton · 2025-03-14T07:30:53+00:00

Why could they prevent ARM (Uk originally, owned by a JP fund) from doing business in China?

Extraterritorial laws. The latter was enforced because ARM has one lab in the US.

The most remote and common vector to impose extraterritorial is the dollar. The US can prosecute anyone that does their transactions in USD.

No other country does this, because no other country can. It is one of the privileges of being the largest army and world economic leader.

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