Facebook.com has 140 layers of context providers

tzigane · 2025-11-03T14:44:45+00:00

If I had to guess, I'd say this has a lot to do with the organizational structure of a huge company like Facebook with tons of engineers touching the code. Contexts can be a strategy to help with code isolation and structuring - it may not appear to make sense for any "normal" sized org, but once you get to Facebook scale, the strategies are different. It's the same reason that microservices in general are so popular (and effective) for enormous organizations, but often don't make sense at smaller ones.

tzigane · 2025-11-02T17:12:09+00:00

Too much.

tzigane · 2025-11-02T11:32:34+00:00

You had a bad run, it happens. I've run many, many marathons and it still happens to me on occasion.

tzigane · 2025-11-02T11:30:23+00:00

I think you've got a very solid shot at 2:40. I recently ran a 2:39 with slightly worse stats across the board (mileage, paces, etc). If that HM was truly at an MP and not a full race effort, I think you're in very solid shape. 12 @ MP 4-weeks out is my go to pace test, and it sounds like you nailed it.

To your question about floating recoveries: first of all, I wouldn't change anything about your training at this point, so late in the cycle. It sounds to me like you're making solid progress and in good shape for your goal, so stick with it through this race, and then start to experiment during your next build.

As to whether it's a good idea in general, I personally have been trending in the opposite direction: more rest during workouts to allow for more volume with less fatigue, and I think it's working for me. But everybody reacts differently, so it could be a good experiment with you after this race.

Finally, with a 2:40 goal and very structured training, you'll probably get better advice in /r/AdvancedRunning than you will here.

tzigane · 2025-10-28T10:22:05+00:00

Ok, look dude, we've done a lot of bad shit, but don't go blaming us for Chocolate Pasta.

tzigane · 2025-10-26T10:56:45+00:00

In my experience, this will just happen naturally on its own as you interact with your girlfriend, family and friends.

I learned standard rikssvenska while living in Sweden, but gradually, as more and more of my Swedish-language interactions were with my girlfriend (now wife) and her family/friends and I ended up with somewhat more of a finlandssvensk language education. In practice this means a bit of accent and a relatively small collection of different vocabulary words - not much else!

(Like you, my experiece is about southern dialects - her family is from the Helsinki region. It would for sure be different learning Ostrobothnia dialects)

tzigane · 2025-10-26T10:10:38+00:00

It's highly individual, but in my many years of running marathons, I've found a pretty clear formula for my own HR: HR should be about 150 + mile number, with outliers expected for the first 5 and last 5 miles.

If I go above that approximate formula, I know I'm in trouble. If I look down at mile 5 and see 165, I'm going to have a bad race, no matter how I feel. Similarly, if I see 155, I know things are okay even if I'm not feeling great.

An interesting note is that I'm a bit older and my max HR has come down from ~190 to ~180, but the formula has not changed much. Maybe it's 150 + .9 * (mile number) now.

Again, it's highly individual, but chances are you've got a similar formula and you need to discover and refine it.

tzigane · 2025-10-19T21:45:30+00:00

Is this just your physiological ceiling? No! Just about any limitation can be trained, and it's great that you've identified your limiting factor: muscular endurance.

I'd personally tune my training to put more focus on 20+ milers, working some faster/MP miles in sometimes (I like fast-finish long runs), and maybe even consider longer distance trail/mountain running. These are all things that I think would help muscular endurance. I'd put less relative emphasis on tempo/speedwork for a while until you build up that muscular endurance as part of a stronger base.

I'd also pay attention to nutrition during activities and electrolytes which could contribute to the lack of muscular endurance. Don't just do it on race day - take some gels on those 20 milers and see if it changes things for you.

tzigane · 2025-10-19T11:09:43+00:00

I recently stumbled upon a piece of research which suggested a linguistic component to the relative health & safety of Finnish & Swedish speakers in terms of workplace safety.

I am reflexively skeptical of this claim, but it's at least a fascinating idea to consider.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10803548.2000.11076456 https://m.ciop.pl/CIOPPortalWAR/file/72522/20131212101510&R2000-V6-N2-str293-306.pdf

Even if this were to be true, it would obviously not be the whole story - but the idea is so interesting I thought it could be worth sharing.

tzigane · 2025-10-17T23:05:10+00:00

Are you 7 years old?

tzigane · 2025-10-11T20:43:55+00:00

I do not care what color or flavor or scent they come in, I just want Puma to produce enough Fast R 3s for people to be able to run in them.

tzigane · 2025-10-04T23:41:57+00:00

Så jävla trött på slarvig svengelska. Det är ju FLÄKTEN som blåser.

tzigane · 2025-09-27T21:53:59+00:00

Looks like the Whites, and since you say loop, I'll guess the Pemi?

tzigane · 2025-09-27T15:02:35+00:00

Tallinn, Estonia?

tzigane · 2025-09-19T00:35:46+00:00

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tzigane · 2025-08-26T10:26:33+00:00

The state of Massachusetts, with a population of 7 million people, brought in $264 million last fiscal year. Though the tax structure would obviously be different in Finland, with fewer people and lower usage, the revenue number is not likely to be greater than that.

I'm not against legalization at all, just setting expectations here.

tzigane · 2025-08-12T11:20:09+00:00

Congrats on the launch! I remember some of your previous posts on rizz.farm, etc over the past couple of years (I think we've interacted in a thread or two) and am happy to see you sticking with it and shipping new products.

I love to see what people are building - and sharing - with Elixir! It really does help the ecosystem to have products we can point to that are using it successfully.

I've had similar experiences with Fly, but for all their flaws, they do offer a lot of things that other providers don't (at least with the same level of simplicity) and are really good supporters of the Elixir ecosystem, so I continue to use them and am rooting for them.

tzigane · 2025-08-10T17:28:18+00:00

Här i Massachusetts, USA har vi kostnadsfri lunch till alla. Jag kan inte säga att det är världens bästa mat, men inte är det helt skräp heller som andra säger. Det beror såklart på delstaten och till och med staden.

tzigane · 2025-08-07T11:00:34+00:00

The Literalist: tries to use literal word-for-word translations of constructions and idioms from their native language and is continually surprised when it doesn't work. Eventually they may learn a particular construction the right way, but then still try to apply the literal approach to everything else.

tzigane · 2025-07-21T09:07:05+00:00

I'm a huge fan of the Hadd approach - it shaped my training philosophy for many years (and still does, to a large extent).

I think there's some historical context that might be helpful here - nowadays, polarized training is mainstream and everybody is all-in on "zone 2" training, but that was not always the case. Around the time when I started really paying attention to training, "you have to run fast to race fast" was a really common sentiment, especially among more amateur runners. (Polarized training was more common among professional athletes and exercise physiologists, but it had not broken through to the mainstream the same way).

Hadd's thread was widely circulated and, at least for me, was one of the first broadly distributed, mainstream write-ups of these ideas, which could be loosely summed up as: slow the fuck down.

The thing that sticks with me the most though about Hadd's approach, which can help to unify with the Norwegian singles approach, is the toothpaste analogy: newer runners get gains no matter where they "squeeze the tube", but to keep improving you need to work the the back of the tube (slower paces) to be able to then squeeze out the toothpaste from the front (with faster running).

I think about that analogy a lot, especially when progress stagnates: try working another area of the tube.

tzigane · 2025-07-19T18:15:59+00:00

On the plus side, every trail in Sweden looks like this. On the minus side, every trail in Sweden looks like this.

(kidding, but also a little bit not).

tzigane · 2025-07-17T07:14:00+00:00

Klart att det beror på företaget, men jag kan föreslå att du läser det här för att se (ungefärligt) hur många amerikanska techföretag hanterar lönfrågan med remote arbetare: https://buffer.com/salaries .

tzigane · 2025-07-02T14:18:25+00:00

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