alamsterdam

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by alamsterdam 1mo ago
jenkins running on an old Dell under a desk from someone who left the company 18 months ago looks more reliable these days haha
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by alamsterdam 1mo ago
nope, 6 hours, nothing. I guess they are also load shedding
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by alamsterdam 1mo ago
wasn't that years ago? or was that Skype? hahaha
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by alamsterdam 1mo ago
911 has one! :)
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by alamsterdam 1mo ago
Dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49198302
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by alamsterdam 1mo ago
A few friendly suggestions: - Building a floor and then the room/office is a bit annoying…. Should auto build the floor (like Sim Tower) - Stairs are difficult to build, it should be possible to build a vertical column, seems you alwa
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by alamsterdam 1mo ago
I played it earlier. Quite enjoyed it (GitHub issues)... Reminded me of my childhood. Gameplay was a bit wonky, some issues. I saw the OP was posting here looking for comments, I wanted to give some feedback. Not sure why it was flagged?
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by alamsterdam 1mo ago
Mon and Dad (MS) are (generally) pretty solid with uptime. What is happening at GH? Rate of change trying to keep up with new challengers? Over-reliance on AI? Engineers trying to debug slop?
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by alamsterdam 1mo ago
It's been hours :( I have sympathy for the on-call team trying to resolve it, most of us have been there done that. But seems something is systematically going wrong at GH
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Game over? Video gamers take fight to Brussels over developers cutting supports(irishtimes.com)
4 points by alamsterdam 8mo ago|1 comments
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by alamsterdam 8mo ago
Campaign pushing for end to developers ending video games by withdrawing online support
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by alamsterdam 10mo ago
Agree with the above, we built and run a ticketing platform, the actual transaction of purchasing the ticket at the final step in the funnel is not the bottleneck. The shopping process and queuing process puts considerably more load on our
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by alamsterdam 1y ago
Yes, I was wondering what is to stop you replaying the same PoW multiple times. All I can find is: To prevent the vulnerability of “replay attacks,” where a client resubmits the same solution multiple times, the server should implement m
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by alamsterdam 2y ago
For me (where our BE consists of maybe 100 endpoints) we’ve found the sweet spot to be Google AppEngine. Incredibly simple to deploy, we don’t really need to manage infrastructure or networking (although you can if you want), decent perfor
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by alamsterdam 3y ago
My use cases are probably regarded as small/medium, which need a handful of instances running, which you can effectively scale down to zero with Googles free tier (basically allows you go goto 1 instance for free), so cost has not been
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by alamsterdam 3y ago
I think appengine is one of the most underrated "serverless" offerings out there. I deploy everything on it, with almost zero concern about infra or server architecture
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by alamsterdam 3y ago
I could deploy to production 30 times a minute! haha :)
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by alamsterdam 3y ago
Using vi to update the .html directly on the production server (and this wasn't a personal website)... simpler times :)
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by alamsterdam 3y ago
Ireland is generating 75% renewable today also! https://www.eirgrid.ie/grid/real-time-system-information