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by augustl 9mo ago
I was a huge N9 fanboy. Wish I didn't sell mine, and that Microsoft didn't kill it :)
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by augustl 1y ago
Happy 9950X user here. Super happy with it, everything is crazy fast. Not a gamer, according to internet and benchmarks the extra cost is only worth it for gaming workloads. I use Arch, btw ;)
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by augustl 1y ago
Kotlin is a much better Java so that's what we use :) I have a friend who maintains a gazillion JVM based apps for the Norwegian tax authorities and he's a Kotlin skeptic. He's pretty tired of maintaining and porting various
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by augustl 1y ago
With TOTP you have a private key that you don't transmit over the wire, as opposed to your password, so security is improved even though the password and TOTP is in the same vault.
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by augustl 1y ago
Jepsen is awesome, on so many levels!
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by augustl 2y ago
> Without deep pockets for high-RAM servers I just got a dedicated server on Hetzner to test out some things. It's $70/month with 64gb RAM and a CPU that builds a complex C++ thingie in 11 minutes where my laptop spends about a
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by augustl 2y ago
> I still think there’s elements of an amazing product here Interesting framing. The people behind Clojure and Datomic aren't known for being amazing at scaling and shipping products (i.e. marketing and all that jazz). This is also
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by augustl 2y ago
Yes - if I understand you correctly :) Datomic writes opaque blobs of index data to existing storage, such as Postgres or dynamodb or a handful of others. But you can't query that data meaningfully directly, it's just a bunch of c
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by augustl 2y ago
I've used Datomic from both Kotin and Groovy (!) I presented on Datomic at KotlinConf too, with some live coding starting around the 31 minute mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hicQvxdKvnc You probably need to be on
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by augustl 2y ago
It's free now - but I suppose 10+ years of being both closed source and paid didn't do wonders for adoption. What part needs a cluster in your experience? The Datomic deployments I've been involved with have been running on a
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by augustl 2y ago
Statistically (and from experience) I'm probably the weird one here, but I cannot fathom why Datomic isn't more popular. I get that postgres is a good default in many cases, and I don't expect SQL to die tomorrow. But there a
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by augustl 2y ago
Predictions and pre vs post accident is an interesting subject. Which bridge that is currently in operation should be closed next? (Not a dunk on the article, which brilliantly addresses the difficulty of knowing in advance vs making real w
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Blogging with Word in your Jamstack(augustl.com)
15 points by augustl 3y ago|8 comments
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by augustl 3y ago
FWIW, I recently used Wordpress as a headless CMS, with a Next.js frontend that gets pinged by webhooks from wordpress to invalidate caches etc. I haven't really found any headless CMS that's easier than wordpress for non-technica
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by augustl 3y ago
And apparently the effect is much more jarring in VR - which is why Valve solved it for Half Life: Alyx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_MuWmYKGIc
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by augustl 3y ago
I hope we get bootcamp on Apple silicon, so we can see if it's the hardware or the OS that's causing most of the trouble :D
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by augustl 3y ago
Good to know! I almost wonder if my specific laptop is broken in some way. Either that, or I'm overly sensitive to these things. And the Venn diagram overlap of people who often use both macOS and Windows is probably not that large...
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by augustl 3y ago
After switching from an 11th gen Intel Dell XPS, to a M1 Macbook, I resist returning to PC laptops (even though I prefer Windows) until someone confirms that newer Ryzen and Intel chips are comparable in terms of "perceived performanc
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by augustl 3y ago
I would love to see analysis on the trade offs with KYC and AML. How much does it actually help in fighting crime? Vs. all of the lost opportunities due to all of the red tape and regulatory blockers for legitimate business models.
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by augustl 3y ago
No wonder Apple has been adamant in keeping 3rd party devs away from executable memory :)
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by augustl 3y ago
This is probably a dumb comment, but have you looked into using WSLg? I.e. also run the GUI inside WSL? The integration between Win and WSLg is pretty seamless!
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by augustl 3y ago
I'm not sure if I even trust Intel/Windows at this point. The m1 macs are just so much snappier in absolutely every way imaginable than my old 11th gen Dell. My old PC would some times take minutes (!) to fully wake up from sleep,
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by augustl 3y ago
I have a similar relationship with gaming. BOTW and Dark Souls are my favorite games of all time, but I've never gotten around to finish them.
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by augustl 3y ago
Interesting link, thanks for posting! Datomic's covering indexes are heavily based on their built-in ordering, and doesn't really have much flexibility in different ways to sort and walk data. Personally, I'm a fan of hybrid
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by augustl 3y ago
Errata: (get response :headers)
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by augustl 3y ago
I suppose I think of this the other way around. When the query engine is inside your app, the query engine doesn't need to do loop-like things. So you can have a much simpler querying language and mix it with plain code, kind of simila
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by augustl 3y ago
Anecdotally, all the ones I've worked it where I've used SQL have needed it. I've always ended up wondering when, why and who changed an attribute to its current value, but that's not knowable unless you jump through hoo
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by augustl 3y ago
Fyi, Datomic lets you look at the entire database at any point in time, as an immutable value. Also, you can annotate transactions with metadata, and query for "which tx wrote this specific value for this row/column" and look
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by augustl 3y ago
It depends! If you want to lazily walk data, you can read directly from the index (keep in mind, the index = the data = lives in your app), or use the index-pull API which is a bit more convenient. However, if you want to paginate data that
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by augustl 3y ago
In Clojure, response.headers is still data :) You just use the built-in ways of reading named keys, such as (:headers response) or (get headers :response).

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