blackandsqueaky

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by blackandsqueaky 5y ago
Cloudflare currently markets successfully to a very different calibre of engineer. Meanwhile, Vercel don't even support 2FA login yet, and publish mandatory cache-busting query string parameters to the public Internet. Their "CDN&
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by blackandsqueaky 5y ago
> revolutionary ... > caching There was a time when Google did more engineering than marketing.
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by blackandsqueaky 5y ago
I have been a member of the Python community since 2002 and followed the lists for just as long, not least because of the quality of technical discussion up until the start of the 3.x saga. I don't think anyone would deny Python has ch
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by blackandsqueaky 5y ago
12 references to people in one statement, 5 referring to the post author, 1 reference to social fraternity membership, 1 statement of authority. I'm not sure if there is a common name for this particular source of discomfort, but that
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by blackandsqueaky 5y ago
Extremely powerful 5 minute interview with an obviously intelligent homeless person addicted to heroin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ZFzEW7_Q4 Terrifying
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by blackandsqueaky 5y ago
Beware of proper insulation, even low energy devices can start a fire
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by blackandsqueaky 5y ago
All that changed is a breakdown in perception management. Google definitely had positive and idealistic beginnings, but through growth eventually innate properties of the species will express and become difficult to centrally control. This
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by blackandsqueaky 5y ago
> What's "real consumption" Workloads you couldn't host on a cable modem
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by blackandsqueaky 5y ago
Does this mean we should contact our enterprise account manager regarding our existing spend? For the sake of absolute clarity: we're currently paying for bandwidth
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by blackandsqueaky 5y ago
> So if R2 is S3 with no egress, suddenly there is a value proposition again. That doesn't appear to be what they're doing, they don't seem to have changed their existing operating model at all: > R2 will zero-rate infr
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by blackandsqueaky 5y ago
Does Vantage offer comparisons for Backblaze B2, OVH etc? When looking at object storage, tail latency is probably the single most overlooked metric, and the most material differentiator between providers after bandwidth costs. Don't s