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by dig1 13d ago
I might be in the minority here, but I suspect all of this is intentionally orchestrated by OpenAI (either directly or through a hired third party) to leave traces online so it looks like the work of ChatGPT or hatever internal LLM they use
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by dig1 14d ago
> (from Twitter) ...My Google account too valuable to risk it impacted by Antigravity usage If your account is that valuable, it's time to consider moving to a self-hosted option. Or at the very least, start by purchasing a domain a
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by dig1 1mo ago
> The houses are better, and they go up faster... This is highly debatable. They look better, but whenever I inspect the walls and see what is holding the house together, I just shrug and leave my contact info, because I know I’ll be c
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by dig1 3mo ago
How rankings are calculated? HelixDB has zero feature scores, unlike e.g. JanusGraph which is at #27 or Neo4j at #1.
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by dig1 4mo ago
IMHO, still too much. Someone posted this link [1] recently. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHD8BDFYyGI
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by dig1 5mo ago
> The irony is that this may be a $0 revenue user for Grafana Labs. Why is that ironic? Since Mimir is open-source, $0 revenue users are expected. AFAIK, Grafana Labs relies heavily on go, typescript, and linux, without necessarily being
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by dig1 6mo ago
ctags, GNU Global and even "ugrep -Q" would like to have a few words with you ;)
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by dig1 6mo ago
You can also build a mesh network using standard wireguard. While manual configuration requires exchanging keys and settings between devices, many ansible playbooks can automate this process with minimal effort.
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by dig1 6mo ago
> I like to think there is no curve only fashion. Exactly! For instance, we had pull-based monitoring 20 years ago (Zabbix et al), but we abandoned it because it scaled poorly, favoring push-based agents (for InfluxDB, KairosDB etc). Now
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by dig1 7mo ago
> Ask a twenty-two-year-old to connect to a remote server via SSH. Ask them to explain what DNS is at a conceptual level. Modern IT has become a ubiquitous commodity, much like the car. You don't need to know how an engine works to
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by dig1 7mo ago
The details are here [1]; the OP should probably add a clearer explanation. [1] https://orgmode.org/worg/worg-about.html - Worg is a collaborative knowledge database about Org (Emacs org-mode).
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by dig1 7mo ago
AFAIK Stripe and Plaid support only a fraction of the countries that PayPal does. And PayPal is still a global brand - recognized by almost everyone, everywhere.
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by dig1 7mo ago
Or like: "I’m not a mechanical engineer, but I watched a five-minute YouTube video on how a diesel engine works, so I can tell you that mechanical engineering is a solved problem."
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by dig1 8mo ago
> it assumes companies that are replacing labor with LLMs are willing to pay as much as (or at least a significant fraction of) the labor costs they are replacing. And it’s worth reiterating that most (all) of these LLM/AI providers
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by dig1 8mo ago
True. But the US want to remain the country everyone relies on if it wants to preserve the dollar as the world's primary trade, reserve and settlement currency. Dollar dominance gives the US disproportionate leverage over global fina
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by dig1 9mo ago
AFAIK Manifest v2 is still part of the chromium codebase, and there is an intention to continue supporting it, depending on how difficult that turns out to be.
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by dig1 9mo ago
chromium-ungoogled works perfectly fine with "extensions that can do real ad blocking" ;)
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by dig1 9mo ago
1 GB of RAM for Postgres is really only useful for tinkering IMHO. Even for development, you’ll quickly need more memory, so HA doesn’t provide much value here. If you go with something even remotely reasonable (4 GB RAM, 200 GB SSD, 1&#x2F
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by dig1 9mo ago
> A start-up needs to have an exit to pay back investors It depends on the kind of investors you want to attract for your startup. Some investors are interested in building a slow-growth, long-term, stable company, while others prefer a
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by dig1 10mo ago
> I did a quick benchmark loading a 2GB log file with ANSI color codes... Emacs: Load Time: ~10 seconds | Memory: ~2 GB Now try opening it in Emacs with vlf [1] ;) Great work overall — looking forward to seeing further development! [1
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by dig1 10mo ago
And don’t hesitate to use a JRE (Java Runtime Environment) if all you need is to run java/jvm applications - assuming the application doesn’t already ship with its own runtime. A JDK is roughly 140 MB, while a JRE is about 60 MB (and c
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by dig1 10mo ago
> HN uses Cloudflare From the ping output, I can see HN is using m5hosting.com. This is why HN was up yesterday, even though everything on CF was down. > Writing high-throughput web applications is easier than ever. Hosting them on th
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by dig1 10mo ago
> it is perhaps the only open source software that managed to beat all the commercial software in its niche. gcc? It’s hard to imagine any of the projects mentioned without a good compiler.
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by dig1 10mo ago
> ...does it all add up to cost savings? IMHO it adds, but only if you are big enough. Netflix level. At that level, you go and dine with Bezos and negotiate a massive discount. For anyone else, I’d genuinely love to see the numbers that
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by dig1 11mo ago
a16z is heavily long on AI, so this article sounds very biased. From the article: If you live in the United States today, and you accidentally knock a hole in your wall, it’s probably cheaper to buy a flatscreen TV and stick it in front of
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by dig1 11mo ago
AFAIK, AGPL is no-go for EPL/Apache-licensed projects, unless the whole project is under (A)GPL, or use some "exceptions" wording. Wrt Redis community, it's the shadow of the former itself, everyone who plans to invest i
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by dig1 11mo ago
> The general setup for the largest players in that space was haproxy in front of nginx in front of several PHP servers in front of a MySQL database that had one primary r/w with one read only replica. You'd be surprised that t
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by dig1 1y ago
> You have to learn about what the insane move semantics are (and the syntax for move ctors/operators) to do fairly basic things with the language That is simply not true. You can write a lot of C++ code without even touching move s
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by dig1 1y ago
> Contributors and maintainers often have less power than even the smaller companies, and users have less power yet. If contributors/maintainers are not happy with what the small company does, they can fork the project (assuming a l
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by dig1 1y ago
Well, Bitnami didn't produce own hardware stack either ;) Joke aside, it's not naive - CentOS, Alma, Rocky, Ubuntu... FOSS community has some experience with these things

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