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by groundthrower 2y ago
Yes, we went to Tanto but considering how much water that Stockholm is surrounded with, I can’t say it’s very accessible. That is also the view of some friends living there.
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by groundthrower 2y ago
I have some questions on this. Living on west coast of Sweden, our family went to Stockholm this summer and as the temperature rose, we asked were to go and swim and basically no one knew and we didn’t see people doing it either.
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by groundthrower 3y ago
Why do we always have hardening guides? Ain’t there any OS where an easening/loosening guide is needed instead?
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by groundthrower 3y ago
So our small company has like foo-bar.com Foobar.com has been occupied for a long time, there’s nothing there and they do not respond to our emails either. This has been the case for a few years now, I guess it works but ideally we would re
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by groundthrower 3y ago
We just did the Cyber Essentials as we have no certifications and a customer in UK required this. Then we thought we could go ahead to get the Cyber Essentials Plus as well. At least we can now say we have had a cybersecurity audit from an
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Ask HN: Web Application Translation
1 points by groundthrower 4y ago|0 comments
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by groundthrower 4y ago
So much this
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by groundthrower 4y ago
Have cycled from Northern Europe to South Africa, crossed Europe several times and also crossed US, New York to California. Best way to experience a country. Don’t have time? Try to do a quick one and turn it into an adventure. One of my mo
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Ask HN: Inflation and the Magic 99
1 points by groundthrower 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How to Integrate with SAP?
2 points by groundthrower 5y ago|1 comments
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by groundthrower 5y ago
Thanks, appreciated!
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by groundthrower 5y ago
Yes this is one concern. Are you sure it was a result of using non ECC mem and how did you find out it was because of that?
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by groundthrower 5y ago
Hmm, yes we are already using jemallocator actually
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by groundthrower 5y ago
We do not do any disk operations at all
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by groundthrower 5y ago
It’s written in Rust and uses Rayon to a big extent. It’s receiving data to crunch maybe once every 5 minutes
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by groundthrower 5y ago
Roughly 10% faster
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by groundthrower 5y ago
We have examined that as well, last week we tried a AMD 5950X which has half the amount of cores but much better single core performance - the result was still at 60% of the Epyc performance
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by groundthrower 5y ago
We have already tried that and use Lambdas as last point of backup if the other servers aren’t available- however the performance is about 1/50 compared to our current production server
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by groundthrower 5y ago
It does not consume much memory but do lots of allocations/deallocations. No disc operations whatsoever.
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by groundthrower 5y ago
Well, it waits for calculations which take about 2 seconds to complete on average - the vast majority of the time it’s idle
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Ask HN: Running production server on M1 mini?
23 points by groundthrower 5y ago|63 comments
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by groundthrower 5y ago
A huge Corp really wanted our app but not the cloud based SPA app we offered - they wanted “executables” with no data stored in the cloud. Ended up creating a electron app, using our SPA and django packaged with pyinstaller that fires up as
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by groundthrower 5y ago
May I ask why? Thinking about using it on a production cluster of two nodes for easy orchestration.
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by groundthrower 5y ago
We have been asked by Fortune500s for the ISO27001 along with the hundreds of security related questions. We got through without the certificate by convincing them in other ways how much we(the 2 of us) focus on security.
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by groundthrower 5y ago
I cycled into Zimbabwe sometime 2008 and exchanged one usd to 500.000.000 Zim dollars. One week later I left the country and it had increased to 1.2 bn. The shops were almost empty - except for large quantities of Heinz ketchup.
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by groundthrower 5y ago
We use Hetzner for compute intense services. I think last time we checked a similar configuration was 10x more expensive on AWS (which we still use for other services)
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by groundthrower 5y ago
I sometimes use it for sales. Looking up a company on LinkedIn, then finding the name of a person I want to each our to but am not sure about the email. Then I could try the classic first name.last name @ domain to see if it’s worth sending
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by groundthrower 5y ago
Also wondering about this. Having a one man band b2b only saas, in EU. Have few customers in US to whom I just send an invoice with no tax added. This is what I heard from long ago was how you do. Have never registered any taxes abroad in a
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by groundthrower 5y ago
We use AWS except for some compute intense stuff at Hetzner. The same machine is about 10x the price at AWS
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Ask HN: Documentation Only for Users?
2 points by groundthrower 5y ago|3 comments

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