hbrundage

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by hbrundage 9mo ago
I think your definition of heavy is different than lots of other folks I know -- I'm at $1500 / mo and am actively holding back.
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by hbrundage 1y ago
I agree and would take it one step further — the structure of the joins is something that should most often come from the schema, not the query. In the same way that the attributes of an entity should be modelled out ahead of time, the rela
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Syncing as fast as Shopify will let you with TCP-inspired flow control(gadget.dev)
2 points by hbrundage 1y ago|0 comments
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by hbrundage 2y ago
This is the content from the node docs reproduced without credit: https://nodejs.org/en/learn/asynchronous-work/dont-block-the... Boo!
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by hbrundage 2y ago
The move is now to sample it and make new music!
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by hbrundage 2y ago
Isn't 63% => 54% regression on MMLU-Pro a huge issue? They said that it excels at advanced reasoning but that seems like a big drawback there.
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by hbrundage 3y ago
Makes sense! I was just talking with a Temporal solutions engineer this week and this metric is their recommended one for autoscaling on. Instead of autoscaling on queue depth, you scale on queue latency! Specifically for them they split up
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by hbrundage 3y ago
Its interesting to see how the Rails world still thinks in terms of the number of processes listening to a queue, instead of thinking in the cloud-native, elastic, serverless terms. There's always an autoscaling delay, but Rails itself
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by hbrundage 3y ago
Dang this is cool! I get why replit went so heavy on nix but I also feel like it must have a cost for them — nix is hard to learn, especially for folks new to development which I know makes up a lot of replits customer base. We built a solu
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by hbrundage 4y ago
Practical dichotomy — that’s why this thread exists. You either platform it or you don’t, and you’re either legislated to do so or not. What middle ground do you see that allows this degree of free speech without platforming hate?
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by hbrundage 4y ago
It’s a fundamental issue though — there’s no “figuring it out” that a government can do that won’t either censor or facilitate. 25 years has been long enough to find tactical policy changes that make it easier, but there aren’t any, which i
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by hbrundage 4y ago
A new paradigm for building web apps: a framework integrated with a runtime integrated with an IDE! https://gadget.dev We think that so much of software development is still the same stuff repeated over and over: auth, hosting,
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by hbrundage 4y ago
Postgres materialized views have to be manually refreshed on a schedule, and so are always out of date, whereas ReadySet keeps your results up to date automatically as the input changes. For PG materialized views, the compute required propo
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by hbrundage 4y ago
This system doesn’t support interactive transactions does it? In that the whole read / write set needs to be known up front before a transaction can start being processed? I know that systems like FoundationDB and Calvin/Fauna wor
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by hbrundage 4y ago
I mean, it’s also a bug with Resque? Resque predates the introduction of the new command in Redis and hasn’t really been maintained since. “My software is as buggy as 10 year old software unless you pay” seems pretty sketchy to me!
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by hbrundage 4y ago
So glad that Mike has set up a sustainable model for building rock solid infrastructure, however: I can’t stand that you need to pay for a pro license to avoid completely avoidable data loss. Sidekiq doesn’t use RPOPLPUSH for moving jobs ar
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Clerks versus Analysts(gadget.dev)
7 points by hbrundage 5y ago|0 comments
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by hbrundage 5y ago
https://therecord.media/security-researcher-drops-chrome-and... says this isn't a fully weaponizable exploit because you still need to escape the Chrome sandbox after using this. But, the researcher shows a screenshot
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PGM Indexes: Learned indexes that match B-tree performance with 83x less space(pgm.di.unipi.it)
583 points by hbrundage 6y ago|123 comments
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by hbrundage 6y ago
A missing colour in the discussions around complexity today is the ever growing ambition for the problems we're all trying to solve. My grand unified profoundly unserious theory is that we're always going to complain about acciden
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by hbrundage 6y ago
Nothing wrong with starting there as long as there is a path to profitability with a mass market product! Do you think there is one for vertically grown potatoes? Or corn? Both are 10-100x less valuable per pound and both take 10-100x longe
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by hbrundage 6y ago
Totally possible to compete on quality, especially if you are more in it for the lifestyle or the community aspect. You can sell at a farmer's market for 5x what the local grocery store charges and you get 100% of the margin! Better ye
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by hbrundage 6y ago
So far, everyone growing vertically is growing crops that are almost entirely water because they're the only things that grow fast enough to turn a profit. They then sell them to rich people who pay 5x for taste and the feeling of eati
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by hbrundage 6y ago
That’s just it — no benefit to you, but a lot of benefit to them. They need analytics to sustain their business. They need ads to sustain their business. They (maybe) need fancy interactions to differentiate and thereby sustain their busine
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V8 has optimized new JavaScript language features (2018)(github.com)
106 points by hbrundage 6y ago|48 comments
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by hbrundage 6y ago
Ah, that explains a lot, thanks for the breakdown. And yeah, Prisma 2's type safety is stellar and in a league of it's own. With respect to building out a big-boy operational datastore -- I think that's really cool. It'd
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by hbrundage 6y ago
You're totally right about connecting to your database from the edge. That said, I think JS is quickly becoming the target for a lot of hosted runtimes because it is so easy to sandbox and has the option to drop down to WASM for high p
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by hbrundage 6y ago
Prisma is a little bit lower level -- you'd use it within a node backend to get data to and from the database in a typesafe way. Hasura could be used for the same thing, but you'd have to spend some time setting up your own JS cli
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by hbrundage 6y ago
Prisma's architecture seems novel and ... a little strange to me. It works by running a Rust engine as a subprocess and then communicating with the engine from JS land over a non-spec compliant GraphQL API. The engine holds the actual
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Shopify giving brand new merchants starter loans of $200-300(forbes.com)
3 points by hbrundage 7y ago|0 comments

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