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by luhn 12d ago
Interesting, it seems that it's Source Available but converts to Open Source (AGPL) in 2031. First time I've seen licensing like that. https://github.com/clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB/blob/master/L
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by luhn 3mo ago
The focus of this seems to be entirely AI agents, but I wonder if there's a future where browsers implement this and us humans can finally get micropayments in the web. It's been tried unsuccessfully many times but always falls p
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by luhn 3mo ago
I can't tell you why Fargate is so slow, but the reason Lambda containers are so fast is because it doesn't actually load the image. It loads a manifest of the layers and the files in each, and then each file is loaded on-demand
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by luhn 4mo ago
> So, the "Ai is not the default" claim is bullshit Where was this claim made? Nowhere in the article says that.
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by luhn 6mo ago
I assume Blueberry is a nod to the machine being a Raspberry Pi.
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by luhn 6mo ago
I can't make sense of your comment, but whatever you're trying to get at is wrong: Table sugar is sucrose. Corn syrup is mostly glucose and contains no fructose. HFCS is commonly produced at 42% and 55% fructose formulations.
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by luhn 8mo ago
It's not quite that dire. Statewide 69% normal to date. Snowpack peaks March-April, so still have a ways to go in the season. https://snow.water.ca.gov But yeah, snowmelt plays a huge role in supplying water into the sum
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by luhn 9mo ago
That's hilarious and right on brand for Google that they spend millions developing cutting-edge technology and fumble the ball making a chat app.
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by luhn 10mo ago
"Workaround: If we wait long enough, the earth will eventually be consumed by the sun." https://xkcd.com/1822/
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by luhn 10mo ago
8kbit/min, you mean.
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by luhn 11mo ago
They had a pretty massive one earlier this year. https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1S... This isn't GCP's fault, but the outage ended up taking down Cloudflare too, so in total impact
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by luhn 11mo ago
us-west-1 is the one outlier. us-east-1, us-east-2, and us-west-2 are all priced the same.
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by luhn 11mo ago
Case in point is recent-ish Google Cloud downtime, which ended up taking down Cloudflare and half the internet with it.
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by luhn 1y ago
> IIRC the wisdom of the time cloud started becoming popular was to always be on-prem and use cloud to scale up when demand spiked. I've heard that before but was never able to make sense of it. Overflowing into the cloud seems lik
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by luhn 1y ago
Maybe they ask the NSA for a copy.
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by luhn 1y ago
Do you have any sources for that? I'm really curious about Glacier's infrastructure and AWS has been notoriously tight-lipped about it. I haven't found anything better than informed speculation.
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by luhn 1y ago
That's exactly what they're doing, it's just driving engagement for their sales: > While Git makes an interesting database alternative for specific use cases, your production applications deserve better. Upsun provides man
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by luhn 1y ago
Yeah, anybody can make a half-baked CDN, but Google has PoPs inside ISPs across the world [1] and competing with that is essentially impossible. [1] https://support.google.com/interconnect/answer/9058809?hl=en
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by luhn 1y ago
Yeah, tight packing is simple and very effective. I had a successful drop with nothing but corn starch packing peanuts shoved into a cardboard box.
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by luhn 1y ago
Like most ALTER TABLE subcommands, you need an exclusive lock on the table while the catalog is updated. But no table scan or rewrite is required, so that lock is sub-second and can usually be done without disrupting a live application.
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by luhn 1y ago
The improvements to migrations have been the biggest boon for running even modestly-sized Postgres DBs. It wasn't that long ago that you couldn't add a column with a default value without rewriting the whole table, or adding NO
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by luhn 1y ago
You don't need to optimize anything beyond appropriate indices, Postgres can handle tables of that size out of the box without breaking a sweat.
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by luhn 1y ago
> By Jan 2024, our largest table had roughly 100 million rows. I did a double take at this. At the onset of the article, the fact they're using a distributed database and the mention of a "mid 6 figure" DB bill made me as
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by luhn 1y ago
A synchronous replica via WAL shipping is a well-worn feature of Postgres. I’d expect RDS to be using that feature behind the scenes and would be extremely surprised if that has consistency bugs. Two replicas in a “semi synchronous” config
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by luhn 1y ago
It's not mentioned in the headline and not made super clear in the article: This is specific to multi-AZ clusters, which is a relatively new feature of RDS, and differ from multi-AZ instance that most will be familiar with. (Clear as
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by luhn 2y ago
I get your point, but that's a terrible example because Boise is one of the fastest growing metro areas in the country.
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by luhn 2y ago
Years ago my Mac got confused and seemed to think my keyboard was a mouse. Pressing any key would move the cursor up a few points. Ahead of its time, I guess.
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by luhn 2y ago
`TAKE LOCK ACCESS EXCLUSIVE VACUUM FULL` is just an incantation that will be blindly copy-pasted. I don't see how it would stop anyone from shooting themselves in the foot.
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by luhn 2y ago
Specific details of the malicious code are downthread a bit: https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/issues/...
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by luhn 2y ago
Toyota is behind the EV curve because they focused their R&D on hydrogen vehicles. They didn't make an EV vs hybrid bet, they made an EV vs hydrogen bet and it's not paying off.

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