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by martingxx 4mo ago
I wonder how this compares to tau https://tau-agent.dev/ ? Both are in Rust and both mention Unix in their descriptions.
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by martingxx 9mo ago
I've always thought that Nagle's algorithm is putting policy in the kernel where it doesn't really belong. If userspace applications want to make latency/throughput tradeoffs they can already do that with full awareness
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by martingxx 2y ago
I spent around 15 years doing Java exclusively, and after discovering Go (around 2012) I couldn't wait to adopt it and have never looked back since. I don't think Go is perfect, but I find it a much better default pick for most th
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by martingxx 2y ago
The title says "open source", but the license says otherwise.
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by martingxx 3y ago
I agree about the discussion / issues aspects. I suspect doing that interoperably would be hard or impossible because of the vastly different feature sets on different hosts. All I am looking for is a few interoperability features for
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by martingxx 3y ago
I just interpret this whole thing as "developer realises their preferred set of trade-offs matches host A more than host B, so they are switching hosts". This happens fairly frequently in various directions for many different rea
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by martingxx 3y ago
The UK government almost seem to be deliberately passing multiple pieces of legislation that they know will be overturned due to ECHR, because they believe such rulings would strengthen their argument for withdrawing from the convention.
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by martingxx 3y ago
I think "scam" is a bit strong. It maybe offers less value in some scenarios that people assume, so perhaps offers a false sense of security. People have been saying for many years that ticking the "encrypt at rest" box
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by martingxx 4y ago
For some newspapers it _is_ working, so clearly it can work. If some newspapers haven't figured out how to make open access work, but that's a problem with those newspapers, not with open access.
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by martingxx 4y ago
Although I am fortunate enough to be able to afford to subscribe to almost anything I might want to read, I don't like the idea of paywalls in general. I believe they exclude the less fortunate from access to important resources, so I
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by martingxx 6y ago
Everything about this screams satire, except it just doesn't have the typical humour element (to me at least), so I'm not even sure now.
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by martingxx 7y ago
Thanks for your reply. Yes, I was talking about deploying to our existing cluster. Pretty much the only requirement for software that we run is that it must run in our cluster. Ironically, it's often harder to deploy applications that
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by martingxx 7y ago
Thanks. Maybe I will try that.
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by martingxx 7y ago
I really like that there is a focus on being able to deploy in k8s. Nice work! However, some teams (ours) already run their own k8s clusters and would probably want to deploy gitlab in a namespace in there. I hoped there would be simple ex
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by martingxx 7y ago
This looks great, and I look forward to finding time to try it soon. However, I believe it's misleading to call it "open source". The SPPL license is not generally considered to be an open source licence by any meaningful de
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by martingxx 7y ago
I disagree that encryption is political. Fundamentally, it's a privacy and security mechanism and on its own it's no more political than locks, safes, paper shredders or curtains. Because of the complex, un-intuitive nature of en
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by martingxx 7y ago
I always hear people warn about these things, but haven't seen it in practice at all, as long as those who write the systems are also responsible for operating them and not subjected to inappropriate external interference. Of course, l
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by martingxx 7y ago
> provides little concrete value to the business The concrete value doing such things add to our business is happy staff (which you mentioned), which means the best people don't leave, and stat excited and productive for the long te
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by martingxx 7y ago
There are plenty of companies who have released their source code but don't support it in the same way a typical community driven project like other open source projects do. This is especially true for certain privacy and security focu
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by martingxx 7y ago
Why not release anyway (for transparency) but with explicitly no support?
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by martingxx 7y ago
> And Azure is backed by Microsoft, GCP is backed by Google, so if "Bezos loses his mind" there will be other alternatives besides Kubernetes. You missed the point that moving from AWS to GCP or Azure is going to be _extremely_
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by martingxx 7y ago
Running k8s in AWS (and gcp, and on-prem) is exactly what we do and we're really happy with it and have avoided lock-in. We recently moved a bunch of k8s-in-AWS hosted stuff to gcp and it was seamless.
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by martingxx 7y ago
Can you elaborate? I disagree with you and I have been using both (as well as gcp) in production for years. They are both platforms that you write an application stack against. One is portable and can run in any cloud, the other only works
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by martingxx 7y ago
> what can k8s do to AWS SaaSes (e.g. RDS, SNS, etc...)? k8s has allowed us to not use RDS any more because we now host PostgreSQL inside k8s instead. It's a bit more overhead, but we're now portable and run in gcp too with th
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by martingxx 7y ago
Its 2019 and people still confuse the different kinds of "free" when talking about open source software. (Also, yes, I open source as much of my work as possible, and I'm paid to write it) Also, AWS is BUILT on open source, t
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by martingxx 8y ago
The `fmt` packages is described as being for "formatted i/o". It seems that ordered maps, while not "i/o" is reasonable to describe as "formatting", so it's fine to do it in this package I think
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by martingxx 8y ago
Can you explain more about why you re-wrote? You seem to have said you rewrote from Go because it has poor polymorphism, into C which is equally bad in this regard. If you find some language feature important, surely you would not rewrite i
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by martingxx 8y ago
Correctness (and any other kind of change in behaviour) is easier to achieve if things are simple. Changes are not necessarily easy or even possible to make safely if things are correct but not simple. "Simple" is a proxy for &quo
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by martingxx 9y ago
Even with those reasons, I believe the risk outweighs the potential benefits. It's not just about trusting the intentions and assurances of the company, but also their competency and knowing they're not being compromised etc. Ha
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by martingxx 10y ago
These apps are mostly microservices and the Java ones are mostly only a year or two old. None of them use things like spring. Some use Dropwizard. Would you consider dropwizard modern? If not, what would you use instead?

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