nickvanw

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Video Conferencing with Postgres(planetscale.com)
6 points by nickvanw 7mo ago|0 comments
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by nickvanw 1y ago
Hi! I'm the CTO of PlanetScale - the PostgreSQL offering we launched today is built on top of pure Postgres and doesn't come with any limitations. The future sharded version will also be based on Postgres directly, and will be as
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by nickvanw 2y ago
Our experience has been that they do fire, but not reliably enough or soon enough to be worth anything other than validating the problem after the fact.
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by nickvanw 2y ago
Author here - it's not that we're detecting failure better than they are (though certainly, we might be able to do it as fast as anyone else) - it's what you do afterwards that matters. Being able to fail over to another data
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by nickvanw 2y ago
Answering on behalf of PlanetScale (I'm the CTO!). I don't remember exactly what was different from upstream, but it wasn't a whole lot of changes. Fortunately, PlanetScale runs a well-maintained fork ourselves, so we're
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by nickvanw 3y ago
This is the un-fun work needed to get open source software into many different parts of the enterprise and government. It's not fun, and sometimes it's not even very difficult, but its usually very tie consuming and full of arcane
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by nickvanw 3y ago
I'm pretty happy about this, I don't think Apple should be forced to open up iMessage, but not adopting the RCS standard always seemed a bit underhanded to me. Even if it sucks, better cross-platform messaging is a win for everyon
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by nickvanw 3y ago
What monopoly? Android has a larger market share than Apple by quite a large factor in the European Union. Saying that Apple does not provide value is laughable - saying that it isn't worth 30% of the transaction value might be one thi
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by nickvanw 3y ago
This is useful - using an exit node with an Apple TV is useful as well for navigating around certain tools that are geo-blocked. Before, you'd have to handle it outside of the device which is much more difficult. I'm going to play
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by nickvanw 3y ago
Here in the PNW there is basically one corridor that would make sense as a semi-high speed (160+ kph) rail, which is Portland-Seattle-Vancouver. They are all under 200 miles from each other and connected by one road that is often very conge
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by nickvanw 3y ago
I'm in Seattle, my new-ish townhouse has a heat pump and it's never been too cold for it to be functional - it's worked hard some of the really cold+snowy days the last few years, but never to the point where it wasn't h
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by nickvanw 3y ago
I don't even have a dipstick in my car at this point - the computer will warn you when the oil level is low, otherwise you're to assume it's fine. It also warns me when the windshield wiper fluid reservoir is low so that I ca
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Warp Drive and team collaboration for the terminal(warp.dev)
2 points by nickvanw 3y ago|0 comments
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by nickvanw 3y ago
I'll take SSDs over hard drives spinning up, and the rest of it is pretty much a clear improvement over what existed before. The fact that my M1 MBP doesn't usually spin up any fans is a bonus as well.
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by nickvanw 3y ago
They do generally receive favorable marks by the IIHS: https://jalopnik.com/volvo-is-the-first-carmaker-to-receive-... . Even updated tests (released post-launch of the car) tend to treat them pretty favorably: https:/
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by nickvanw 3y ago
I have my issues with what 1Password has become as a product, but this seems like a very good stance to take. As a product owner, it's essential to know what and how people are using the product, collecting some straightforward telemet
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by nickvanw 3y ago
Asking ChatGPT "Why does the price of a Credit Default Swap rise?" gets you: > The price of a Credit Default Swap (CDS) rises when the market perceives an increased risk of default by the underlying entity, such as a company or
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by nickvanw 4y ago
SVB shares are worth $0 because there was a run on the bank and the US Government did not step in to save the bank, only the depositors. If the same thing happens to other banks - everyone withdraws, they shut down and the government steps
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by nickvanw 4y ago
Well, in my opinion, it remains to be seen whether big tech compensation for this style of work is sustainable long-term. Of course, if you're already pulling 800k/y in TC at Google/Amazon/whatever, great, you did wonder
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by nickvanw 4y ago
I would put it even more simply: just knowing Engineering isn't enough if you want to excel past a certain point, unless you're going to go extremely deep and become a subject matter expert in something (storage, hardware, etc). T
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by nickvanw 4y ago
This appears to throw a 404 for me.
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by nickvanw 4y ago
> It is worth noting that the USB-C interface currently used by Apple in the 10th-generation iPad, iPad mini, iPad Air, and iPad Pro, do not contain an IC chip for authentication, meaning that this would be a first for ports of this kind
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by nickvanw 4y ago
I've never worked at AWS, but I have worked on smaller systems where people depended on defaults. Speaking first hand, it is EXTREMELY difficult to get changes to defaults shipped on a system with as much usage as S3. You are, inevitab
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by nickvanw 4y ago
Hi! I'm the VP of Engineering at PlanetScale and was at the company when we made this decision. We had the advantage of being able to decide to do this up front when we were first building the current product. The marginal work for thi
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by nickvanw 4y ago
Oil is significantly more valuable than water - the added cost per gallon of water would be astronomical. 1 oil barrel is 42 gallons and costs around $75 today. I pay about $6 per CCF of water which is 748 gallons. It might be worth doing t
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by nickvanw 4y ago
These stories are awful - this wasn't just an administrative headache for people, they served real time and has real consequences. Filing a false police report is a crime, it would be nice to see that enforced against the company in on
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by nickvanw 4y ago
Thank you as always for everything that you do @dang!
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by nickvanw 4y ago
Great question! We have a technical blog post about how PlanetScale Boost is implemented: https://planetscale.com/blog/how-planetscale-boost-serves-yo... In short, it can be compared in consistency to an up-to-date rea
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by nickvanw 4y ago
I would bet money on the opposite happening: The Fed is not going to release a social app that interrupts the network effects of all of those systems. Zelle may be the one that has the most to worry about, because it is partnered with big b
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by nickvanw 4y ago
Airlines have been doing this with 757s for quite some time. This is the best spiritual successor to the 757, which is going to have to be retired in a lot of fleets sooner rather than later. The layout makes much more of a difference than

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