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by simplotek 3y ago
> And yet it’s got basically perfect uptime. Some monitors indicate that hackernews has a 99.84% uptime in the past 30 days. Hardly "perfect". https://hacker-news.statuspal.io/
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by simplotek 3y ago
> So what's the point of all that? Seriously, one server with 16 cores and the memory bandwidth and storage speed of SSD drives should be able to serve many thousands of simultaneous requests and millions of users per month. I can&#
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by simplotek 3y ago
> It particularly interested me that Twitter under Musk is trying NOT to discuss Ukraine, and PENALIZES people who attempt to interact with those outside of their general political circle. While Musk's Twitter explicitly censors ref
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by simplotek 3y ago
If that was remotely true then why wouldn't the topic be handled at the training level? Instead, Twitter is censoring references to Russia's invasion of Ukraine through the same mechanism used to kill DMCA violations. This is not
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by simplotek 3y ago
> All social media algo timelines have an editorial voice. Sorry, that's a bullshit excuse. Russia's invasion of Ukraine was hardcoded to be downranked like DMCA violations and high toxicity content. This has zero do to with &q
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by simplotek 3y ago
I was disappointed by this article and how it omitted the fact that Twitter hardcoded how references to Russia's invasion of Ukraine should be downranked. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35410841
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Lets start by the way one has to explicitly create indexes I never heard anyone complain that they had to explicitly create primary keys when creating tables in RDBMS. > or query types for what one can search for. I never heard anyo
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by simplotek 3y ago
> We were comfortably supporting millions of jobs per day as a Postgres queue (using select for update skip locked semantics) at a previous role. That's very refreshing to hear. In a previous role I was in a similar situation than y
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by simplotek 3y ago
> The problem with a queue on SQLite is that every successful read implies a write. SQLite also supports in-memory databases with shared cache. https://www.sqlite.org/inmemorydb.html If a message queue does not require a
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by simplotek 3y ago
> It's just odd to me that I had to make this change in the first place. I wonder how many millions of dollars AWS is raking in just because devs are unaware of things like that. What "things like that"? Do you mean the ba
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by simplotek 3y ago
> It's not particularly good as KV store let alone something more serious. Nonsense. DynamoDB is a pretty good KV store, and a killer feature as part of AWS' free tier. I dare you to present a cheaper and more performance KV st
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by simplotek 3y ago
> (...) "desktop" (and then "laptop") are going to become niche platforms (...) Will desktop and laptops become niche, or are smartphones/tablets finding a far broader and popular market? You can grab your smartp
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by simplotek 3y ago
> There are fewer and fewer reasons to buy new PC hardware as the decades have marched on. If Apple provided a way to use Mac minis to serve as distributed compile caching and distributed build tool, I'd have a reason to buy some. A
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Yes, they should have. But they did not. That's their problem. I fail to see how anyone could think that an intelligent answer to that issue would be "let's prevent everyone from serving static content from S3, specially
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by simplotek 3y ago
> You could still do that with Cloudfront. You can also expect users to audit what they do with S3, which is something they should already be doing, and that does not force anyone to suddenly refactor their whole deployment workflow. It
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by simplotek 3y ago
> If users need to expose an entire bucket to the public Internet, make them go to the effort to put a service in front of the bucket. This would defeat the purpose of using S3 to serve static content, which is one of the main usecases f
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by simplotek 3y ago
> But a lot of businesses fail for reasons other than the directors "mistakes". All the more reason why entrepreneurs should not take lightly the prospect of filing for bankruptcy, and should focus their energy on ventures wher
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Really? 5 years? That seems really harsh. Bankruptcy is not a mild consequence. People can and often are ruined by a bankruptcy, not to mention the harsh impact that it has on employees who are suddenly forced out of a job. Declaring b
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by simplotek 3y ago
It would be possible to implement a solution based on locks similar to the one in place in Panama canal. Among all the outlandish ideas, this is the least crazy of them.
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by simplotek 3y ago
> But this type of Lichtenstein work never sat well with me. The transformation is extremely minimal - minor changes to the scene, a new cropping, and conversion from ink to painting. If I handed something like that in in school I’d get
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Do you have any proof? You only see a single and very specific brand name being pushed, and pushed relentlessly. I repeat, this is blatant marketing even if it's a single person effort working pro bono. There is no way around it.
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by simplotek 3y ago
It might be the cynic in me talking, but I doubt this wave of Balenciaga ads is just the outcome of a random guy overusing a set of parameters. It would be trivial to find any other theme to exploit, but this is too focused on a single bran
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by simplotek 3y ago
Inefficient is not the same as problematic. They turned what otherwise would be a linear increase in memory usage into an exponential increase, which expectedly resulted in memory exhaustion problems. There are plenty of problems to go arou
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by simplotek 3y ago
> We seem to be leaving the Industrial Age in the dust. I wouldn't say that. My take is that producing small metalic pieces is such a trivial task nowadays that it makes far more sense to subcontract this instead of maintaining a fu
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by simplotek 3y ago
Lego's secondary market works for the benefit of diehard fans, but it doesn't help finance Lego the company. The non-diehard fans can simply buy Lego knockoffs. I'd like to support Lego but I don't get to do that by buyi
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by simplotek 3y ago
> The whole Balenciaga shtick felt like a metaphor for the rising tide of machine-generated content (..) To me it just looks like plain old guerilla marketing devised to force a specific brand under the pretext of "AI".
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by simplotek 3y ago
Yes I was. Thanks for plugging the link.
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by simplotek 3y ago
> And the problem here wasn't JSON in the first place anyway Yes it was. They stored state in a huge JSON dump which ended up working like a zip bomb by the way they had to escape a string. This alone resulted in an exponential incr
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by simplotek 3y ago
> I think the biggest threat to the generic lines is the fact that they have to compete against other generic stuff that's produced cheaper. I'd say the biggest threat is Lego's pricing. Even Lego's small generic sets
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by simplotek 3y ago
Ninjago is Lego's own production. The Friends Lego set seems to be in line with their investment in adult demographics, in the sense of being product lines that are decorative show pieces instead of play things.

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