stevencorona

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by stevencorona 3y ago
I've been using Elixir for the past 5-6 years for my startup. We use pg_notify extensively to broadcast changes between running nodes (basically, use Phoenix.PubSub locally in our apps, with a GenServer to subscribe+re-broadcast using
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by stevencorona 3y ago
I’ve been running my startup on Google Cloud for the past 5 years. Initially got around 100K credits for the first year and have been steady spending $5-10K/mo since - not huge spend, but not nothing either. In the early days, quota in
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by stevencorona 4y ago
Tangential comment - but that Netezza appliance was really cool. I was able to use one early in my career, circa 2008. It had a nice cli query interface similar to psql (maybe it spoke postgres protocol, I don't remember) - and was bla
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by stevencorona 4y ago
I really enjoy working with LiveView and have personally built several substantially sized apps with it. One of my current frustrations is the inability, out-of-the-box, to write to sessions from LiveView. I understand the reason why, but I
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by stevencorona 4y ago
Outside of an apple machine or raspberry pi, is it possible to get a one-off arm-powered server (i.e, for a homelab, not a corporate data center)
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by stevencorona 5y ago
DisplayPort works fine for 5K
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by stevencorona 5y ago
All I want is a non-thunderbolt HiDPI display (5K @ 27" is the perfect display, IMO). Why has HiDPI has stagnated outside of the apple ecosystem?
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by stevencorona 5y ago
I made a similar jump over the past few years out of frustration with stagnating apple hardware (pre-m1). I spent a year with a hackintosh, which worked pretty well, but became disenchanted by the continued locking-down of the OS. For the m
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by stevencorona 5y ago
I work on a SaaS app in the healthcare space where IE11 is the preferred browser, and was getting worried watching all of our favorite tools begin to completely drop IE11 support (Tailwinds, Bootstrap) - effectively punishing us for the sin
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by stevencorona 5y ago
As part of the 41% that recently swapped out their "gas guzzler" Porsche for a Tesla M3, I can confirm that they're ready for prime time. The Tesla Supercharging experience has been pretty great. The route planner calculates
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by stevencorona 5y ago
As much as I love ZFS, I also recently hit this issue and it was an exercise in frustration to get a running system again.
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by stevencorona 5y ago
Yeah this happened to me recently and it was obnoxious
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by stevencorona 6y ago
I use this daily with linux/i3 and it has been very pleasant! Installed it and it basically does exactly what you expect. Only issue was some conflicting default i3 shortcuts that conflicted, but were easy enough to remap
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by stevencorona 6y ago
It’s been slim picking for 5K monitors- especially if you’re not on OSX where thunderbolt dispay output is much more complicated. Besides the (now discontinued) Planar IX2790, which had severe quality control issues (went through 4- all wit
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by stevencorona 6y ago
I’ve only looked at CrunchyData which does seem like more complexity than I want - I was willing to suck it up pay the premium but the monthly OOM crashes have forced my hand - but to where, I don’t know yet
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by stevencorona 6y ago
To clarify, it’s a lot more work than bringing up a snapshot. You need to do a full export as SQL and reimport as SQL. Super annoying, slow, and requires hard downtime. Am using SQL proxy but doesn’t do much re: HA. I don’t know, I’ll proba
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by stevencorona 6y ago
Sure. - No way to upgrade major postgres version without full export and import into new cluster. - Incredible delay between postgres versions. IIRC, it took nearly 2 years for them to add postgres 11 after it was released. - HA is basicall
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by stevencorona 6y ago
Yeah, have hugely over provisioned disks for IOPS. Am still using public ip + cloudsql-proxy because the alternative didn't exist when I first deployed, but I'll try switching.
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by stevencorona 6y ago
100% upsell. Felt like sitting through a high pressure timeshare sales pitch to get the free gift at the end
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by stevencorona 6y ago
I used to be a huge fan of GCP and bet on it to power my startup, and have come to greatly regret it. Recently, I needed to increase a CPU-limit quota from a small number (like 16 vCPUs to 64 vCPUs) - nothing crazy. In the past, the quota i
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by stevencorona 6y ago
Unfortunately no longer the case with the new router that has a built in ONT and (according to forums, anyways) doesn’t use the same long-lived 802.11x mechanism :(
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by stevencorona 6y ago
I use i3 on dual 27” and it works well. Mostly do 2-3 windows split vertically on each.
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by stevencorona 6y ago
Huge bummer but the next generation of ATT routers with onboard ONT don’t work this bypass :(
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by stevencorona 6y ago
Can you upgrade from a previous version without a full export and import?
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by stevencorona 6y ago
I absolutely love the BEAM and Elixir, but one of my common complaints and source of errors is the lack of compile-time type sanity checking, so I'm excited to see movement in this direction. Dialyzer is sorta okay, but the speed, cryp
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by stevencorona 6y ago
This echoes my experience with learning Rust over the past few weeks (coming from Elixir). There is a lot to like, understand lifetimes conceptually, but it's hard.
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by stevencorona 6y ago
I have two of those Planar’s. Pros: 5K over a single display port is great. Awesome price. Glossy finish, same form factor as the 27” iMac. Costumer support is good. Cons: Expect lots of dead pixels, burn in/ghosting. I RMAed two of th
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by stevencorona 6y ago
I have two 5K 27" displays with 200% scaling on Linux- perfect HiDPI setup. Lookup the Planar IX2790.
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by stevencorona 6y ago
I recently (3 weeks ago) switched from OS X to Ubuntu 20.04 after a decade of using macs as my primary desktop for software development. I hadn't used desktop linux in about 15 years and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. Everyt
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by stevencorona 7y ago
Wow, this is a huge bummer. A lot of our infrastructure assumptions have been based around having several small GKE clusters.

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