tomnipotent

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by tomnipotent 5d ago
Less than 5% of commercial storage capacity was SSD of any flavor in 2015 (NVMe probably less than 1%), and the price-per-GB was anywhere from 5-15x. NVMe hardware RAID didn't happen until 2017, and AWS SSD via EBS was capped at 320 MB
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by tomnipotent 5d ago
Not in 2015. 25GBps didn't even arrive until 2016, and dedicated EBS bandwidth didn't arrive until 2017.
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by tomnipotent 5d ago
> all the signals from the offline files in mere seconds That sounds unlikely unless those machines had access to crazy disk I/O. A local RAID 5/10 with 8 drives would still take 30-50 minutes just to read that much data. Even
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by tomnipotent 6d ago
Yes, Shopify GMV is roughly half of Amazon.
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by tomnipotent 6d ago
Shopify is not far behind Amazon (the e-com business). It's network sees as many unique visitors as Amazon, though I imagine Amazon has more sessions per visitor, but the GMV across Shopify is just shy of half of Amazon. It's stil
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by tomnipotent 28d ago
That requires that you create accounts and separately manage each provider you want to use. OpenRouter removes that - if a new provider gets added, you can start using them immediately.
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by tomnipotent 1mo ago
The further away you get from direct marketing where you can track conversions, and the further up the funnel you go, the less and less analytics help. Another way to think of it is that there are tranches of spend - the central tranche is
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by tomnipotent 1mo ago
It doesn't matter if your personal interaction is negative if on the whole it's positive across a larger corpus of users. By and large this exposure tactic works more than not.
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by tomnipotent 1mo ago
The teams spending the kind of money these ad networks care about are doing a lot of upper funnel brand marketing where exposure is more important than clicks and where conversions are expected to be much lower for this segment of spend.
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by tomnipotent 1mo ago
> I don't see a fit for APIs here Baically protobuf, Cap’n Proto, msgpack, Avro, or every other serialization approach that versions schemas?
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by tomnipotent 2mo ago
> on tiny writes Postgres doesn't do "tiny writes" - it writes whole pages multiple times on every update even if you're only changing 4 bytes, combined with even more writes later on when vacuuming tables. This is on
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by tomnipotent 2mo ago
You can't tune your way out of this constraint. The heap table and MVCC implementation put a hard ceiling on what can be accomplished without reaching for another tool.
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by tomnipotent 2mo ago
> scales a very long way This ignores the fine print. It scales a very long way under specific circumstances with specific workloads. The more write-heavy your workload the less eloquently Postgres scales. For OpenAI's use case you
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by tomnipotent 2mo ago
That post is about how Postgres doesn't scale for write-heavy workloads and that they had to move those workloads to Cosmos DB. For the rest of the remaining mostly-read workload they have a single primary with 50 read replicas.
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by tomnipotent 2mo ago
Did you miss that a company attorney acknowledged "the ketamine therapy issue has factored into the termination?"
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by tomnipotent 2mo ago
> and I believe it was premeditated So in other words you're just vibing conspiracy theories and will believe whatever makes you feel better. The only example of thin skin I see is the character assassination attempts and petty atta
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by tomnipotent 2mo ago
There's literally nothing in that post of substance, other than the fact the Zig community is obsessed with trying to "prove him wrong" or some other such nonsense. Jarred's responses have been composed and civil, while
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by tomnipotent 2mo ago
> perpetually offended snowflakes This attitude is so precious to me - "Sorry guys, you can't criticize my criticism." > What Bun did here is basically a sabotage of Zig's reputation If Zig's reputation was so
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by tomnipotent 2mo ago
It this a joke? Your example of Jarred starting fights in public is announcing fork then pointing to a thread where he didn't even participate but rather where members of the Zig community are slinging mud? > unrequested fork No suc
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by tomnipotent 2mo ago
> have public fights with the language maintainers Can you point to even one such example?
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by tomnipotent 2mo ago
Andrew decided to attack the person rather than ideas and positions. It's not a reflexive revulsion, it's an appropriately sized reaction to a blog post in poor taste. > not having any morals You don't agree with someone s
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by tomnipotent 2mo ago
What points? All I'm reading is just a collection of emotional ad-hominems.
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by tomnipotent 2mo ago
No they haven't. It's been said time and time again that their teams were struggling with large JS code bases for Bing Maps and O365 web apps.
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by tomnipotent 2mo ago
> You really should just not assume things And yet you follow this up by making assumptions about the motivations behind TS. Anders has mentioned that TS was purely motivated by internal MS teams struggling with huge JS codebases, nothin
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by tomnipotent 2mo ago
You seem to lack a basic understanding of what a market is in the context of a monopoly, and you can't argue your way around a bad foundation. > our argument is basically "the law says so". That's the only argument th
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by tomnipotent 2mo ago
Of course not, but most folks poking at Microsoft are just borrowing their opinion from other people and regurgitating it for karma. I'm happy to crap on MS for bad decisions, but the constant "herp derp EEE" gets tired fast.
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by tomnipotent 3mo ago
The Supreme Court ruled once on what they consider an aftermarket monopoly against Kodak in the 1990s, but the aftermarket angle on monopolies has been basically abandoned from a legal perspective because it was shaky at best. Both iOS and
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by tomnipotent 3mo ago
> they now have total command of supply They've always had control by licensing who can publish games on their platform. Now that contract with publishers has changed who can distribute. Publishers are still free to distribute on ot
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by tomnipotent 3mo ago
None of your examples pass any of the checks for a monopoly unless you twist the definition of "market" to be the narrowest possible. Situational exclusivity is not the same as a monopoly, and these examples don't pass the hy
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by tomnipotent 3mo ago
There is no legal, economic, or dictionary definition of monopoly that supports your position. The closest example is "aftermarket" (what you call vertical) following the 90's Kodak SC case, which has long since fizzled out.

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