ultrafez

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by ultrafez 1y ago
I've seen the term "request coalescing" used to refer to a technique to minimise the impact of cache stampedes. Protects your backend systems from huge spikes in traffic caused by a cache entry expiring.
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by ultrafez 1y ago
There are many types of request that cannot be made with client-side JS alone, but for those that can, the ability to send those requests client-side would be handy.
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by ultrafez 2y ago
Anecdotally, I've heard the term "doomscrolling" being used by a reasonable number of different people in different circles to refer to passively consuming "bitesize" content (e.g. social media, short text posts or
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by ultrafez 2y ago
This is very cool - I haven't seen anything like it before. I've spent about half an hour noseying at places I've lived or considered living, fascinating. The view of changing house prices is something that I haven't see
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by ultrafez 2y ago
What model are you using now that fixes the issues you experienced on your 735xt?
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by ultrafez 2y ago
We're conflating the Ninja Creami with Ninja's smoothie makers and blenders - they are separate product lines
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by ultrafez 2y ago
Is the project named spinup or rallyup? The HN post title differs from the GitHub repo
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by ultrafez 2y ago
People might not buy a game if they don't think they'll get a fair play experience.
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by ultrafez 2y ago
The poke feature is back! It was re-introduced this year some time.
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by ultrafez 2y ago
It also seems reminiscent of KSQL - consuming multiple input topics, and producing output to a topic defined using a query written in a SQL-like language that defines how the inputs are combined and filtered.
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by ultrafez 2y ago
Meta point - this page has one of the nicer "snap" scrolling mechanisms I've seen on Mac with a touchpad - scrolling still feels natural, but when I let go it snaps to a single slide. Scrolling with momentum seems to work nat
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by ultrafez 2y ago
Strange. It shouldn't alert you unless the AirTags aren't connected to their own phones - do they leave their phones behind when going for a walk?
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by ultrafez 2y ago
This objectively makes the world a worse place. I challenge you to come up with any ethical angle that supports your work on this product.
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by ultrafez 3y ago
Your first point is almost a meme at this point - so many products can be written off as pointless with the statement: > As a [type of tech person], [product] is completely unnecessary as you can easily build a similar system yourself by
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by ultrafez 4y ago
Some of the cost might come from buying a computer suitable for video editing, which I can imagine could be a couple of thousand dollars.
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by ultrafez 4y ago
The thing I'm most impressed and surprised about is that archive.org runs a Windows 3.1 emulator in the page, so you can actually use the program. I fully expected it to just be information about the program, perhaps with some screensh
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by ultrafez 4y ago
Capitalism.
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by ultrafez 5y ago
haveibeenpwned.com does not use the k-anonymity method that you've described when searching for phone numbers: https://www.troyhunt.com/the-facebook-phone-numbers-are-now-...
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by ultrafez 5y ago
A fun problem on a Mac is that if you're using APFS for your filesystem, if it fills up, you can't delete any files. It's caught me out a handful of times, and each time, the only way to recover is to reboot, and thankfully I
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by ultrafez 6y ago
> There's more than one way to do it (TMTOWTDI or TIMTOWTDI, pronounced Tim Toady) is a Perl programming motto. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_more_than_one_way_to...
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by ultrafez 6y ago
You being vaccinated only cuts off the path that the virus can take to somebody if the vaccine gives you sterilising immunity - otherwise, it may just prevent you experiencing disease symptoms, but not stop you being infectious. There isn&#
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by ultrafez 6y ago
On the whole, I agree that the adoption of QR codes more widely is a good thing - they are a useful tool to solve a certain class of problems, but in pre-COVID times, they often weren't practical as only a small proportion of people wo
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by ultrafez 6y ago
And now, we've reached equilibrium again: every major social network now has stories.
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by ultrafez 6y ago
There's an option in the Preferences to "Show a badge on Slack's icon to indicate new activity" which, when unchecked, may stop the behaviour you're describing.
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by ultrafez 6y ago
Using a lambda to route requests to other lambdas would result in you effectively doubling your Lambda cost, as your routing lambda would sit idling while waiting for the target lambda to return a result. If you're using API Gateway, i
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by ultrafez 7y ago
I have to question the overall quality of the article when it repeatedly uses the term "channel" to refer to the well-established concept of a "topic" in MQTT.
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by ultrafez 7y ago
Do you mean that the whistles sound like the Turkish words that they represent?
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by ultrafez 7y ago
I've come across this before. I don't know what its full responsibilities are, but I know it's part of the Chrome update process. I came across it when I was trying to get two totally separate Chrome installs working on one m
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by ultrafez 9y ago
I'm not sure what the purpose of the second-to-last line[1] is for, either - it just lists a directory. [1] https://github.com/johnpaulada/microsoftmlserver-docker/blob...
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by ultrafez 9y ago
Do you think that the time-to-market advantage that using Firebase offers you justifies the (presumably) increased cost when compared to the cost of managing your own infrastructure?

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