williebeek

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by williebeek 5d ago
"I do not use any of the programming “AIs”" There is your problem. You're making a case against technology that you don't understand. You haven't fixed esoteric bugs using AI or created whole new applications with A
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by williebeek 5d ago
Remember when distros used complicated partition setups, one for /root, one for /var one for /home, a swap partition etc. Was always a bad choice because one of them would be at 99% while others would linger below 10% For swa
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by williebeek 12d ago
Was really happy with my FP3 until it died: "sudden death". No power, nothing. According to their own forum, it's a very common problem after a while. Of course there is no warranty and replacing the mainboard is not possible
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by williebeek 1mo ago
Because with lossless compression you can save a lot of storage space without losing any quality. You are thinking about lossy compression.
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by williebeek 1mo ago
There are many good reasons to use NoSQL instead of a "full SQL database". OTOH I can relate to your experience, I remember colleagues switching to MongoDB because they couldn't get good performance on the (MS) SQL database.
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by williebeek 2mo ago
I will read this entire article tomorrow while I wait for the Cursor UI and Visual Studio to finish loading.
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by williebeek 3mo ago
I remember installing an emulator (Mednafen) on Arch Linux about a decade ago. The program failed to run because it was linked against a library my system didn't have. Turns out, the maintainer built the software on his own system and
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by williebeek 4mo ago
My previous employer fired all front-end developers a few years ago, we went back from tons of frameworks (Vue/jQuery/Ruby/Nextjs) to simple HTML and CSS. Turns out dedicated front-end developers aren't really needed, at
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by williebeek 4mo ago
AI slop
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by williebeek 5mo ago
Yeah, not subscribing to a website just to read an article probably written by an AI
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by williebeek 5mo ago
Store your Bitcoin private key in a password manager. Would you really give out your keyvault master password to them?
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by williebeek 1y ago
Me too, really...
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by williebeek 2y ago
I assumed there is always some technical documentation/app architecture and some mandatory (server side) security you have to follow, but reading this I'm being too optimistic.
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by williebeek 2y ago
Thanks for the tip, I will check if inserting rows with Go is any faster. For reference, inserting a log takes three steps, first the log data is stored in a Redis Stream (memory), a number of logs are taken from the stream and saved to dis
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by williebeek 2y ago
It uses both, MySQL for the metadata and ClickHouse for the logs. The selfhost page explains a bit more about the architecture. edit: the connection to ClickHouse uses the MySQL driver, this is actually a very nice CH feature, you can conne
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