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by 9dev 4mo ago
"allowing to enter the country" and "accepting" are two very distinct things.
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by 9dev 4mo ago
and as you've just confirmed... there is a need for good HA support in Redis. Which was the entire premise of this thread.
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by 9dev 4mo ago
This discussion is a bit weird. We started off from, Redis should have better availability guarantees. Specifically to avoid the degradation of service you described. But that requires running on multiple instances, which in turn requires t
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by 9dev 4mo ago
That’s the precise point I’m making
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by 9dev 4mo ago
Redis is a real database. If I wasn’t convinced it could retain data I hand it, I wouldn’t use it in the first place. Just because it works for your use case right now doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvements to support others too.
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by 9dev 4mo ago
What kind of an answer is that? This software is perfect the way it is, you’re just to inept to hold it right? A high availability protocol should not leak into the client. It should be able to discover other nodes. It should not land in
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by 9dev 4mo ago
Sure the data is lost. A session commonly holds arbitrary state, and even if it’s just the login information. This is ridiculous.
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by 9dev 4mo ago
That you do. Until you realise that there is only a single writer in that scenario, it doesn’t address any sharding concerns, you need to use compatible clients that opt into the sentinel protocol, during failover you’ll see client errors…
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by 9dev 4mo ago
It’s not. Imagine a web app that stores your user information in a session store, mapped by your cookie-provided session ID. Your web app searches redis 1 for the session id, but since that key is on redis 2, the lookup fails and the applic
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by 9dev 4mo ago
Redis doesn't necessarily have to be used as a cache. Streams, for example, make it a great message queue; but a single-node message queue is a single point of failure and thus not viable for many setups.
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by 9dev 4mo ago
While I love Redis as a versatile tool for external data structures, it's still lacking in two areas IMHO: One, it would be cool to be able to embed it, similar to sqlite, directly into applications. Two, the HA story is so much more c
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by 9dev 4mo ago
My gosh, I'm so happy I don't work in this Game of Thrones LARPing travesty…
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by 9dev 4mo ago
I'm not arguing with that, I think; I agree with your general sentiment and apparently read many of the same books you read as well. Yet I still believe there's value in a shared understanding of what quality software is, and what
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by 9dev 4mo ago
I like the general concept of software that treats its users as responsible adults, in the sense of not restricting them in how they can use the software; the analogy to machines that must work in remote areas with an extreme climate and no
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by 9dev 4mo ago
It still doesn't reflect the design philosophy at all, though. A wacky approximation of early MacOS that offers nonfunctional UI affordances doesn't fit my bill of No obscurantist programming languages and styles , or simple, mai
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by 9dev 4mo ago
The perspective. From within the simulation there is no point in making the distinction, but from the outside it does. For another example - running a program on a virtual machine or a physical computer is the same to the program, but very
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by 9dev 4mo ago
I feel like systemd units could need a layer of abstraction above them, so instead of editing the files manually, a tool would do it, some kind of declarative CLI or something. Probably not really a concern in the age of LLMs anymore, but i
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by 9dev 4mo ago
What's it with the weird `=3` after your sentences?
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by 9dev 4mo ago
I’m not sure this is the answer. As you say, the concept of keeping the masses occupied is a lot older than TikTok or Doordash…
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by 9dev 4mo ago
> a community online where AI isnt allowed. This is something I think about a lot, especially how one could pull it off without tearing down anonymity online. Having some sort of "proof of humanity" is a hard problem to solve.
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by 9dev 4mo ago
Not just the opposition. In other times this would have been the reason for a revolution.
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by 9dev 4mo ago
Uh-huh. Sorry mate, I'm not in the business of unwarrantedly lecturing my customers or authorities about technical correctness. But if that floats your boat…
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by 9dev 4mo ago
As someone who's built just that, can confirm. If users have SSO configured, or a Passkey, or any other policies apply, you first need to identify the account to be able to determine which options to offer - maybe they don't even
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by 9dev 4mo ago
Attributing all joy and personal preference people experience to marketing influence is a pretty cynical take, and also a pretty inaccurate and overly simplistic one: Some people might never be reached by a marketing effort, yet buy a speci
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by 9dev 4mo ago
To what goal? USAID and similar programs always had the indirect benefit of opening up foreign markets to the USA. It's just short-sighted out of sheer economic considerations - and that's ignoring the ridiculous recklessness of p
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by 9dev 4mo ago
That's a weird way to look at it. Any car gets you to your destination, but some people prefer driving a sports car or an SUV. They get something out of it that isn't just a marketing delusion, but subjective joy from the interact
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by 9dev 4mo ago
What are a thousand years other than a couple of generations? What does it matter from further away? We always forget about the past eventually. There are so many great civilisations we only have tiny shreds of knowledge about, and yet in
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by 9dev 4mo ago
Great! Now, the remaining thing we need is the ability to declare an AI agent a legal person, and then we're off for some very interesting times.
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by 9dev 4mo ago
Framing it as a transaction is part of the problem IMHO. We have a collective interest that the majority of the population gets the best education possible. Turning universities into credential stores leads to all the negative side effects
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by 9dev 4mo ago
My point wasn't that every existing equity effort is justified and flawless, but that there is a clear reason why some kind of levelling is required if you want to live in a fair society - and I do believe most of us want that.

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