BowBun

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by BowBun 7mo ago
Truly the Beats of our generation. Buy headphones from audio specialists, not Apple.
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by BowBun 8mo ago
It's telling that the measure of quality of life you use in this comment is entirely materialistic in nature. I also challenge the idea that US provides 'access to better medical care', as it is pretty well documented that Am
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by BowBun 8mo ago
I feel like you're nitpicking my comparison and misunderstanding what I said. I did not say these companies were technically equal. If you have more questions after rereading my statements, feel free to drop them in this thread.
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by BowBun 8mo ago
Having read their tech blogs about both the local video capture tech and their infrastructure optimizations, I disagree.
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by BowBun 8mo ago
My take: Discord will slowly enter the arena with the likes of Google, MS, Meta, Apple, Valve for their massive user network. The amount of resources needed to sustain free offerings for so long make it a nearly insurmountable moat for othe
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by BowBun 8mo ago
They have >200 million DAUs and guesses say they have >10K servers with >10K users. Assumptions from a tech crowd who were used to IRC should be taken with a grain of salt. Now if we're just looking for alternatives for oursel
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by BowBun 8mo ago
Why? I don't appreciate comments that cast doubt on decent technical contributors without any substance to back it up. It's a cheap shot from anonymity.
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by BowBun 8mo ago
Implementing 'fast lanes' is not a federal requirement and is the opposite of fair access to commonplace services.
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by BowBun 9mo ago
TSA pre-check, Global Entry, and Clear _infuriate_ me. It is privatization of public transportation and a net negative for society. In New York, JFK has closed off half of the security entrances for priority lanes, meaning a majority of pas
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by BowBun 9mo ago
Appreciate the response, I'm learning some new things about the modern listening mechanisms for DBs which unlock more than I believed was possible. For your first point - I would counter that a lot of data about my systems lives outsid
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by BowBun 9mo ago
Appreciate the added context here, this is indeed some special sauce that challenges my prior assumptions!
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by BowBun 9mo ago
Millions of jobs a minute
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by BowBun 9mo ago
Very, very different tools, though they cover similar areas. Temporal - if you have strict workflow requirements, want _guarantees_ that things complete, and are willing to take on extra complexity to achieve that. If you're a bank or
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by BowBun 9mo ago
Traditional DBs are a poor fit for high-throughput job systems in my experience. The transactions alone around fetching/updating jobs is non-trivial and can dwarf regular data activity in your system. Especially for monoliths which Pyt
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by BowBun 9mo ago
Knowing Mike and his work over the years, that is not the case. He is a man of integrity who owns a cornerstone product in the Ruby world. He is specifically the type of person I want to hear from when folks release new software having to d
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by BowBun 9mo ago
It cracks me up that Persona is the vendor OpenAI will use to do manual verifications (as someone who works on integrations with Persona). I'm glad ChatGPT will get a taste of VC startup tech quality ;)
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by BowBun 9mo ago
Just last week, I was accused on HN of "not knowing what I'm talking about" when sharing data showing, and my interpretation of, a declining US dollar globally. It is so obvious in the context of globalization: countries seek
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by BowBun 9mo ago
Not to pile on, but the reason we're pissed at Plex is because they did a classic rug-pull: advertise to nerds like us who own our servers + media, then slowly make deals with publishers, requiring them to police _my_ content. Then sta
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by BowBun 10mo ago
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by BowBun 10mo ago
What do you _mean_? Advertisers pay tons of money because tons of people watch sports. Countries provide resources to teams because they are a source of national pride. Not to mention half of teams are bankrolled by insanely rich people in
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by BowBun 10mo ago
Sports betting also makes a mockery of sport as a concept. There has yet to be a version that doesn't end up impacting the integrity of the sport.
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by BowBun 10mo ago
Yep, people really think they've hacked America when they move to states with lower/no income tax. Meanwhile they pay 5-figure property taxes on a house they've paid off until the day they die.
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by BowBun 10mo ago
In what ways is it inferior? Neither Ruby or Python are 'fast', so if that is one of your qualifiers you've already made a suboptimal choice. As for a bigger community, what does that serve? The large python community adds mi
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by BowBun 10mo ago
I think at certain calibers of work, like graphics programming in lower level languages, the best you can do is be readable and clear to others who are experts in your field. In other words, you aren't the target audience. There is lik
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by BowBun 10mo ago
I agree, this seems to violate some of the most fundamental concepts of design like least-surprise and using grouping + alignment to give context to readers.
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by BowBun 10mo ago
I firmly disagree and think this shallow take dishonors a pretty great man. While not perfect, Disney gave us the bedrock of American children's culture which has been a soft tool for the US for generations. Not to mention technology a
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by BowBun 10mo ago
Temporal is an AMAZING piece of software, however I don't believe it's a replacement for something more simple like Celery. Even if you write helpers, the overhead to setting up workflows, invoking them, etc. is just too much for
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by BowBun 10mo ago
Agreed, and their DB migration workflow leaves much to be desired. By not storing a schema/DB state alongside code, Django depends on the current DB state to try and figure it out from scratch every time you run a DB command. Not to me
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by BowBun 11mo ago
I do agree that Rails' asset stuff has been giant pain over the years and has not kept up well. On the other hand, some apps that adopted separate Rails APIs and a separate (for example, React) frontend have been fine. You're righ
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by BowBun 11mo ago
My point was that these features that are considered new and exciting have been standard in Rails for many, many years. There are many _other_ features that Django still lacks! I don't understand your point about the workers, since you

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