SanderNL

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by SanderNL 3y ago
I think you might be right. I’ll take the hit. Still, I think talking about Kafka without load feels like Christmas without tree. I thought that was the main point of it. Handling massive loads (by distributing them).
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by SanderNL 3y ago
8000 messages a day, tops? That’s 5 a minute. Does that warrant “infrastructure”? I think a gameboy’s Z80 could handle that load. I don’t want to be dismissive, but I often see these big numbers being posted, like “14M messages” or “thousan
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by SanderNL 3y ago
[X] Critical of unimportant detail [X] Did not read the article [X] Disconnected from reality: article hits front page of HN [X] Makes value judgements based on incomplete or irrelevant evidence Quite impressive! Developer by any chance?
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Using Docker to run in seconds is like saying using a Windows VM in Qemu and you got Office running in seconds on Free BSD. It’s still a mess, but it’s hidden now.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
You enumerated it yourself.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Interesting how the immediate reaction is “postgres does not scale” when there is a single table lacking an index. This also tells how important competence and knowledge of the system is. People that came in new and didn’t know the system l
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I agree on the business case, but it’s still orthogonal to “how any of the web works”. It’s how Google’s business works, maybe, but that wasn’t the argument.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Google maintaining or not maintaining something is completely orthogonal to “how any of the web works”. I see no point here.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Agreed. I think the two of us can talk all day about the necessity of it becoming a “large and complex field”. I accept I am an old miser about it, but it is indeed the reality.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I feel for the man becoming a millionaire doing that degrading hard work of being an entertainer/artist. Real frustrating that must have been. I feel deeply for those struggling millionaires that keep plowing on, for.. for.. humanity’s
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by SanderNL 3y ago
That’s not hard. Hard is solving world hunger, making cars drive themselves. You literally counted all major issues in one simple comment.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
It’s sad a proper table is not in the standard. We got a kinds of ridiculously complicated bullshit CSS transitions, but some kind of basic lazy-loading table with pagination is beyond us apparently.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Nothing against you, but it’s kind of depressing to me. It’s easy to make this work without JS. It’s telling that this is the state of ‘HTML’. These skills are rusting away and it’s a sad thing.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
The “state of HTML” is that it has become a glorified payload wrapper to deliver corporate JS shitware to you as efficiently as possible.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
That’s not the kind of split I mean.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Bellard’s QuickJS is a good example. It’s 100kb vs V8’s 40mb and for open source purposes plenty fast for a web browser. We need more QuickJS and libcss and rendering backends, not “browsers”.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Is there some reason why browsers aren't split into a million pieces and worked on seperately? Most browser projects I see are tackled like giant monolithic projects. For example, CSS seems like a constraint solver that has nothing to
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by SanderNL 3y ago
So if the feds stop by you have nothing to hand over. That sounds great, but legally dubious. Aren't you required to keep a log? Thanks for the info nonetheless. I think I'll give it a shot and maybe don't look up how to get
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Unless you work at Kagi I am not taking that too seriously.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Kagi seems great and I’m more than willing to pay, but then my searches get literally attached to my credit card. At least Google can pretend it doesn’t know me directly.. It’s not that I am involved in shady business, but I do look up st
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I have the real unpopular opinion that some psychological pressure is necessary for human societies to operate somewhat optimally. Straight up giving people money is different from living "on stamps". I know it's fashionable
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Indeed. Most of them are also bad planners and lose track of priorities very, very easily. Besides that, there is non-stop internal strife and quarreling as they are deeply social creatures that need to be in constant competition with one a
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by SanderNL 3y ago
A rich text-based UI feels like it has all the downsides of a GUI while substantially lacking the upsides. For example, Tilde. It seems nice and maybe it has nice features, but what about these features is so highly dependent on being acces
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by SanderNL 3y ago
This will become increasingly normal, but it’ll take a while before massive impact (ie taking your and your friends’ jobs). I’m not sure of the timeline. Humans are slow to adapt, but in 20-30 years I think the pace will pick up. I’m not t
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Humans are .. complicated. You cannot just compensate a human’s caloric expense (although many companies would love that). Anywhere a human gets involved shit gets expensive. Interestingly robots are pretty human-intensive, from design to p
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Meanwhile, competitors are choking in papers, but fail to release anything I can get my hands on (that’s worth a damn). I can actually appreciate “open” as “open to access” or “open to actually having a product iso posturing about being so
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I agree. Maybe as a dev I've become cynical and don't trust anything. Least of all some app holding my document. Makes me think of the "Voting software" xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2030 "I don't qui
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Sometimes it's hard to just accept reality: even the big, mighty and omnipresent supernatural and all-knowing Government(tm) is just a bunch of non-magical, non-demonic regular folks trying to keep things on the rails. It usually work
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by SanderNL 3y ago
You are right and like you explained this is trivially easily fixed by autosaving regularly. What I have trouble imagining is people working with documents on computers for more than a few years yet somehow failing to develop the Always Sav
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Your book was published somewhere mid-2021, right?

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