abujazar

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by abujazar 1y ago
Even on the pro models with fans, they only turn on under heavy load. Most regular work is not heavy load, especially not the kind of work the Air is designed for. So I as a developer consider the fanless design to be a feature, not a perfo
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by abujazar 1y ago
That depends on the service. Far from everyone is on their PC or smartphone all day, and even fewer care about these kinds of news.
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by abujazar 1y ago
I think recent events (and quite a few before that) clearly show that you don't put mission critical stuff in only one AWS region.
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by abujazar 1y ago
Sure, but none of those other issues are ever documented by AWS as their status page is usually just one big lie.
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by abujazar 1y ago
Sounds plausible. It's also a "fat and happy" symptom not to be able to fix deep underlying issues despite an ever growing pile of cash in the company.
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by abujazar 1y ago
Yes, and that's exactly the problem. It's like choosing a microservice architecture for resiliency and building all the services on top of the same database or message queue without underlying redundancy.
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by abujazar 1y ago
Depends on which service you're paying for. For pure hosting the answer is no, which is why it rarely makes sense to go AWS for uptime and stability because when it goes down there's nothing you can do. As opposed to bare metal ho
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by abujazar 1y ago
Been using AWS too, but for a critical service we mirrored across three Hetzner datacenters with master-master replication as well as two additional locations for cluster node voting.
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by abujazar 1y ago
I find it interesting that AWS services appear to be so tightly integrated that when there's an issue in a region, it affects most or all services. Kind of defeats the purported resiliency of cloud services.
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by abujazar 1y ago
Last time I checked the standard SLA is actually 99 % and the only compensation you get for downtime is a refund. Which is why I don't use AWS for anything mission critical.
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by abujazar 1y ago
These physics are exactly the same with AWS et al.
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by abujazar 1y ago
My experience is exactly the opposite. None of the cloud vendors are actually resilient, every single one of them have had major global outages. And when it happens you've got no influence on how fast it gets fixed. The only way of bui
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by abujazar 1y ago
In my case, availability is crucial as well, and AWS simply doesn't offer good enough SLAs.
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by abujazar 1y ago
The permissions and ownership part has little to do with the infrastructure – in fact I've often found it more difficult to get permissions and access to resources in cloud-heavy orgs.
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by abujazar 1y ago
Yea, ALVR is interesting, I have yet to try it out. I suspect latency is a real issue though, wish I could try it with DCS before shelling out $3500 : )
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by abujazar 1y ago
The price would be easily justified if the hardware could also be used as a regular VR headset and hooked up to a flight sim or gaming PC.
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by abujazar 1y ago
It's much easier to build a resilient system with a simple architecture. E.g. run the application on a decent VM or even bare metal server and mirror the whole system between a few different data centers.
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by abujazar 1y ago
Yea, and what if my country suddenly grows by 10000%?
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by abujazar 1y ago
I've seen my share of insanely over-engineered Azure locked-in applications that could easily have been run on an open source stack on a $20 VM.
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by abujazar 1y ago
More likely we'll get slammed with punitive tariffs because the corrupt rapist dictator didn't get it, just like when China basically stopped all imports from Norway when the peace prize was awarded to Liu Xiaobo.
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by abujazar 1y ago
Yea, I usually keep a simple incremental ID or whatever is default for internal IDs, and a separate external ID for entities that are presented externally. For security and not unnecessarily leaking info about the number of records, time an
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by abujazar 1y ago
External IDs shouldn't contain any metadata, UUIDv4 should be used for those. UUIDv7 is suitable for database primary keys when simple incremental IDs are not sufficient, but primary keys should really never be used externally.
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by abujazar 1y ago
On which TV show?
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by abujazar 1y ago
LOL
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by abujazar 1y ago
Those phones are still _huge_ compared to the original iPhone. The iPhone 4 was perfect at 115mm * 59mm and weighing just 137 grams. The 13 mini was the last bearable iPhone at 132mm * 64mm and 135 grams. Newer phones are simply too large a
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by abujazar 1y ago
It's not even just the ugly glass effects. Even with reduced transparency turned on in Accessibility, which makes the UI more tolerable, there are still weird animations and effects everywhere. They just seem completely out of place an
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by abujazar 1y ago
It's not just Denmark, drones have been sighted at multiple Norwegian airports as well, including confirmed sightings by both police and air force at the main air base in Ørland. (Source in Norwegian, https://www.nrk.no&#x2F
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by abujazar 1y ago
Kind of concerning they're not keeping TLS cert issuance even if only for the brand. Let's Encrypt is great, but it would be unfortunate if it ended up as a de facto monopoly.
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by abujazar 1y ago
Giving the LLM access to sources and enabling it to look up things that you would otherwise have to check yourself dramatically improves the usefulness and productivity, though.
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by abujazar 1y ago
It's not primarily a hunger "crisis", but a genocide perpetrated by Israel in full daylight for the world to see. They are turning Gaza into a death camp and the scenes unfolding are much like the horrors of nazi ghettos and

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