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   by api 11y ago

   I've come around to being a systemd skeptic too after initially supporting it. It's just so over engineered, confusing, hard to use. Today in the age of user experience anything that wants to replace the (also ugly) old init shoul
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   by api 11y ago

   I'd like to see them fix the other scalability problems: hard coded maximum numbers of interfaces, socket API scaling issues, etc. You should be able to open as many sockets as you have RAM and push as much data as you have CPU to do s
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   by api 11y ago

   Is there a quality laptop not bound to an ecosystem that doesn't come loaded with shitware? Of course I would just install over it, but I don't want to support those kinds of models either. In mobile I suppose there is cyanogen. A
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   by api 11y ago

   There seems to be history of failed ideologues from the west going to poorer nations to try to sell ideologies that didn't sell here: fanatical Marxism, fascism, and now dominionist ideology. It's like a form of toxic waste dumpin
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   by api 11y ago

   Immutability does reduce the problem by reducing the data footprint of stuff that needs to be synchronized. So let me guess: They're doing a distributed metadata store where the cloud is the tie-breaker combined with flexible caching
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   by api 11y ago

   The last part you wrote is what I was getting at: you cannot eliminate distributed systems problems from distributed systems. You can only either (a) push them around into different parts of your design or (b) outsource them by using stuff
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   by api 11y ago

   You mean that isn't how to exit 'ed'?
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   by api 11y ago

   He talks about caching. As soon as you add caching, you now have a problem that isn't just close to syncing. It's utterly, absolutely identical to syncing. Syncing is just distributed caching where you only ever invalidate a cache
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   by api 11y ago

   So is this now officially the "mainframe 2.0" era, with endpoint devices now being dumb terminals again?
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    by api 11y ago

    The conventional wisdom on HN changes every 30-60 minutes.
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    by api 11y ago

    I just saw a bunch of our SoftLayer VMs get rebooted (with ahead notification) and they seem to use Xen. They probably got notification too. Looks like my others (Digital Ocean, Vultr) use KVM (according to virt-what). Did anyone see Amazon
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    by api 11y ago

    Interesting how this dovetails with the art of writing -- when you're writing a book, it makes the story much more compelling if you engage all five senses. I wonder if we have some intuition about this and a story that doesn't fe
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    by api 11y ago

    It was the same with Microsoft in the 90s and with any console game maker and Nintendo in the 80s.
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    by api 11y ago

    It seems paradoxical to me that we're in the midst of a crazy Moore's Law style escalation in both storage speed (the SSD revolution) and storage density, and at the same time OS and device makers are rushing to make everything cl
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    by api 11y ago

    (9) solar+wind+storage is orders of magnitude simpler, can be incrementally financed, and is nearly on parity in many markets. The middle point -- ability to be incrementally financed -- cannot be overstated.
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    by api 11y ago

    Freedom is unnecessary for Capitalism. Look at China.
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    by api 11y ago

    True but that won't keep the high end alive. You don't need a very powerful machine to do office stuff. Gaming will keep the "performance PC" alive until a few more years of Moore's Law and people start realizing th
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    by api 11y ago

    Design and education kept Apple alive through the dark years. I can see gaming doing the same for the PC industry through the dark years of Cloud ("Mainframe 2.0") until "PC 2.0" arrives.
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    by api 11y ago

    Wow... always makes me very happy to see any move toward pushing a bit of intelligence out to the endpoints.
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    by api 11y ago

    I'm not saying what you think I am saying. The thread was about how the cloud is immensely profitable, and I'm saying that a good chunk of that is built on waste and monetization of programmers' naive tendencies to overcompli
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    by api 11y ago

    I found it disturbing for another reason too: the outright attack on the uniqueness and value of individual thought. Yes, several people invented light bulbs. When something is a good idea many people will see that and produce variations on
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    by api 11y ago

    I'm not really disagreeing (much), but very few things fit that criteria. More common are simple problems so overengineered that they sprawl across two Amazon availability zones when a straightforward implementation could serve the who
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    by api 11y ago

    If you need 10000 cores for 5 seconds, that I'd awesome. My post was aimed at the 95% who don't.
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    by api 11y ago

    It's not that hard, and if you are so huge that your devops takes a team you have a good problem. If you are a startup then architect your software so it can be scaled but otherwise just stick it somewhere and worry about product marke
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    by api 11y ago

    Azure, EC2, and Google Cloud are overpriced in most cases. You can do the same with cheaper (and often similarly reliable) VPSes managed with tools like Puppet/Chef, Consul, Vault, Docker, etc. Plus you avoid lock in. Your stuff is you
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    August: Your Creative Space(agst.co)

    2 points by api 11y ago|0 comments
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    by api 11y ago

    Reminds me of something I read once in an excellent article about the making of the film "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" -- that the New York film reviewers seemed to think the scariest world in the title wasn't chainsaw or mas
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    by api 11y ago

    There's an old saying about this: "The secret to success is being smart enough to play the game well, but not so smart you figure the game out. Then you realize how stupid it is and you don't want to play anymore." Someo
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    by api 11y ago

    Does this mean that barring a quantum-hard alternative we could get effectively quantum-hard crypto by using crazy key sizes like RSA-131072 or ECC-4096?
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    by api 11y ago

    Packaging and distributing anything for endpoint devices is a profound exercise in pain and suffering. If your target is anything other than a Mac or a phone, multiply it even further. It's a major driver of Internet centralization: