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by arinlen 4y ago
> I’m basically talking a couple gigabytes of data. You'd be happy to learn that DynamoDB's free tier covers DBS up to 25GB. https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/
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by arinlen 4y ago
> I know people using DynamoDB for a tiny dataset that would easily fit in sqlite (or any other DB) running on a $20/month VPS. I have to say your comment comes off as very ignorant. If you are a AWS customer then you either pick
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Scaling it to 100 million is just a matter of running a few thousand instances. Please post the link to any GitLab/GitHub you own where you showcase running "a few thousand instances" of anything at all.
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by arinlen 4y ago
> That will help adoption of Lambda. The primary point of serverless (financially-wise) is trading fixed costs for variable costs. I'm not sure that's the case with AWS Lambda. It's main use is to serve as glue code betw
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by arinlen 4y ago
> That's weird, Amazon's own calculator estimates $300/mo on that. Nah, you're just doing your math all wrong. In the very least you failed to look at how you're setting the parameters in the calculator. Give i
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by arinlen 4y ago
> It comes to about 16 million invocations per day. I'd guess obly a handful of their customers have this load on Lambda. I'm not so sure about that. Without going into details, I have a project which calls a single lambda ar
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by arinlen 4y ago
> 6 billion seconds are 190 years ... Only if each and every invocation is synchronous, sequential, with zero concurrency, and from a single lambda. Let's put it this way: a REST API made with API Gateway + AWS Lambda invokes a la
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by arinlen 4y ago
> That is like saying if sushi knifes are already sharp enough (...) No, it's like saying that professional people understand the need to learn what their tools of the trade do beyond random stackoverflow search on how to print te
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Serious question, but what "purists" remain on ANSI C? It means nothing. It's a baseless attemt at an appeal to authority that has no merit.
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by arinlen 4y ago
> This is not C! This kind of stuff is why purists stick to C89. This personal assertion holds no water. People hold/held onto C89 because compilers like Visual Studio's C compiler failed to support anything beyond C89 for ag
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by arinlen 4y ago
> What about not adding even more ways how we should avoid using C? That's a mute point for C's target audience because they already understand that they need to be mindful of what the language does.
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Also read the addendum from the same report: Your initial claim was that these issues were addressed in 4.0. Jepsen's report refutes your claim,and demonstrates MongoDB had serious reliability problems even in 4.2.6. Frankly, yo
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Yes, Jepsen did find some issues with the initial release of ACID transactions (...) By "some issues" you mean lost data and violated causal by default. https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/05/Jeps
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Even if it was a million years it wouldn't matter. This take is absurd. Humanity barely exists for a few thousand years and you somehow assume that it's feasible and economically justifiable to create a health and security
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Yes, we have to store it somewhere. But all US plants combined make ~5k cubic meters of nuclear waste a year. And all those extra 5k cubic meters per year of nuclear waste needs to be stored for around a million years until they are
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Rust is restrictive and gets less so over time. C and C++ need to become more restrictive over time, but that's a more traumatic direction. I don't agree at all with your comment, and I find that sort of opinion miopic and
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Your point is a fair one, but defaults matter. This sort of comment is far from fair and misses the whole point. The thesis of this article is how programming languages compare with regards to safety. It makes no sense at all to comp
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Compared to a struct in C (...) That's hardly a relevant point or meaningful comparison. The discussion is about schema validators for TypeScript/JavaScript.
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by arinlen 4y ago
> KDE is one of the biggest softwares out there. It was the first SVN repository to reach 1 million commits, etc etc Doesn't KDE use a monorepo to store each and every project under the sun whose name starts with a K? I vaguely re
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by arinlen 4y ago
> (...) The monolith they had was PHP, just to add to the fun, so switching over would mean switching languages too. Why do you feel this is relevant, let alone detrimental to the idea of microservices? It looks to me that it's on
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Same. I keep hearing that people have had bad experiences with microservices, but I'm not sure what those bad experiences are. I certainly don't relate to them. Likewise. When I see people complaining about microservices, m
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by arinlen 4y ago
> I wish these services were a monolith so there was any amount of discoverability at all, Why do you conflate microservices with discoverability? What's wrong with simply calling a web service? > (...) and I don't have to b
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Git: 50 mins of googling to know what the next 5 commands to type. That's quite the odd statement, as all it takes is a 5min tutorial to get up and running on 95% you ever need to do with git on a weekly basis, and 100% of what
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Subversion is still my favourite VCS for collaborating on non-source data. Makes sense, as SVN is basically a centralized versioned file system.
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Yes, I read the manual every time I need to do anything but push and pull. Because I have to. ;-) Can you provide a single example of what you think is the absolute worst userflow that git provides for a basic everyday feature? I&#x2
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by arinlen 4y ago
> It's very annoying that git became more popular, it's such a disaster from the usability point of view. I don't understand this sort of comment at all. What's so hard about git? You clone a repository, you checkou
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by arinlen 4y ago
> If we assume that nullptr and auto mean the same as in C++ then what problem does nullptr fix in C? For starters, it fixes the same problems it fixed on C++. I'm talking about stuff like automatic type conversion to ints and con
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by arinlen 4y ago
> it's possible to do Qt without moc even in C++ with https://github.com/woboq/verdigris/ , why wouldn't it be possible from D ? You're talking about an entirely different thing. While OP was re
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by arinlen 4y ago
> It eliminates the Most Vexing Parse. C++'s most vexing parse issue ceased to be a concern around a decade ago with the introduction of uniform initialization.
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by arinlen 4y ago
> C++ 11 standard was released in 2011 of course. Rust development started in 2006 and Mozilla announced it officially in 2010. Given that c++0x was a decade in the making, by that measuring stick the answer is yes, C++11 does precede

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