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by arter45 9mo ago
> but I’d love to read more about when to know it’s time to replace my synchronous inter service http requests with a queue. What metrics should I consider and what are the trade offs. I’ve learned some answers to this question over time
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by arter45 9mo ago
Every vertical?
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by arter45 9mo ago
Nice! Is it a website, an app, a Jupyter notebook,...?
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by arter45 9mo ago
I intentionally asked ChatGPT not because this is what I always do, but specifically to highlight that even ChatGPT itself (artificial "intelligence") knows better than what its own company actually does. I would never ask this of
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by arter45 9mo ago
I’ve just asked that to ChatGPT and this is the exact answer it gave :) Ironic, isn’t it? Would you ask a prospective employee to send you code they wrote in their previous company? Short answer: *no, I wouldn’t—and it’s generally a bad ide
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by arter45 9mo ago
Very nice!
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by arter45 9mo ago
>As Bert says, you can get a long way if you know what you are doing. Of course, but... how did you actually do this? I mean, do you just run an application on a PC and just keep it on 24/7 with power saving disabled? What do you do
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by arter45 9mo ago
>Then you didn't need Kubernetes in first place. I think that's precisely the point the author was trying to make.
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by arter45 9mo ago
>In our Docker Compose world, this problem didn’t exist. Services ran where we told them to run. This is really interesting. One of the big selling points of Kubernetes is that it takes care of scheduling on its own, distributes replicas
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by arter45 9mo ago
I have no idea about DeltaChat, but it's not surprising. Social media and chat apps are successful because of the network effect. Let's say I have ten friends. Nine of them use the same app exclusively and one uses another app. If
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by arter45 9mo ago
Yes, it is an extreme example, but if your application(s) makes your company millions of dollars or euros, even if you are in a business that is not heavily regulated [1], mistakes or unavailability can cost a lot of money. Even if your com
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by arter45 9mo ago
>I'm always on the lookout for the failure modes, because those failure modes are going to be my employment opportunities going forwards. Exactly! I don't have a lot of experience with coding via LLMs, but lately I've been
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by arter45 9mo ago
Exactly. Also, you need someone with actual knowledge of both the domain/environment (including regulations) and its implications. You could keep asking your favorite LLM "what if...?" and maybe it will get that right every t
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by arter45 9mo ago
I admit I’m not a heavy LLM user but AFAIK LLMs don’t recall past interactions, which is something we usually expect from people (including devs). How meaningful can this be? For example: - LLM generates code for a web api but initially ign
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by arter45 9mo ago
GPL requires attribution. Some people are fine with their code being used by others for free while still expecting their work to be acknowledged. Code posted on Stackoverflow is apparently CC-BY-SA licensed, which means attribution is stil
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by arter45 9mo ago
If an application gets 4 thousand req/s for an hour, and an additional 10% requests in the rest of the day, it is handling nearly 15 million reqs/day, which is completely different and of course requires scaling in most cases. Tha
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by arter45 9mo ago
Yes, of course it can be made against anything good, but what I mean is… is death truly the worst thing? Isn’t it better to focus on other ways to reduce suffering? Unexpected death is of course tragic, but everything eventually stops. I un
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by arter45 9mo ago
Pretty solid arguments, I’d say, except the one about meetings. Meetings are a way to coordinate synchronously and, typically, by talking. You could also coordinate tasks by writing documents and following a merge review-like process, where
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by arter45 9mo ago
> Assumptions can change. Each of our technological shifts was more upending than longer healthspans would be—most of the West is already a gerontocracy. Sure but is gerontocracy a good thing, then? I’m not against older people, but shif
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by arter45 9mo ago
What kind of integrity are you talking about? Merkle trees can prevent tampering after the fact, yes. But if you include collusion, there's no way for the blockchain itself to know who is colluding and where they are so. Smart contract
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by arter45 9mo ago
"Self hosting is easy because you can just buy a PC and have stuff run on that PC" is a pretty weird take. Yes, you can store files on a PC and even run some code or a web server, but to use a PC as a server is crazy. And I say th
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by arter45 9mo ago
I feel like this is satire inspired by Spring, but who am I to judge? :)
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by arter45 9mo ago
I can't see Question 3 as an example of moral dilemma, unless it is implying something like "do you prefer your owner or someone else?".
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by arter45 9mo ago
>I noticed the problems that I fought with for ages, that I spent hours with debugging and shit. It just created in 15 minutes. So I was wondering, was I even ever able to code? Or was it just a huge waste of time? I think it's fair
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by arter45 9mo ago
I'm not against scientific research per se or living a bit more but... is immortality (or living for, say, 200 years or more) really something we should strive for? Many aspects of human society assume, one way or another, that our lif
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by arter45 9mo ago
Of course, new technology usually allows to do stuff that wasn't possible before, or maybe do stuff faster. The point is how we use technology. Without going to WW2 technology extremes, think about AI systems generating pictures of nak
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by arter45 9mo ago
Continents are messy, because landmass on Earth is messy, it's contiguous where it looks like it isn't and so on. A more surprising thing (at least IMHO) is that different countries have different definitions of... mountains. I&#x
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by arter45 9mo ago
A big part of the legal implications of LLMs and AI in general is about accountability. If you are treated by a human being and it goes sideways, you could sue them and/or the hospital. Now, granted, you may not always win, it may take
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by arter45 9mo ago
Exactly. In those cases, getting 100 reqs/sec or 1000 reqs/s probably means you're getting DOS'd. Any rate limiter is enough. Or you could still use multiple instances, not for scaling but for patching without downtime a
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by arter45 9mo ago
>And having some hashmap added at one point because I know how stuff works properly doesn't cost me anything. Sure if it costs nothing, go for it. With that said, 1) time complexity is just one kind of complexity. In real life, you

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