benjiro

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by benjiro 1y ago
Same ... Office 2007 for the win. Frankly, i do not even use 90% of Office 2007 feature, so why do i even need more? For AI ... no. And funny thing, barely uses any memory! Makes todays apps look like monsters. Even my music player uses 5x
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by benjiro 1y ago
Yugabyte uses the Postgres SQL/Planner/... The actual storage backend, has been stripped and they use rocksdb. So its not exactly hard to then make those claims.
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by benjiro 1y ago
> For each page operation, we'd need to read or write an entire 128K record, resulting in a 16x overhead for many operations. Not so versed in ZFS but is the default 128K record not a max record. As in ZFS can write with smaller dat
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by benjiro 1y ago
> I’ve found that simply converting a standard, normalized PostgreSQL database doesn’t work well in practice. Instead, you need to design your database with YugabyteDB’s distributed architecture in mind. I wanted to reply to your previou
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by benjiro 2y ago
Very sure that he (or family members) are shorting stocks and then rebuying. This really feels like somebody deliberately creating market reactions, to benefit from them.
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by benjiro 2y ago
Looks at counter... 14 Billion certificates. How do you even keep that site manageable, must be close to 100TB of certificates data alone. Are you running trigram index for the domain wildcard search, does that not kill your performance wit
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by benjiro 2y ago
Took my parents 20 years to pay back their home, with a 6.5% mortgage, barely 15min from the center of the capital. My generation, they need a down payment of 50k Euro, just for the banks to even talk to them. And to borrow for a decent hou
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by benjiro 2y ago
It this not a prime example where they are able to use the timescale plugin, instead of writing their own solution?
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Why PostgreSQL needs a better API for alternative table engines?(orioledb.com)
4 points by benjiro 2y ago|0 comments
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Exploiting exposed Portainer agent and using new SSH persistence(blog.exatrack.com)
3 points by benjiro 2y ago|1 comments
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by benjiro 2y ago
A interesting analyze of a intrusion capability, that seems to use the wrong conclusion: > What is really important (and documented)6 is that this registration does not persist across reboots of the portainer agent. This effectively mean
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by benjiro 2y ago
Looked up the numbers: Trump initial 25% Tarif (30 down to 25), then Bidden up to 50%, then Trump up to 60% ... It adds up fast. Europe had import tariffs from 2013 and those expired in September 2023. That is around the same time most coun
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by benjiro 2y ago
Take in account, you may be speaking to a American, and there the whole solar/battery vs Generator can be extreme different. Solar prices are still extreme expensive in the US (from my perspective), same with batteries, while gasoline
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by benjiro 2y ago
Take a look here (titansolar DOT de) or ( etronixcenter DOT com) or ( secondsol DOT com)... If you look around, you can go as low as 50kwh for 6000 Euro. So around 120 Euro / Kwh on the low point. For the newer models with build in fi
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by benjiro 2y ago
Batteries are dirt cheap when you take in account the fuel prices over the generators lifespan. These days we can buy like 50Kwh battery's for barely 6000 Euro. That is like 1/10 what this used to cost not even 5 years ago. And no
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by benjiro 2y ago
I said it before, but there seem to be every indication that some of the management or sales staff is ex-Oracle employees based upon their behavior. We ended up removing CRDB because of these constant license changes, and danger to our futu
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by benjiro 2y ago
Licenses are also yearly renewed. Its not like you get one license and can use it forever. No, you need to yearly enter the new license in your instance, if you do not, after 2 weeks it goes into cripple mode (as in, you can not run anythin
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by benjiro 2y ago
> Additionally, they claim CockroachDB Cloud is free for use "up to 10 GiB of storage and 50M RUs per organization per month". Take in account, that the constant CPU/Mem/Query monitoring that CRDB does, eats up around
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by benjiro 2y ago
> Just beware that CockroachDB is not a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL. O, its way worse then that... A ton of small functionality tend to be missing or work differently. Sometimes even small stuff like column[1:2] does not even exis
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by benjiro 2y ago
Where are you more likely get a burglar enter your home? Windows ... Where are you more likely to develop cracks in your walls? Windows ... Where are you more likely to develop leaks? Windows (especially roof windows!)... Sorry but horrible
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by benjiro 2y ago
> . I'm not even joking when I say that my electrical engineering and programming background has helped me more with fixing my car, than the mechanical skills I picked up in the garage. ¨ Exactly the same reason my dad did a total c
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by benjiro 2y ago
> If you can only afford to hire one analyst, and the analyst's time is only spent on cleaning data and generating basic sums, then that's all you'll get. But if the analyst can save a lot of time with LLMs, they'll
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by benjiro 2y ago
> - Not having to name CSS classes Most websites are maybe 20 components and localized pages. Not exactly that hard to name and keep constant. Can not think of names, just ask one of the AIs. > - Easier to read as it's inline wit
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by benjiro 2y ago
Let me trump that with the bat (fire)bomb! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
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by benjiro 2y ago
> firing people for outright lying about their abilities very quickly I assume your from the US? The issue with firing people quickly after hiring them is: * You need to pay whatever headhunter or other personnel that is involved. Some o
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by benjiro 2y ago
np ;) I am amazed these days people lacking knowledge about hardware, and the mass benefits of undervolting/power limiting hardware. Its like people do not realize that what is sold, is often overclocked/too high vcore. The amount
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by benjiro 2y ago
The issue is that you are taking max GPU power draw, as a given. Running a LLM does not tax a GPU the same way a game does. There is a rather know Youtuber, that ran LLMs on a 4090, and the actual power draw was only 130W on the GPU. Now ad