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by billywhizz 2y ago
there's a pretty good summary of things with links from daniel stenberg - the curl guy - here : https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/10/25/the-quic-api-openssl-...
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by billywhizz 2y ago
this is nice. i like the idea which has been tried in a few places of running sqlite in the browser directly/locally. the only thing that is really missing to make this work at a bigger scale for read-heavy databases is a very cheap or
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by billywhizz 2y ago
or you could read it as a way to create a moat where none currently exists...
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by billywhizz 2y ago
"Another Reason".... "Another reason for January’s tech job losses was that companies began implementing some intended spending cuts for this year, Janulaitis said, and many slashed budgets based on what the economy looked li
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by billywhizz 2y ago
cool. will check this out. i think it's an interesting approach and allows all sorts of very low rent interactivity as long as you don't need super high throughput or expect lots of contention.
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by billywhizz 2y ago
hi simon. i direct messaged you on twitter about a PoC i did of this in aug 2022, but never heard back - i thought you might have been interested. my twitter handle is justjs14. i have some code i would have to dig out that did this very th
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by billywhizz 2y ago
i've been playing around with this idea on and off for a while. this was the original demo/implementation afaik: https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database... . this has all sorts of nic
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by billywhizz 2y ago
i couldn't resist reproducing on bare metal linux (8th gen core i5, ubuntu 22.04): cargo run --release -- -n 1000000 --method unixstream cargo run --release -- -n 1000000 --method tcp ~9μs/op for unixstream, ~14μs/op
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by billywhizz 2y ago
the linux results are for a vm running on macos. not sure how useful that is. i certainly wouldn't draw any wider conclusions from them without trying to reproduce yourself. pretty sure they will be very different on bare metal.
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by billywhizz 2y ago
partykit was recently acqui-hired by cloudflare. https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-acquires-partykit
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by billywhizz 2y ago
well, for example, you could roll your own secure messaging over WebRTC data channels using Web Crypto. There won't be anything unusual looking about the traffic as it will all be wrapped up inside DTLS/SRTP which is the transport
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by billywhizz 2y ago
it's pretty easy to do these days. even in the browser you can use WebRTC for P2P and Web Crypto on top and knock together an e2e encrypted messenger in a few hours. assuming you can trust the browser crypto of course.
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by billywhizz 2y ago
agreed. i feel the real motivation is much more sinister and much more to do with the geopolitical situation than anything else. the reality is, if anyone is seriously determined to commit what they know are crimes then there are many solut
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by billywhizz 2y ago
congrats on the release - it sounds like this will be very useful. can you explain what you mean by "having to lock up the control plane" here?
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by billywhizz 2y ago
Yes, Bun uses uWebSocket internally. I think OP was saying the perf gain comes from the combination of Bun + uWebSocket. For http, most of that is coming from uWS, which is pretty much best performing HTTP framework out there ime. https:&#
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by billywhizz 2y ago
yeah, as i understand it - i did a lot of research on this for a service i was building way back - these third parties (like scalpers) are useful because they actually find the "true" price of the tickets and, through the resale
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by billywhizz 2y ago
afaik, scalpers will often be selling tickets that have been bought speculatively in large blocks during pre-sale or when sale starts. this is a whole very complex side industry in itself, and being able to get those large chunks of cash up
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by billywhizz 3y ago
i'm pretty sure node.js does not enable v8 sandboxing by default. https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/deps/v8/BUILD.gn#L3...
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by billywhizz 3y ago
i've long felt the same. i came to conclusion the browser vendors decided it was kind of a mistake. it enables all sorts of local first and p2p things that cut out the service providers. hopefully it will get some attention again. i ha
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by billywhizz 3y ago
It's the year 1991. You're a teenage computer geek. You've just upgraded to your first "16-bit" computer, and the possibilities are infinite. To relieve the crushing boredom of your High School coursework, you and y
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by billywhizz 3y ago
great points. and we still are really only scratching the surface of how complex neuronal circuitry is in biological organisms. https://www.mpg.de/20374809/fruit-fly-s-complex-symphony-of-...
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by billywhizz 3y ago
this very well put here. chomba is worth a follow. https://twitter.com/ChombaBupe/status/1764032173265281305
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by billywhizz 3y ago
because TS doesn't exist without JS?
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by billywhizz 3y ago
the way openai structure their pay is dubious to say the least. maybe they will find a way to make money someday but rn everything they are doing is setting my alarm bells off. "In conversations with recruiters we’ve heard from some ca
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by billywhizz 3y ago
yeah. RPC masquerading as REST is what people do now. if your web service had a truly RESTful design then all you would need to do is point something like postman (or a browser) at it and it would be able to automagically figure out the who
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by billywhizz 3y ago
yes, but everything is going on the internet archive. https://twitter.com/Chronotope/status/1760764792887746724
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by billywhizz 3y ago
they are already on it. they do really important work. worth helping them out with funding. https://twitter.com/Chronotope/status/1760755908219466017
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by billywhizz 3y ago
this might be it? https://qz.com/790208/how-the-company-behind-league-of-legen... also, linked from that: https://technology.riotgames.com/news/fixing-internet-real-t...
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by billywhizz 3y ago
yes, there's definitely a bandwidth overhead with xml compared to json. that was an important factor in the shift i suppose. but then we have things like graphql, which has pretty much erased all those gains. you can also do tricky thi

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