carlm42

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by carlm42 5d ago
I started as a sysadmin dealing with a Puppet 3 to 5 migration but thanks for assuming and being insulting.
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by carlm42 5d ago
It is easier in that if you have infrastructure already, it's trivial to add this on top. The primitives look also very familiar.
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by carlm42 6d ago
Governments have sued DRAM companies for price fixing and forming cartels before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_industry_price_fixing . They can absolutely step in and if there are evidence of price fixing or anti-
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by carlm42 6d ago
That on its own would be a good incentive for the AI bubble to pop ;-) As others have pointed out though, I'd be keen to see how much of it is gas turbines. I'm also not convinced that energy buildouts are seeing as much interest
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by carlm42 6d ago
We don't have enough energy production for massive AI buildouts. New energy capacity will not come online fast. National and regional grids will be stressed contributing to impacts on populations and industries. New energy capacity wi
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by carlm42 16d ago
The irony is that that would probably be Apple's policy with its own offices if a competitor came up with such a feature.
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by carlm42 22d ago
A single box may have that much resources available, but no software will use them efficiently alone. You end up having issues with NUMA, with your pagetable growing significantly forcing you to deal with hugepages and eventually memory fra
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by carlm42 6mo ago
Measuring a platform team's productivity in pure "hours saved" is missing a huge point: reliability. If your platform prevents even one outage every month, how much business value and capital are saved? That analysis is utter
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by carlm42 7mo ago
I don't know where you live but I've been able to express myself without any form of approval. Granted, I tend to not encourage genocide or glorify fascist regimes, but that's just me.
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by carlm42 7mo ago
Sad that the United States are pushing so hard to encourage the propagation of propaganda & lies. I'm not surprised given their history, but it's sad nonetheless.
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by carlm42 8mo ago
My mental model is that each of these covers a different layer of the stack, from lowest to highest: * hypervisor-framework handles the hypervisor bits, like creating virtual machines, virtualising hardware resources, basically a C API on t
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by carlm42 10mo ago
Yeah per your edit that'd be for 256GB RAM which puts that into serious dollar category. For comparison I checked what AWS asks for for the same spec and that'd be $4616/month (for a db.m8gd.16xlarge), and that doesn't e
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by carlm42 10mo ago
On Hetzner you will be on the hook for managing the database though, and DBA is most certainly a full-time job if you have a serious use-case for it.
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by carlm42 10mo ago
It depends a bit on your cloud provider but some of them have an offering that doesn't always match your needs or their pricing might be much more expensive at equal performance.
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by carlm42 10mo ago
You're pointing out exactly what bothered me with this post in the first place: "we moved from microservices to a monolith and our problems went away"... ... except the problems had not much to do with the service architectur
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by carlm42 10mo ago
So it's 2025 and we're building more disposable electronics? I'm sorry but I think the EU is not the problem here.
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by carlm42 10mo ago
The person you're replying to asked if it was fun. Consider that my sarcasm was meant to be sort of tongue in cheek and not incredibly serious, which is a very different kind of tone from other comments in this chain.
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by carlm42 10mo ago
Honestly, if the bus/delivery driver needed a mid-shift break to deal with some life stuff, yeah by all means, I personally think they should be able to do that kind of stuff (though maybe we start by giving them bathroom breaks?). The
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by carlm42 10mo ago
It's called a work-life balance. I know, crazy idea.
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by carlm42 11mo ago
Similarly to other replies (but my own opinion): it's not a huge source of revenue today , on a single customer basis, compared to our biggest customers, sure. But our goal is to provide potential customers that can't justify lar
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by carlm42 11mo ago
(Planetscale employee) This is very different though: it's not a free tier, it's an actual single node DB as a paid product. It's definitely not a good fit for every usecase, but if you have a hobby project it's a great