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by cbsmith 3y ago
It's been a while since I've used websockets, but at least the last time I did, "simple" wouldn't be the word I'd have used. All kinds of annoying issues between different browsers. SSE was generally much simpl
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by cbsmith 3y ago
There's always TLS certificates... ;-)
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Hello fellow traveler. ;-) Nobody reads the specs anymore, and to a certain degree I can't blame them, as the protocols/standards have become quite complicated.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
The WebRTC section of the article seemed weird in general. The reason WebRTC doesn't specify signaling requirements is that clients can use any communications mechanism they'd like for signaling, and in the case where you are usin
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I always find articles like this amusing, because I designed an online auction system back in the late 90's. No XHR requests at all. Real-time updates were all handled with server-push/HTTP streaming. It wasn't easy to handle
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Thought about it some more... this whole scenario makes sense in only the narrowist of contexts. Very few applications directly serve UGC to the public, and a lot of applications are B2B. You're authenticated, and there's a link t
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Unless you count stored procs...
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> I don’t get your tone or why you seem shocked that binary data can be stored in a database. Postgres and MySQL both have column sizes for binary data that can hold gigabytes. My tone is shocked, because what you're describing seem
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by cbsmith 3y ago
First of all, most database records couldn't fit child porn, unless it was somehow encoded across thousands of records, in which case you couldn't realize it was child porn until after you've stored 99% of it. Sure though, by
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by cbsmith 3y ago
You're saying it's impossible to have public write access to a table without also providing public read access? "it can be output somewhere before you execute your logic" is a design choice that is orthogonal from whethe
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> Barring that, perhaps Firestore could introduce the concept of a "lightweight database function hook" akin to Cloudflare workers that runs in the lifecycle of a DB request, thus formalizing the security requirements specific
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I think I missed where writing to the database precludes backend logic. Databases have triggers and integrity rules, but beyond that, why can't logic execute after data is written to a database?
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Yes. Exactly.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Ownership isn't the only way to control a social media platform. It is, admittedly, a simpler way.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I never thought of this as a peculiarity of the X Window System (though the client-server aspect of it was a lot of what made X, X), but I keep forgetting that this is not something modern developers know about.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
That whole section made me squarely. It feels like it is written by someone who doesn't know Java.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
No, it doesn't. It shows that Apple's RAM offerings have grown at widely different rates depending on their product. Apple has been stingy on memory compared to the broader industry. The biggest EC2 instance you could get in 2013
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by cbsmith 3y ago
It's hard to believe, but people can be in the market for a product, but feel that paying 8x markup on the cost of an upgrade is ridiculous.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> But in 2013, a MacBook Air came standard with 4GB, and we're looking at only 8GB in 2024. You're saying "RAM usage", but your evidence is "RAM provisioning", which is the entire basis for the criticism. Th
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> Why? Because it puts pressure on developers to keep the bloat under control. I've yet to notice the impact on getting web sites to stop using incredibly bloated JavaScript that leak memory, video conferencing & streaming apps
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> They are marginally more expensive, but they also very easy to sell second-hand. I'm speculating that the monthly cost is on par with a PC. They aren't marginally more expensive. I'm writing this on a Chromebook I bought
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> What is the monthly cost of a Mac that can run games, run old software I require for work and hobbies and (importantly) isn't locked down in either hardware or software so I can use it for something completely different later in l
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Yeah... feels like someone isn't familiar with the law of large numbers...
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Looks like my short answer wasn't well received, so I'll try a longer answer: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-seeks-crack-down-real-es... The irony is the US talks a lot about financial transparency
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> TBH, I don't really think they compete in anything like similar markets. Yes.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
A100's are definitely still the best, but IBM's offering isn't a joke. Depending on what you're trying to do, it might be a good way to go.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> It's also hard when you're spending money educating your citizens for those high paying tech jobs and over half of them go to the USA [1] [2] [3] [4]. Yes, you are correct that the USA is bigger and has more money than Canada
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by cbsmith 3y ago
The "conservatism" is of the banks, not the country. The Canadian government is quite leveraged. But as leveraged as Canada is, Canada is well below the average for debt-to-GDP ratio of the G7 (admittedly skewed by Japan's mo
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Yeah, but they aren't so dominant on the TCO side as they once were.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Last I checked, the Teliums had some pretty impressive numbers for memory bandwidth even compared to NVidia.

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