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by dalyons 3y ago
People don’t work unless whipped? Or are you saying something else
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by dalyons 3y ago
lol no
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by dalyons 3y ago
To your first point I find in these discussions the “just buy a bigger server” crowd massively underestimate the operational problems with giant db servers. They are no fun to babysit, and change gets really hard and tedious to not accident
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by dalyons 3y ago
Wow yeah, nice clarification. I would be furious if I bought a new car in 2023 that made me use one of those fiddly wheels for CarPlay. That’s terrible. I had a BMW with a wheel and it was insanely annoying. But that was 10 years ago!
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by dalyons 3y ago
That makes sense! Sorry, you said that but I didnt connect the dots
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by dalyons 3y ago
I guess I’ve just never seen the combination of lots of writes AND lots of validates_uniqueness(or whatever db validation) AND the writes are updating the unique fields (due to dirty attributes / partial updates). So it’s never really
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by dalyons 3y ago
I’m curious why you think constraints are such a problem? I’ve worked on quite a few large rails apps, and whilst you’re not wrong, the extra traffic from checking constraints has always been a tiny negligible part of overall db traffic.
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by dalyons 3y ago
Australia has 4ish banks. The US has 4000. It’s just not the same problem
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by dalyons 3y ago
Todos are binary, OKRs are (supposed to be) measurable continuously. Ie, we only did 5 of the top 10 tech debt tasks so the goal was 50% achieved
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by dalyons 3y ago
The EV market is slowing down in the US only because manufacturers refuse to make affordable EVs. Ie, the point of the article. Toyota is going to get obliterated globally by Chinese EVs unless they change course very soon. Maybe they’ll ha
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by dalyons 3y ago
yeah, billing is pretty simple with a bit of investment on tagging. If it gets complicated there are third party tools to help. Much better than introducing significant complexity into your systems architecture just for the accounting team.
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by dalyons 3y ago
imo you've just traded one set of centralized costs (developing tools, security practices that work for all and educating people) for a distributed set of costs with everyone managing their own clusters and duplicating all this work. Y
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by dalyons 3y ago
Oneplane sounds right to me. Perhaps to you “order” is the most important thing, rather than teams’ efficiency, effectiveness and innovation. Which if so sort of proves the 90s point.
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by dalyons 3y ago
unless you have some strict security reasons, why even have separate prod clusters per product? We definitely don’t. seems to kinda miss the point of k8s - aka running all kinds of mixed workloads with separation within a cluster if you nee
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by dalyons 3y ago
That shouldn’t be stable long term though, evs will be fundamentally cheaper to manufacture
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by dalyons 3y ago
Hybrids are much more complicated, and thus will be more expensive all things being equal. Once EVs break out of their current weird artificial premium only market segment, and are available at their natural price points like the cheap Chin
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by dalyons 3y ago
Yeah, can’t really see any overlap in the camps of folk who want “scale to zero” and those who want the “automatically horizontally sharded ginormous transaction scale” that this post is about.
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by dalyons 3y ago
Sort of. True that throughout history, if you were born to the top very small % of ruling/landed class then you had it easy. This is a much larger chunk of society though, perhaps ~50% that will be permanently generationally better off
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by dalyons 3y ago
its imho subtly worse... rich people, corporations, and children of older people who already own homes. There's a _lot_ of the last group, and its dividing society into two large segments with a widening gap in between, based on nothin
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by dalyons 3y ago
Do people just find these facts inconvenient? Unbelievable.
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by dalyons 3y ago
To state the obvious, navy reactors do not have to be economical. No one is saying it’s not possible to build small reactors, it obviously is. just not for a cost or cost per watt that anyone is prepared to pay.
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by dalyons 3y ago
Thanks for responding. You sound like you're on the right side of things - enabling change and innovation when its sane and possible. Sorry for assuming the otherwise from your previous replies.
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by dalyons 3y ago
The real answer is "ok, that is a bad idea for XYZ reasons, what problem are you trying to solve? is there another way we can help you solve for it? Maybe a cheap replica would work for you?" And look, i have nothing to go off but
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by dalyons 3y ago
Do you have a customer focus? Are you trying to unblock people as fast as possible to solve their legitimate business need? Or are you using these as excuses to effectively say no to anything anyone proposes? If yes to the first, you’re a u
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by dalyons 3y ago
in cars it is often is ugly AND doesnt work.
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by dalyons 3y ago
Do you know how much empty unproductive space there is in the world? It’s an awful lot more than you think. Putting them on peoples roofs is actually a terrible option from a GW/$ equation due to install costs, and lack of operational
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by dalyons 3y ago
You won’t get an answer to this. The energy world has changed very quickly in the past few years, and many can’t adjust their opinions to take new data and trends into account.
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by dalyons 3y ago
Please explain how we are running out of space for windmills, especially offshore ones? Or why solar plants make no sense
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by dalyons 3y ago
eh i guess i disagree. We had that (& still do for some cars) for decades, and it universally resulted in terrible software that you were stuck with for the life of the car. Hard to update == hard to iterate == bad software.
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by dalyons 3y ago
It’s not terrible. Not improved afaic since the acquisition, but not worse. Still better than mint

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