danmaz74

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by danmaz74 2y ago
The US starting trade wars with all its allies will only accelerate China becoming the dominant economy.
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by danmaz74 2y ago
Your example of WhatsApp is a perfect one for me to say: yes, I would much rather use for my private messaging an open source, publicly founded solution, than a solution which Mark Zuckerberg controls for his own private gain.
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by danmaz74 2y ago
Aren't buses with a fixed route also a great candidate for battery swap solutions? As all the buses are managed by the same company, I would be curious to know if there are any hidden issues with this approach: while an bus is riding w
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by danmaz74 2y ago
The US was never in the European Union, but has always been the leader of NATO and, since WWII, the "Western world". Trump bringing the US out of those positions is a bigger deal than Brexit, because the UK was never a leader in t
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by danmaz74 2y ago
The point is that Russia won't have to attack any more, because Ukraine will already be nothing more than a puppet state after having been forced to sign the kind of peace deal that Putin wants.
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by danmaz74 2y ago
It was Eltsin who listened to American advisors, not Gorbachev.
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by danmaz74 2y ago
Hey, we need to do XYZ by April 1st. Let me know if you think that's a problem.
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by danmaz74 2y ago
I do understand that difference, but also the difference between having tech being developed in Europe and not having it.
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by danmaz74 2y ago
Nuclear fusion has no clear path to reach viability with just a fraction of that amount, not even close.
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by danmaz74 2y ago
Wow, I just read all the comments which are currently here (at my time of reading), and the level is worse than on Reddit. Not the HN I remember... Talking about the actual news, as usual with this kinds of programs, a lot of the money won&
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by danmaz74 2y ago
> The results would be indistinguishable from a massive cyber attack and would take decades to recover from. It would be painful, yes, but it wouldn't "take decades to recover from", not even years. These services, technic
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by danmaz74 2y ago
If that's possible for you, installing the heat pump so that it exchanges heat underground should improve performance a lot when the air is very cold (or very hot).
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by danmaz74 2y ago
on the other hand, with better insulation you don't need the same BTU output
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by danmaz74 2y ago
I agree that this perception about modern leftism in the West is a very big issue. Through no personal fault of Harris, I think that a lot of non-white men and white women voted for Trump because they feel like progressives don't care
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by danmaz74 2y ago
My impression is that it's not about what Kamala Harris (or most Democrats) said, but the fact that the Republicans were able to create the perception that there are strong movements which hate "whites" and which hate "
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by danmaz74 2y ago
I subscribe to the concept of the "pyramid of tests" - lots of simpler unit tests, fewer integration tests, and very few end-to-end tests. I find that using LLMs to write unit tests is very useful. If I just wrote code which has g
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by danmaz74 2y ago
Except for the fact that anecdotes aren't a random sample, they're selected because they're interesting.
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by danmaz74 2y ago
Until recently I was only using Copilot as an advanced autocomplete and to help writing tests, for which it's pretty useful. A couple weeks ago I had to create some classes (typescript) implementing a quite big spec for a file format t
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by danmaz74 2y ago
I don't know it to be True, but I know it to be useful :)
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by danmaz74 2y ago
You're implying that there is an absolute Truth and that people only need to do [what?] to check if something is True. But that's not True. We only have models of how reality works, and every model is wrong - but some are useful.
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by danmaz74 2y ago
I tried it briefly and didn't like it. On the other hand, I found Gemini pro better than sonnet or 4o at some more complex coding tasks (using continue.dev)
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by danmaz74 2y ago
I've got more than 15 years of Rails production experience, including a lot of performance optimisation, and in my experience the Ruby code is very rarely the bottleneck. And in those cases, you can almost always find some solution.
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by danmaz74 2y ago
I never said that you should only have one server on Hetzner. For the web servers and background workers, though, scaling horizontally with docker images on physical server is still trivial. By the way, I was running my startup on 17 physic
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by danmaz74 2y ago
That's true, but you can use your replica only for non-realtime reporting, or even just as a hot standby. Edit: Careful for the non-realtime reporting though if you want to run very slow queries - those will pause replication and can b
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by danmaz74 2y ago
"For millions of users the CPU cost difference probably justifies the rewrite cost." This is only true if you have expensive computations done in Ruby or Python or similar, which is very rarely the case.
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by danmaz74 2y ago
"without blowing $250,000/month on their AWS bill". The point is that you don't need AWS for this! You can use Docker to configure much , much cheaper/faster physical servers from Hetzner or similar with super-si
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by danmaz74 2y ago
Having at least 2 web servers and a read-only DB replica for redundancy/high availability is very easy and much safer. Yes, setting up a single-server is faster, but if your DB server dies - and at some point it will happen - you'
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by danmaz74 2y ago
Any successful enough open source project will develop a community around itself, but it's true that this isn't a kind of community where democracy works or should be expected to be implemented. And, as DHH put it, that's fin
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by danmaz74 2y ago
Are you confusing ruby with rails? DHH created the latter, not the former.
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by danmaz74 2y ago
Most reusable bags here in Italy are still made of plastic, but much sturdier than single use shopping bags. Personally I like them. My only issue is the few times when I forget to put them back into my car.

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