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by dx034 5y ago
If that worked well you could skip annual inventory, on which many companies spend huge amounts on. If you could just have a robot with video driving through the aisles of a supermarket to detect the number of items, misplaced items or expi
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by dx034 5y ago
And what if the image is mostly comprised of an existing artwork with copyright? Not sure I'd take that legal risk as a newspaper.
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by dx034 5y ago
On high speed lines, you often can only run either one of those. Not only that freight trains are slower, but they often aren't allowed to use tunnels at the same time as high speed passengers trains. So on some of the most direct and
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by dx034 5y ago
Also, construction prices have gone up a lot. Rail investment depends heavily on steel and concrete, both have skyrocketed over past years. And as you said, undoing a decade or more of underinvestment is extremely costly and leads to more d
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by dx034 5y ago
And airlines usually charge more for direct flights (price discrimination), so for leasure long-haul travel it's fairly common for Europeans to have a flight with stopover, even if there's a direct connection available.
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by dx034 5y ago
Using all features isn't uncommon for large companies with very heterogen team structures. And there aren't many alternatives that allow companies to tailor the software as well as Jira.
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by dx034 5y ago
Especially as I've never heard from a self hosted Jira instance being down for a week. You just restore the last backup and there you go. Quite simple if it's only one system you have to restore, not millions. To me that shows aga
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by dx034 5y ago
As I said, if most queries are read-only it's really simple. Streaming replication works very well out of the box, just make sure you keep enough WAL segments on master so that slaves can catch up after some downtime. I have a 1-1 rela
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by dx034 5y ago
Maybe in SV the comp is that high. I only have insights into European markets, but here the comp doesn't differ too much from programmers. And an AWS expert won't be cheaper than someone with knowledge how to manage infrastructure
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by dx034 5y ago
It's technical debt if you may need to change your product because a third party makes changes. The beauty of software with little dependencies is that you can run decades old software on a system just fine with no need to regularly re
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by dx034 5y ago
Did that in the past but I'm kind of glad these free tunnels exist now. I always felt a bit uncomfortable forwarding ports in my home setup, esp if it wasn't to a linux server that I could harden reliably.. For me, NAT was always
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by dx034 5y ago
The advantage with cloudflare tunnel is that you can block all incoming requests via firewall. That alone drastically reduces your attack surface. And your actual location and IP is obfuscated via Cloudflare. I'd imagine these two poin
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by dx034 5y ago
I actually found German newspapers to be comparably nice. Any country without laws prohibiting it have these behaviors.
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by dx034 5y ago
At the same scale? I guess if you move a whole data center, they'll quote very different prices from their public ones.
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by dx034 5y ago
Sounds really interesting. I don't understand why so many companies think the alternative to owning your DC must be the cloud. I think the step you describe is where companies can get rid of a lot of overhead and save massive amounts o
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by dx034 5y ago
Are you happy with Oracle? I wanted to try it, but the onboarding process (until you're able to actually order some beefy servers) was so problematic (delays, weird error messages, conflicting messages from support) that I didn't
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by dx034 5y ago
So you saved money because you optimized the structure, not because of the provider? I guess you would've saved more rebuilding it on OVH?
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by dx034 5y ago
Funnily enough that was a use case for dedicated servers I encountered. Usage based pay is great if you have an unlimited budget, but most companies would rather have predictable cost and not serve every traffic spike. Especially for intern
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by dx034 5y ago
I'm still not a fan of the second way. If you develop all your software to tightly integrate with AWS, you might save time developing the software but create a huge amount of technical debt. Managing your own infrastructure (with dedic
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by dx034 5y ago
I also found that running a PostgreSQL database is really simple. Especially if most of your workload is read only, a few dedicated servers at several providers with a PostgreSQL cluster can deliver 100% uptime and more than enough performa
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by dx034 5y ago
It might be different if you're a developer in SV, but I'd say for most people, that's not insignificant. That's more expensive than most hobbies, I wouldn't spend £100 on a side project if there's an alternati
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by dx034 5y ago
Absolutely. And dedicated servers at many providers (e.g. Hetzner, OVH) can be provisioned much like vms. So the only real difference is that usually there's a minimum contract of 1 month, but often at a price where it's cheaper t
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by dx034 5y ago
Interestingly, it looks like Italy is the real culprit here. France can import enough but still exports significantly to Italy (directly and indirectly via Switzerland). If you look at Northern Italy's mix [1], the explanation is simpl
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by dx034 5y ago
As I wrote, I'd consider being behind a NAT still having a public IP. It's a shared one but any web page will be able to see a public IP associated with this machine. That's different from servers that have no public IP and m
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by dx034 5y ago
The cost per search query is incredibly small. You could probably have <1% premium users. If your search engine is used by a billion people a day, 10 million paying users are still enough to pay a few thousand people developing your prod
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by dx034 5y ago
And reddit works because it's not an algorithm that decides which post is good, it's people with upvotes. And that in turn can be used by search engines. Maybe that's what would fix Google. Up&down-votes for web results.
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by dx034 5y ago
I'm really bad at languages and struggle to learn new languages. Picking up new programming languages is not problem for me though.
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by dx034 5y ago
Can it really work if the server doesn't have a public IP? It works if the server blocks all incoming traffic, but doesn't it have to be routable? It can of course work via DHCP, but I would consider my devices at home still to ha
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by dx034 5y ago
Not all public companies panic if they don't grow fast over time. But other industries are also harder to penetrate by startups. But I wouldn't blame stock markets for this obsession, especially as companies already show this pre-
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by dx034 5y ago
Can't that be filtered on a dns level with a list in pihole? Probably much nicer not having to keep it on all devices.

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