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by e1g 2y ago
I moved to NYC and London and both were great for integration because so many “locals” were not born there, and do not fall back on their college friend group.
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by e1g 2y ago
RHEL is free for up to 16 systems (physical or VMs). For CI, you can run Rocky/Alma to ensure continuous compatibility if you grow past 16 beefy VMs.
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by e1g 2y ago
> They were all looking to raise nearly identical rounds: $1.5 million to $2 million On top of $500k from YC. Tiny $2M+. Barely anything for two people and a dream.
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by e1g 2y ago
Perplexity recently released something like this https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/perplexity-pages
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by e1g 2y ago
That is almost certainly what’s happening here. They raised $3M three years ago, at the peak of evaluations, and don’t have the metrics to raise a Series A in the current climate. Running out of money and want to leave some artifact behind.
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by e1g 2y ago
Thank you for looking into it in such detail based on an unrelated thread! Cloudflare seems to consistently make all types of network improvements behind the scenes, so I’ll continue to monitor for this “connection reuse” feature. It might
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by e1g 2y ago
Yes, tried tunnels too. There is significant variability among individual requests, but when benchmarking at scale I found no meaningful difference in p50 and p90 between “Worker -> CF Tunnel -> EC2 -> backend app” and “Worker -&gt
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by e1g 2y ago
> So if you call fetch() twice in a row, to the same hostname, does it reuse a connection? In my testing, the second fetch() call from a worker to the same origin ran over the same TCP connection 50% of the time and was much faster. We w
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by e1g 2y ago
> The CDN can maintain a persistent connection to the backend that is shared across users We considered using Cloudflare Workers as a reverse proxy, and I did extensive testing of this (very reasonable) assumption. Turns out that when ca
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by e1g 2y ago
sama recently said they want to allow NSWF stuff for personal use but need to resolve a few issues around safety, etc. OpenAI is probably not against sexting philosophically.
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by e1g 2y ago
This deal makes sense if it's connected to revenue, not tenure. If the contract is framed around time, then understand that you'll be just one of many hobbies for a newly retired exec who wants to feel young and important by dabbl
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by e1g 2y ago
Nginx doesn’t use SemVer but still does Odd-Even Versioning: odd-numbered releases are “development” and even-numbered are “LTS”. The significance of this release is that there is now a new stable LTS version that includes everything from t
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by e1g 2y ago
For those looking for production-level OAuth libs, the best implementation for all JS runtimes is https://github.com/panva/oauth4webapi Certified, thoroughly tested, zero deps, fully typed, secure defaults, works in No
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by e1g 3y ago
DuckDB or ClickHouse can read from PG and output to parquet
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by e1g 3y ago
Yep, systemd is an excellent and stable process runner - it can start your processes whenever, with dependencies (eg redis/pg), or on a flexible schedule etc.
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by e1g 3y ago
Systemd also gives you cpu/memory limiting, file system isolation, locked down capabilities for the process, CPU affinity, can use different Node versions for different apps, etc. It removes the need for Docker for the vast majority of
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by e1g 3y ago
This write up is very grounded and practical for bootstrappers. I’m in enterprise SaaS, but every point tracks 100%. The most painful lesson was that zero to one sales talent does not exist, and it’s all on you, dear founder.
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by e1g 3y ago
When you think you're almost done, you're halfway there. However long you expect X to take, you should double that. Hofstadter's Law: it always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's L
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by e1g 3y ago
magic is the core detection logic of file that was extracted out to be available as a library. So these days file is just a higher level wrapper around magic
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by e1g 3y ago
Just for context, the OP (FiloSottile) was in charge of cryptography and security on the Go team until recently.
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by e1g 3y ago
> increasing in-person collaboration in our hubs, and concentrating the time zones in which we operate Massive turn-around since Brex declared themselves to be remote-first and said things like "Yes, employees can relocate permanent
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by e1g 3y ago
They spend every cent of the revenue they made AND the extra $17m each month.
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by e1g 3y ago
Three months ago Wise stopped accepting new business clients from the EU (and, mostly, the UK).
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by e1g 3y ago
The problem with offshore Estonian companies is banking - no Estonian bank will touch you, and few real banks (not emoney) will deal with you. Even Wise is no longer an option. Registering an entity is easy, using it is hard.
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by e1g 3y ago
Some patterns are so self-evident and prophetic that the end results are axiomatic. In tech, one example is “let’s add encryption backdoors so the Good Guys can Save the Children”. There is no doubt how that will end. In society, when a jun
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by e1g 3y ago
Twitch pays out to creators 50-70% (some earn millions per year) TikTok pays essentially $0
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by e1g 3y ago
The domain name is new, and those get blocked by many DNS-based ad-blocks. I use NextDNS and get the same error - spotlightjs.com is blocked (resolves to 0.0.0.0) NextDNS calls this "Block Newly Registered Domains (NRDs)", and app
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by e1g 3y ago
For anyone who’s been in the high level SF tech scene for >15 years, $1M is not a substantial part of their liquid net worth. Certainly not for anyone who was in PGs inner circle 15 years ago.
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by e1g 3y ago
Same here, two kids and zero strategies that worked with one apply to the other. Might as well be raising a dog and a dolphin.
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by e1g 3y ago
It’s tempting to think “corrupt LATAM officials”, but the article mentions that Newark, NJ fell for exactly the same ruse just months ago, for no apparent gain https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/16&#

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