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by foofie 3y ago
> SQLite with appropriate configuration for WAL, et. al. can run circles around hosted SQL providers for many classes of non-queries. SQLite directly on top of NVMe storage is a monster. Are there any benchmarks that put hard numbers on
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by foofie 3y ago
> Actually, they did, because everything in the early days had very small memory sizes. This was the 16-bit era. I don't think that's a possibility. If buffers are smaller then buffer capacity was not infinite, and the same fai
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by foofie 3y ago
> I can edit video in Final Cut Pro on my 8GB M1 Mac Mini while doing other things. I can't use IntelliJ or vscode with autocompletion on a 2023 MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM with a bunch of my projects. The same projects run like a b
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by foofie 3y ago
> Which makes sense, since people who "migrated" to Threads mostly done so because they disagreed with Musk on politics. Seeing an inflow of abuse caused by the elimination of any semblance of moderation, coupled with not wanti
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by foofie 3y ago
> sure the new server is faster than the old one, but you know what's even faster? Dividing the existing workload between both of them. How do you factor reliability into your analysis? I mean, the reason companies ditch their 3yo s
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by foofie 3y ago
> When people say "whitespace matters", what it means is whether the meaning changes when you have more than 1 not more than 0. I agree. After reading the blog post, it's clear that the author should have called it "s
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by foofie 3y ago
> This is the argument for biasing the economy against large companies. It's also an argument to break large companies into smaller ones. This has to cut both ways, not just to fire people by cutting off whole org branches.
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by foofie 3y ago
> My very first boss that I believe is an undiagnosed psychopath is now director level over there. That told me everything I needed to know about any possible direction of the company. I no longer use anything made by them and actively s
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by foofie 3y ago
> As other comments point out, their own platform was (at least in terms of DB) already running on AWS, just using a different account. That changes nothing. It just means this unjustifiable nonsense is going on for a while.
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by foofie 3y ago
> (...) its a blucking government, it handles citizen data, and its sending them to a company of foreign country, because it can’t hire some system administrators? A GOVERNMENT? What are they doing? This is a very good question, and bear
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by foofie 3y ago
> (...) people really did think of network congestion as a buffer allocation problem, so the obvious solution was more buffering - i.e. adding queues. I don't think people believed network congestion was a buffer allocation problem.
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by foofie 3y ago
> Also, Threads was famous for a steep initial adoption curve. Do note that Threads was also not available in Europe when it launched, and I think that only changed a couple of weeks ago.
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by foofie 3y ago
> There has been a monumental growth in traffic on X despite all the exodus. I need you to back that up, because everything points towards the exact opposite of what you're claiming. https://techcrunch.com/2023/
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by foofie 3y ago
> Okay? That has nothing to do with it. You missed the whole point. The point is that having psychos in charge is not a characteristic of an economic system. It's a characteristic of forming organizations manned by human beings. It&
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by foofie 3y ago
> Don’t make excuses. Putting psychopaths in the drivers seat is a precipitation of capitalism. That's a disingenuous take. There are plenty of examples where psycho apparatchiks of anti-capitalist regimes made decisions "for t
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by foofie 3y ago
> And if they were an SV startup, they'd be receiving abundant praise for rapidly disrupting their market... I don't think that's a valid comparison. For a startup to disrupt a market, it should have some semblance of a wi
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by foofie 3y ago
For those of us that don't know what cnpg stands for, it's CloudNativePG https://cloudnative-pg.io/
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by foofie 3y ago
> The main critique I have of your post is that it's very possible that the woman doesn't have other options. I'm not comfortable with this line of argument. It makes it sound like these delivery companies are generous cha
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by foofie 3y ago
> It's a shame Boeing killed 346 people. IT's obvious that Boeing is a bad actor. If I recall correctly, Boeing also tried to pin the blame of their broken by design plane crashing on human error, when pilots were powerless. Ba
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by foofie 3y ago
> Do you have any references, in terms of further reading material, for the cross over point for when it's stops being competitive? I'm afraid I don't. The most objective cutoff point I can come up with is based purely on
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by foofie 3y ago
> Seems like a solution looking for a problem. We don't need food delivery robots, people are happy to do the same thing (just look at Uber eats, DoorDash, postmates, etc). Once I ordered from one of those companies on a brutally ra
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by foofie 3y ago
> Compared to self-driving cars, delivery robots are easier to accommodate to the point of actually becoming economical. Seeing how delivery companies abuse labor laws and take advantage of undocumented immigrants to perform their servic
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by foofie 3y ago
It's disheartening how something as straight-forward as improving a town's walkability and reducing the threat posed by cars is framed as something evil that only a robot-wielding corporation corrupting officials would ever do.
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by foofie 3y ago
> But does anyone work on backends that heavily utilize a serverless platform? As far as I know, that scenario is not in the decision tree for when to go with function-as-a-service offerings. FaaS is for things like glue code for event h
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by foofie 3y ago
I think that compliance with the laws were deemed "nominal", not the laws themselves. In the sense, companies comply with the letter of the law instead of with the spirit of the law.
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by foofie 3y ago
> admittedly, could be managed better That sounds like "nominally and not actually".
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by foofie 3y ago
> That Israel wants to hire labourers from a distant country than hire Palestinians, to further impoverish them, is controversial in India: Indians are also hired by companies like Google to move to and work in the US. Would you also des
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by foofie 3y ago
> Quite the threat. I wonder if Tesla's institutional shareholders see Tesla's foray into robotics as a money-losing distraction that drains precious company resources to serve no other purpose than to have bragging rights. If
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by foofie 3y ago
I'm not sure if I'm doing the right math, but isn't 12% of Tesla worth around $60B?
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by foofie 3y ago
> I guess a few elements in the connector (USB and Ethernet) are differential pairs. So okay, you need to know a bit about transmission line theory. But as far as actually running differential pairs with matched-impedances, its just a ma

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