hobobaggins

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by hobobaggins 3y ago
> all they can see is an IP address That is precisely the, ahem, signal metadata.
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
Yes. Or we would end up comparing multiple news stories, presumably at least partly fact-checked (but you never know these days), against a single post on a random social network.
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
You made me spit my Java out. (and you're right, even for smaller companies)
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
Tell that to my Linux boxes that have been up for years, or others who have been up for decades.
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
unbelievable powerful (within certain parameters), and definitely feature-full when compared to virtually any other highly-available platform. however, cost-effective? only if you're sitting on piles of cash. IBM mainframes are unique.
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
It's not that pgsql wasn't appropriate, it's that the neutered AWS RDS managed instance was inappropriate. Whether more appropriate non-pgsql solutions existed seems to have been outside the scope of the article.
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
Perhaps cockroachdb or titaniumdb would be a better choice.
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
And it can be far worse than that, too. Comparing to on-premise DB on real iron, that cost differential could easily be closer to 30x. that old saying "but it's opex, not capex" will only take you so far -- especially if you
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
I think the article is saying that EBS comes with no throughput guarantees (or even estimates of what to expect)
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
stockfish v stockfish!
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
Is BLE a PWA requirement? I think they explained their position pretty well here, regardless of whether I agree: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/95#iss...
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
That was because Apple had gone out of its way to keep all of the best native functionality available only to native apps. Facebook is not a complicated front-end application (or it wasn't back then), so it should have been possible, b
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
Yeah, there's no way Apple has any incentive at all to make it easy to install even the (very neutered) PWA experience. Interestingly, it's a lot easier on Android than on iPhone, but Google has always been more open about outside
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
> And you don't see how this would be abused by nefarious web sites ? How is this different from being inundated with requests (really, more of a demand or an absolute requirement) to install the app to view this content ?
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
No, it did not, not until iOS 6 (!!) And Steve Jobs ensured that Flash uploaders popular at the time could never work on the iPhone, either. Example: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/4104/is-it-possibl...
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
It might seem incredible, but there are legends of entire companies being built without App Store access in times of yore.
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
How do you think things get into yum and maven in the first place?
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
Not if Apple has its way. They've consistently regressed, failed to implement standards, implemented them brokenly, delayed/delayed/delayed, stated that a feature was bad for privacy|security|performance, etc. Just an endless
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
Might be worth it in a datacenter, especially if it's operating other servers alongside (perhaps I/O bound web serving or something); perf/$ does matter, definitely, but the state of the art is moving quickly (getting faster&
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
Am I missing something? It looks like this is incredibly unfinished.
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
Usually, there's a politically driven initiative to ban something without giving any real thought to the long-term unintended consequences. (This is essentially the story of the entire EPA's existence.) Often these initiatives are
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
I wanted to love this article, but: > The Fairphone's use of eco-friendly materials has a positive impact on the environment. The use of ethically sourced materials helps to ensure that the mining of these materials is done in a res
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
We'll never know exactly what the issue was. It's in nobody's best interest to share that information. It's not in OpenAI's, Microsoft's, and certainly not sama's. Probably not even Ilya's. Ultimately
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
aka LibreOffice aka StarOffice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice Amazingly, there is still a really cool 90's website at https://www.staroffice.com ! You can even buy a neolithic version of Sta
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
> That's not entirely honest. Better to say not correct, rather than implying dishonesty.
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
Costco was selling them (still!): https://www.costco.com/CatalogSearch?dept=All&keyword=ssd Is Costco completely unaware of these massive issues?
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
It's definitely an odd article, and I'd like to see an actual before-and-after, rather than just some "comparison" shots from completely different angles, zoom, etc. It's not like they can't take the photo from
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
> with a notice to employees citing security concerns, according to an internal blog post. > The decision to block ChatGPT, which is made by Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI, was made and communicated by the information-technology depa
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
> serverless.. as long as we have enough money to throw on it This one speaks truth.
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by hobobaggins 3y ago
I'm seeing 200,000-ish sites on the left y-axis?

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