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by jwr 1y ago
I've been running my SaaS on Hetzner servers for over 10 years now. Dedicated hardware, clusters in DE and FI, managed through ansible. I use vpncloud to set up a private VPN between the servers (excellent software, btw). My hosting bi
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I don't get this scalability craze either. Computers are stupid fast these days and unless you are doing something silly, it's difficult to run into CPU speed limitations. I've been running a SaaS for 10 years now. Initially
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by jwr 1y ago
It has become convenient for manufacturers to treat software/firmware differently from hardware, and we should fight that. If you buy a car, phone, or a TV, you buy an appliance, not "hardware stored at your place with software&#x
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by jwr 1y ago
Related: if you use iOS or macOS, I highly recommend Naturespace for nature sounds and Iceland White for natural white noise-like sounds. No distractions, excellent quality audio.
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Perhaps. My point is that the word "engineering" describes a specific approach, based on rigor and repeatability. If the results of your work depend on a random generator seed, it's not engineering. If you don't have est
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I find the word "engineering" used in this context extremely annoying. There is no "engineering" here. Engineering is about applying knowledge, laws of physics, and rules learned over many years to predictably design and
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Is this really Dutch-specific, or is there a chance other modern smart meters in other EU countries might use the same protocols?
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Bear in mind this no longer provides the same consistency model as PostgreSQL does. It's not a straightforward extension of the nice serializable world. That might not be what you expect given the name, this does not provide a strict s
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> edge cases that can come up and they scare me off They should! Read some of the excellent Jepsen analyses to see how scary things can be: https://jepsen.io/analyses
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You haven't described those "fundamental problems" that you call bugs, but I think these are irrelevant for me from a ClojureScript point of view. As an example, immutable data structures mean that equality comparisons are ch
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Incidentally, these powered USB hubs are pure gold if you do any embedded development. Plenty of USB-A ports (of which MacBook Pro owners get exactly zero, because courage, and Tim Cook doesn't have any USB-A devices) — absolute requir
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by jwr 1y ago
I use this approach with a long-throw HDMI microscope, cheap ones are available on Aliexpress. I put one over my desk, and I get the output with reasonably low latency through a HDMI capture adapter on my computer screen. Very useful for el
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Happy to see a clear path for React going forward. React is under-appreciated in some circles of the fast-moving JavaScript world, where people are somehow expected to rewrite all their code from scratch every couple of years or so, after s
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I wonder how Qualcomm's extremely closed culture will play with this acquisition. I am worried.
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> Some people laugh at the 800W output As a data point, 200-300W is enough to heat a 35m2 wooden house to 20°C with a heat pump, in Poland, so with external temperatures normally between -5°C and 15°C. Your watts can go much farther than
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by jwr 1y ago
The ideas are correct, but the argument in the article… could use some improvement. In stage 1 ("good for users") Cory describes how the platform becomes bad for users. In stage 2 ("abusing users, good to businesses") he
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by jwr 1y ago
> What is your email solution? As a data point and reminder, running your own E-mail server works just fine, in spite of FUD being spread around sometimes. I've been doing it for the last 25 years or so. Stick to Ubuntu LTS releases
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I've seen to many companies call things "open", when they are decidedly not "open" — Google's Android comes to mind, or OpenAI. I don't see an RFC defining that "cross-vendor E2E email encryption&quot
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This is a classic "whataboutism"-style argument: derail the discussion by asking "but what about...". Setting aside whether what you wrote is true, we are not talking about Signal here.
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"Embrace, extend, extinguish" all over again. I am appalled at how many people use Gmail, giving up their privacy, control over E-mail, and leading to an overly centralized system where our mail is controlled by 2-3 companies at m
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From someone who has worked on H.264 decoding and done some assembly optimization: this is an insanely complex task and a huge effort. Kudos to the author(s).
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The world is not binary, nor black & white. There is an entire spectrum of solutions between a spreadsheet and a highly-structured app. Sure, you can use a spreadsheet for anything, it's quick, and provides nearly no structure. You
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by jwr 1y ago
Enshittification is everywhere, unless you own your stuff. I know it's easier to use a third-party service, but please, consider hosting your own content to keep full control over it.
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> If your government started doing something you don't agree with, would you renounce your citizenship and move to another country? Yes — and I even thought about the specific red lines that would make me do it. > Using Iran as t
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I'm not sure what your point is, but it seems to be usual whataboutism, which can derail any rational discussion. Of course you can't sit on the sidelines.
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Voting isn't always enough. There are many other ways to take action in a democracy. Voting is the bare minimum, table stakes.
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I'm not sure why you are making this assumption, but assuming you are not trying to derail the discussion with the usual whataboutism argument, and taking your question at face value, the answer would be "yes". A citizen of a
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I don't understand how anyone would entrust OpenAI with private data about their entire life. Do people not care about privacy at all? Is everybody OK with being advertising/targeting meat? This sort of thing might arguably be use
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I am all for resurrecting the Old Web, but please, let's not repeat the same mistakes again. Be independent. Running your own website is not that difficult. And seriously, spending the minuscule amount of money on hosting should not be
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> They still suck at explaining which model they serve is which, though. "they" in this sentence probably applies to all "AI" companies. Even the naming/versioning of OpenAI models is ridiculous, and then you can

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