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by kentonv 1y ago
Previous discussions: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18188519 * https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22Protobuffers+Are+Wrong%22 I guess I'll, once again, copy/paste the comment I made when this was
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by kentonv 1y ago
No, the title edit is fair, where the original title is misleading. Obviously, no matter how you read from disk, it has to go through RAM. Disk bandwidth cannot exceed memory bandwidth.* But what the article actually tests is a program that
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by kentonv 1y ago
Sorry but I think there's still a basic misunderstanding here. Pages is not going away. It is not "sunsetting". What is happening is, the implementation is changing to be more closely integrated with Workers. At present most
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by kentonv 1y ago
No no no, Pages will not be "shut down". Pages is gradually being unified into the Workers platform. For new projects we suggest just starting with Workers as it is strictly more powerful. But eventually existing Pages projects wi
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by kentonv 1y ago
If the CDN is implementing the explicitly-configured preferences of the specific site, what difference does it make if the blocking happens at the CDN vs. the site's origin server?
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by kentonv 1y ago
D1 is built on Durable Objects, where SQLite is used on top of a custom distributed storage layer. This blog post describes in detail how the system works: https://blog.cloudflare.com/sqlite-in-durable-objects/ In shor
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by kentonv 1y ago
On a desktop browser, if a web site wants me to upload photos, I click the "upload" button, and then the browser displays a file picker. The web site only ever sees the files I choose. The web has this because it has to. Obvious
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by kentonv 1y ago
OK but the same vulnerability exists if short URLs weren't used -- in that case the link source would link directly to the now-hijacked domain. So why does Google have to care about this? Is it because they're worried that the dom
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by kentonv 1y ago
But those problems all went away six years ago when Google stopped accepting new links.
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by kentonv 1y ago
Yes, particularly when considering they stopped accepting new links six years ago. It's a read-only data set and the total storage backing it is probably trivial by Google standards. But they actually backtracked and said they'll
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by kentonv 1y ago
Yes that's exactly how I'm thinking of it!
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> I do think if vibe coding is up to the task it should be possible to vibe code Sandstorm right out of its dependency lock. ;) Not really -- you'd still need a systems engineer who is capable of doing it themselves to guide the AI
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by kentonv 1y ago
I think if I were doing it again I would not use containers at all. Instead I'd use isolates -- like Cloudflare Workers. In fact I'd probably build in on workerd (open source Cloudflare Workers runtime). I'm obviously a bit b
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by kentonv 1y ago
Author is arguing: * LLMs, when presented with a question to which they don't know the answer, tend to make up a wrong answer rather than say they don't know. * Therefore, LLMs are useless. Yes, LLMs do that, and it is a problem.
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by kentonv 1y ago
sandstorm.org is an offshoot of sandstorm.io, my old (failed) startup. Some folks who really wanted to keep the project running took over ownership of the open source code. I'm not involved these days. Full story at: https:/&#x2F
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by kentonv 1y ago
Yeah OK fair that line in the readme is more prominent than I remember it being. I never look at my own readmes so they tend to get outdated. :/ Fixing: https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider/pul
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by kentonv 1y ago
Dude. That code tptacek linked you to? It's part of our (Cloudflare's) MCP framework. Which means all of the companies mentioned in this blog post are using this code in production today: https://blog.cloudflare.com&#x2
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by kentonv 1y ago
We will be able to distinguish them.
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> the "perplexity bots" arent crawling websites, they fetch URLs that the users explicitly asked. This shouldnt count as something that needs robots.txt access. It's not a robot randomly crawling, it's the user asking
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by kentonv 1y ago
^ Come work with me!
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by kentonv 1y ago
Not necessarily. Cap'n Proto serialization can be a huge win in terms of compute if you are communicating using shared memory or reading huge mmaped files, especially if the reader only cares to read some random subset of the message
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by kentonv 1y ago
In all seriousness: I develop Cap'n Proto to serve my own projects that use it, such at the Cloudflare Workers runtime. It is actually not my goal to see Cap'n Proto itself adopted widely. I mean, don't get me wrong, it'
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by kentonv 1y ago
> I feel like it could be a barrier to being taken seriously in some environments. Working as intended. ;)
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by kentonv 1y ago
Yes, of course. But given the circumstances we all believed it was highly unlikely he'd actually sue.
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That and $800 CA franchise tax. But the money wasn't really significant. It was just annoying to have to prepare the returns every year.
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by kentonv 1y ago
Yeah, I used to hear all the time that "a startup is worth $1 million per engineer in a pure acquihire", but learned the hard way this is a myth. When we were talking to various companies about acquiring Sandstorm.io (my startup)
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by kentonv 1y ago
Doesn't turning off sync mean you can lose confirmed writes in a power failure?
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by kentonv 1y ago
Indoor plants are tricky with cats. They will chew on them, and many plants can be poisonous to them. Also keeping them watered is work, and they can create a mess if they grow in the wrong direction. We have a lot of plants outside, though
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There are sometimes mosquitoes, but there's usually a pretty nice breeze on the roof which makes it hard for mosquitoes to navigate there.
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Honestly I think interviews are just not something Linus does a lot of. He has a particular workflow where he writes a script for himself and then acts it out for the camera. Changing it up would be going outside his comfort zone and there

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