loxias

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by loxias 4y ago
Entertaining writing, but also a bunch of fluff I don't see the point of? It's not like setting up a share is hard, I'm missing the point of why something that's already easy would need an "easy way". Now, Samb
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by loxias 4y ago
Ignore the haters. Spend a few thousand bucks on some used PV panels on ebay, get a bunch of used batteries, and teach yourself enough electronics to DIY build everything else. That'll take you a bit of time, but you'll learn a
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by loxias 4y ago
This is me also. I was also isolated seeing only one other human for the entirety of COVID (including now, but I'm gonna move soon so I can at least go into a physical office). I feel like my brain still works at lots of stuff, once
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by loxias 4y ago
First, thanks for the thoughtfully written (though a bit hard to digest) reply, I wish I had seen it sooner! Your exacting precision and care with words lies in stark contrast to my comment's lack thereof, is the mark of someone who kn
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by loxias 4y ago
> Their derivatives unit, FTX US Derivatives, does have some of the licenses of a commodity exchange. This is because their derivatives unit was acquired, previously LedgerX, which I've used happily for 2 years. They're profes
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by loxias 4y ago
I want something like this, except the opposite. Python, except with braces instead of whitespace. (Syntactically significant whitespace kills me.) Or a tool which makes reading easier by adding parens where they would otherwise be implied
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by loxias 4y ago
As someone who loves writing DSP engine code but loathes making a GUI for it, this looks really cool, can't wait to play around with it.
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by loxias 4y ago
Would a hybrid key-value & document store, indices on any user defined path, with optional strong consistency DWYW?
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by loxias 4y ago
That's what I'm using mine for! I'll make a post with the parts list and software install steps in a month or so if it would help anyone out. I bought https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GK2QSY1 , and a few alt
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by loxias 4y ago
Cool service! I've been wondering about something like this. The pricing seems a bit high though, considering $8/month could also buy a cheap VPS with more than 1TB bandwidth (Contabo VPS, for example, offers a whopping 32TB out
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by loxias 4y ago
And even the thin mini PCs have fairly low power consumption these days. I got one with dual gig ethernet for $150, x86_64, works great. Similar ones for $100 you could easily hang a few large drives off of. Install a base OS, then docker
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by loxias 4y ago
This made my day, thank you so much. :) Your explanation makes sense and it sounds brilliant/clever yet obvious. (like many good ideas are) I'm reading the paper and looking at your github now, and look forward to "github&
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by loxias 4y ago
I want to hear more, esp about the distributed applications, do you have any useful links, or can I buy you an "e coffee" to pick your brain for a few minutes?
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by loxias 4y ago
"NAND optimized key value store" doesn't do it justice ;-) The fact that it's SSD optimized has nothing to do with key sharding across trees, the latter is what gets you the absurdly low latency and near infinite scale
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by loxias 4y ago
AIUI Radix sort "kinda ish" related, yeah :) They both involve looking at your data at a 90 degree angle and slicing on bitplanes.
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by loxias 4y ago
(Fantastic post idea OP. One of the best I've ever seen :D) Related to bloom filters, xor filters are faster and more memory efficient, but immutable. HyperLogLog is an efficient way to estimate cardinality. Coolest thing I've le
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by loxias 4y ago
> now that I've amassed more cash than what an emergency fund requires, what does one do? Pick a few things you can put your money into, which you have confidence won't lose value given a long enough time horizon. For me, this
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by loxias 4y ago
The hero we need. Thanks!
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by loxias 4y ago
This is the way. For even more peace of mind, (and only when you can afford it, obviously) try decoupling your disk purchases a bit from when you're going to need them. When you see a good price or a sale on a particular disk, grab it
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by loxias 4y ago
> x86-64 system with four gigabit ethernet ports This is an annoyingly unfilled product space. I keep on wanting and the market keeps failing to provide something small, cheap, and with 2 gige ports. Heck, I don't even need x86_64
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by loxias 4y ago
It's also not a HN specific phrase....
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by loxias 4y ago
WOW THANKS. Er, uh, I mean, thanks for that link! I have a DSP (audio and MIR specifically) background and... (huge paragraph removed) I'll just say thanks again. (and your GLASSTONE submission, 6 years ago, is also the sort of link I
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by loxias 4y ago
> it's the kind of thing that tends to be known by grizzled infrastructure veterans who had good mentors in their chequered past And thanks right back at you. I hadn't noticed before your comment that while not in the customary
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by loxias 4y ago
Ohhh. Gotcha. Agree. Agree. Though... I've also read at least one "interesting" postmortem with complex operating scenarios and thought to myself (partially joking) that their failure isn't what they thought it was
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by loxias 4y ago
That is so cool. If I had that (truck+radio) I'd be very tempted to scatter a few cheap relay nodes at good locations in the bay area. Monkeybrains+comcast is quite reliable.
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by loxias 4y ago
> I used to serve DNS data over a localhost authoritative server. Now I store most DNS data in a localhost forward proxy. I run my own authoritative DNS on my router (tho not localhost. interesting), and have for a long time (since I s
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by loxias 4y ago
> Because I kept reading about why DNS was created and always encountered the same parroted explanation, year after year. Something along the lines that IP addresses were constantly in flux. That may have been true when DNS was created a
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by loxias 4y ago
You're welcome. :) FWIW, I still memorize phone numbers too! I also avoid phone calls like the plague, so in reality it's just a handful of numbers per year.
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by loxias 4y ago
> We aren’t here because changing a tire is interesting, unique, nor will we learn anything from it Speak for yourself, some of us (at least me) find "postmortum writeups" FASCINATING!! I read them every chance I get. Most of
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by loxias 4y ago
> So the leading hypothesis seems to be that perhaps the SSDs were from the same manufacturing batch and shared some defect. Really sorry that you had to learn the hard way, but this is unfortunately common knowledge :/ Way back (2

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