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by luhn 4y ago
Relevant: "Reliability: It's not great" from last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35044516 They even specifically call out Consul as a source of trouble. > We propagate app instance and health
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by luhn 4y ago
That's par for the course nowadays, unfortunately. I couldn't name a smart TV system that doesn't have ads. Roku is far from being the worst offender, my LG C2 that I paid out the nose for has the majority of the home screen
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by luhn 4y ago
The article does not state Alang breaks 75% of ships, it says "about 75% of [ships] end up in one of the three beaches in South Asia." Presumably these three beaches are Alang, India; Gadani, Pakistan; and Chittagong, Banglades
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by luhn 4y ago
The top of that list is voice.com for $30mm, which is apparently an NFT art marketplace. The top-selling artist of all time has sold $100k worth of NFTs. The top-selling artist in the past 30 days has sold $425. Ouch. I do not think the
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by luhn 4y ago
A while back I priced out what Algolia would cost us and it ended up being thousands of dollars per month for something that was currently running a t3.micro Elasticsearch instance. Our usage was just worst-case when it came to their prici
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by luhn 4y ago
That's not quite how it works. Amazon will send you various storage appliances (including a semi hauling a 45ft shipping container full of hard drives), which you connect to your network, upload your data, and send it back to them. T
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by luhn 4y ago
> Although SQL is essentially a declarative language (4GL), it also includes procedural elements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
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by luhn 4y ago
Not only are the ORM objects typed, the query results are typed too. Last time I checked on 2.0 progress there wasn't a feasible way to implement this, so I'm thrilled to see that it made the release. # (variable) stmt: Sel
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by luhn 4y ago
I think a lot of people will wrinkle their nose at pip-tools because it's a more manual workflow, but I really enjoy that aspect of it. Other package managers I've used are convenient at first, but at some point I end up fighting
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by luhn 4y ago
It's only 600k Zen 3 cores. Still a massive number. > Frontier uses 9,472 AMD Epyc 7A53s "Trento" 64 core 2 GHz CPUs (606,208 cores) and 37,888 Radeon Instinct MI250X GPUs (8,335,360 cores).
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by luhn 4y ago
As a Packers fan living in California, the NFL thing particularly bothers me. It is impossible for me to legally stream all the games. The only option to watch every Sunday game is NFL Sunday Ticket, which has a streaming option but it&#x
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by luhn 4y ago
Quantum computing threatens factorization and elliptic curves, i.e. RSA and ECDSA. Hash functions are considered relatively safe. The NIST's PQC standardization is focused on public key cryptography—I can't find any initiatives
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by luhn 4y ago
Re cleaning, they have a cute little robot that you can see on this page: https://www.erthos.com/energyservices It's also visible in the photo in the article.
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by luhn 4y ago
From your own link: > This is where you round up your bill to give to a charity designated by the retailer, and the donation amount appears on your receipt. The store serves only as a collection agent for your gift. Assuming the business
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by luhn 4y ago
The effect isn't due to humans being an outlier, it can be seen across a range of species. > A 2015 study, the San Diego Zoo, surveyed results from 36 different mammalian species, ranging in size from the 51-gram striped grass mouse
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by luhn 4y ago
Some great advice that I got: Buy a five gallon bucket, drill an 1/8" hole in the side. That way the water can soak into the ground without having to stand there with a hose for five minutes. Plus you can measure how much water
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by luhn 4y ago
> Authentic avatar expressions mimic your natural facial expressions, so you can be fully present in meetings and gatherings with friends and bring more of your true personality to life in VR. Carmack's avatar during his talk today
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by luhn 4y ago
> If we had an incident where we needed to revoke every single one of those certificates at the same time, the resulting CRL would be over 8 gigabytes. I don't know much about this stuff, so apologies if this is a silly question: If
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by luhn 4y ago
Unfortunately, this seems to require the "DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials" extension to use it in your browser, which for Chrome at least requires permission to "Read and change all your data on all websites." It's n
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by luhn 4y ago
> Considering how long it took AWS to add IPv6 to services across the board Unfortunately all but a handful of their APIs have yet to support IPv6.
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by luhn 4y ago
You might be confusing Server Push with Server-Sent Events. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Server-sent... Server Push just deals with eagerly loading assets like CSS, JS, and images.
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by luhn 4y ago
"Looking that up" is giving me too much credit, I just clicked the link :) I don't think it's disingenuous, just out of touch. The author is 75 years old; he probably didn't recognize a 2000s-2010s pop culture pun.
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by luhn 4y ago
> One paper’s title begins with the candid exclamation: “Panic!” Completely burying the full title "Panic! At the Disks: First Rest-frame Optical Observations of Galaxy Structure at z>3 with JWST in the SMACS 0723 Field" whi
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by luhn 4y ago
The name for these jokes is a shaggy dog story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaggy_dog_story It's one of my favorite categories of joke. It gets even better if you can retell it to intersecting groups of peopl
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by luhn 4y ago
In my opinion the best argument for RDBMSs came, ironically, from Rick Houlihan, who was at that time devrel for DynamoDB. Paraphrasing from memory, he said "most data is relational, because relationships are what give data meaning, b
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by luhn 4y ago
AWS's pricing strategy changed a few years ago. Previously, they'd drop prices aggressively with much fanfare every time they did. Nowadays, they almost never drop prices, but release new offerings they say will save money [for
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by luhn 4y ago
Why does the time protocol need to send the UTC offset, rather than have the offset be part of system data files, like with timezones? Wouldn't you need the data anyways to translate historical timestamps to UTC?
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by luhn 4y ago
Didn’t mean to suggest they were trying to become social media, rather they were trying to capture the some of the short-form video screentime that’s mainly served by social media today. They advertised themselves as “quick bites” of video.
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by luhn 4y ago
Quibi was a misguided venture from the start, and I think it was obvious to anybody existing in the "young" social media world. 10 minutes is way too long to get the same instant gratification as TikTok, Instagram, et al. It&#
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by luhn 4y ago
You just blew my mind that “mutex” is a portmanteau of “mutually exclusive.” How have I been programming for 20 years and never realized this?

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