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by mdasen 4y ago
I think Starlink is looking for more money. They've raised prices on everyone 11% after about a year. They've introduced Starlink RV at a 23% premium over their regular Starlink service (and a 36% over the original Starlink price
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by mdasen 4y ago
I'd also note that the agreement doesn't provide a license for non-development purposes. "Crunchy Data provides access to Crunchy Developer Software free of charge for development purposes", but there's nothing that
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by mdasen 4y ago
https://www.crunchydata.com/developers/terms-of-use Before using Crunchy Data, I'd read their terms of use. "without an active Crunchy Data Support Subscription or other signed written agreement with Crunchy
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by mdasen 4y ago
https://www.percona.com/doc/kubernetes-operator-for-postgres... Percona also has a PG operator.
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by mdasen 4y ago
> Toyota didn’t hold a gun to my head to get me to buy an SUV No, but lots of things push people to buy those vehicles. As others buy giant vehicles, you might want to buy a giant vehicle so that you feel safer on the road. If everyone i
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by mdasen 4y ago
For me, Cloudflare's decision to go with V8 Isolates was really smart and that blog post is a brilliant explanation of how one looks at trade-offs in engineering. Truly amazing work. That said, no I don't believe V8 Isolates are t
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by mdasen 4y ago
I don't use Rails anymore, but I did use Rails from pre-1.0 through version 3 (and played with later versions a tad). The best thing about Rails is that it delivers a complete package. Rails doesn't come along and say "Oh, yo
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by mdasen 4y ago
I'd say there isn't and there can't be simply because of the economics of it. When you're using Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/YouTube/TikTok/etc., you're opening it many times a day and seein
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by mdasen 4y ago
Anyone who has copyrighted code in the kernel they're using can sue or a copyright holder can work with an organization like the EFF or Software Freedom Conservancy to sue them. One of the big things with the Linux kernel is that it&#x
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by mdasen 4y ago
It looks like it was July 15, 2018. https://www.foxnews.com/tech/elon-musk-calls-diver-who-helpe... If there's a big difference pre/post-March 2018, it would be nice if you could point people in a direction.
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by mdasen 4y ago
> American CDMA was not competitve with internationally used GSM (well, no competition existed those days so America kept using it.) That's a curious statement. In the US, CDMA (IS-95), TDMA (IS-54/136), and GSM all competed. I
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by mdasen 4y ago
> current 'inflation' price hikes are resulting in record profits This is misinformation. Walmart's net income is down 25% year-over-year. Target's is down 41% year-over-year. Excluding the $7.6B Rivian Automotive los
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by mdasen 4y ago
I think the point is that many people feel forced to live in SF because of their job. At the same time, there are so many people that love SF that are forced out due to economics. It would be better if people were able to choose where they
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by mdasen 4y ago
Vertica came out of the C-Store paper ( https://web.archive.org/web/20100619191833/http://db.lcs.mit... ). The C-Store paper pre-dates ParAccel being incorporated. Many of the C-Store authors were involved
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by mdasen 4y ago
I understand having multiple proxies, but it seems a bit odd to have more proxy servers than web servers, no? Do they also do caching so that of the up-to 4,000 requests/second, a lot of them never reach the web servers? Presumably the
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by mdasen 4y ago
I don't think you're wrong, but to over-simplify what you're saying: "Netflix took my $100/mo cable bill and $40/mo Blockbuster habit and turned it into a $10/mo fee. Now I'm not getting all that ente
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by mdasen 4y ago
I have to agree with a bunch of what kxrm said. Email can be hard and I think paying for an MTA probably wouldn't work for a site that allows third-party users to send messages. Paid MTAs don't generally want to be sending mail th
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by mdasen 4y ago
For me, one of the big catches is that you have a single point of failure. Dokku doesn't run over multiple VMs you have. It's on a VM. If that VM goes down, you're down. I think one of the selling points of Heroku is that if
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by mdasen 4y ago
I think pricing was a big issue with Heroku. You're not wrong that Heroku means you can get a lot out of a single employee. At the same time, I think that people can be "penny wise, pound foolish" and I think that people ofte
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by mdasen 4y ago
I used to use AdGuard's DNS ( https://adguard-dns.io/ ). It looks like they're going to be launching an upgraded version that you can customize in the future. Right now, I'm using NextDNS ( https://ne
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by mdasen 4y ago
USDT is a lot more popular, but there's still over $16B of UST out there (or there was before its value crashed). USDT's $83B is 5x larger, but it's not like UST was something tiny that no one used. Coinbase's USDC is $4
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"Moreover, because custodially held crypto assets may be considered to be the property of a bankruptcy estate, in the event of a bankruptcy, the crypto assets we hold in custody on behalf of our customers could be subject to bankruptcy
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by mdasen 4y ago
I could definitely see FTX and Crypto.com not having staying power - many companies that spend lavishly on sports sponsorships see it come back to bite them. However, over the next few years it seems likely that FTX and Crypto.com will win
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by mdasen 4y ago
Transaction expense eats 24% of their revenue ($278M). Sales and marketing eats 17% ($200M). Technology and development eats $571M. General and Administrative eats $414M. Other expenses eats $259M. In total, $1.721B in operating expenses. T
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by mdasen 4y ago
If you're looking at trailing 12-months it isn't negative yet. I can't predict the future so I don't know if they're going to continue losing money or if this is just one negative quarter. I don't know much abo
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by mdasen 4y ago
Possibly. Apple had used the A10 in the 7th generation iPad released in September 2019 so it's not quite as old in terms of prime usage as the iPhone would suggest. iPhones have often been a few generations ahead of other Apple devices
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by mdasen 5y ago
I think the problem that happened with Ive's designs is that he kept trying to out-do himself in the same direction. I've was important with regard to making really nice products that felt really good. Even a plastic iPhone 3G f
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by mdasen 5y ago
A basic question I have is: what stops someone from re-writing history? With Bitcoin, it's the fact that it would be computationally hard. By the time you were able to "mine" more, the network has moved on. If we're talk
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by mdasen 5y ago
It might have to do with the title. "I got a Computer Science degree in 3 months" makes it sound like it isn't serious. As you note, reading the article shows that the author worked hard, learned the material, already had an
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by mdasen 5y ago
You can wind down certain things, but at what point are you winding down stuff that's more on the necessity side of things? The US has a lot of crumbling infrastructure that needs repair and replacement and I don't think people wa

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