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by motorest 1y ago
> I didn't say it's cheaper for the same cache size. So be specific. What exactly did you wanted to say? > But yeah a base tier Redis that will carry a small project tends to be a lot cheaper than the base tier Postgres. Thi
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by motorest 1y ago
> most people with blogs don't know what they're doing. or don't care to know? I don't see any point to this blend of cynical contrarianism. If you feel you can do better, put your money where your mouth is. Lashing a
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by motorest 1y ago
> He even admits Postgres maxxed out its 2 cores, but Redis was bottlenecked by the HTTP server. What exactly is your point? That you can further optimize either option? Well yes, that comes at no suprise. I mean, the latencies alone are
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by motorest 1y ago
> The idea was emphasize that there' a "good enough" level of performance. Once you need that sort of speed - sure, there are ways to achieve it. To this I would add that more often than not the extra cost and complexity o
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by motorest 1y ago
> Usually Postgres costs a lot more than Redis if you're paying for a platform. You need to back up your unbelievable assertion with facts. Memory cache is typically far more expensive than a simple database, specially as provisioni
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by motorest 1y ago
> Yeah, the article was like "I always need a DB anyway" but then sets up an extra cronjob to expire keys, plus more code. You do not need cron jobs to do cache. Sometimes you don't even need a TTL. All you need is a way t
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by motorest 1y ago
> Having the ability to set a TTL on the cache key is a critical feature of a cache, not something that can be tacked on later. What exactly is the challenge you're seeing? In the very least, you can save an expiry timestamp as part
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by motorest 1y ago
> I still believe that CloudFlare means well, but that doesn't mean that I agree with the increased centralization. I'm perplexed by this sort of comment. Cloudflare doesn't even feature in the top 10 of cloud provider mar
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by motorest 1y ago
> However, I guess they have become the major player now and certainly try to optimize the world towards their business model. I don't think that's it, and I think the explanation is much more simple and straight-forward. Cloud
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by motorest 1y ago
> AI (LLM's) is like cloud - the promise of lowered costs to incentivize organizations to migrate, then a few years later your business is paying double what your Colo and skeleton IT costed. There's some ignorance in this comm
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by motorest 1y ago
> Technically an algorithm that lets the last writer win is a CRDT because there is no conflict. Your comment shows some ignorance and a complete misunderstanding of the problem domain. The whole point of CRDTs is that the set o operatio
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by motorest 1y ago
> Also remember it turns your data model into (...) I don't this is true at all. A CRDT is not your data model. It is the data structure you use to track and update state. Your data model is a realization of the CRDT at a specific p
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by motorest 1y ago
> That feels like a bog basic false choice fallacy. Only if you somehow believe you have a choice, or even a say.
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by motorest 1y ago
I see what you mean, and I am divided on the issue. On one hand, I don't think it's fair to have AI companies to freely scrape the world without fairly compensating content producers. On the other hand, adding more gatekeepers to
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by motorest 1y ago
> Rape is wrong. It doesn't matter what your evidence or positions or logic are, you will not sway me on that point. Do you believe that you were already presented with evidence that compelled you to change your personal position on
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by motorest 1y ago
> This is fine when the question is, “What’s for dinner?” However, there is nothing wrong with having core principles that aren’t able to be swayed. This is called having integrity. No, it is not the definition of integrity. If you opt t
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by motorest 1y ago
> I should specify - it's hard in that it's troublesome to have to code switch and do a bunch of recall before working on the thing. You don't sound like you have any experience working on software projects. I can tell you
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by motorest 1y ago
> It's sad to see people be so nonchalant about potentially killing off smaller platforms like this. Your comment is needlessly dramatic. The only hypothetical impact this has is that whoever uses these platforms won't have upg
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by motorest 1y ago
> Actually education should be redesigned to properly incorporate personalized AI tutoring and as part of that effort provide a supportive environment where students don't feel the need to go around it to cheat. I have no idea what
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by motorest 1y ago
> The point was you don't need to wait for 8 Pis to become available when most people can get going straight away with what they already have. You also don't need RPis to learn anything about programming, networking, electronic
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by motorest 1y ago
> There's at least one proprietary platform that supports Git built by via a vendor-provided C compiler, but for which no public documentation exists and therefore no LLVM support is possible. That's fine. The only impact is th
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by motorest 1y ago
> Now rather than needing to understand just C to work on Git/kernel, you now need to also know Rust. I'm yet to know a single software engineer who isn't well versed on multiple programming languages. This is not a proble
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by motorest 1y ago
> I've been saying this for years. When the last Raspberry Pi shortage happened people were scrambling to get them for building these toy clusters and it's such a shame. The Pi was made for paedogogy but I feel like most of the
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by motorest 1y ago
> The cost effective way to do it is in the cloud. This. Some cloud providers offer VMs with 4GB RAM and 2 virtual cores for less than $4/month. If your goal is to learn how to work with clusters, nothing beats firing up a dozen VMs
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by motorest 1y ago
> One hundred and fifty years in the making, and still unfinished. The explanation behind this is usually the Spanish civil war, and then it's how the construction is funded by donations. The latter brings in a cynical twist, becaus
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by motorest 1y ago
> But, if automated malware scanning actually worked, we'd already see big tech partnering with package registries to run continuous, ecosystem-wide scanning and detection pipelines. I think this sort of thought process is misguided
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by motorest 1y ago
> Why do you lie? Clearly this is not the case if you look at the user's submission and comment history Do you think someone's comment history link is an obscure secret no one can access? > Clearly this is not the case (..)
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by motorest 1y ago
> why it does things the way it does is relevant - Yes. React automatically detects the minimum set of changes to a DOM that is required to update it's state, and manages how those updates are applied to maximize performance. It tra
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by motorest 1y ago
> Meta has close to 4 billion people worldwide using one or more of their products. If you ask any of those 4 billion people if they know WhatsApp is related in anyway to Meta, your answers will be split between "no" and "
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by motorest 1y ago
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