mrkurt

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by mrkurt 1y ago
It's safe to say that if either Chris or I believed this to be anti worker, we wouldn't be working on it. He's spent the last 10+ years working on Phoenix specifically to improve the lives of the people doing the work. My exp
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by mrkurt 1y ago
If we try really hard, I think we can make an exhaustive list of what viral fads on the internet are not. You made a small start. none of these ephemeral fads are any indication of quality, longevity, legitimacy, interest, substance, endura
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by mrkurt 1y ago
It's not false. He's talking about people smarter than him (at writing and shipping infrastructure code). Thomas is the smartest at other things.
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by mrkurt 1y ago
PLEASE write your response. We'll publish it on the Fly.io blog. Unedited. If you want.
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by mrkurt 1y ago
I would expect this problem to get solved. It's tricky to detect new sqlites, but not impossible. In the meantime, it's pretty straightforward to use as a library.
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by mrkurt 1y ago
Wow that's a wildly cynical interpretation of what someone is saying. Maybe it's right, but I think it's equally likely that people are saying that to give you the right context. If they're saying it to you, why wouldn&#
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by mrkurt 1y ago
I really, really like New Orleans and this fits my 2 year experience so far. 2025 makes it hard to be far from SF for me again because there's so much interesting stuff getting built. FOMO follows me around though.
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by mrkurt 1y ago
Here's what you should assess: > Great team, great technology, great PMF and good progress on revenue targets. Good progress on revenue targets from _your_ perspective sounds like not great growth, but communicated softly. > The
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by mrkurt 2y ago
For what it's worth, I really appreciate your post.
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I Went to SQL Injection Court(sockpuppet.org)
1230 points by mrkurt 2y ago|435 comments
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by mrkurt 2y ago
No problem at all! I would be curious how the Attic server would have gone with a Tigris bucket and local caching. Not sure how hard that is to pull off, but Tigris should be substantially cheaper than our NVMes and if you don't really
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by mrkurt 2y ago
I do, in fact, instruct LLMs to make spelling and grammar mistakes when I have them reply to cold emails.
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by mrkurt 2y ago
This is near and dear to me, because I want people to run stuff like homelabs and side projects. What part of the cost gets out of hand? Having to have a Machine for every process? Do you remember what napkin math pricing you were working w
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by mrkurt 2y ago
This was a demo they did in a video but it's not available to anyone who actually owns one of these. I believe the EV Mercedes G Wagon does have it as a feature though.
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by mrkurt 2y ago
Most new cars in Europe are using LED arrays that shut off specific zones based on oncoming traffic. Like a hyper specific "auto high beams" feature.
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by mrkurt 2y ago
Talks at meetups for the first 100. Hacker News for the next 10,000. Target audience was devs.
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by mrkurt 2y ago
I'd piss off a lot of investors I know by saying this – nerfing the Adobe and Figma acquisition seems excellent for consumer good. 3 years ago that would have just been rubber stamped. Their work on non-tech stuff has probably been eve
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by mrkurt 2y ago
Laptop SSDs are _shockingly_ fast, and getting equivalent speed from something in a datacenter (where you'll want at least two disks) is pretty expensive. It's so annoying.
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by mrkurt 2y ago
It is a little squicky. Kind of love the idea, though, even if I'd be worried about using rando compute someone installed an agent on.
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by mrkurt 2y ago
Sometimes vast.ai is running GPUs on Fly.io that people with YC credits have spun up and added to their marketplace. Those would have been fast though. They run on literally anything someone installs their agent on.
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by mrkurt 2y ago
Believe it or not, I know exactly when this happened and why. We had a big disk array failure and (a) our UI did not know how to recover and (b) disk snapshots timed out before many people knew their disks were gone. This is one of those in
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by mrkurt 2y ago
A small db isn't free to _operate_. The actual compute and storage costs are pretty low, but keeping the thing running is harder than you'd think. Keeping it running with no users is easy. Keeping it running when someone ships an
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by mrkurt 2y ago
You can run a Postgres on Fly.io full time for just slight more than $2. It's not a great business though. The compromise you're making is that we don't manage it. It'll probably stay running, it's likely to be worr
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by mrkurt 2y ago
This account was not banned in error. Lukas, if you’d like me to explain publicly, I'm happy to do so.
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by mrkurt 2y ago
This sounds like a bad job and you should find another. At some point you were happy with $200k and 2%. Now you aren't. I don't think there's a bump that they could give you at this point that would make you want to tolerate
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by mrkurt 2y ago
Not that people with VC need defending, but: Sure, if you magic up a startup with VC funds you suddenly have it easier than a small, bootstrapped business. Startups almost never start with a round of VC though. There are almost always month
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by mrkurt 2y ago
Postgres is pretty heavy BECAUSE it's a network database. What would make you want embedded PG instead of sqlite?
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by mrkurt 2y ago
This is actually what Fly machines do under the covers. When you use it as a PaaS, the client CLI sets all this up for you, and then our proxy starts/stops things as needed.
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by mrkurt 2y ago
Fly machines allocate all the computation resources when a TCP connection is established. I feel like this is the same?
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by mrkurt 2y ago
95 degrees, 100% humidity, and hurricane season.

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