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by nuerow 5y ago
> see, there's the hyperbole that makes you lose credibility. It is not a hyperbole, and it saddens me to hear this level of ignorance in this forum. The COVID-19 mortality rate for the age >65 is over 20%. That's over 1 dea
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by nuerow 5y ago
> AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that lets you run code (...) So? It can run your code the way you tell it to run, but you still need to have your head on your shoulders and know what you're doing, right? > How is
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by nuerow 5y ago
> I've seen 30s on AWS No, you've seen 30s on a random implementation running on AWS. If you write your lambdas without knowing what you're doing then you can't blame the technology for being grossly misused by you.
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by nuerow 5y ago
> This is another example of AWS over marketing Lambda. Lambda is horrendously expensive when requests pass a certain level per second. I feel this is a gross misrepresentation of AWS Lambdas. AWS lambdas are primarily tailored for backg
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by nuerow 5y ago
> To combat this we wrote a "runWarm" function that kept the API alive at all times. This sort of hack is not needed in AWS Lambdas, as they support provisioned concurrency.
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by nuerow 5y ago
Quick comment on the reference to "credentials". The article does a disservice to the reader by presenting HTTP cookies without mentioning sessions and how they are used to add state to a stateless request-reply protocol. Also, bu
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Conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT)(en.wikipedia.org)
10 points by nuerow 5y ago|0 comments
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by nuerow 5y ago
> 600W worth of photogrammetry? Yes, no doubt. Specially nowadays when point clouds are all the rage.
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by nuerow 5y ago
> It's really low impact though. Even if your rig consumes a kW, you're still not driving anywhere If google didn't failed me, a good car mileage is equivalent to around 20kWh per 100 miles. Therefore, a 100 mile drive is
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by nuerow 5y ago
> It absolutely is an issue in practice. It really isn't. At most, it's a problem caused by picking a broken implementation that doesn't meet your needs, but that's a self-inflicted problem, not a JSON problem.
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by nuerow 5y ago
> My general opinion is that it's extremely hard to reliably use JSON as an interchange format reliably when multiple systems and/or parser implementations are involved. None of the points you made were regarding JSON, and we&#
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by nuerow 5y ago
> I fear it's another example of "optimizing" away something that made us more human (in this case, more in-person interaction). I disagree. If anything, WFH optimizes away unhealthy work/life imbalances that force
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by nuerow 5y ago
> The all-company meet ups were the best part about the job(other than the pay I guess). To each his own, but all-company meetups are the most god-awful type of event there is. The feigned enthusiasm about company stuff, self-promotion
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by nuerow 5y ago
> The sense that I don't get enough socialization via work is a serious symptom that I need to nurture real friendships and communities in life. This is precisely the take I get from all the comments on how WFH supposedly causes s
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by nuerow 5y ago
> More than half of all my friends outside the office started out as coworkers in the past. Let's put it this way: how many current and past coworkers do you include in your current social, non-professional group?
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by nuerow 5y ago
> I dislike this type of comment as it presumes that one person's personal experience is "reality" or a reasonable representation of what everyone else has experienced. GP is spot on, though, and there is absolutely no w
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by nuerow 5y ago
> No, not really. The author, a professional at Microsoft, was a hobbyist with rust who (...) It's very hard to believe that "a hobbyist" would, by mere chance, write the absolute best performing framework in the world. h
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Rust is a very young language. It benefits from the clang tool chain and gets some of that optimization for free, but there is a lot of room to make Rust faster. I feel that this sort of belief relies too heavily on a presumption that
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Where does your take come from? From this very discussion, for starters. > Everyone I've heard of proposing Rust for the Linux kernel does so almost exclusively by making the argument that Rust can create safe performant abs
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by nuerow 5y ago
> IIRC it was mostly the initial reluctance of the author to merge PRs that rewrote unsafe to safe Rust. No, not really. Spinning the actix-web as the author's reluctance to accept PRs is a gross misrepresentation of the problem fa
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Using unsafe is like providing a "proof" that the code you write won't cause safe Rust code to exhibit undefined behavior. My take is that Rust is proposed based on the value proposition of its Safe Rust feature, but i
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by nuerow 5y ago
> 1. Zero trust is highly optimal for business. When it is systemically impossible to cheat your vendor/customer, nobody even tries. Happy path only. I don't understand what point you tried to make, and frankly it sounds inco
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by nuerow 5y ago
> A disgruntled employee (or a few) seems the most likely scenario for something that could cause an extended outage. That's highly unlikely given the fact that a region like us-east-1 is comprised of about 6 availability zones, whi
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by nuerow 5y ago
> (...) if anything us-east1 has a well-deserved reputation for being the flakiest AWS region and there have been repeated severe outages, most recently in 2017 (S3 basically down) and Nov 2020 (Kinesis and all services relying on it dow
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Carrington Event(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by nuerow 5y ago|0 comments
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> Deaths from the common cold aren't classified as such; If you are unable to find evidence that supports your claims, aren't you basing your personal beliefs in unsubstantiated hypothesis which are rejected by the facts? If yo
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Millions and millions of people died from the common cold before 2019 too. Every year. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence. Do you have a source for your extraordinary claim that "millions and millions" die of
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by nuerow 5y ago
> It probably made it that far out of necessity as that happened to be the shortest distance between the two nearest hydrogen fueling stations. Not so long ago the same argument was made regarding EVs and charging stations, and hydrogen
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Clarify the problem that Fukushima faced with regards to nuclear waste. I don't feel it's honest to try to discuss the pros and cons of a technology by cherry picking the cons that we can strawman out of the equation while pu
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Even if it was possible to have completely free hydrogen (and it’s not possible) the compression cost would lower the efficiency to something around 60% That's pretty much irrelevant. Hydrogen is used as an energy store. Thus the

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