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by otterley 2mo ago
The thing is, you're not really making a clear and persuasive case as to your position, which sounds like you're arguing against interdependency. Perhaps you mean something else, so if I'm mistaken, some clarity would be appr
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by otterley 2mo ago
Remember that everything has an opportunity cost. Running a lot of servers might cost $10 million annually, but if the product team had to choose between a project that would recoup $5 million of that vs. an opportunity to earn $50 million
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by otterley 2mo ago
Has that actually happened?
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by otterley 2mo ago
It's impossible to know how often participants chose to stick to the standards anyway despite it not being in their best interest. Do you have any specific examples?
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by otterley 2mo ago
No, but if you didn’t, the internet wouldn’t really work all that well. It was the fact that participants, despite being independent, all agreed (either explicitly or implicitly) to adhere to the standards that it became a global network. I
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by otterley 2mo ago
Please, professor, teach us how international relations really work. Just let me grab my popcorn first. (Seriously, knock it off with the attitude. You have no idea who you’re talking to. People with highly varied educational and career bac
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by otterley 2mo ago
The world has had interdependencies since trade began centuries ago. If a nation was independent, it usually meant that they had nothing anyone else wanted, and they were almost always poorer for it. And interdependency is good for peace: y
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by otterley 2mo ago
Services feed me every day, yet I don’t grow my own food. I trade for it, using currency as an intermediary. What I can do for myself, nations do every single day. I don’t know what this “real power” language is about, but it sounds like cl
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by otterley 2mo ago
Where are you getting these numbers? 54.3% of US households held a retirement account in 2022. https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/scf23.pdf
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by otterley 2mo ago
Where are you getting this 10% number? 54.3% of US households held a retirement account in 2022. https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/scf23.pdf
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by otterley 2mo ago
We may not be “smarter” than others but our culture, which prioritizes innovation and creativity, makes us comparatively better at inventing goods and services that people want to buy.
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by otterley 2mo ago
If it’s such an easy choice, why wasn’t that the outcome?
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by otterley 2mo ago
The story makes clear that constraints matter. Product teams build against specified constraints. If latency isn’t one of them, they’re going to sacrifice it if it helps meet the defined requirements more quickly and cost-effectively. Ever
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by otterley 2mo ago
That shouldn't be Amazon's unilateral decision to make, though. They could have made that behavior optional, and if they were truly as Customer-Obsessed as they used to be, they would have (and they would also have observed that c
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by otterley 2mo ago
It's not some sort of public law with public enforcement, but it is in the RFCs that govern the protocol. I should be a bit clearer here; the TTL is an upper bound on how long it can be cached. Caches are free to consult more frequen
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by otterley 2mo ago
The simple answer is that if you didn't cache, DNS traffic would skyrocket, and the load would pile up on the authoritative servers, which were intended to be small, and during the early days of the Internet, were frequently on bandwid
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by otterley 2mo ago
In DNS, the owner of each record has full control over its TTL. Intermediary DNS servers are required to honor them and are not permitted to replace TTLs with their own.
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by otterley 2mo ago
More details on the acquisition here: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/08/duckdb-and-the-... DuckLabs will be an AWS subsidiary, not subsumed into AWS itself.
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by otterley 2mo ago
...except when they do: "An off-the-shelf VM is not enough to contain a modern, cyber-capable AI agent...us[e] a virtualization technology that was purposely built with a minimal attack surface and a focus on security, like Firecracker
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by otterley 2mo ago
I wouldn't call that "inevitable." Buffering exists for a reason--to buy you a bit of safety for short-lived busy periods (or, in the case of queues, delayed or temporarily failed consumers). It also amortizes the cost of I&#
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by otterley 2mo ago
My favorite related pithy quote is "criticism is a minimum-wage job."
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by otterley 2mo ago
The Colorado water system is a disaster that long predates the invention of computers. The way water rights are implemented in the western US (doctrine of prior appropriation) meant that anyone who owned land through which the river flowed
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by otterley 2mo ago
On the other hand, many homes could mothballing a misplaced farm provide water for? As far as I know, there's not a single place in the world where someone went without water to cook, drink, or bathe because a data center consumed it
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by otterley 2mo ago
Yes, we’ve discussed that in multiple threads. But it’s not the default and it’s unclear how often this is used in the wild. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426950
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by otterley 2mo ago
There’s no need to be rude and dismissive. Knock it off. You’re coming across as unnecessarily provocative and defensive. If you truly believe OTel is a “baby fart,” I’d recommend you go to SRECon, KubeCon, and other similar conferences and
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by otterley 2mo ago
> TCP syslog...which is durable and attestable to in courts. TCP alone won't get you there. It's certainly not durable in and of itself. All TCP can do is ensure that streamed data is received in the correct order, and confirm
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by otterley 2mo ago
Then I don't know what to tell you. *shrug* I feel like you're arguing just for argument's sake, and I'm not really interested in having a conversation with someone who's not demonstrating open-mindedness or a willi
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by otterley 2mo ago
I didn't say they those choices aren't viable; I'm strictly talking about architectural decisions. You can solve the problem with different solutions, be they rsyslog or otherwise. That said, I probably wouldn't go with
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by otterley 2mo ago
> "Beginner tutorial", I'm sorry for not taking your point seriously, but I can't take it seriously. Well, maybe go observe how a broad array of sites implement it in practice, then you might take it more seriously. M
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by otterley 2mo ago
Which major Linux distro ships rsyslog with TCP as the default remote protocol and durable local-buffer configuration out of the box for remote delivery? Genuinely curious. A modicum of research reveals that even the rsyslog documentation s

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