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by paulgb 2y ago
But AWS Secrets Manager does that already, without the Agent. It seems like the main value-add of the Agent is that you don’t have to manage a cache in your application code but still get the performance/cost advantage of having one.
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by paulgb 2y ago
DevRel were often the ones writing and updating those docs, especially docs that are specifically tailored to integrating with specific frameworks or workflows. Different developers have different styles. I'm personally inclined to see
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DevRel's Death as Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon(dx.tips)
28 points by paulgb 2y ago|18 comments
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by paulgb 2y ago
I haven’t been to one yet, but from afar I hear great things about the London Future of Coding meetups.
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A reawakening of systems programming meetups(notes.eatonphil.com)
392 points by paulgb 2y ago|159 comments
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by paulgb 2y ago
You claimed that congestion tax will increase the cost of consumer goods and services. That was a precise argument backed up by hand-wavy evidence. All I said was that we don't know that for sure, and that it's possible it could
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by paulgb 2y ago
Uber/Lyft drivers in NYC need special plates (that start with a "T"). The commission that regulates them can simply restrict how many plates it issues/renews.
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by paulgb 2y ago
Unlike in other cities, Uber/Lyft in NYC are regulated like taxis and limos. NYC has been paying a congestion surcharge on each ride since 2019, which was set to go up as part of the new congestion pricing program.
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by paulgb 2y ago
> The plan was structured in a way that it would affect every resident of the city via higher prices on goods and services, surcharges on delivery, taxis, construction, etc. We already pay a congestion tax on all of these things, it just
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by paulgb 2y ago
The thing about congestion is that you can't “make it better” (in a densely populated place like Manhattan's CBD) without removing cars somehow. The only other real approach to this is rationing ( https://en.wikipedia.or
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by paulgb 2y ago
As far as I can tell they're not storing anything locally, they're pulling the data from Google Cloud Storage as you access it. That said, a Wasm module doesn't have access to any storage facilities that the browser doesn&#x2
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by paulgb 2y ago
Moreover, DuckDB isn't exactly a “full-scale” DB in the sense that someone would think about Postgres/MySQL. It is an embedded database more like sqlite that happens to be good for analytical workloads. It doesn't have to wor
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by paulgb 2y ago
When you build that, I will upvote the HN post to that too ;)
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by paulgb 2y ago
IndexedDB is a key/value store; DuckDB is a relational analytic database. You would use IndexedDB for something like application data, and DuckDB for (e.g.) a data-heavy dashboard or ad-hoc query tool.
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by paulgb 2y ago
I remember Why's Poignant Guide! What a treasure.
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by paulgb 2y ago
Pen plotting. You write code that makes designs by drawing a bunch of lines, and then use a robot (mine is an AxiDraw) that traces it out on paper. In general, generative art (using the pre-generative-AI meaning, i.e. procedurally generatin
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Trying Out Chrome's Gemini API(digest.browsertech.com)
1 points by paulgb 2y ago|0 comments
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by paulgb 2y ago
Other people have probably thought about it more than I have, but the way I see it working is that a set of unacked messages are stored on each end of the connection. When a connection receives a message, it acks it by ID. When acks come ou
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by paulgb 2y ago
WebSocket is over TCP, so still ordered. I think by message-based GP is talking not only about message framing (which WebSocket provides) but also reliable out-of-order delivery.
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Riot Platforms, Inc.: Headed for a mine collapse [pdf](kerrisdalecap.com)
2 points by paulgb 2y ago|0 comments
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by paulgb 2y ago
They use their own runtime for V8 isolates, so they have a lot of leeway into how they measure/meter it.
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by paulgb 2y ago
Sure, if you’re willing to rewrite for an event-based architecture you can avoid the problem, but the post is a framework designed for running on Lambda without that rewrite. One of the stated goals is to have the same container run on EC
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by paulgb 2y ago
One word of caution about naively porting a regular web app to lambda: since you’re charged for duration, if your app does something like make an API call, you’re paying for duration while waiting on that API call for each request. If that
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by paulgb 2y ago
Buttondown is great!
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Bilt Economics Revealed: Wells Fargo Losing Money?(onemileatatime.com)
3 points by paulgb 2y ago|0 comments
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by paulgb 2y ago
> I keep in contact with many small business owners in construction and repair, and almost everyone now thinks that its better to get less work and just charge more. I don’t see what MBAs have to do with that, it’s a tale as old as time:
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by paulgb 2y ago
I canceled my Adobe Premiere Pro subscription a while back, not because of AI terms but because other dark patterns in how they bill gave me a bad taste. I switched to DaVinci Resolve, which has a pretty capable free version. (I haven'
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by paulgb 2y ago
I imagine there are some stories out there of people tearing their hair out over issues in prod can’t be reproduced in localhost (or vice versa) due to quirks exceptions.
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Trip Report: Local-First Conf Berlin(digest.browsertech.com)
2 points by paulgb 2y ago|0 comments
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by paulgb 2y ago
> If you did a survey of bicyclists you'd find they are of a certain tax bracket nowhere remotely close to low-income. Study after study shows they skew high income earners / well educated. This line of argument reminds me of t

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