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901.
by petcat 1y ago
The EU is being squeezed by USA and China on all sides whilst staring down the barrel of a Russian invasion on their eastern borders. They're in a really bad place and don't have a lot of options. It's why they were so quic
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by petcat 1y ago
I just feel like it's a big difference in scale between dealing with a local illegal bookie in your neighborhood and a massive state-sponsored gambling enterprise operating "bookies" out of every corner store and gas station
903.
by petcat 1y ago
State lotteries and scratch tickets should be illegal and banned. Every time I go to the deli I'm inevitably waiting behind a (very obviously) poor person blowing their paycheck or welfare check on a dozen lotto and scratch tickets.
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by petcat 1y ago
There are definitely a lot of links in this chain. Maybe leafo can chime-in and say exactly what happened with Itch.io. But I suspect that someone downstream of Visa/Mastercard anticipated that the payment card companies would not perm
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Idaho's Naval Submarine Fleet (2024)(spokanehistorical.org)
2 points by petcat 1y ago|1 comments
906.
by petcat 1y ago
There is definitely a lot of links in this chain. Maybe leafo [1] can chime-in and say exactly what happened. But I suspect that someone downstream of Visa/Mastercard anticipated that the payment card processors would not permit
907.
by petcat 1y ago
> Or replaced with government funded (public, gasp!) payment services. Do you think FedNow will allow payments to Steam and Itch.io for porno video games?
908.
by petcat 1y ago
New York state has gone to great lengths over the last 40 years to highly incentivize (read: subsidize) local, family farmers and deter megacorp speculators and investors. At this point I think it's basically impossible to actually lo
909.
by petcat 1y ago
This is such a contrast to upstate NY where farmland is still overwhelmingly owned by individuals and families. It was nearly 75% the last time I checked. And 70% is owner-operator (the owner is also the farmer). Only a very tiny percent
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by petcat 1y ago
Such is the problem with living in a "town" -- or anywhere with a city/community council. People are allowed to move to an adjacent neighborhood, or county, or anywhere, if they don't like the standards and governance.
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by petcat 1y ago
> difficult to sell their home because the existence of an HOA scares off buyers It can be a concern. But I actually found the opposite to be true in my case. During my house-hunt I was far more turned-off by the appearance and disrepa
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by petcat 1y ago
You seem to not understand what a Homeowner Association is. You have to agree to the rules in order to live in the community. However, you can choose not to agree to the rules if you don't like them. In which case, you can move
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by petcat 2y ago
This seems pretty wild to me. Are you saying that I can submit instructions to the CPU and they will not be interleaved and the registers will not be swapped-out with instructions from other EC2 virtual server applications running on the s
914.
by petcat 2y ago
Are you telling me that my virtualized EC2 server is the only thing running on the physical hardware/CPU? There are no other virtualized EC2 servers sharing time on that hardware/CPU?
915.
by petcat 2y ago
> That's 48 cores That's not dedicated 48 cores, it's 48 "vCPUs". There are probably 1,000 other EC2 instances running on those cores stealing all the CPU cycles. You might get 4 cores of actual compute through
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by petcat 2y ago
I'm aware of what Podman and Systemd are. Apparently you are not aware of what Kamal is. Open documentation, then press reply.
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by petcat 2y ago
You could certainly implement Kamal just with Ansible and Docker Compose. It's just an abstraction that does it for you and handles all the edge-cases. (Kamal doesn't use Ansible, it has its own SSH lib).
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by petcat 2y ago
> way more powerful and secure I don't care about powerful. That's the opposite of what I want. I could just use k8s if I cared about that.
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by petcat 2y ago
Kubernetes no thanks. Terraform + Kamal [1] on Digital Ocean is the way I deploy/run apps now. [1] https://kamal-deploy.org/
920.
by petcat 2y ago
This blog is about doing video processing on the CPU, so something akin to that.
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by petcat 2y ago
I don't know anything about Colo Crossing (are they a reseller?) but I would bet their $60 per month 4-core Intel Xeons would outperform a $1,000 per month "compute optimized" EC2 server.
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by petcat 2y ago
I think that most applications are written for their database. Their database defines their application. If you write your application on a flimsy database then your application becomes equally flimsy. All of your business constraints beco
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by petcat 2y ago
I think there's a new generation of developers that don't want to use "no sql" databases anymore (MongoDB, etc.) I think that's why we're starting to see a surge in people wanting to run SQLite as their backen
924.
by petcat 2y ago
> I don't know that Richard Hipp agrees with you about what roles SQLite is "meant" to be in. If Hipp thought that SQLite was suitable for backend applications where the database is the authority then he would allow real t
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by petcat 2y ago
> My son works?! This one is my go-to. Also The Sandlot
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by petcat 2y ago
I don't work with Go, but this seems like a dream. I really like the SQLx query macros in Rust. I would love for something like this
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by petcat 2y ago
> The book 'Software Architecture: The Hard Parts' is probably a path forward for you, but any books on modern data architecture would be. I'll send you some books to read, too. > Hint: even your ATM card doesn't u
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by petcat 2y ago
> Concurrency is far more nuanced in MongoDB and storage of documents has far fewer side effects than jsonb. Is the concurrency "nuance" that Mongo DB allows 2 updates to a JSON doc to race with each other? > keep in mind th
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by petcat 2y ago
I believe that this is also why we're starting to see a surge in people wanting to run SQLite as their backend database. It's similarly simple to start out with, and also similarly flimsy when dealing with actual data integrity.
930.
by petcat 2y ago
> Postgres jason types are blobs in an RDBMS, and jsonb is to be avoided in almost all cases. You might be uniformed (or misinformed) on this topic. JSONB is not just a "blob" in Postgres. It's a first-class value type w

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