rbranson

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by rbranson 4y ago
Most of what you're paying for isn't technology.
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by rbranson 4y ago
IoT VLAN indeed can be annoying. It's getting better as a lot of the more "prosumer" grade routers are supporting it. I use Sonos at home too, which means I had to deploy this into a VM to bridge the VLANs: https:/&#x2F
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by rbranson 4y ago
Everything has a purpose, unlike many "home labs" where people are just tinkering. There's nothing in here that would require fussy maintenance. It seems pretty reasonable to me given the functionality.
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by rbranson 4y ago
It didn't impact everything, I think I was hitting this case: > When a query is deemed too complex to determine what specific cached data may have become invalidated, a fallback to a simple but effective table level invalidation occ
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by rbranson 4y ago
I tried to use PolyScale in the past but had issues with performance because updating a row would invalidate the entire cache. I wonder if that has improved?
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by rbranson 4y ago
It was removed from MySQL in 8.0 because it wasn't very useful. MySQL query caching does exact matching on the query string and any row update to a table used for a given cached query nukes the entire cache. So it's only useful fo
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by rbranson 4y ago
alternate: https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/differential-dataflow/blob...
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by rbranson 4y ago
The profit from home flipping comes from asset speculation not construction. Only one of these creates net value.
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by rbranson 4y ago
Apples to oranges comparison. The benchmark in the PlanetScale blog post is based on TPC-C.
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Database DevOps(planetscale.com)
15 points by rbranson 4y ago|2 comments
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by rbranson 4y ago
This makes a pretty big assumption that the only energy consumed by software is in what's required to execute the code.
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by rbranson 4y ago
This is like asking: if writing code in a high level language is the solution, then why are there so many software engineering jobs?
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by rbranson 4y ago
What is fundamentally concerning about a central bank injecting capital into the system? If anything, you could say the same thing about fiat currency and fractional reserve banking as a whole. Money comes from nowhere!
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by rbranson 4y ago
What's the core ordering mechanism behind the serializability for arbitrary distributed transactions? This would be something like TrueTime in Spanner or FoundationDB's GRV/commit proxies.
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by rbranson 4y ago
It feels like a lot of money, but I'd point out that even venture's blockbuster 2021 year, where it raised ~$128B in funding, is still far less money than Apple's ~$202B and Google's ~$169B cash on hand. Those are single
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by rbranson 5y ago
I love all the nostalgia, but the post doesn't really answer the most interesting part of the title: why do workstations matter? I was really hoping there was some revelation in there!
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by rbranson 5y ago
You can't share objects across threads (called "processes") in BEAM, so it's very different. The GC only ever needs to pause one call stack at a time to do a full GC cycle. Memory shared across processes is generally man
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by rbranson 5y ago
Is this a problem? What am I missing?
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$2,295 5-port Ethernet Switch for Audiophiles(positive-feedback.com)
56 points by rbranson 5y ago|113 comments
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by rbranson 5y ago
This outcome should also be entirely unsurprising and should pass people's basic sniff tests as Timescale works within the existing, mature architecture of PostgreSQL, where-as ClickHouse is a greenfield single-purpose system. Software
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AWS announces similar service to Google's TrueTime(aws.amazon.com)
2 points by rbranson 5y ago|0 comments
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by rbranson 5y ago
That would be rare, because rapidly increasing property values are almost always driven by rapidly increased demand. The municipal government has to expand its expenditures to meet this demand, usually ahead of when it receives expanded rev
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by rbranson 5y ago
Were there other distributed databases that did pass the fault injection testing?
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by rbranson 5y ago
It does. The three AZs they replicate across are just as good as anything else someone typically calls a "datacenter." Amazon itself operates retail out of one region and uses multi-AZ as a fault tolerance strategy.
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by rbranson 5y ago
That's an apples to oranges comparison though. Upstash couples durability with consistency/isolation. Regardless of configuration, FaunaDB and DynamoDB both always ensure durability of acknowledged writes with a fault tolerance of
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by rbranson 6y ago
Yes, even for on-disk read-only use cases, shapefiles are almost always much faster. Overhead from serialization, network, etc often dominates the performance of GIS.
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by rbranson 6y ago
This is the cited source from KPMG: https://home.kpmg/xx/en/home/insights/2021/03/ceo-outlook-pu...
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by rbranson 6y ago
Instagram's initial value prop was an easy way to share your photos across Facebook, Twitter, etc.
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by rbranson 6y ago
I don’t know why I have to explain this, but I’m not aware of any situation in which a renter builds equity in the underlying asset either. Under rent control the situation goes from being extremely advantageous to the landlord to just be
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by rbranson 6y ago
Not in California.

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