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by rednafi 2y ago
I agree with your expansion. In this particular case, the on-call policy was enforced after the hiring.
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by rednafi 2y ago
> When engineers bear the full financial consequences of 3AM pages, they're more likely to make systems more resilient by adding graceful failure modes. Making engineers handle 3 AM issues caused by their code is one thing, but maki
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by rednafi 2y ago
A moderate on-call ritual is a necessary evil. I’ve worked at places that tried to get rid of it with all kinds of automation and playbooks, only to revert back to PagerDuty a few months later. That said, my last workplace completely burned
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by rednafi 2y ago
Thanks. It’s nice to see at least a few in the FP community recognize that Lisp dialects, with their parenthesis-ridden S-expressions, are hard to read and write.
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by rednafi 2y ago
Graaah, totally missed it. Thanks!
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by rednafi 2y ago
As long as the tools work the same way as GNU coreutils, I mostly don’t care which language they’re written in. One reason I never adopted tools like exa or bat is that the first deviates from ls flags, and the second changes cat’s bufferin
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by rednafi 2y ago
The syntax looks clean, akin to Python, but with terser record types. This would make a nice config or an embedded language like Lua. One thing I’d appreciate here is a “Why Rhombus?” page, even if the rationale is simply that it’s fun. Edi
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by rednafi 2y ago
Database as a transport?
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by rednafi 2y ago
Pretty much all his takes are wrong. What I find most absurd is how he managed to convince everyone that he is a genius. Ashley Vance extolled his wisdom, and so did Tim Urban.
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by rednafi 2y ago
Google is usually on the same page in this case. I wouldn’t trust anything remotely “privacy focused” that has the Google moniker on it. Apple maybe.
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by rednafi 2y ago
I like Mermaid[1], but can’t be bothered to learn the syntax. So, most of the time, I ask LLMs to generate the scaffolding and work from that. For freehand drawing, to me, nothing beats Excalidraw[2]. I use it for pretty much everything—fro
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by rednafi 2y ago
I’ve seen privately identifiable information (PII) along with patient records sent over to 3rd party agencies.
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by rednafi 2y ago
I’d very much like an internet of chicken; no beef please.
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by rednafi 2y ago
Touche
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by rednafi 2y ago
Very nice (in a Christian Bale accent). All these smart speakers can turn that on anytime processing and storing such a vast amount of data becomes viable. Not surprised. I don’t use any of these smart devices for exactly this reason. I don
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by rednafi 2y ago
This! Postgres to pg-compatible DBs are never as smooth as they advertise it to be.
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by rednafi 2y ago
Yearly, 28k Euros I presume. Damn. I hope you make enough revenue to continue. This is pretty impressive.
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by rednafi 2y ago
It doesn’t. It doesn’t support most of the Postgres extensions. We got away with it because we weren’t doing anything beyond vanilla Postgres.
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by rednafi 2y ago
> I'll try to get a blog post out soon! Please do. > It’s self-hosted on bare metal, with standby replication, normal settings, nothing “weird” there. 16TB without nothing weird is pretty impressive. Our devops team reached for A
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by rednafi 2y ago
Damn, that’s a chonky database. Have you written anything about the setup? I’d love to know more— is it running on a single machine? How many reader and writer DBs? What does the replication look like? What are the machine specs? Is it self
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by rednafi 2y ago
Automatic data transfer would be super cool to get out of the box. We had a custom multi-tenancy solution for our application that heavily used PostgreSQL schemas. One schema for each customer. It was a pain to get that work with Cockroach
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by rednafi 2y ago
Oh yeah, you can run docker-compose and play with the local version as long as you want. But their cloud offers are limited and quite expensive.
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by rednafi 2y ago
Not the parent but yeah, most likely. But then again, you probably don’t want to maintain your own deployment of Cockroach fleet.
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by rednafi 2y ago
This is still true. I wouldn’t use Cockroach if it were my own business. Also, they don’t offer any free version to try out the product. All you get is a short trial period and that’s it.
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by rednafi 2y ago
Another option is going full-scale with CockroachDB. We had a Django application backed by PostgreSQL, which we migrated to CockroachDB using their official backend. The data migration was a pain, but it was still less painful than manually
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by rednafi 2y ago
Came here to say this. Cockroach solves the sharding issue by adopting consistent hashing-based data distribution, as described in the Dynamo paper. However, their cloud solution is a bit expensive to get started with.
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by rednafi 2y ago
Not all capes wear heroes
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Go FAQ: The Pipe Operator in Generics Is Not a Sum Type(jerf.org)
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by rednafi 2y ago
I have. It’s quite good but not as good as GPT-4o in translation. I feel like language barrier should be a thing of the past by now.
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by rednafi 2y ago
I just want a device that works as a real-time bidirectional translator by collecting audio-visual input. It’d be great if I didn’t have to waste time learning German or other languages while living in those places. Being able to order food

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