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by rewmie 3y ago
> So when I see an upstream gatekeeper accusing someone of not understanding what they are proposing, I am skeptical. Your comment reads like a textbook example of an appeal to authority. Google engineers don't walk over water, and
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Fitting an 800Gbps appliance into 2-4U means you can fit into a lot more ISPs. The work and investment to turn that 4U deployment into two 2U deployments sounds like a far more realistic and effective way to go about the problem. >
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Have a look at Netflix's 800Gbps CDN node presentation. If you want to hit high transfer speeds, your CPU may not have the bandwidth to read from your device and write it to the NIC. Would it be feasible to horizontal scale those
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by rewmie 3y ago
It's also important to have an idea what are the theoretical gains to be had with this work. It would make no sense to mess with infrastructure at this level of the tech stack if the ballpark estimates of potential gains are in the sin
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by rewmie 3y ago
To sum things up: > I strongly suggest that you read up on the basic of this before proposing any solution. Ouch.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> DSL are the plague of our field, for one that is useful like SQL, you have a hundred that turn your life into hell. The same can be said about using general purpose programming languages to specify stuff declaratively, but instead of i
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Using @ as the delimiter between subreddit and host seems confusing to be (...) It's community@instance, and the "@instance" suffix is only required if you're accessing a community hosted on a separate instance. It
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by rewmie 3y ago
> UNIX might be standard but it doesn't make it cross platform. You might not like it but a lot of people develop on windows. I fail to understand what point you tried to make. There are already plenty of Make implementations for Wi
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by rewmie 3y ago
I found it amusing how the main features advertised for Task were the programming language used to write it, how it's distributed as a single executable, and how it's easy to install. None of them are relevant, or made any case fo
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by rewmie 3y ago
Twitter was rendered useless as a mass communication platform. It looks like this submission points to a thread, but Twitter does not provide any access to follow-up messages.
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by rewmie 3y ago
Lemmy received a big influx of new users once Reddit's CEO started acting out Lemmy, being a part of the fediverse, has a bunch of servers where we can access Lemmy communities. Here's a starting point. https://lemmy.wo
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Apologies, but I do tire of software and computer science constantly thinking that what they do is math. Software engineering is as much engineering as it is, say, mechanical and civil engineering: some applications explicitly require
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by rewmie 3y ago
Ok, thanks for your contribution to the discussion.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> This is not a relevant strawman (if it fails for some, it works for none?). Working without a plan isn't how humans work. You want to argue about scale, that's fine, but far from absolute. OP clearly fails to understand that
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Considering it very often fails even for successful projects, obviously, it is not. You are using a very personal and peculiar definition of failure, which is not shared by anyone else. Back in the real world, companies hire project ma
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The way anything actually gets done is by initially being overly optimistic (...) I don't think so. At most, planners plan for the happy path and then add slack to help them manage expectations. Sometimes stuff emerges and project
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by rewmie 3y ago
> All my estimations are off by 2-200 times. Basically they’re useless. I know, hyperboles and all, but if your initial estimate for a task is 1 week but you end up requiring 4 years to deliver it then something went terribly wrong, and
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by rewmie 3y ago
> What I find ironic is that everyone in the industry knows that estimating is very hard, thus estimations are nearly useless, yet everyone insists on the importance of planning and on basing such planning on void estimates. Obviously, p
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by rewmie 3y ago
BBC said it: > "Mr Musk has a history of making statements that are not serious or which fail to happen." https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65981876
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The second most common bad reason is because business units don't want to talk to one another. This sounds like a terribly naive take. It matters nothing if units talk to one another. Nothing. All it matters is ownership and accou
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Conway's Law It can be the cause or the consequence. If your team peels a microservice out of a monolith and assign a couple of developers to work on the newly-created service, those guys will be heads down on their work and focus
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by rewmie 3y ago
> It does not. Shows the logged-out experience and prefills a demo user when you select 'Sign In'. Simple click shows that. You're describing something that contrasts with my own experience. When I open the link I get the
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I’m using this app for sometime for notes. It fits the usecase when you want to write down something without thinking about where to place it. Why not just create private groups/channels/chats for that purpose? No infrastruct
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by rewmie 3y ago
Meh the first thing I saw when I opened the demo page was a spinner. That's sitting at the opposite side of the normal distribution for site lightness.
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by rewmie 3y ago
Does it require a registered account? Not great.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Splitting thousands of hours of video into 1-2s chunks, uploading them to s3, then processing them in isolation? Now that you place it like that, it does sound very dubious. The overhead required by uploading MBs go S3 go afterwards ha
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I've at times been told that tech debt is fine because products only last 3-4 years before a replacement gets made. Here am I, sipping on my coffee and catching up on HN while waiting for my 10+ year project to finish building. Bu
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by rewmie 3y ago
This page is unreadable on mobile. Shame, as the topic is interesting.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Ukraine is piss poor compared to Russia. I fail to see the relevance of that. Sounds like cheap propaganda. My point was clear: when Russia started it's invasion of Ukraine, one of the first things they did was to pillage the indu
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by rewmie 3y ago
> You'd be surprised to see how much old industrial machinery is still being used around the world, even in other developed countries. Machines like these are a huge investment, so as long as they are still working flawlessly (and I

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