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by sausagefeet 2y ago
The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley is a really great, and different read. Totally different world than a lot of sci-fi.
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by sausagefeet 2y ago
For awhile I'd been using AirBnb by reflex, but after a few pretty bad experiences I started indexing it against local hotels before committing, and my experience has been that if you just need a place to be (don't care about kitc
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by sausagefeet 2y ago
> I think local-first is the future. This is where the apps runs mostly within user's browser with little to no help from the server. Apps like Figma, Linear and Superhuman use this model very successfully. The problem is: Figma and
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by sausagefeet 2y ago
This post doesn't have a lot of context and might be unclear if you are not familiar with Terraform and OpenTofu contributors. Martin was a lead developer for Terraform at HashiCorp and has now joined the OpenTofu team. It's reall
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System Initiative: Not So Far from IaC(terrateam.io)
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by sausagefeet 2y ago
> are mostly there because it seemed like the path of least resistance This is true of pretty much every profession. Academics get a lot of heat because there is some silly feud around elitism and common people but the reality is most p
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by sausagefeet 2y ago
Might want to re-read your initial comment, then.
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by sausagefeet 2y ago
While it's fair to say this does describe why Illumos was chosen, the actual RFD title is not presented and it is about Host OS + Virtualization software choice. Even if you think it's a foregone conclusion given the history of bc
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by sausagefeet 2y ago
This isn't a blog post from an Oxide, it's a link to their internal RFD which they use to make decisions.
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by sausagefeet 2y ago
Early Oxide founders came from Joyent which was an illumos shop and Cantrill is quite vocal about the history of Solaris, OpenSolaris, and illumos.
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by sausagefeet 2y ago
I'm a long-time Ocaml developer and I ended up writing my own build system. It absolutely has flaws but for my usecase, it just works. It's called pds and older (but working) versions are in opam (I just haven't updated it
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by sausagefeet 2y ago
> SpaceX technology and logistics have increased dollars-to-delta-V efficiency so much that they are benefiting from Jevons Paradox[0], with orbital launch demand skyrocketing (heh) due to a step change in cost. Do you have support for t
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by sausagefeet 2y ago
Early MongoDB design choices are probably not great to call out for anything other than ignorance. mmap is a very naive view on how to easily work with data but it falls over pretty hard for any situation where ensuring your data doesn&#x2
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by sausagefeet 2y ago
Can undervolting damage hardware? Or do you just reboot and revert settings and go about your day?
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by sausagefeet 3y ago
Env0, Spacelift, and (my company) Terrateam compete with Terraform Cloud not Terraform. Terraform and OpenTofu are CLIs that turn HCL code into living infrastructure. The business model of these offerings, including TFC, is to provide the
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by sausagefeet 3y ago
The OpenTofu developers take tremendous care in ensuring that no code comes from Terraform post-license change. The claims in this post are just absolutely nonsense and if you look at diffs of the files given, they look a lot different to m
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by sausagefeet 3y ago
I'm curious why someone would buy them. The license change for most of their IP is still pretty recent so the products haven't had time to differentiate themselves from the previous version. Why buy when you can just fork the ex
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by sausagefeet 3y ago
This talk by Gene on developing it is such a great watch: https://youtu.be/pVFX3V0Q2Rg?si=vF-Z5dOd0IqgPFtP So many innovations have been made in realizing that you'll be able to do it in software if you just wait a few
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by sausagefeet 3y ago
This is gibberish.
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by sausagefeet 3y ago
I have read everything you've given me. If you really believe in what you're selling then I am absolutely the person to convince because if you can convince me you can convince anyone. All you have done is post links to the same
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by sausagefeet 3y ago
1. I don't quite understand what a "consistency ledger" is and how it's not a database, but it sounds like a log. Many distributed systems solutions have logs, i.e. Raft. The question you haven't covered is how yo
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by sausagefeet 3y ago
> So how can we fix this problem? The same way we solve all our failure issues in IT: redundancy. Redundancy doesn't fix any problems, it just makes them less likely to occur. Again this not only does nothing to address the CAP the
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by sausagefeet 3y ago
Or I guess just not responding to any of the technical questions that have been brought to you. That's an option too.
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by sausagefeet 3y ago
We already know this technique works, it's how any asynchronous database replication is implemented. I've read all of your content and I can see nothing even close to, for example, the Spanner or Amazon Dynamo paper which go throu
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by sausagefeet 3y ago
I've read all this and I saw no description of failure modes and operationally how they are resolved. "If a node disappears just replace it with a new one". Ok, how?
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by sausagefeet 3y ago
This post has no rigor. "What happens if a node dies? Well another takes its place". Ok, show me. This is hand waving.
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by sausagefeet 3y ago
I'm not sure if you gave the wrong link or not but this link doesn't describe any failure modes and how OmniLedger allegedly resolves them.
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by sausagefeet 3y ago
No-one doubts if you put a message queue in front of your database, you can do what these videos show. The doubt is if this says anything interesting about distributed systems. At least these videos don't demonstrate that.
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by sausagefeet 3y ago
CAP says nothing about a "universal clock over the whole system". CAP is about the decision that has to be made in some unit of the system, it could be the whole system or it could be a bit, at the point of an operation. It&#x27
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by sausagefeet 3y ago
Math isn't what's missing, but Mark's post is just a bunch of metaphor and no rigor. At the very least it could go over failure modes and shows how it alleviates them but other databases fail.

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