solatic

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by solatic 6d ago
Title is click-bait with poor framing (i.e. if you are often wrong, then sometimes, you will be right). Finishing your goals does not "make you right". Life is not a binary where you are either wrong, or right. Thinking that you e
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by solatic 9d ago
Important buried context: 60/hour unauthenticated, but 5,000/hour on the free plan. 60/hour sucks. 5000/hour (a little more than one per second) is totally fine. I'm chalking this up alongside Docker's decision
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by solatic 11d ago
> 5-year treasuries were paying 7-9% with inflation in the 2-4% range One crucial difference: the US wasn't $40T in debt, and it wasn't pulling trillion dollar deficits. In 1998 the US federal government actually had a surplus!
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by solatic 11d ago
> what happens to scaling of the businesses? This is a fundamentally political question. When different customers demand different new features, and other customers demand particular bug fixes, who do you satisfy first? The one with a sm
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by solatic 13d ago
Not OP, but - You didn't explain why, in your opinion, opt-out is disrespectful; why respect requires opt-in. For most Western users, the bandwidth is hardly a drop in the bucket, and while there are certainly kinds of telemetry that
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by solatic 14d ago
But ClickHouse has its own concept of sessions that is completely independent of HTTP: https://clickhouse.com/docs/concepts/features/interfaces/htt... If you throw something like nginx in front to try to
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by solatic 15d ago
I cocked an eyebrow more than once reading this. > A quick note about HTTP: ClickHouse® offers a TCP connector with a native protocol, but we don't use it. It does not offer many advantages for the type of application we build This
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by solatic 16d ago
You're not comparing against real-world fixed-route bus routes. In the real world, most bus routes run nearly empty if not completely empty most of the time, belching diesel smoke and paying a driver, in order to ensure that service is
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by solatic 17d ago
They won't be cheap until there's competition to drive down the price, which will otherwise be as high as possible to justify the initial investments. It's only a matter of time, but likely on the scale of decades. But I want
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by solatic 17d ago
If buses are autonomous, it no longer makes sense to have arbitrary routes that people need to wait at a bus stop for. They can wait in parking lots, charging their batteries, until they are summoned, and give people door-to-door transporta
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by solatic 17d ago
Even if you don't have sympathy on an individual level for hundreds of thousands of ordinary, working-class people with decades-long careers suddenly losing their livelihood (and you really should have sympathy for them), you should at
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by solatic 17d ago
> that sounds very minor Are you arguing that a lesser evil (compared to the evil of offshoring) is not evil? Is offshoring supposed to be relevant here? Why bring this up?
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by solatic 18d ago
Your argument is non-sequitur and nihilist. America was created by colonizing Native land, so should we somehow evict hundreds of millions of people in the name of justice? (/rhetorical) Original sin is a sunk cost. If you want to make
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by solatic 18d ago
You'll throw Hollywood and most of the publishing industry out of business overnight if you "abolish" copyright. Not a good idea to throw so many people out of work. Copyright needs to be reformed , absolutely. Not abolished
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by solatic 18d ago
And how do you know if you have been breached if you (negligently, in my opinion) have no audit logging, multiple principals sharing the same account, and no anomaly tracking? Does a breach only happen if the attacker brags openly about it?
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by solatic 21d ago
> Backups are _tested regularly_ now because LLMs make it cheap to do so. sighs heavily in 90's sysadmin Testing backups is not just a question of whether or not the restore command works. Go back and read the Tao of Backup: http
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by solatic 21d ago
Author has a good head on their shoulders, but few if any companies are going to spend time on incident simulations for their SREs. Why not? Because even pre-AI, very few companies spend time practicing restoring their backups, or disaster
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by solatic 23d ago
The stock market isn't fundamentally a gamble. Spending money to buy a share of a company's future dividends is a sound way to invest money and earn a return on it. The problem with the stock market is when there aren't enoug
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by solatic 26d ago
Low pay pushes people to leave, regardless of performance. The argument I'm making is that, in such an environment, you retain high performers through non-economic incentives (sense of belonging, appreciation, etc.) and push low perfor
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by solatic 26d ago
> There’s lots of things you can blame for killing the open Internet, but I think NAT was one of the earliest. Running a server used to be trivial: run an executable, tell people your address, done... It also trained everyone to think c
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by solatic 27d ago
It really depends on the organization, its mission, the employee pool, and the local cost of living. Most software engineers are relatively well-paid compared to the wider labor market, even the engineers who are "underpaid". Kahn
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by solatic 27d ago
It's classic HN to criticize OP that their solution doesn't scale, and then for OP to respond by saying that they don't need the scale and anyway PG tells you to do things that don't scale. SQLite is great for small-prod
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by solatic 28d ago
By definition, paying employees well means paying them above-market, not market rate. If you pay people market-rate, nobody writes home about the compensation. Market-rate is also not "underpaying" i.e. below-market. Paying above-
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by solatic 29d ago
> Next time, I’m picking a tool based on developer experience first, not AWS service integration convenience. The time we lost debugging Cognito issues could have paid for several years of a paid auth provider. How many paid auth provide
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by solatic 1mo ago
DynamoDB has basically two legitimate use-cases that I'm familiar with: 1. You're selling a system to a customer to use within their own AWS account, that you will have no access to, and it needs a transactional datastore (not jus
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by solatic 1mo ago
> Broader, cheaper access to frontier intelligence at incredible speeds is coming. OP's entire argument rests on this presumption, and while it certainly sounds like the industry is headed in this direction, it's definitely w
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by solatic 1mo ago
The easiest (but not necessarily best or most effective) way to survive corporate life is to give your boss quiet, make your peers happy, and your direct reports miserable. Therefore, naively, people look very different depending on whether
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by solatic 1mo ago
> This way the code stays readable/debuggable by humans. Please take the following as expressed with genuine curiosity: Do you not use an editor with syntax highlighting and collapsible comments? At least on JetBrains you can config
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by solatic 1mo ago
std.debug.print is, as its name suggests, for debug output, not for program output. In Zig, you create a buffered writer for the stdout file handle, write hello world to the buffer, and then flush it. It exposes what's actually happeni
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by solatic 1mo ago
> The borrow checker will catch all kinds of bugs that AI-generated code will happily compile in Zig but will blow up as UB at runtime. This has not been my experience; Claude does a great job of writing unit tests for the Zig code, and

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