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by solatic 3y ago
> If you're a young CTO or early-stage engineer working on a web app If you're working on a greenfield login/auth, please don't accept and store passwords in a database! Setup social OAuth, SSO, or magic link emails a
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by solatic 3y ago
The economic math is very simple: organizations that release faster are more responsive to the market, have lower operational costs, and are therefore more efficient. Market players that release slower will get squeezed by more efficient pl
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by solatic 3y ago
I don't know what your internal architecture looks like, but on the face of it, arguably you should be running Dev and QA loads on the same cluster. Either you have an organization where an SRE team is responsible for running clusters
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by solatic 3y ago
I don't disagree with the premise, but the author's case is deeply flawed. > Instead of paying a monthly subscription to store and access your files, a one-time payment for an external hard drive may be a more economical altern
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by solatic 3y ago
> You have to design everything for failure. Given that, it shouldn't be hard to take servers out of production for patching and updates. There's a big, big difference, especially at the scale of hundreds of thousands / mi
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by solatic 3y ago
details / summary is an important hack when writing bots that post comments to GitHub PRs or issues, such that the details are hidden unless the user clicks on it, and thus helps keep the comments tidy instead of each comment being rea
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by solatic 3y ago
> And while we can’t just go back to ignoring the economic realities of our discipline, perhaps we should take a stronger ethical stand not to harm users. Acknowledging that the user may not always come before the business, but that the
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by solatic 3y ago
This is why you buy both :) You have the fun car for when it's working and the reliable car as a fallback when the trouble starts up at the wrong moment.
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by solatic 3y ago
`lineWidth` is actually one of the available options in the biome formatter: https://biomejs.dev/formatter#configuration
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by solatic 3y ago
> Furthermore, AWS and Google Cloud’s metadata services only support one role/service account per instance. If you have multiple services that require different permissions on an instance, they’ll have to share, which is poor securi
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by solatic 3y ago
> concurrent, consistent read+write access to a shared network filesystem I don't think this is an "architectural decision", more a hold-over from legacy systems that had NFS dependencies. Main (public) example that comes
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by solatic 3y ago
This, but I want to add, I think the root cause is less due to the ease of writing a Dockerfile vs writing a deb, rpm, etc. and more due to the low cost of hosting. Whatever low-quality Dockerfile you write, you can sign up on Docker Hub, b
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by solatic 3y ago
> the while loop of death (source: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/blob/darktable-4.... ) shudder Yeah, I too wouldn't want to volunteer to contribute to a project which is OK with this.
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by solatic 3y ago
No, I signed up for Google Play Music back in the day for $8/month, which has turned into YouTube Music + ad-free YouTube at that same rate. I'm happy with that price, but if they meaningfully increased it then I'd probably c
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by solatic 3y ago
OP is correct when a business decides against standardization. > For example, one pitch in particular was for a product which promised to remove the need for me to write SQL in exchange for being able to set up all my dependencies from a
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by solatic 3y ago
Credit is given in the console :) > IBM PCjr 4863 Computer by Freepoly.org licensed under CC-BY-4.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
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by solatic 3y ago
> Especially cautious knowing demand will spike this weekend? At Stripe's scale, I doubt you could accurately forecast demand for a weekend like Black Friday. Last year's sales are just a data point; what matters this year is c
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by solatic 3y ago
The big claim to fame for the IBM Z series is supporting hot failover so the workload will never go offline. For web tier or app tier, where you want to scale horizontally anyway, it's pointless overkill, but for relational databases t
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by solatic 3y ago
It's one of those things that ought to be possible, but the problem is scaling middle management. Plenty of IC talent on the bottom, but it's impossible to have hundreds or thousands of IC report to the same individual executive
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by solatic 3y ago
Having tried to wrangle all of this both professionally and for a side project, the link is an over-simplification. No, it won't "just work". Part of the problem is the fact that web browsers, Node.js, and other JS runtimes h
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by solatic 3y ago
The central dining rooms in such places are more like college, corporate, or hospital cafeterias, there's usually healthier options available and the focus is decidedly tilted towards cost-savings vs. offerings that compete with high-e
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by solatic 3y ago
The containers would be flooded with saltwater. Unless the container was literally full of gold (or similar), the contents are irrepairably damaged and worthless.
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by solatic 3y ago
My hypothesis: The key to the whole scam is that the shipments are cross-continental and that there's no observability into where the shipment is during that time. The scammer immediately drops off the load at a storage facility, which
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by solatic 3y ago
If you're looking for the right turn of phrase, you already lost. As a leader, you need to establish a rapport (with someone who is anyway initially inclined to desire rapport with you, because you're their boss and have outsize i
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by solatic 3y ago
> Rewarding loyal customers Restaurant reservations are fundamentally different compared to, say, Taylor Swift concert tickets. Loyalty to an artist is multi-channel (concert tickets, merchandise, CD, streaming) and thus difficult to tra
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by solatic 3y ago
It's more than that, it's the cover-your-ass mentality that develops when every small part of your job is dictated by reams and reams of bureaucracy and policy. Building successful products requires direct communication with users
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by solatic 3y ago
I'm not hearing anything particularly modern in this take. The author lacks a sense of personal foundation upon which to build a life for themselves. Their list of "debunked" foundations - family, country, church, work - were
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by solatic 3y ago
I'm not sure if you understood my argument? I'm arguing that it's fine to ship a "fundamentally broken design" as long as the company makes abundantly clear that such software is shipped as-is, without warranty of
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by solatic 3y ago
> It will have to be a mix until storage can scale to the level nuclear can provide cleanly. It would, if it were easy and quick to scale up nuclear power. The story for scaling storage is much clearer, simpler, faster, and cheaper tha
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by solatic 3y ago
Not criticism, just remarks: > While, over time, our practice is to migrate the backend for these services to our best practices, we did not formally require that before products were declared generally available (GA). I really like the

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