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by solatic 8mo ago
To each his own, but while I can certainly understand the hesitancy of an architect to pick Zig for a project that is projected to hit 100k+ lines of code, I really think you're missing out. There is a business case to using Zig toda
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by solatic 8mo ago
> friendly, responsible, honest, not poor... keep the house clean Even assuming I take you at your word, this describes a good roommate, not a good romantic partner. > do sports, learn new things Has negligible if any effect on romant
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by solatic 8mo ago
People who have difficulty on dating apps want to find a scapegoat, so they scapegoat the app. The truth is that dating markets are lemon markets. People who are "dateable" tend to find success quickly, and people who are "no
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by solatic 8mo ago
If employees get stock options and decide to exercise on exit, they count against the 500 unaccredited investor limit that would trigger reporting requirements. So companies that issue stock options do have an outside risk that enough emplo
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by solatic 8mo ago
> I started dreading the monotony of it all... My days had become predictable: check the dashboards, respond to tickets, debug whatever broke overnight, push some Terraform, go home. Maintain the HashiCorp Vault clusters, manage the secr
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by solatic 8mo ago
> There should be some balanced path in the middle somewhere, but I haven’t stumbled across a formal version of it after all these decades. Well, there isn't a formal version of it, because the answer is not formal , it is cultu
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by solatic 8mo ago
PgBouncer introduces its own problems and strictly speaking adds additional complexity to your infrastructure. It needs to be monitored and scaled separately, not to mention the different modes of session/transaction/statement con
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by solatic 8mo ago
There are two separate concerns here: who the credentials are associated with, and where the credentials are used. IMDS's original security flaw was that it only covered "who" the credentials were issued to (the VM) and n
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by solatic 8mo ago
AWS has a more powerful abstraction already, where you can condition permissions such that they are only granted when the request comes from a certain VPC or IP address (i.e. VPN exit). Malware thus exfiltrated real credentials, but they&#x
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by solatic 8mo ago
> Tax rates are not the same as effective taxes paid Correct, but the tax system is nonetheless quite effective at setting behavioral incentives and disincentives. Higher income and estate tax rates incentivize capital being locked up in
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by solatic 8mo ago
Really don't understand. Their own cherry-picked example benchmarks show that there is frequently no benefit, after enabling FSST, to query runtimes and sometimes query runtimes are actually negatively affected. Despite hard empirical
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by solatic 8mo ago
> Is it just really really hard to maintain a shared dictionary when constantly adding and deleting values? Is there just no established reference algorithm for it? Enums? Foreign key to a table with (id bigint generated always as identi
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by solatic 8mo ago
You are correct, but only insofar as destroying paper value. If investors have a firesale because the market would prefer to realize whatever value might be rescued, even at a loss, but the proceeds of the sale stay inside the US , then th
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by solatic 8mo ago
> “There were pictures of huge mountains of ‘earth apples’,” she recalled, using the word Erdäpfel, an affectionate term for the potato sometimes used by Berliners Fun fact: the Hebrew translation of potato, תפוח אדמה, is the portmanteau
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by solatic 8mo ago
AWS China is a completely separate partition under separate Chinese management, with no dependencies on us-east-1. It also greatly lags in feature deployments as a result.
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by solatic 8mo ago
US stock market index funds will crash when the US stock market crashes. That will require very large sums of capital to decide to move away from US capital markets. To give an idea of how much money would need to move - VTSAX alone is abou
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by solatic 8mo ago
Well, all kinds. Alerting is a really great way to track things that need to change, tell people about that thing along established channels, and also tell them when it's been addressed satisfactorily. Alertmanager will already be conf
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by solatic 8mo ago
> real-time usage -> billing This is one of the things that excites me about TigerBeetle; the reason why so much billing by cloud providers is reported only on an hourly granularity at best is because the underlying systems are runnin
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by solatic 9mo ago
I think there's two kinds of software-producing-organizations: There's the small shops where you're running some kind of monolith generally open to the Internet, maybe you have a database hooked up to it. These shops do not n
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by solatic 9mo ago
Headline is wrong. I/O wasn't the bottleneck, syscalls were the bottleneck. Stupid question: why can't we get a syscall to load an entire directory into an array of file descriptors (minus an array of paths to ignore), instea
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by solatic 9mo ago
Yeah but that's kinda my point. OK you can write policy to control the Kubernetes configuration with CUE. What about policy to control the Dockerfile, let alone the policy to control the cloud infrastructure? No? So the Security folk w
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by solatic 9mo ago
> Kubernetes So cue cmd also built the image, authenticated to a private registry, pushed the image, authenticated to the private Kubernetes cluster, and ran kubectl apply?
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by solatic 9mo ago
Like I said, if SROs are legal, you will get better and worse examples. Certainly a lot of people lived in university dormitories which are not, of course, filled with the dregs of society. Is there a market for an SRO hall filled with youn
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by solatic 9mo ago
Devs need to write the 1% of automated tests needed just to prove that what they wrote works in the ideal case. QA is valuable for writing the 99% of automated tests that prove that the software works in the edge cases, with DevOps occasion
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by solatic 9mo ago
Is there anyone out there that has actually, in the real world, realized CUE's promise of bundling type safety + data/configuration + task running in such a way that does not require wrapping it in shell scripts? Can you set up yo
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by solatic 9mo ago
Oh we definitely had diverse and vibrant characters, and that was part of what made living there fun. I also find it strange that in a page about solutions to loneliness, you reject one that, by your own admission, would introduce someone l
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by solatic 9mo ago
I lived on a kibbutz for nearly three years after university and had similar levels of personal space. While I definitely would not want to live on a kibbutz for my whole life, there were very significant downsides (internal politics), I ma
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by solatic 9mo ago
Make Single Room Occupancy (SRO) housing legal again. Having barely room for little more than a bed forces you to get out during the day. Stuff happens when your default for where to spend your time is not at "home". SRO halls a
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by solatic 9mo ago
Your competitors are not necessarily targeting the same users, and their internal strengths and weaknesses are different from yours. All comparisons to competitors are superficial and distract you from building what your users want and im
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by solatic 9mo ago
I'll agree with you that the author tried to put in a sound bite and it failed to clarify the author's point. The author is trying to argue for hiring early engineers who have exhibited ownership values and who want to take owners

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