synthmeat

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by synthmeat 5y ago
We're querying dozens, if not into hundreds, of GraphQL APIs for a couple of years now. Terrible DX, terrible performance, terrible uptimes. Everyone on the team, with no exception, hates them. Even a lot of those who produce them cobb
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by synthmeat 5y ago
Would batteries in the bands be A Really Bad Idea?™
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by synthmeat 5y ago
> I will be happy to pay $. Buy rpi400 (or a similar device with dominantly non-consumptive ecosystem around it) to your kid... and all his friends or a class.
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by synthmeat 5y ago
I don't see Hetzner dedicated vCPU's on there? I did mention "dcpu" ones. But thank you for your benchmark, it's very useful for shared-cpu comparison. How did I come to it? Measuring performance of my node.js servi
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by synthmeat 5y ago
Yeah, heavy sustained, and DO came up on top (even your link says so). Admittedly, I haven't tested across the pond. I've tested dcpu ones only AND only for my load (node.js with a worker). That's why "benchmarked"
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by synthmeat 5y ago
For non-dedicated in the US? I can think of at least 2 reasons why not: - crappy network (advertised 300-500mbps, usually lower) - crappy cpus ("benchmarked" several providers, hetzner was lower end on cpu-bound loads) Dedicated o
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by synthmeat 5y ago
Honestly, as someone who worked on and off with both FB and TW APIs for ages now, FB developer (and business) API experience was actually superb (I know, I'm shocked as well). TW is the one who's borderline hostile to developers a
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by synthmeat 5y ago
"The host systems for our Cloud instances all have a redundant 10 Gbits connection. This connection is shared by all instances on the host. We do not offer bandwidth guarantees for our Cloud servers, but you can expect about 300-500 Mb
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“You Don't Know JS yet” 2nd Edition Kickstarter(kickstarter.com)
2 points by synthmeat 5y ago|0 comments
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by synthmeat 5y ago
When it completely rolls out during this month, it's going to be tie-breaker which, supposedly, happens a lot more often than people think. Additionally, it's not the Lighthouse score that you need to worry about, but WebVitals (F
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by synthmeat 5y ago
Yup, this has been best advice I've listened last year, and subsequently built on-site community chatbox. It's been amazing source of QA, feature ideas, discovering who are the real people using the service... We even hired from i
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by synthmeat 5y ago
Serendipitously, this popped up for me right as I was reading this thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QezLxFuBxvM
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by synthmeat 6y ago
No, I'm not making a statement about blocking, just using it as device to try and infer what's Telegram's infrastructure, I'd assume it's majority of their expenses.
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by synthmeat 6y ago
If I remember well, they used DigitalOcean as provider? Was it just for frontend servers? When Russia banned it, they just blanked banned (almost) all of the DO's range.
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by synthmeat 6y ago
Telegram has incredible and large cryptocurrency scene. I honestly think this would fly, if they would accept cryptocurrency as payment as well.
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by synthmeat 6y ago
If you're using replica set, as you should for anything other than development (and even in development, sometimes you need a replica set for some features), you just sequentially upgrade each one. It goes down, clients figure out the
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by synthmeat 6y ago
WRT #1, we've used a shadow and users seem to like it. https://www.livecoinwatch.com
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by synthmeat 6y ago
It's a fun example in how easy it is to setup, and I don't want to poke too hard on a hypotheticals, but I don't like two things: 1) Egress is hand-waved, when in reality the free GBs would basically exhaust in a month on jus
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by synthmeat 6y ago
I can only echo the sentiment wrt Coinbase. They're failing address verification for me, in spite of sending them multiple different types of documents that are clearly showing needed data. And not a peep from direct help via tickets f
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Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High(livecoinwatch.com)
88 points by synthmeat 6y ago|139 comments
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by synthmeat 6y ago
Just as another data-point... ~250k monthly unique users, as well as actively promoting it (to the point where they make up ~15% of users) and it's bringing ~$500/mo. Slightly unrelated, it's been a bit of a pain to have all
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by synthmeat 6y ago
Over 7 years, 100s of VMs atm. Tried to get into AWS and GCP few times over the years just for the resume-building and fun, didn't see the point. While I can understand they fit some use-cases, I think a good rule of thumb would be - i
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by synthmeat 6y ago
There's fair amount of useful information here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18522497
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by synthmeat 7y ago
I'd second the "What is Mathematics?" and "Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning" recommendations, in that order. Both are very cheap, comprehensive, and in ascending rigour. After those, it's really de
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by synthmeat 7y ago
Is there or will there be AlphaFold CASP14 entry too?
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by synthmeat 7y ago
You know, I was already acutely aware of all this you mention... and I still needed a reminder. Thank you for that. 0. [ ] this list 1. ...
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by synthmeat 7y ago
Where did you get the "30%"? Last time I researched, it was much less than that. Even at casual glance now, highest figures seem to be at most 15%. https://www.piie.com/publications/chapters_preview/381&#
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by synthmeat 7y ago
I don't see it mentioned (at all), but my hypothesis for 30% is that it is because of money laundering. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to provide gift cards, would have to limit spending per app, cap all the prices, monitor whale
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Web Almanac(almanac.httparchive.org)
1 points by synthmeat 7y ago|0 comments
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by synthmeat 7y ago
Are you a double-clicker or just selector? I'm a double-clicker and I know of many others. I don't know many "selectors". In that spirit, they should just ignore double-clicking in whatever they wanna present for selecti

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