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by taywrobel 5y ago
Can you summarize or provide a non-paywall link? It’s frustrating that they claim RCV is second best but (presumably) put what they argue is best below the fold.
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by taywrobel 5y ago
The risk isn't the price drop, it's China deciding that it wants to own the bitcoin market one day, seizing control of the hashers, and then doing whatever they want with the network. For instance, refusing to process transactions
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by taywrobel 5y ago
In April a power outage in China caused Bitcoin hash rate to drop by 45% - https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-hashrate-drops-xinjiang-bla... In the idealized little crypto world no one person has control, sure, but we have on
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by taywrobel 5y ago
Especially when tossed in a container for most workloads nowadays. You can have a full go binary statically linked and copied into a FROM SCRATCH docker image and it just works, and is miniscule. For example, that's all that the produc
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by taywrobel 5y ago
If it’s something that makes someone understand and enjoy their chosen wallpaper preference better is it really useless? I guess it comes down to your personal interpretation of “usefulness”, but frankly I think you take for granted the amo
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by taywrobel 5y ago
Having several friends on the Apple a11y team, they really do work tirelessly to make the accessibility experience amazing. A lot of the engineers on that team have visual, audiotory, or other physical impairment as well, which is really co
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The baroque VoiceOver descriptions of iOS system wallpapers(twitter.com)
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by taywrobel 6y ago
StreamNative doesn’t lock critical functionality behind enterprise agreements while still advertising the software as open source, and doesn’t openly lie about what the system capabilities are. Not saying that they won’t turn evil at some p
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by taywrobel 6y ago
> The broader Kafka ecosystem has features like exactly-once support No. No it doesn’t. It has at-least-once delivery with client-side deduplication. That’s not new, it’s what TCP does FFS. Why would you lie to people about supporting so
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by taywrobel 6y ago
Fair enough, not hijacking. Just presenting the software as open source then requiring you to pay substantially for features that it’d be irresponsible to use the software in production without (e.g. geo replication via mirror maker). Add t
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by taywrobel 6y ago
If designing a new system is there any reason to choose Kafka over Pulsar at this point? Apart from Confluent wanting you to use Kafka so they can keep leeching money off you by hijacking de facto ownership of an open source project, of cou
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by taywrobel 6y ago
NATS by itself doesn’t handle the persistence side at all (by design). It’s at most once delivery, not at least once. That being said, have you checked out NATS Streaming Server? It’s effectively a first party client for NATS that gives it
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by taywrobel 6y ago
Not the right forum for this type of shallow dismissal. Please be more substantive with comments or don’t comment at all.
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by taywrobel 6y ago
There’s a difference between the transport and the protocol. For instance I’ve used Redis fronted by TLS in the past. Initial connection did get more tricky for sure, needing to have the certs in place to first connect. However after the co
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by taywrobel 6y ago
Thanks, dang, you do a great job moderating discussion on HN. FWIW I don’t feel personally attacked here, and I accept that this is a contentious issue where hyperbole is likely to happen, but I really appreciate you being a mediating voice
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by taywrobel 6y ago
I’m not a fan of invoking Godwin’s law, I only mentioned the nazis because the commenter I responded to make the allusion. And you’re entitled to your opinion, of course, but I wouldn’t recommend trying to presume anyone’s intentions.
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by taywrobel 6y ago
Good news/bad news. Good news is that I was one of those people that had a clearance, so can confirm that those individuals exist at least. Bad news is because I had a clearance, I can’t say anything more than that. Way too much liabil
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by taywrobel 6y ago
Disclaimer that I left in 2014, but at that time they didn’t lean into their reputation at all. With that said, <speculation>I’d guess that they’re leaning into it and capitalizing on it because any press is good press. </spec
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by taywrobel 6y ago
It’s okay, I’ve tried to explain what Palantir does on a few threads and always get a decent amount of pushback. So it goes with politicized issues. So I get a lot of downvotes and lose some imaginary internet points; that’s fine. I’m not a
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by taywrobel 6y ago
Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I’d rather address the nazis themselves than the tools they use. People still drive Volkswagens and wear Hugo Boss. Edit: A bit surprised to see this comment flagged. What about HN's guidelines were violate
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by taywrobel 6y ago
I get that opinions differ on how to handle situations like these, and I respect that disagreement, but I’m personally of the opinion that if you don’t like what government does, vote to stop them from doing it. Don’t blame those that build
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by taywrobel 6y ago
Having worked at Palantir in the past, I’d like to again take the opportunity to let everyone know what it is they actually do, because they really aren’t this all-seeing boogeyman of tech that everyone enjoys making them out to be (such ru
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by taywrobel 6y ago
While that's technically true, it isn't in any practical way. What K/V API does CockroachDB offer you as a user? The closest you can get is: CREATE TABLE kv (key STRING PRIMARY KEY, value STRING); But calling that a "key
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by taywrobel 6y ago
Anathem is great, but I'd call it the "hard mode" of Neal Stephenson's work. If anyone is wanting some easier to follow books by him to get started with, I highly recommend Seveneves (personal favorite) or Snow Crash (mo
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by taywrobel 6y ago
I almost never use bookmarks any more, but I’ve had this page bookmarked for the better part of a decade now and still refer to it at least once a year, and I don’t even work in game development.
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by taywrobel 6y ago
Like JSON5?
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by taywrobel 6y ago
That’s more a side effect of the tooling than the language itself tho. “ Gofmt's style is no one's favorite, yet gofmt is everyone's favorite.” https://go-proverbs.github.io/
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by taywrobel 6y ago
TLDR; - Simplified, familiar syntax for those who already know a C variant - Concurrency model (CSP) which works nicely with the request/response paradigm of server communication - Performance comparable to other statically compiled la
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by taywrobel 6y ago
Looks like Peloton finally got too popular for Andy Pavlo to keep using their name for the project. Sort of a shame, I thought the old name was a more apt analogy for the goals of the system.
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by taywrobel 6y ago
Seems to be in a similar product category as Anduril’s Ghost sUAS - https://www.anduril.com/ghost Less capacity, but longer flight time. Seems similarly marketed towards industrial/military use tho.

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