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by whizzter 9mo ago
I'd look at it in another way, hyperscalers exist due to code contributed from all around the world, often in the form of open source, Europe going closed and competing against the rest of the world (literally) isn't going to be a
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by whizzter 9mo ago
If only 50-70% of your data is dead and causing issues then you probably have an underlying indexing issue anyhow (because scaling to 2x-3x customers would cause the same issues by magnitude). That said, we've had soft-deletes and duri
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by whizzter 9mo ago
This reminds me of why my old 2003 Toshiba Portege R100 so far has been my favourite alltime laptop. - It was thinner overall than a Macbook Air, BEFORE it came out (watching people get hyped about Air's was just a snooze) - Transrefle
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by whizzter 9mo ago
Not going to be claiming to be an expert, but buckling is a well documented phenomenon and I'd be surprised if there wasn't possible issues due to contraction on the other end of the spectrum when it gets colder, the track was lai
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by whizzter 9mo ago
Some have mentioned that the tracks were installed during may 2025, it's also the first winter so track issues and then thermal contraction could've cause too much strain.
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by whizzter 9mo ago
The collision was due to one train derailing first, if that was due to the track (as mentioned in andy12_'s toplevel comment) then listening to warnings could perhaps have avoided the accident.
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by whizzter 9mo ago
Doesn't need to be underfunding, may 2025 was last summer and this was the first winter, defects in laying the tracks didn't have a chance to show up until now. The biggest part then might be that they should have listened to the
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by whizzter 9mo ago
I think much manufacturing adheres to the die-young, die-old principle (Often mentioned in the Backblaze reports), manufacturing defects shows up early on, time of stillness and then as it ages it starts to fail. The tracks were laid in May
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by whizzter 9mo ago
Kinda, it all depends on platforms and eras. As a demoscener I see more of techdemo, indiedev and "game-mods" vibes in much of it (especially certain kinds of jankiness feel of visuals in some parts that demosceners doing more hig
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by whizzter 9mo ago
Yep, the current crunch experienced by developers is massively (but not exclusivly) on younger less experienced developers. I was working with developer training for a while some 5-10 years back and already then I was starting to see some s
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by whizzter 9mo ago
Comments here lambasting too bright background/letters.. QuickBasic/QBasic/edit.com(and turbo pascal?) darkish blue background and grey text was just damn comfortable and why we turned our backs on it is beyond me.
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by whizzter 9mo ago
Seems plenty of the people occur multiple times, so there's more engineers... if only barely :|
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by whizzter 9mo ago
I view it a bit more from the lens of it's initial evolution (Asm.JS) being a wall-breaker to force Safari,etc to keep up. It was done by adding a MVP that was easy to add for all parties (Asm.JS already ran on top of WebGL buffers and
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by whizzter 9mo ago
How is it compared to moment and especially luxon?
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by whizzter 9mo ago
Not to mention that WP7 customers couldn't upgrade to WP8, meant that both customers and resellers had devices they couldn't do shit with.
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by whizzter 9mo ago
No, the death of Windows Phone was 95% the fault of MS/Nokia. Pre-announcing that they were leaving all Winphone 7 customers behind for Winphone 8 meant that every retailer/distributor was left with unsellable stock (because they
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by whizzter 9mo ago
From what viewpoint do you view them? simd128 fills a common need(most games using vector operations) and was a viable option with _broad hardware support_, yes, it adds a ton of instructions and impacts a ton of places with regards to memo
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by whizzter 9mo ago
Actually done some WebDAV, did a small client (talking to Apache) from JS that worked well enough for my purposes. The nasty surprise was doing the server-side (for a hobby-project), many layers. Luckily found out that something called DavT
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by whizzter 10mo ago
It's probably a vicious cycle. Less people are trusted to touch ntfs.sys due to lack of experience, thus they never gain it and that in turn means less work and in turn means even less people have proved themselves trustworthy enough t
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by whizzter 10mo ago
Agreed, but that used to be the difference between MS and Google. MS would bend backwards to make sure those enterprise Windows 0.24 boxes will still be able to connect to networks because those run some 16bit drivers for CNC machines. Mean
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by whizzter 10mo ago
I doubt he would, goto heavy code really jumped all over the place in incomprehensible manners. Labelled break/goto is used in perhaps 1% of loops due to actually implementing some algorithm that would've needed extra flags,etc. a
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by whizzter 10mo ago
I think the claim might harken back to the days when programming was a new thing and mathematicians,physicists,etc were the ones most often getting started at it, if they had by training gotten used to 1 based indexing in mathematics it was
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by whizzter 10mo ago
Yeah, mgmt (and more than anything, query tools) is gonna be a PITA. But looking at it in a different way, say building something like Google Sheets. One could place user-mgmt in one single-threaded database (Even at 200k users you probably
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by whizzter 10mo ago
I think a lot of people have a hard time differentiating the underlying systems from what they _see_ and use it to bash MS products. I heard that it was perhaps recently fixed, but copying many small files was multiple times faster to do vi
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by whizzter 10mo ago
Plenty of other workloads that benefit from high performance file access and with networks speeds and disk speeds getting higher whilst single-core perf has more or less plateaued in comparison, it's thus more and more important to sup
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by whizzter 10mo ago
Even in a distributed database you want increasing (even if not monotonic) keys since the underlying b-tree or whatever will very likely behave badly for entirely random data. UUIDv7 is very useful for these scenarios since A: A hash or mod
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by whizzter 10mo ago
A lot of unnecessary complexity/overhead for a minor seldomly touched part of a much larger already complex system? I'll give a comparison. JSON - We have some frontend logic/view (that can be feature-flagged per customer) to
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by whizzter 10mo ago
I fully agree that's wrong (can't imagine the overhead of some larger tables I have if that had happened), that said, often people want weird customizations in medium-sized tables that would set one on a path to having annoying 10
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by whizzter 10mo ago
Italy isn't a puny country, it's over 1000kms between Sicily and the Alps (Like LA to Albuquerque), seems the fault lines reaches northern Italy (about 100km from the alps) but the amount of larger quakes seems smaller there.
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by whizzter 10mo ago
Forgot to reply, dunno about what is the focus in different markets but in Sweden the HBO-Discovery merger meant that 3 of the 12 or so old linear channels got sucked into it, what those channels lived off was cheap reality-TV of drunk&#x2F

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