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by wvh 1y ago
What's your opinion on OTel when trying to keep things small and performant? I've got some experience working with OTel the last few years, and I'm a bit afraid of the expanding scope and complexity compared to "simpler&
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by wvh 1y ago
Isn't that what is happening on the whole, going from soccer field energy guzzling hardware to laptop to mobile and server farm processors like ARM that are reasonably energy-efficient? There's only that much energy you can squeez
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by wvh 1y ago
Don't disagree, but some hard things don't get said when the other gender is around, especially with men of a certain age. It takes a lot for many men to even out loud say the word "lonely" or "sad" or "wo
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by wvh 1y ago
Perhaps. I've never gotten into the effort of re-coding everything, though I have converted some to MP3 to take on runs with me before memory cards exceeded the size of the data. I'm happy we're getting at a point not having
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by wvh 1y ago
I've been building a music collection in FLAC format for 25 years, and last year I bought an (Android) phone and a MicroSD card of 1TB that fits all of my music. It's been a long project for technology to catch up, but now that it
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by wvh 1y ago
As long as you get the content you paid for, any meta/side information included a book is just icing on the cake – forgive me – in my book.
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by wvh 1y ago
That's a lovely idea. I have been working for large open data projects and secretive private data collections and they both fail in their own ways. Maybe the open-source gathering with a proper authority to lock down and shepherd data
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by wvh 1y ago
Top 1% vs bottom 1%. Amazing what one day in the shoes of another could teach a person. Well, hopefully.
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by wvh 1y ago
Two days ago, I'd have said the same. Yesterday, big box went down, and because it was so stable, it was a joint less oiled and the spare chickened out at the wrong time and apparently even managed to mess up the database timeline. Tod
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by wvh 1y ago
I'm a trail runner. When I look at the ultra runner community, there definitely is a sense that some people have gamified their ancient brains and mastered the skill of short-term inconvenience to obtain long-term success, and it trans
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by wvh 1y ago
He was not a great guitar player, but he had an ear for tonality and combining melodies on top of those ambiguous chords. I read somewhere he was a Beatles fan, and I can see how their pop vocal layering and more complex instrumentation via
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by wvh 1y ago
I assume the accuracy of the average arrow and non-professional soldier might dissuade one to get anywhere near the fire range. Enough will fail to launch properly, slip or be dysfunctional that there's no way you'd want them shot
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by wvh 1y ago
Some might call this intelligence.
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by wvh 1y ago
This reminds me of my own website using Apache's server side includes in the late nineties. No Markdown though, but otherwise not substantially different. Simplicity tends to work best (most reliable, least resources) for text content.
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by wvh 1y ago
I have worked for financial institutions where random departments have random interests in certain data transactions. You (as in a dev team in one such department) have no say in who touches the data, from where, and how it's used. Kaf
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by wvh 1y ago
Wide events seems like it would require more memory and CPU to combine and more bandwidth due to size. I've implemented services with loggers that gather data and statistics and write out just one combined log line at the end. It'
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by wvh 1y ago
It's not the storage cost; it's the computational load (memory, CPU, sometimes network) of gathering thousands and thousands of metrics by default, most of which go unused.
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by wvh 1y ago
Having worked with PCI-DSS, some rules seem to only exist to appease insurance. When criticising decisions, you are told that passing audits to be able to claim insurance is the whole game, even when you can demonstrate how you can bypass c
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by wvh 1y ago
Many companies are having trouble to even keep Prometheus running without it getting OOM killed though. I understand and agree with the problem this is trying to solve; but the solution will rival the actual business software it is observin
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by wvh 1y ago
I came here to say just that. Nats solves a lot of those challenges, like different ways to query and preserve messages, hierarchical data, decent authn/authz options for multi-tenancy, much lighter and easier to set up, etc. It has mo
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by wvh 1y ago
The problem is that you don't know who's listening. You don't want all possible interested parties to hammer the database. Hence the events in between. Arguably, I'd not use Kafka to store actual data, just to notify in-
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by wvh 1y ago
I think the fear for those of us who love coding, stability and security, that we are going to be confronted with apples that are rotten on the inside and our work, our love, is going to turn (even more so) into pain. The challenge in compu
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by wvh 1y ago
I don't know what a Hermès is or connotates, but I think the complaint is as much about the artificial and seemingly arbitrary restrictions as opposed to purely the price. You can try to create a Veblen good out of a digital artifact a
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by wvh 1y ago
Consider the source. I assume companies will learn the hard way not to fake human interaction and be forced to mention when responses are auto-generated (a better word than "AI" really). All that effort for so many to build rappor
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by wvh 2y ago
Not sure watt you guys are on about. Not to be too negative here or polarise the debate, but I remember the electrifying experience as a child to source local products instead of relying on imports from faraday countries. I guess technology
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by wvh 2y ago
Tax the 99% seems pretty accurate.
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by wvh 2y ago
Opposing views are a primary tool in building deeper understanding of any topic – as long as those views have some honest meat on the bone. It's worrisome to notice true neutrality is so rare these days both on the internet and in fund
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by wvh 2y ago
I've always admired people that get out before the shit gets anywhere near the fan instead of staying glued to their seat in quiet despair and apathy, grasping at something that feels like security and stability. If you're really
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by wvh 2y ago
I used this extensively at the time Docker was up and coming. It worked well, much faster than Docker volumes, but required a lot of scripting and clean-up. What Docker got right, apart from distribution, is better separation of host system
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by wvh 2y ago
I like the premise of something like Dagger, being an Actions CI that can run locally and uses Docker. I don't know if there's an up-and-coming "safe" open-source alternative that does not have that threat of a VC time b

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