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by zinodaur 2y ago
Only because Americans insist on their self-harm health insurance system. Americans are both collectively wealthy and have a very small number HIV infections per capita
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by zinodaur 2y ago
> The algorithm's goal was to move away people that were using a single Redis instance, or a master-slave setup with failover, in order to implement distributed locks, to something much more reliable and safe, but having a very low
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by zinodaur 2y ago
Martin Kleppmann has some interesting thoughts on Redlock: > I think the Redlock algorithm is a poor choice because it is “neither fish nor fowl”: it is unnecessarily heavyweight and expensive for efficiency-optimization locks, but it is
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by zinodaur 2y ago
yeah gotta use an IDE for that
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by zinodaur 2y ago
For most rich countries, it is payed for collectively by the country because of their healthcare system.
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by zinodaur 2y ago
Thats great. I guess their global distribution plan actually has a good chance of being fair after all?
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by zinodaur 2y ago
> But them’s the options. Maybe. But I sympathize with people who recoil at the idea of "Extremely cheap life saving medication sold at unaffordable price". Must it be sold to the world at a price that is only reasonable for th
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by zinodaur 2y ago
My remote company has been doing this. Layoffs in NA and EU, hiring frenzy in Poland
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by zinodaur 2y ago
I'm not trying to make an argument for "Python for the UI" in general. I just looked at their demo page, and thought "huh I could probably turn my debug script in to an okay looking UI in an hour with this". Maybe y
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by zinodaur 2y ago
It appeals to me. I don't write fronted code, but sometimes I want a frontend, even if it's really dinky. This seems way more approachable to me than learning JS/all the shit you have to deal with to write a non-toy ui
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by zinodaur 2y ago
Yes, writing a complete SQL DB engine like MySQL is a huge amount of work, but that is not what this article is talking about. They are wrapping another database that solves these hard problems for them. This is a fine program to write. The
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by zinodaur 2y ago
It lets companies profit off of our secrets, often in ways that hurt us (e.g. this article) and doesn't provide any positive social value.
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by zinodaur 2y ago
Bikes, (non humiliating) public transport, and more compact city design all have to work together. I think cars in small towns are pretty sweet - but they suck for everyone in big cities. They take up huge amounts of space during rush hour,
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by zinodaur 2y ago
Do you have some examples? I'm curious
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by zinodaur 2y ago
The MIT startup is like a breath of fresh air - a company that is actually doing something! Stanford style startups are a way better way to make money - but I wish people would just stop making them. Filling the economy with parasitic middl
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by zinodaur 2y ago
I assumed these were people using internal Customer Service tools. It would be pretty hard to spot the activity that way - if their job involves using those tools
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by zinodaur 2y ago
Facial expressions can sometimes help humans communicate with each other
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by zinodaur 3y ago
Very cool! When I started reading the article I thought it was going to end up using an LSM tree/RocksDB but y'all went even more custom than that
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by zinodaur 3y ago
The article mentions that the lawyers only get payed if they win the case, your tax dollars are safe
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by zinodaur 3y ago
I guess I would prefer "kubernetes but with VMs instead of containers". The overhead of running in a VM is not very high, and a hypervisor can restrict resource usage much more effectively - so that we could still bin pack map red
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by zinodaur 3y ago
I'm still not sold on the "why" wrt kubernetes. I hate that my resource hog map reduce jobs run on the same kernel and contend for the same resources as my user facing live site service.
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by zinodaur 3y ago
> usually there's 10x as many people streaming the softcore porn "Just Chatting" section as watching games. This isn't true - e.g. right now the Just Chatting category has 380k viewers, while e.g. Valorant by itself h
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by zinodaur 3y ago
The internet is better for factoids - for learning something, a book is a lot better, if you can get your hands on one. E.g. for a niche topic there's maybe a 5 page wikipedia article, a thousand useless seo fodder blogs, and a bunch
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by zinodaur 3y ago
I used to roll my eyes at US military spending as well, but the last few years have honestly made me grateful for it
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by zinodaur 3y ago
yep, you could spend the time to do that - and if you don't have a cache set up spend the time to set one up. Or, you could pay 5 bucks. I won't be using it, but I think there are some people, in some situations where the time sav
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by zinodaur 3y ago
I think this is for a different kind of rate limiting. E.g. you have a website with a couple of servers, and you want to limit the number of chatGPT requests those servers are making per day. 10ms is meaningless to the chatGPT 12s p50. You
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by zinodaur 3y ago
The article makes a big deal about ransomware/old data restoration, with the implication that backblaze backup supports it while the others do not. This is untrue - I think all of the competitors mentioned support rollbacks to specific
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by zinodaur 3y ago
The thing that ticks me off is when a website has a cutesy patronizing tone in its error message, and it was them that messed up. "Ooopsie! Looks like you clicked on a picture that doesn't exist!" Instead of "We fucked u
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by zinodaur 3y ago
Where I live, the environment has been paved with concrete for hundreds of kilometers in every direction. Yes, cats kill whatever scavengers manage to eke out a living in the ashes of their old environment. Why does it matter?
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by zinodaur 3y ago
Yeah - the article was talking about mmap... but what i wanted was to not have to define persistence boundary. I wanted the entire in-memory state of my program to be persisted - perhaps even duplicated and moved elsewhere

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