a notebook is a great column oriented database for when you cannot bring technology with you. I don't think there is any useful scenario for one otherwise
I would think that a good command-line is one that responds to me within milliseconds on a crapbox i386 machine, and I can COMMAND it what to do.
A good command-line is not a binary blob that cannot parse simple instructions correctly.
At the same time, siri seems to be getting slower and fatter every iteration so perhaps it is becoming more human ;)
This happens all too often and furthermore is a problem beyond the chicken realm. Attention to detail is an integral part of human life and it is disgusting to see mere humans pretend to comprehend the intricacies of escaping beyond their mortal self, just for internet points.
I never really understood Cloudflare's intent, because from the marketing material it seems that you get DDOS "protection", free TLS certs, everything in a monthly package, affordable, bla bla bla.
But from some basic calculations I get that R2, Workers and egress bandwidth beyond a few terabytes costs just as much as Oracle cloud / Alibaba.
But what I dislike the most is how little control you have over what's going on there. Like: If you haven't setup TLS on your webserver, why do they allow unencrypted traffic to flow between the server <-> Cloudflare and encrypt it to the end users and pretend that is secure?
Why can't they forward all my server's headers? Why <XYZ> ?????????
Read some horror stories on Hackernews and you'll quickly find out what their "unmetered bandwidth" really means. You get very little if any transparency about the pricing, which I would except from tiny cloud companies, but this is supposed to be a major one!
The only use cases I have seen for units larger than 'petabyte' are those representing the maximum allowed file sizes for ZFS, Btrfs and such. I also don't see a point in inventing more prefixes so that statisticians don't have to use scientific notation for large numbers. What use is that? How many people know how much a yottabyte is? If they need to Google the answer, that defeats the point.
1e12 terabytes seems easier to digest than 1 whatever-the-hell-,-I-don't-know-what-this-unit-is-meant-to-represent-byte. Not to mention, easier to read.
At this point you could stir up hysteria over anything. Your cloud provider, ISP, operating system support team, XYZ SaaS provider could also just invent a new billing policy to screw the customer over.
At the same time, ^ the big providers have profitable revenue streams, so they don't have much incentive to change their billing. VC startups of course on growing instead of verifying that their business model actually works, and end up either:
- locking the software behind a paywall
- locking the software behind a paywall
- inventing a proprietary + open-source + pay us royalties license
- pretending that their software is free whilst employing a proprietary + pay us royalties for anything bigger than a hobby project license
the biggest productivity milestone we've ever hit while doing freelance programming work was to just don't. there certainly already is a solutions for what we were trying to solve, because clients come and go, but the problems are generally the same
> PA contract work < referred to very very low-quality work with professional gear, because that's what clients assume must be better! I was refferring to a high qualiy preamp vs my 1.50$ crapbox as used when connected to a (I think telefunken) microphone. Self professed audiophiles were listening on headphones
as a reminder, this thread started because I was wondering why all those who had hired me couldn't tell a difference between a crapbox and a professional preamp. Of course people have different tastes and likings but not being able to hear a difference between vastly different sources just means that your claims are invalid.
and of course, taste isn't something that can be measured or recorded, so it isn't very useful as an analogy of who it is right to crap on.
I think I mixed up this information with the fact that DOD is still running a cluster of IBM Series/1s to administer the US nuclear force. (pretty sure there's no time sharing). Definitely more interesting than international banking ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Automated_Command_an...
This reminds me of how the whole philosophy of python is 'simplicity', but the moment you want to start building something you must be reminded of how you haven't updated to the latest version of gnu-anaconda-conda-py-pip3-x86_64-cpython-limited-edition and are consequently prompted to download 5 Gigabytes of inference APIs to print hello world on a distributed multi-cloud pay-for-what-you-use Kubernetes instance .
I once worked for a PA "contractor" and the thing that blew me away the most was how not one of the self professed audiophiles could reliably tell the difference between a universal audio preamp with flat presets and a 1.50$ crapbox I built with some scrap op-amps and a soldering iron.
International banking systems still rely on mainframes that don't even support time sharing! I'm sure an x86 rack would blow the socks off of the guy who has been maintaining the COBOL clusters by himself for 30 years.
On another note, my EeePC still seems to work as well some old 32 bit Thinkpads I've seen recently. It actually doesn't have overheating problems like modern laptops do and I can simply replace the ram, network card, pcmcia slots if I needed to. We need to stop x86 discrimination :c