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luhn
·vor 11 Tagen·discuss
The focus of this seems to be entirely AI agents, but I wonder if there's a future where browsers implement this and us humans can finally get micropayments in the web. It's been tried unsuccessfully many times but always falls prey to the chicken-and-egg problem. Maybe the AI hype will finally give it the push it needs for widespread deployment.
luhn
·vor 15 Tagen·discuss
I can't tell you why Fargate is so slow, but the reason Lambda containers are so fast is because it doesn't actually load the image. It loads a manifest of the layers and the files in each, and then each file is loaded on-demand from a multi-tier cache. 90% of the image is never loaded, and 90% of the remainder is served from local cache. It's a pretty cool architecture.
luhn
·letzten Monat·discuss
> So, the "Ai is not the default" claim is bullshit

Where was this claim made? Nowhere in the article says that.
luhn
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
I assume Blueberry is a nod to the machine being a Raspberry Pi.
luhn
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
I can't make sense of your comment, but whatever you're trying to get at is wrong: Table sugar is sucrose. Corn syrup is mostly glucose and contains no fructose. HFCS is commonly produced at 42% and 55% fructose formulations. I don't think HFCS is meaningfully more or less harmful than any other sugar, but chemically there's a significant difference.
luhn
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
It's not quite that dire. Statewide 69% normal to date. Snowpack peaks March-April, so still have a ways to go in the season. https://snow.water.ca.gov

But yeah, snowmelt plays a huge role in supplying water into the summer, so just looking at precipitation totals isn't the full picture.
luhn
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
That's hilarious and right on brand for Google that they spend millions developing cutting-edge technology and fumble the ball making a chat app.
luhn
·vor 8 Monaten·discuss
"Workaround: If we wait long enough, the earth will eventually be consumed by the sun."

https://xkcd.com/1822/
luhn
·vor 8 Monaten·discuss
8kbit/min, you mean.
luhn
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
They had a pretty massive one earlier this year. https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1S...

This isn't GCP's fault, but the outage ended up taking down Cloudflare too, so in total impact I think that takes the cake.
luhn
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
us-west-1 is the one outlier. us-east-1, us-east-2, and us-west-2 are all priced the same.
luhn
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
Case in point is recent-ish Google Cloud downtime, which ended up taking down Cloudflare and half the internet with it.
luhn
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
> IIRC the wisdom of the time cloud started becoming popular was to always be on-prem and use cloud to scale up when demand spiked.

I've heard that before but was never able to make sense of it. Overflowing into the cloud seems like a nightmare to manage, wouldn't overbuilding on-prem be cheaper than paying your infra team to straddle two environments?
luhn
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Maybe they ask the NSA for a copy.
luhn
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Do you have any sources for that? I'm really curious about Glacier's infrastructure and AWS has been notoriously tight-lipped about it. I haven't found anything better than informed speculation.
luhn
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
That's exactly what they're doing, it's just driving engagement for their sales:

> While Git makes an interesting database alternative for specific use cases, your production applications deserve better. Upsun provides managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, and other database services
luhn
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
One thing I've always wondered: How do pre-compiled binaries take advantage of new instructions, if they do at all? Since the compiler needs to create a binary that will work on any modern-ish machine, is there a way to use new instructions without breaking compatibility for older CPUs?
luhn
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
But the npm/JS doesn't work that way.

NPM will by default create a lockfile that pins the dependencies. `npm install` will install dependencies from the lockfile as long as package.json hasn't been updated, or update the lockfile if it has. `npm ci` will install from the lockfile and fail hard if it can't satisfy the version constraints in package.json.

imo this gives the best of both worlds: Easy, controlled updates to the latest compatible versions and stable CI/CD.

The reason color.js was an issue is because people use `npm install` in their CI and either don't commit their lockfiles or have their lockfile inadvertently out of date—It's easy to do and I'm not sure how many people actually know about `npm ci`.
luhn
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
What's wrong with the async/await syntax?