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Fly.io Is Having Issues

5 points·by hermitwriter·hace 3 años·3 comments

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hermitwriter
·hace 9 meses·discuss
It's hard to replicate the "coolness" factor though of a true studio control board. It begs to be touched and knobs beg to be turned...
hermitwriter
·hace 9 meses·discuss
Designing 3D real-world interactions for 2D screens is fun. Literally fun. Rarely useful.
hermitwriter
·hace 3 años·discuss
This isn't the most robust characterization.

For people with medium and high end devices, SPAs are mostly fine. For those with low end devices (which is a large part of the world), SPAs sometimes don't work well and this is true of many UI frameworks.

Real human beings benefit with you ship less code. And, if people are paying for data, which a lot of people still do, this matters.
hermitwriter
·hace 3 años·discuss
Underrated comment.
hermitwriter
·hace 5 años·discuss
my dream neighborhood. I wonder if all the garages are just stuffed with a bunch of crap and people keep the planes parked in the driveway.
hermitwriter
·hace 5 años·discuss
You can always roll your own. When someone else rolls it for you, they are free to decide what can and cannot exist there.

If you built your own shopping mall, you could decide whether or not to allow a Hooters on the property. This seems pretty fair to me.
hermitwriter
·hace 5 años·discuss
So you're saying that if a company is successful they should be penalized? That sounds like an awful incentive structure for any industry.

The standard for anti-trust is that the company must behave in an anti-competitive way. I think this probably makes more sense.
hermitwriter
·hace 5 años·discuss
I wonder how many people here are throwing stones while living in glass houses.
hermitwriter
·hace 5 años·discuss
Good point. I do think then we should be careful then attributing _to_ something without proof.
hermitwriter
·hace 5 años·discuss
A magazine is not interactive. It's a unidirectional feedback flow. Magazine photos are also at a specific higher standard than the totality of Instagram pictures.

IOW, they are not equivalent. I'm sure we can glean something from those studies, but to get an answer to the question we're asking now, you'd need a better study than Facebook's own.

[edited for clarity]
hermitwriter
·hace 5 años·discuss
An independent study of the effects of Social Media (instagram, FB, TikTok, whatever) needs no insider information. We're studying the effect, not the company.

Hypothesis: Instagram causes teenage girls to have a lower opinion of their bodies than they would otherwise have without Instagram.

Study: Have 2 cohorts of teenage girls rate their appearance or happiness with their bodies. The two cohorts are separated by those who use Instagram and those who don't. Run independently, of course.

This study is incredibly flawed (like the original) b/c it is self-reported happiness (incredibly subjective, ephemeral, and prone to bias) and subject to the same issues as all qualitative research. The only way to get any semblance of reliable data is with a _large_ set in each cohort. Even then, the data raises more questions than answers it provides. But, you could say after this study whether 'it seems Instagram may be harmful.'

It is also flawed for other reasons but you get the point. You don't need insider info to study the effect of something.
hermitwriter
·hace 5 años·discuss
In said study, Facebook acknowledges problems with the study itself as do other researchers without a dog in the fight. Let's see an independent study show the same thing.
hermitwriter
·hace 5 años·discuss
Nope. I just don't believe hyped up spin; especially when the deliverers of the content are biased. I like research, and facts.
hermitwriter
·hace 5 años·discuss
Most of her claims make a gigantic leap to conclusions. I'm asking for a source that shows, for example, a suicide that was _because_ of Facebook. Radicalization trends as another example have been on the rise in the US long before FB or social media, and there are many other countries where FB exists but radicalization is on the decline.

There is plenty wrong with FB, but this all seems like trying to pin a root cause to something b/c we need something to blame. Maybe correlation, but I don't see the causation.
hermitwriter
·hace 5 años·discuss
Source on those claims? Not "the media" but actual sources that haven't been debunked?
hermitwriter
·hace 5 años·discuss
I feel this way about HN. I open it every day, and check back far more than Facebook. Maybe we'll have a senate hearing someday about HN. :P
hermitwriter
·hace 5 años·discuss
Except like all of these services, people actual do engage more with a curated feed. I just wish there were at least an option to go chronological.
hermitwriter
·hace 5 años·discuss
yeah good point. I've used this on a project and this shaved off >150ms of critical path rendering... much better user experience.

awesome to not have this officially supported. Time to upgrade :D
hermitwriter
·hace 5 años·discuss
HN killed it.
hermitwriter
·hace 6 años·discuss
I don't know. I use next.js and love it. But I have to implement two static methods for every thing I want to fetch... This also locks me into next.js...