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luhn
·11 дней назад·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
·15 дней назад·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
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
> So, the "Ai is not the default" claim is bullshit

Where was this claim made? Nowhere in the article says that.
luhn
·4 месяца назад·discuss
I assume Blueberry is a nod to the machine being a Raspberry Pi.
luhn
·4 месяца назад·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
·6 месяцев назад·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
·7 месяцев назад·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
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
"Workaround: If we wait long enough, the earth will eventually be consumed by the sun."

https://xkcd.com/1822/
luhn
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
8kbit/min, you mean.
luhn
·9 месяцев назад·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
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
us-west-1 is the one outlier. us-east-1, us-east-2, and us-west-2 are all priced the same.
luhn
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
Case in point is recent-ish Google Cloud downtime, which ended up taking down Cloudflare and half the internet with it.
luhn
·9 месяцев назад·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
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
Maybe they ask the NSA for a copy.
luhn
·10 месяцев назад·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
·10 месяцев назад·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
·4 года назад·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
·5 лет назад·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
·6 лет назад·discuss
What's wrong with the async/await syntax?