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vgel
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
It's less calibrated but still useful, yea
vgel
·4 года назад·discuss
That's fair, if you've been benchmarking but haven't made the benchmarks public / repeatable yet. Too used to software where the authors claim it's fast with no proof or based on heuristics like what language it's written in :-)
vgel
·4 года назад·discuss
> People sometimes ask me to describe the differences between Nebula and Tailscale. One of the most important relates to performance and scale. Nebula can handle the amount of internal network traffic and scalability of nodes (100k+ nodes, constant churn) required on a large network like Slack's, but Tailscale cannot. Tailscale's performance is fine for many situations, but not suitable for infrastructure. It is just a fundamentally different set of goals.

Making broad claims like this without a source or links to benchmarks feels like FUD to me. For example Tailscale's comparison page on performance (https://tailscale.com/kb/1148/tailscale-vs-nebula/#performan...) doesn't mention a meaningful performance difference, so if you're claiming they're not telling the truth (by omission), I'd hope to see more to that than just a straight assertion, even just "We tried Tailscale in Slack's network and it wasn't able to keep up with our usage patterns".
vgel
·4 года назад·discuss
Thanks to the Ent lobby, an amendment has been proposed to this bill to keep changing the clocks specifically within the bounds of farms, orchards, timberlands, and national parks. We must keep American foliage the greatest on Earth.
vgel
·4 года назад·discuss
I write Rust at $WORK. Using `unsafe` to meet a deadline makes 0 sense. It doesn't disable the borrow checker unless you're literally casting references through raw pointers to strip lifetimes, which is... insane and would never pass a code review.

99% of the time if you're fighting the borrow checker and just want a quick solution, that solution is `clone` or `Arc<Mutex<T>>`, not `unsafe`. Those solutions will sacrifice performance, but not safety.
vgel
·5 лет назад·discuss
> I think the best method is finding a good community to start from. As I alluded to, YC matching has not done this for me.

My glean from the article was that Cambrian has a group for this, but they seem to be focused on fintech -- do you know if there's a similar high-quality community for biotech?