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Curious to hear about what prompts power this.

I would 100% vote for you!

That's totally fair feedback. Particularly optionality having been removed from proto2 to proto3 is confusing.

The default transport (gRPC) certainly is, but HTTP RPC translation/gateways are easily generated.

Gotcha. I think this might be where Protobuf falls short because you have to "source" the tooling for all its different outputs, but support for OpenAPI 3.0 spec generation has exi…

What does this do that Protobuf doesn't?

Amazon is great at a lot of things, but AI and Machine Learning aren't it. From what I saw when I worked there, they don't have the talent to produce their own models (which is, I …

I lived in Ottawa at the time these protests were going on. These people weren’t there to protest. They were there to antagonize.

There's an HN post that takes first place on my bookmarks bar, which is an Ask HN about the best paper people read in 2020 [^1]. Every once in a while I'll open it and browse throu…

Normal and acceptable are two very different things. Another post from earlier mentioned other shady practices from them, so I wanted to bring this up too.

I got tired of getting pings from Netflix, so I finally opened the app and tried looking for the setting to disable them. Apparently they opt you in to these by default, and the on…

Keep in mind that this isn’t rooted in any specific best practices. It just felt right.

The Reddit API usage is as efficient as it can be, server wise, although I’d like to be proven wrong by them. As far as the app goes, an average of ~330 reqs/user/day is pretty goo…

HN is a whole other beast. A notification server would have to keep track of any replies to any of your comments / submissions in order to determine what to notify you about, purel…

All the comments in this thread are right. This specific scenario was about providing a consistent experience. All the work that this backend does could be done using iOS’ backgrou…

I would demolish a couple hot dogs right about now…

Theoretically it could do it all from the app, but it would have to resort to background updates, which are scheduled at iOS’ discretion. Christian was aiming for consistency, whic…

This is bang on.

I promise you this is very much what’s running in production.

This is an amazing way to look at it. Thank you for your perspective <3

I’ll be happy to once I sit down in front of my computer.

That’s how it worked, yes, but we went to great lengths to ensure that call had minimal impact on their end. The TLDR here is that we only ever requested new notifications (give me…

I’m never proud of my code haha. This could always be better. No specific design patterns either. The one fun thing I learned was about databases. Given enough records, a query pla…

Honestly, Lemmy would probably not need half this code. We wrote this to work with an entity that exists in a “come and get it” model. Lemmy being open source means we could build …