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Comment #41529147
Yes, we went to Tanto but considering how much water that Stockholm is surrounded with, I can’t say it’s very accessible. That is also the view of some friends living there.
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Comment #41528892
I have some questions on this. Living on west coast of Sweden, our family went to Stockholm this summer and as the temperature rose, we asked were to go and swim and basically no o…
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Comment #38858404
Why do we always have hardening guides? Ain’t there any OS where an easening/loosening guide is needed instead?
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Comment #36577381
So our small company has like foo-bar.com Foobar.com has been occupied for a long time, there’s nothing there and they do not respond to our emails either. This has been the case f…
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Comment #36498882
We just did the Cyber Essentials as we have no certifications and a customer in UK required this. Then we thought we could go ahead to get the Cyber Essentials Plus as well. At lea…
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Ask HN: Web Application Translation
Hi! We have a web application, in English. Our team is not big enough to manually handle translations in different languages. I know there are dozens of Translation services availa…
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Comment #32395651
So much this
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Comment #31798361
Have cycled from Northern Europe to South Africa, crossed Europe several times and also crossed US, New York to California. Best way to experience a country. Don’t have time? Try t…
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Ask HN: Inflation and the Magic 99
Having a SaaS where most of our customers sign up for the $99/month. Even though we have good margins I wonder what happens regarding inflation. Anyone tried raising their prices a…
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Ask HN: How to Integrate with SAP?
We have a SaaS that relatively regularly receives questions if we can connect with SAP. If we have a REST API - can we use that somehow? Is it much work required? I know it’s a how…
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Comment #29470039
Thanks, appreciated!
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Comment #29463317
Yes this is one concern. Are you sure it was a result of using non ECC mem and how did you find out it was because of that?
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Comment #29462247
Hmm, yes we are already using jemallocator actually
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Comment #29460721
We do not do any disk operations at all
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Comment #29460676
It’s written in Rust and uses Rayon to a big extent. It’s receiving data to crunch maybe once every 5 minutes
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Comment #29460094
Roughly 10% faster
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Comment #29460010
We have examined that as well, last week we tried a AMD 5950X which has half the amount of cores but much better single core performance - the result was still at 60% of the Epyc p…
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Comment #29459979
We have already tried that and use Lambdas as last point of backup if the other servers aren’t available- however the performance is about 1/50 compared to our current production s…
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Comment #29459885
It does not consume much memory but do lots of allocations/deallocations. No disc operations whatsoever.
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Comment #29459865
Well, it waits for calculations which take about 2 seconds to complete on average - the vast majority of the time it’s idle
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Ask HN: Running production server on M1 mini?
We have a performance intensive application running on a AMD Epyc dedicated instance with 32 cores (our application is highly parallelizable) We just noticed locally on our dev env…
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Comment #29443733
A huge Corp really wanted our app but not the cloud based SPA app we offered - they wanted “executables” with no data stored in the cloud. Ended up creating a electron app, using o…
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Comment #29167509
May I ask why? Thinking about using it on a production cluster of two nodes for easy orchestration.
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Comment #29099337
We have been asked by Fortune500s for the ISO27001 along with the hundreds of security related questions. We got through without the certificate by convincing them in other ways ho…
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Comment #28726487
I cycled into Zimbabwe sometime 2008 and exchanged one usd to 500.000.000 Zim dollars. One week later I left the country and it had increased to 1.2 bn. The shops were almost empty…