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500GB isn't a lot of data, and $3K/month seems like an extortion for that little data. Having said that, MongoDB pricing page promises 99.995% uptime, which is outstanding, and wou…

I remember a citigroup analysis that described this as "Plutonomy" back in 2005. The trend is old, and is continuing. https://delong.typepad.com/plutonomy-1.pdf

That works for up and down. But what about side to side? I don't know anyone who inverts left/right. If the lever was at the back of the head, won't left/right be inverted too?

It's really easy to improve the performance of Go implementation as compared to python or Java. There are lots of built-in tools to help you (like the profiler), and the resulting …

More or less. For a language designed for fresh-out-of-college engineer to pick up in a few weeks and be effective, it is very easy to squeeze out a lot of performance. * built-in …

Rubbing alcohol is isopropanol. Drinking alcohol is ethanol. You can get “industrial ethanol” that has some methanol added to prevent people from consuming it, and pay liquor tax o…

Why would you consider an organization with a constitution anarchist?

Kaiser is non profit. They dont have shareholders and no dividends. The 1B net income that year is because some years they run a deficit. If the workers get paid more through this …

The way I read their deletion terms, if you have some money in the account's Play Store Balancee (say by depositing a $10 gift card), they won't delete those accounts.

> Go's lack of sum types mean that there is no static check for whether the error has actually been handled or not. I dunno, my IntelliJ calls out unhandled errors. I imagine go-ve…

> If a programming language supports union types and type inference then there is no need for such a "special" language feature Laughs in Go. > While Zig's errorhandling is not bad…

My #1 argument against the feasibility of cryptocurrency: Can my parents not their get money stolen?

The article explicitly mentions that parque is not streamable because its index is at the end of the file and are split into multiple.

TLDR: The best part of Go is that there is very little magic in Go. If you understand that slices are just fat pointers implemented as a built-in, there is nothing confusing about …

What I would have done is first create a map of the file, just the keys and shapes, without the data. That way I can traverse the file. And then mmap the file to traverse and read …

In the original article, they were trying to read a 10GB file into 30GB RAM.

I think philosophy is somewhat like math in that there is an attempt to create a logically self consistent system. Except it's not rigorous like math because the logic often have g…

Both Apple and Google use webauthn as second factor, never the first.

> it makes me have to maintain several sync fabrics Yes, that's the con. That's why 3rd parties like 1password exist. Of course, they have to fight to get their plugins into the Bi…

I love the idea of passkeys. They will be so great for my parents and grandparents. I love the fact that Apple/Google/Microsoft are onboard, and now have implementations. So why th…

> except there's no way to sync your Passkey from the Apple sync fabric to the Microsoft sync fabric This is by design. > so you need some sort of shareable secret between those fr…

Leopard 2 is a great tank. You can still make fun of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDBl6E6lZ3E