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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 t…

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…

> So, the "Ai is not the default" claim is bullshit Where was this claim made? Nowhere in the article says that.

I assume Blueberry is a nod to the machine being a Raspberry Pi.

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 p…

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 h…

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.

"Workaround: If we wait long enough, the earth will eventually be consumed by the sun." https://xkcd.com/1822/

8kbit/min, you mean.

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 Cloudfl…

us-west-1 is the one outlier. us-east-1, us-east-2, and us-west-2 are all priced the same.

Case in point is recent-ish Google Cloud downtime, which ended up taking down Cloudflare and half the internet with it.

> 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 mak…

Maybe they ask the NSA for a copy.

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 informe…

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 appli…

Yeah, anybody can make a half-baked CDN, but Google has PoPs inside ISPs across the world [1] and competing with that is essentially impossible. [1] https://support.google.com/inte…

Yeah, tight packing is simple and very effective. I had a successful drop with nothing but corn starch packing peanuts shoved into a cardboard box.

Like most ALTER TABLE subcommands, you need an exclusive lock on the table while the catalog is updated. But no table scan or rewrite is required, so that lock is sub-second and ca…

The improvements to migrations have been the biggest boon for running even modestly-sized Postgres DBs. It wasn't that long ago that you couldn't add a column with a default value …

You don't need to optimize anything beyond appropriate indices, Postgres can handle tables of that size out of the box without breaking a sweat.

> By Jan 2024, our largest table had roughly 100 million rows. I did a double take at this. At the onset of the article, the fact they're using a distributed database and the menti…

A synchronous replica via WAL shipping is a well-worn feature of Postgres. I’d expect RDS to be using that feature behind the scenes and would be extremely surprised if that has co…

It's not mentioned in the headline and not made super clear in the article: This is specific to multi-AZ clusters, which is a relatively new feature of RDS, and differ from multi-A…

I get your point, but that's a terrible example because Boise is one of the fastest growing metro areas in the country.