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True you could rotate by persisting the old value and complicate your lookup/join process, not my idea of an acceptable solution but yep totally possible and worth it for some set …

Yep have used an approach just like that, worked quite well if you have a strong pattern to easily translate from one to the other. Gives you an id with the right properties for in…

very neat! definitely will come in handy.

In startup/mvp land it is a genuine tension between shipping it and over engineering at different extremes. It is quite possible to correctly think “this is bad engineering” and st…

Yep Couple of, retrospectively, often almost incoherent sentences to capture top of mind state when I give up because it’s late. I’ll write this gibberish comment here because I’ll…

Watch out firebolt.io sounds like CH has solved the ease of deployment problem!

That’s the cell architecture, so N data plane clusters aka cells, testing qualifies a cell to meet a cert perf level and you horizontally scale out more cells to meet demand. Whils…

Interesting idea, naively that seems possible based on other non chess example prompts I’ve seen. Would be a great way to understand it’s tracking of state throughout the game

I feel that, I’m often doing a thing thinking “this is wrong it won’t work for xyz” but continue because I want it to work, only to give in to what I knew a day+ ago but refused to…

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com

Yep we talked to FE and they were great, but most selling processes require doco, finances, code review, walkthroughs, hand holding, explanations etc. “write down all the shit you’…

Hit its effort vs scale limit and we’ve got more pressing things to spend time on. We could grow it but the result isn’t worth the effort compared to cost benefit of other endeavor…

We built a tool that does $5k/month which we are _shutting_ down today (end of 2022) after 8 years. Kind of the opposite but thought I’d share. Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.co…

Great details! Why only half the time though? What is the behavior the rest of the time?

Aw I was reading this thinking I wonder what incredible result it came up with! And bam, didn’t work! I guess that I was surprised it didn’t work is a testament to the other amazin…

Yeah good point, not something I’d properly thought about.

Same in SF, I assumed it was because of the homelessness problem. Seems more likely than shoplifting gangs..

This looks handy, better ergonomics than strace to just hook into http requests of a running process. I wonder how it works with TLS if it’s working at the socket level..

depending on your origin and your users, having TLS terminate / be negotiated at the edge should _reduce_ your connection setup cost, by reducing RTT time for the handshake to the …

Did a bit of testing about how to get files from a remote endpoint unpacked on disk the fastest, most interesting part was developing the method. Some good ideas on this thread I h…

Never heard of the #1, Honor Magic4 Ultimate, but it looks like it aims for camera quality at the cost of everything else. iPhone looks like a much better set of tradeoffs at #2!

Do you need Netty in a virtual thread world? Imo Netty made non blocking IO in Java tractable.. but virtual threads does it better and more broadly, so what role does netty play no…

I’ve used jib and bazel and that’s exactly what they do, both are language agnostic and push files around. Jib has a java bent but not a required part of it. I can totally see peop…

container builds for services, compiled/packaged components you want to spin up somewhere, often the Dockerfile is very simple, use some base image, add config and your binary or p…

I always thought go needed more GC knobs, good that they added this one and the strong reasoning behind it makes sense. Impressive go has got this far with just one knob!