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winrid

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About winrid

I manage databases "at scale", and also run some services:

fastcomments.com sidewaysdata.com watch.ly dirtforever.net govscent.org

https://github.com/winrid

Chat with me: winrid aaattt gmail

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49235613

    The benefit of per row is that you can tag additional info like reserved user id etc, which you would have to track somewhere anyway.

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    Comment #49205220

    I live in the bay area and buy a phone maybe every 3 years? Why do people waste so much money :D

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    Comment #49184802

    I have win 10 iot running on devices with 4gb of ram (they mostly have to run one dedicated app) and it works fine!

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    Comment #49118637

    I think in this case it's HVAC?

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    Comment #49104387

    Here's the part worth knowing - it's only going to get worse.

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    Comment #49103072

    They can still target four nines (0.9999)

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    Comment #49055451

    Use the system font stack

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    Comment #49050918

    Pretty sure if you didn't run the DB on networked disks you would have been fine.

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    Comment #49007952

    Win10 iot ent runs on even 3rd gen i3s very well...

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    Comment #48916890

    Your computer is fast and can display hundreds of thousands of divs a second. :)

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    Comment #48907957

    I've been building watch.ly[0] which intercepts all network /fs traffic on the machine originating from the agent and pings you for approval. [0] https://watch.ly

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    Comment #48903244

    It's embedded. Single machine. But it runs their forum/ticketing thing so good enough for that I guess :)

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    Comment #48903237

    Probably worth saying it's a fork of orientdb from like 2010.

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    Comment #48888750

    I'm not sure I'd say "React Bad", I'd rather say "React Not Really Super Necessary and More Often Than Not Leads to a Worst Experience at Maybe a Slightly Lower Initial Cost" :) I …

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    Comment #48888048

    To write good React you have to follow conventions, too. You can't get away from conventions. People keep touting react etc but I swear every mobile ordering app I use lags like he…

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    Comment #48887788

    you just agree on a set of conventions for components and state management, it's not that hard. This is basically how Rails works... yes it's still a framework, duh. it's just less…

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    Comment #48876427

    Excellent! We can use this to start to throw executives in jail and maybe society won't erode as fast.

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    Comment #48857415

    My fun ancedotal story about US healthcare: Kaiser transported me 4hrs in a ambulance to get surgery and I think I just paid the $200 ER fee But then they would never cover an MRI …

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    Comment #48856917

    oh for sure! I think in some ways LLMs have raised the bar in terms of what you an expect from software (once we get past the hurdle of increased bugs, but that seems to be getting…

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    Comment #48854411

    Yes, because now your competitors do the same. The winners: inference providers

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    Comment #48800828

    Pretty proud that after six years fastcomments is still only about 30kb I should probably work again on getting that down some :)

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    Comment #48791159

    post-ban I've even had Opus 4.8 say it cannot let me continue (I was analyzing a nodejs heap dump)

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    Comment #48765881

    So basically if you have queries that are hard on the query planner, that constant fan out has higher CPU cost than the alternatives.

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    Comment #48744898

    Today I tested GLM 5.2 by giving it an example stylesheet and told it to change the background color of a submit button. It then hallucinated the submit button class...

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    Comment #48714972

    Your ISP will eventually require a new protocol that can hold your digital ID in every packet to access certain content and you'll have to upgrade/migrate your OS if you want to vi…