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so much effort,
all in service,
of so much banal evil.
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Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights
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Re: Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
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No mate, read your comments again- the only one projecting anything here is you. For my part, I was quite sure how to label you and it's based on the first two rows of what you wrote, which is a mix of leftist, right-wing and libertarian views. Now as others have also noticed, you seem to have some deep-seated psychological issues, most notable in your rumbling and unconnected thoughts. I mean this without malice: se…
> which is a mix of leftist, right-wing and libertarian views
Says the NPC
> Now as others have also noticed,
Oh boy. "Others have noted".
Dude. Read it in front of a mirror.
You've defaulted to the last resource of the incompetent. No, not violence because you're incapable. Just the "I care about you".
Sod off.
Edit: 39 day troll account. Awesome.
Re: Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights
#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
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... speaking of vaccines "not preventing transmission"...for the love of god, please learn how the vaccines work. Did they not teach you in the primary school that it's about priming body for the immune response by introducing a very small concentration of the virus into the body. No vaccine can prevents a transmission, it's purpose is to enable your body to respond and reduce the severity of the infection symptoms.…
Covid vaccines you disingenuous excuse of a person.
It's fine though. You lost. In every way.
Re: Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights
#174At least half their gak is due to them NOT moving quickly and NOT wanting to break things. IIRC, graphql is a means of papering over a bunch of legacy APIs. They removed foreign keys from mysql using it as a column store db, a vestige of the original LAMP stack still on PHP. I don't think Meta infrastructural choices are applicable to most folk. What does serverless land your average dev? A high AWS bill. Elastic man…
> They removed foreign keys from mysql
This isn't specific to Meta/Facebook in any way. A very large percentage of big tech companies use MySQL without foreign key constraints, because they're problematic at scale.
To be clear, foreign key constraints are not used, but it's still very much a relational use-case / workload.
> using it as a column store db
That's nonsensical. Column stores are for analytics, whereas MySQL is used for OLTP. Both InnoDB and MyRocks are row-oriented storage engines.
Maybe you actually meant "key-value store", which is a more common claim, but that's still completely wrong. The query pattern for Facebook's social graph relies heavily on range scans over indexes, which isn't a concept supported by key-value stores. And there are many MySQL workloads at Facebook outside of the social graph database tier, with extremely varied use of MySQL functionality.
Re: Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights
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I thought the same thing, but then realize that Threads was a huge flop. Is it really a skill to very quickly release a dud app? I don't know the answer to that. Bypassing bureaucracy seems like heaven, but it feels like it also bypassed the product folks entirely.
What is threads lacking from a product perspective?
What's it lacking?
purpose. value. actual users.
Re: Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights
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It seems like a flop not in user count but in that I'm not seeing it originate any valuable content. I've seen several interesting posts from Bluesky referenced elsewhere already, but literally nothing from Threads despite it having had more users for longer.
How would you know if you are not present in the circles that use the product? Maybe it's big in Japan.
I think their point is that you see Twitter and Bluesky links shared to sites like hackernews or Reddit (ie the internet aggregators), but not anything from threads
Re: Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights
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Honestly it’s more the case that X is not a first-tier social network anymore. It now plays in second league with the likes of Threads and Pinterest. It retains important bubbles like Silicon Valley VCs and media people, but globally it’s just not significant with its single-digit market share.
Twitter was the the social network where reporters and important people congregated.
Was.
Re: Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights
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No mate, read your comments again- the only one projecting anything here is you. For my part, I was quite sure how to label you and it's based on the first two rows of what you wrote, which is a mix of leftist, right-wing and libertarian views. Now as others have also noticed, you seem to have some deep-seated psychological issues, most notable in your rumbling and unconnected thoughts. I mean this without malice: se…
> which is a mix of leftist, right-wing and libertarian views Says the NPC > Now as others have also noticed, Oh boy. "Others have noted". Dude. Read it in front of a mirror. You've defaulted to the last resource of the incompetent. No, not violence because you're incapable. Just the "I care about you". Sod off. Edit: 39 day troll account. Awesome.
I don't care about you - I don't even know you. But in the interest of the whatever community you are a part of, I implore you to look for professional help. And put your smartphone away - it's obviously not good for you.
Re: Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights
#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
> which is a mix of leftist, right-wing and libertarian views Says the NPC > Now as others have also noticed, Oh boy. "Others have noted". Dude. Read it in front of a mirror. You've defaulted to the last resource of the incompetent. No, not violence because you're incapable. Just the "I care about you". Sod off. Edit: 39 day troll account. Awesome.
I don't care about you - I don't even know you. But in the interest of the whatever community you are a part of, I implore you to look for professional help. And put your smartphone away - it's obviously not good for you.
39 day troll keeps on trolling.
Re: Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights
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> I feel like if you took some old science fiction writers from back in the day and showed them this article, you would find sheer awe in their faces too. I can't tell if this is satire. The science fiction writers from back in the day wrote about humans exploring other planets, building sentient machines, encountering aliens or maybe developing psychic powers. (looking at you two, Philip K. Dick and Theodore Sturgeo…
I'm getting downvoted here but can't for the life of me guess why. If you've actually read Isaac Asimov and his peers, as I have, they wrote about robots with complex inner lives and space ships that traveled to alien civilizations. There is no reason whatsoever to think they would experience any more "sheer awe" at Meta's infrastructure than any other random person from their time period. I honestly think they would…
The awe is really just technofetishism.
To be in awe of software instructure but not espouse the same feelings about say, biology, is sad.