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Re:One million queries per second with MySQL on Thursday September 01, 2022 @03:58PM (#32682228)
"Granted, it’s not SQLite by itself. We’ve wrapped it in a custom distributed transaction layer ..."
I had this issue regularly occurring when playing videos in Firefox. I switched to Safari and that issue completely went away. Sometimes I'll check back on newer Firefox builds and unfortunately that issue persists.
Check out Skytable - https://skytable.io/

Pros: Extremely fast. https://github.com/ohsayan/sky-benches

Cons: Still early in development, not a ton of features.

Re:El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @02:30PM (#27451366)
> At 1/3 the Cost of AWS/GCP

For on-demand this is true, but spot GPU instances can have competitive pricing.

At this moment, a p3.2xlarge instance (1 Tesla v100) is 92 cents/hr on the AWS spot market in us-east-1. The p3.8xlarge (4 GPU) is $3.62/hr.

The first time using an iPhone. It was pure astonishment seeing how much better the device was over my previous [dumb]phone.
Re:Bitcoin breaks above $20k on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @12:33PM (#25445461)
I get the impression that 99% of those invested in crypto just want their investment to perform well, and could care less about any project specifics.
For anyone that wants to switch to Linux and retain similar functionality as this firewall app, there is this: https://github.com/gustavo-iniguez-goya/opensnitch
Re:A warning about Glassdoor on Thursday October 15, 2020 @02:17PM (#24791835)
Had a similar experience somewhere. It seemed that any time a negative review was added on the company's Glassdoor, within weeks there would be new 4-5 star reviews. I watched that happen a few times.
With enough time and resources, I wonder if we'll one day see a Rust game engine that can outperform these projects.