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Re:Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API on Thursday May 08, 2025 @02:05AM (#43923494)
FDB seems to outperform, and out-scale most, if not all?

According to an old report, FDB can do around 75k transactions per core [0].

MySQL on same CPU (all cores) can do about 8k [1].

[0] https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/performance.html

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/8357/exploring-the-low-end-an...

Re:Is X Down? on Monday March 10, 2025 @06:11AM (#43318756)
it is in tokyo
Re:Show HN: Minimal, customizable new tab for Chrome/Firefox on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @04:21AM (#42243941)
Just something I got used to do. My right palm is always conveniently hovering above the right Ctrl, Alt and L, Enter keys, making those combos easy and instant.

After hitting Ctrl+L, I usually do one of these: 1) "Enter" to discard current page; 2) "Alt+Enter" to open in new tab; 3) "Ctrl+Enter" to open in new tab but keep focus on current page (e.g. read later); and 4) "Esc" if I got an answer from the address bar (math, currency, history, already open page, etc).

Re:Show HN: Minimal, customizable new tab for Chrome/Firefox on Monday November 25, 2024 @09:03PM (#42241918)
Looks nice, I wish you best of luck! I personally haven't seen my "new tab" page in a very long time. What I'm doing instead: in current tab hit Cmd+L to focus on address bar, type query/address hit Option+Enter to open resulted page in a new tab. Skipping a bunch of clicks and the "new tab" page. Should be Ctrl+L Alt+Enter on Windows.
Re:A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure Go on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @11:01AM (#39991470)
Why read only? What's stopping this engine from using (for example) FoundationDB as storage?
Re:A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure Go on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @03:05AM (#39987791)
Congrats, looks like a lot of hard work!

Could I swap storage engine with own key value storage e.g. rocksdb or similar?

The article makes some hard to digest claims, for example:

> According to six Israeli intelligence officers

Not 1 reservist, or 2 retired officers, or 3 contractors, but 6 active serviceman - whose day to day job is to figure out how to hide secrets.

There are more statistically impossible statements.

I'm on light mode by default. If you look at the "The fullstack database" text you'll see things emanating from it outwards. Fast, and barely visible, hence the initial confusion. In any case, it's not a problem at all, just caused me doubt my vision for a moment :)

Just to be on the same page, I'm talking about top section of https://www.triplit.dev/

Your (honestly) very nice homepage made me almost book a visit to ophthalmologist, eye floaters galore!
Congrats! Many moons ago the lack of undo/redo was the main blocker. Has this been added?
Re:Modern CSV version 2 is now available on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @08:23PM (#37141163)
I share the frustration! I have to open lots of small and large CSV files daily, with multiple encodings. Usually I'm juggling between Excel, Numbers, and Sublime text editor - depending on which one would open that file faster.

Naturally, I installed Modern CSV seconds after seeing this post.

I'm on MacBook M2, using trackpad 1) the vertical scroll is slow and un-mac-like, unnatural; and 2) horizontal scroll basically doesn't work, it scrolls a column or a half on a full swipe, but it does improve somewhat when there's less content in the cells.

I admire your work, please keep on going, there's a huge need!

Perfect timing!

I thought Google Marketplace's page was much more useful than your home page. The screenshots and video helped quite a bit!

NSFW! Don't open the (expired?) domain.
We've got MySQL 8 running on high-end-ish consumer hardware, with 150 tables ranging from thousands to billions of rows. Largest table is a bit over 5 billion rows and 520GiB. Parallel network backup takes about 3 hours.
Re:New Apple.com navigation bar – unusable? on Saturday March 04, 2023 @10:49AM (#35021650)
I'm on a fairly recent Macbook Air 2020 (Intel i7). Hovering over the top menu, a full-page animation badly stutters to reveal a few text links. It seems I'm barely getting a few frames per second. Worse yet, the overlay gets stuck in an open position, blocking the content, until I refresh the page, and scroll down avoiding the menu. That's in Chrome. Safari is slightly smoother, but the animation still obviously stutters.

A trick to buy new hardware? \s

Re:Hyperscale in your Homelab: The Compute Blade arrives on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @10:15PM (#34513945)
The case is "LZMOD A24 V3" - found it on caseend.com - there are smaller ITX cases, but I wanted to fit in standard components only, and not to mess with custom PSUs (for example).

The rest of the components are:

Board: AsRock Rack X570D4I-2T (2 x 10GBe and IPMI!)

NVMe: 2TB Transcend TS2TMTE220S TLC

SSD: 2x 8TB Samsung 870 QVO

PSU: Seasonic SSP-300SUB (overkill, went for longevity)

CPU Cooling: Thermalright AXP-100 Series All-Copper Heatsink with Noctua NF-A12x15 PWM

Exhaust fans: 2x INEX AK-FN076 Slimfan 80mm PWM

On the air intake side, there's a filter sheet that I replace (or vacuum) once in a blue moon - the insides are still pristine after running for over a year now.

Interesting thing about cooling: one of those cases has a PSU with custom made cabling (reduced cables by about 90%). I was hoping it will reduce the temperatures a bit. Surprisingly there was basically no change. At full load all keep running at around 70 celsius.

Important: in such a small case, if you want silence you'd better disable AMD's "Core Performance Boost". This will make the CPU run at its nominal frequency, 3.4GHz for 5950x, otherwise it'll keep on jumping to it's max potential, 4.9GHz for 5950x, which will result in more heat, and more fan noise.

Re:Hyperscale in your Homelab: The Compute Blade arrives on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @05:59AM (#34502097)
This looks very promising. I basically could print an enclosure to specifically fit my home space. And easily print a new one when I move.

More efficient use of space compared to my current silent mini-home lab -- also about 2U worth of space, but stacked semi-vertically [1].

That's 4 servers each with AMD 5950x, 128GB ECC, 2TB NVMe, 2x8TB SSD (64c/512GB/72TB total).

[1] https://ibb.co/Jm1SX7d

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