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Re:Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999) on Monday September 04, 2023 @09:05PM (#37386740)
The problem is that it's often the only choice. ISPs often have a monopoly over their territory.
Re:A Modern C Development Environment on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:41PM (#37083164)
Why not advocate for better testing? What was preventing you from spending more time unit testing code running a billion dollar business?
Wow crazy how time flies. I did not realize Go has been in production for over 10 years now.
Re:The growing pains of database architecture on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @03:11PM (#36231932)
Nice spam/sales link
Where are you pulling that stat from?
Re:SQLite's Automatic Indexes on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @07:17PM (#34167848)
I'm glad you said it because I was about to say the exact same thing.
Re:The $42B Question: Why Aren’t Americans Ditching Big Banks? on Saturday December 10, 2022 @12:21PM (#33934436)
For low-middle class, yes. For upper middle class+, it depends.
The first paragraph...

"The United States Navy must pay $154,400 in copyright infringement damages to German software company Bitmanagement. The U.S. Court of Federal Claims awarded the compensation after the Navy was shown to have copied and used software without permission. Whether Bitmanagement will celebrate this win is up for question as the damages are less than 0.1% of the $155 million it asked for."

Re:Stripe Announces 14% Layoff on Thursday November 03, 2022 @04:15PM (#33456852)
I would yea, especially if the separation was handled well and I was still looking for consistent work.
Re:C Minus Minus on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @05:40PM (#33268234)
Well not ALWAYS a more scalable DB ;)
Re:Ask HN: How did you stop drinking? on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:53AM (#33160915)
> it's also very boring

I think SO many people overlook this very fact. Most people don't need alcohol to have a good time however it's called a "social lubricant" for a reason.

Sometimes people just need a tiny push to become less self conscious or less introverted. Life is short. You can spend years trying to be healthy and perfect but you need to ask yourself whether you're happy while doing that. If the answer is "Yes" then great. If it's "No" then you should reevaluate your path.

I'm all for sarcasm but please show me a calculator that needs 16GB of RAM. Your input detracts from the original argument and doesn't progress the discussion at all.
Source?
Re:Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down? on Friday July 08, 2022 @09:31PM (#32030376)
This is the way
CNN is credible? According to whom?
That was always going to be a very temporary boom. The only reason there was an opportunity was because supply was suddenly and vastly dwarfed by demand for weeks. As soon as large mask manufacturers were able to ramp up production, the grannies were doomed.
Greatly appreciate the context. Closures like this are rarely (if ever) as one dimensional as the public announcements make them appear to be.
Re:Netflix End of Series 1 on Saturday April 16, 2022 @09:48AM (#31052286)
Ignore the troll and thank you for all your content Brendan!
Re:Curious lack of sprintf scaling on Friday February 25, 2022 @07:02PM (#30473924)
Re:A career ending mistake on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @08:53PM (#30449355)
Assuming you don't live in a major US city? $5 latte's and $70+ just for Internet (forget cable) is pretty standard now.
Re:SimpleDB: A Basic RDBMS Built from Scratch on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @12:12PM (#30180473)
I think the main issue that universities face is time. There is only so much time in each semester and, as we all know, building and improving on a database is a lifelong task.
Re:Ask HN: What to do instead of drinking alcohol? on Saturday January 22, 2022 @09:45AM (#30037057)
The OP said they had no issues with alcohol (not an alcoholic). Moderation is something that everyone should do anyway
Re:Code Review as a Service on Monday December 20, 2021 @09:12AM (#29625112)
Anyone with Architect in their title receives skepticism from me. I've turned down title changes that include it and I refuse to put it on my LinkedIn.
Multi AZ != Multi region. AWS has many services that run in multiple regions but some of their services are not.
Very sorry that you had this experience but yes NEVER consider a job offer finalized until a contract has been drafted and both parties sign. Until then it's all basically vaporware
Re:PlanetScale is now generally available on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @12:49AM (#29249638)
They almost never shut down the actual VMs, they are simply re-allocated. (Semi)Auto scaling exists behind the scenes but once a provider becomes popular enough the VMs become more expensive to stop.
Re:PlanetScale is now generally available on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @12:45AM (#29249621)
Happy to be wrong but both of you sound like you're commenting without any operational knowledge about either database technology.
Per the article: "No coding was involved"
Re:Backblaze S-1 IPO on Monday October 18, 2021 @11:51PM (#28914673)
They essentially market themselves as "S3 without the surprise costs" as well as "trust as more than amazon" which I think they hold up to. What they lack is the insane amount of reliability and scalability that S3 offers. I'm not saying this as a fanboy of S3. They (aws) have their share of issues and AWS has never been transparent about their pricing structure. If you don't believe me there just Google "surprise AWS costs". Just like everything in life B2 is a tradeoff. I love healthy competition and I hope backblaze continues to crush it!
Re:Backblaze S-1 IPO on Monday October 18, 2021 @11:44PM (#28914625)
What hobby has 80TB of data?

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