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Re:We used a database as a message queue. Now we use Kafka
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @01:02AM (#49917921)
"FoundationDB was our only database, queue included. We built Apple's QuiCK design on top of it, hit the write limits, and moved async tasks to Kafka."
very LLM-y.
Re:Mayday Mysteries
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @12:54AM (#49772590)
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/4hq4o1...
Seems likely that Robert Truman Hungerford has been placing these ads himself for the last 45 years, as a kind of solitary practice. He is apparently now giving hints to their interpretation (http://www.maydaymystery.org/mayday/texts/25-dec7.html): "Good starting point: Historically, what sort of compass is in the picture?"
Re:I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated
on Sunday July 26, 2026 @10:05PM (#49064429)
The atomic time radio station WWVB does in fact broadcast a daylight saving time bit. A good atomic time clock should accurately update for DST (though Amazon reviews for a clock like this one is pretty mixed: https://www.amazon.com/Crosse-Technology-617-249-Curved-Atom...)
Re:Proving a Human Wrote Something
on Friday July 24, 2026 @09:25PM (#49043632)
sounds a bit like Grammarly Authorship https://www.grammarly.com/authorship
"Authorship creates an originality report you can share with your professor, boss, or editor. It also lets you replay your document’s creation from the first word to the last punctuation mark so you can double-check your process."
Re:So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)
on Sunday July 12, 2026 @09:59PM (#48886962)
I think this is unnecessarily pessimistic. I think there's actually a surprisingly large number of people who are interested in and have the discipline to study something on their own, and there's value in pursuing a whole course of study from beginning to end. Doing things piecemeal and incrementally has value too (especially in software development), but can obscure the whole shape of a discipline.
Re:I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians k...
on Friday April 03, 2026 @11:22PM (#47635356)
Israeli civilian death ratios are actually terrible, worse than Bosnia, Syria, or even WWII (including the Holocaust!). I assume it’s because Israel wants to kill as many civilians as possible, while still claiming the faintest hope of plausible deniability.
https://aoav.org.uk/2026/why-israeli-claims-of-low-civilian-...
Re:Why the US Navy Won't Blast the Iranians and 'Open' Strait of Hormuz
on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @12:25AM (#47596802)
It’s not a bad critique on its own! Yea, good to engage on the merits, but also good to acknowledge the messenger’s allegiances and biases.
Re:Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls
on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @09:01PM (#47511829)
Of course they did. It’s called inheritance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ellison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton_family https://www.forbes.com/profile/haas/
And the list goes on.
Re:Books of the Century by Le Monde
on Saturday March 21, 2026 @06:00PM (#47471920)
For a French-leaning list I’m surprised not to see Memoirs of Hadrian, “often considered the best French novel of the 20th century”, per the recent LRB review. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n10/joanna-biggs/beneath...
Re:US commercial insurers pay 254% of Medicare for the same hospital p...
on Monday March 16, 2026 @09:31PM (#47407499)
1965 was 61 years ago. Are you saying you yourself had significant experiences with the pre-1965 healthcare system?
Re:How Important Was the Battle of Hastings?
on Saturday March 07, 2026 @09:28PM (#47293748)
Attention-grabbing headline, but the article itself answers the question: very important.
"Hastings was one of those battles which changed the course of history, most directly for England but also, as events turned out, for Britain and for France... In terms of its consequences, Hastings must be the most important battle ever to have been fought in England... the consequences of its outcome changed the course of English history definitively."
Re:How Important Was the Battle of Hastings?
on Saturday March 07, 2026 @08:43PM (#47293460)
But as the article says, this battle really was tremendously important. The utter catastrophe led to the quick and permanent entrenchment of the Normans in Britain, with huge and long-reaching consequences reaching to the present: first and foremost, that the English language was profoundly altered at every level by influence from French.
The Rise and Fall of a 3-D Printing Empire
Re:Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity
on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @12:25AM (#47243435)
some bits of LLMese in this comment, to my ears at least. Especially "That’s the kind of impact that compounds"
Re:NASA announces major overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concer...
on Monday March 02, 2026 @09:58PM (#47227416)
No but I’m serious. I don’t think most people found it interesting to monitor the slow assembly of the ISS. Do you think the moon setting would be more interesting or appealing?
Re:NASA announces major overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concer...
on Saturday February 28, 2026 @12:53AM (#47190987)
If I was being graded solely on quantity, why would I bother caring at all to make anything good? Make the minimum quality necessary to be counted as a pot and move on with your life. That was basically my real world approach to ceramics back in HS, and I still feel good about my B+.
Re:NASA announces major overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concer...
on Saturday February 28, 2026 @12:50AM (#47190971)
That’s just the ISS on the moon instead of space, which is also uninteresting.
Re:EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories an...
on Sunday February 15, 2026 @05:18PM (#47028242)
No disagreement there!
Re:EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories an...
on Sunday February 15, 2026 @03:34PM (#47027279)
sure, though New York has gotten a real honest-to-goodness winter this year. There's been a foot on the snow on the ground continuously for the last month, and it's been cold enough that the pipes in one of my bathrooms froze. I think it's easier from the West Coast to bemoan the end of East Coast winters than to live through one :)
Re:News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping co...
on Saturday February 14, 2026 @05:47PM (#47019178)
Agreed. "isn't just... It's becoming" feels to me very LLM-y to me.
Re:Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian...
on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @09:43PM (#46805076)
Is there any guarantee he will actually pay out in 20 years? Is this money going into escrow, or is this just a promise that will be completely forgotten in a couple decades?
Re:Doom has been ported to an earbud
on Sunday January 25, 2026 @10:05PM (#46761380)
The Doom port itself is pretty fun, but I love the presentation of it. Brilliant idea to let people play the game themselves on the actual hardware.
Re:Can you slim macOS down?
on Thursday January 22, 2026 @01:32AM (#46715977)
I’ve used Macs nearly exclusively for 13 years and have not gotten used to the window tabbing. I just fundamentally don’t think windows of the same application should be grouped together.
Re:The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)
on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @11:09AM (#46707633)
Both 0F and 100F happen regularly in many parts of the US and I would not say here one is rarer than the other. NYC has seen both in the last 12 months.
Land Grab: Israel's Escalating Campaign for Control of the West Bank
Re:You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving
on Monday December 22, 2025 @12:16AM (#46351561)
Certainly the world’s climate is worse. Wealth inequality is worse. I try hard not to be nostalgic, and even so I have to admit lots of things are not as good as they were in the 60s.
It’s not even like the physical infrastructure is all that much better. I live in a house built in the 50s, and clearly the people living in it then led a pretty similar life to mine. It just cost me a lot more money.
Re:Cassette tapes are making a comeback. Yes
on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:10PM (#46201137)
But why would I want the cassette experience in the first place?
Re:The Undermining of the CDC
on Sunday November 30, 2025 @10:44AM (#46097545)
In general I think I have a lot more faith in medical professionals than it seems you do, but I do agree that the early mixed messaging around face masks in Feb. 2020 left me with a lot of distrust of Fauci in particular: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/07/01/8862991...
Re:How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
on Friday November 21, 2025 @08:19AM (#46004253)
The underlying article in Le Monde: https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/19/nico...
Archive link: https://archive.is/TleMk