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DenseComet··on Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China
Cloudflare’s China presence is already operated by a local company, like what Akamai is switching to.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-partners-with-jd-clou...

DenseComet··on Notes on Guyana
What method do you use to send articles like this to your kindle?
DenseComet··on Debugging my wife's alarm clock
Could you take and upload a picture of your alarm clock? You have made it sound very intriguing.
DenseComet··on Unified Grid: How we re-architected Slack for our largest customers
They put in all this engineering effort, but as a user in multiple workspaces in a large enterprise grid, this unified grid rework has been a strictly worse user experience.

In a large org, if I am in multiple workspaces, that often means they are completely separate contexts and unifying them makes it harder to look at exactly what I want.

DenseComet··on Apple introduces M4 chip
I tried a lot to use remote servers for development when I had an Intel MacBook and I found the experience to always be so frustrating that I upgraded to the M series. Have the tools gotten any better or is vscode remote containers still the standard?
DenseComet··on Meta Llama 3
Interesting to see that their model comparisons don’t include OpenAI models.
DenseComet··on Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas
Energy density is much higher, which is important for applications such as aviation.
DenseComet··on Airbnb is banning indoor security cameras
What have you been using in place of AirBnB?
DenseComet··on Controlling 3.6kW of Solar EV Charging with an Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi
The Arduino strategy seems to be similar to the Raspberry one - as people who grew up tinkering with Arduinos go into industry and are placed in charge of decisions, an upmarket edition of Arduino is a natural pick.
DenseComet··on Show HN: Atopile – Design circuit boards with code
Congratulations on the launch and good luck building a business around it! I remember running into you folks at OpenSauce last year and thinking just how useful it could be.
DenseComet··on Linux M1 GPU driver passes 99% of the dEQP-GLES2 compliance tests
Macos Ventura will let you run x86 code on an arm linux vm using a linux version of rosetta 2, which should fix the speed issues.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...

DenseComet··on Workerd: Open-source Cloudflare workers runtime
> A WebSocket being connected to the Durable Object counts as the Object being active.

> If 100 Durable Objects each had 100 WebSocket connections established to each of them which sent approximately one message a minute for a month, the estimated cost in a month would be, if the messages overlapped so that the Objects were actually active for half the month:

I remember looking at that page before and finding these two lines confusing. Based on the first line, it seems that the objects would be considered active for the entire month, whereas the second one raises the possibility that a websocket can be connected to a durable object without it being considered active.

DenseComet··on The Case for the /usr Merge (2012)
The article seems to be from 2012, it makes more sense in that context.
DenseComet··on Rust 1.63
Nope, the threads run in parallel. The variable x is mutably borrowed only once by the second thread. The variable a is immutably borrowed twice, so there is no issue.
DenseComet··on Helium
You and others have said this multiple times in this thread. Is this documented somewhere on their website? It's hard to just take your word for it looking at the prices.
DenseComet··on Rust is actually portable
They didn't build six executables that run on six operating systems. Rather, it's a single nativity compiled executable that runs on six different operating systems unmodified.

Cosmopolitan is an incredibly cool project that does more than you think.

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

DenseComet··on RustDesk – Open-source TeamViewer alternative
> Each has its own performance hit but that hit can be worth it

Rust's focus on making things explicit has a tendency to make programmers want to remove every clone and allocation and make a mess of lifetimes and references in the process.

Just use Arc<Mutex<UserAccount>>. Clone freely. Box things. It makes programming so much easier, and performance will still match or exceed other languages. GC languages do the same things, but implicitly.

DenseComet··on Learning Go as a Python Developer: The Good and the Bad
WSL is a fully fledged VM under the hood, it's just well integrated.
DenseComet··on Show HN: Svelvet – A component library for building interactive flow diagrams
It looks like the title got changed and now it says Svelte instead of Svelvet. Congrats on the launch!
DenseComet··on Ask HN: Could Bitcoin be replaced by an ERC-20 token?
Block rewards will eventually be replaced by transaction fees, meaning that to keep transaction fees low, transaction volume needs to be high. If most transactions aren't taking place on the Bitcoin network, then either transaction fees will have to increase to incentivize miners, or the security of the network could be jeopardized.
DenseComet··on Linode Managed Databases
Cockroachdb serverless is a pretty nice option too. Super easy to spin up an instance and get started since it's mostly postgres compatible.

Planetscale has a similar offering with mysql compatibility but I've not tried it.

DenseComet··on Lessons learned from running Apache Airflow at scale
This is exactly the usecase Temporal meant for. I've used the Java SDK and its a pretty pleasant experience. Definitely worth taking a look at it.
DenseComet··on Wireless is a trap (2020)
MoCA and cable internet use different frequencies so you can still use them. I'm currently using those adapters with comcast.
DenseComet··on Is Visa taking 2% out of all my transactions?
You get billed the same amount, but the transaction fees that a merchant pays on a transaction varies with the card type, brand, tier, and various other factors.
DenseComet··on I want off Mr. Golang’s Wild Ride (2020)
What? Even with runtime os detection, you won't be running linux code paths on windows. However you do it, you can't test linux apis on windows or windows apis on linux natively.
DenseComet··on Ask HN: Can one of the Google engineers add support for IPFS on Chrome?
With IPFS, the client is not just a client, but an equal peer in the network. This is nice, but that means complexity. Compare that to something like HTTP 1.1, which is stupid simple to implement since complexity is pushed to the server.

IPFS CIDs are easier than fetching decentralized content that can change, but harder than centralized content that can change.

DenseComet··on Column – a chartered bank for developers
Tacking onto this question, does anyone have recommendations for US banks that have API access and allow personal use?

I've come across a couple companies such as Mercury but they're only for business use.

DenseComet··on Automate Public Certificates Lifecycle Management via RFC 8555 (ACME)
How do you incorporate databases and testing data into this?
DenseComet··on WireGuard multihop available in the Mullvad app
If you don't want to switch to the Mullvad app, it's still worthwhile to switch to their wireguard profiles. Connections seem more stable and wireguard is far easier to configure.
DenseComet··on Bore: A simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost
It's not useful to bury your head in the sand and write it off as an intimidating suggestion. Take a look at the Tor relay operations faq [1].

> Has anyone ever been sued or prosecuted for running Tor?

> Although we are not aware of an individual being sued, prosecuted, or convicted for running a Tor relay, law enforcement in the United States and other countries has occasionally mistakenly investigated individuals running a Tor relay. We believe that running a Tor relay, including an exit relay that allows people to anonymously send and receive traffic, is legal under U.S. law. Law enforcement, however, often misunderstands how Tor works and has occasionally attributed illegal traffic on the network as originating from a Tor exit relay. This has resulted in police suspecting Tor relay operators of crimes and sometimes seizing computer equipment, including Tor relays. For example, in 2016 Seattle police mistakenly raided the home of a privacy activist operating a Tor exit relay. And Russian authorities wrongfully arrested math instructor and Tor relay operator Dmitry Bogatov, though they later cleared him of charges.

[1] https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/e...

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