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cnlwsu··on Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal
There’s a lot of focus on negatives in comments. I will say ssris probably saved my life and I have had zero side effects to date. It’s easy to say “just suck it up and power through it”. That advice can kill people
cnlwsu··on SQLite is all you need for durable workflows
We are a huge production setup where it’s absolutely critical successfully but we use temporal cloud. Hosting it yourself is what makes it miserable. https://temporal.io/resources/on-demand/netflix
cnlwsu··on Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
what only Oracle can do it?
cnlwsu··on The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]
Same. I just played it and rocked it and I am a 500 on chess.com. I think this is older version
cnlwsu··on Ask HN: What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great?
Quest VR. It’s fine but I just get nauseous too easily
cnlwsu··on Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
durability through replication and distribution and better throughput to build up more within the window on a lazy fsync
cnlwsu··on Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4
Cockroach doesn't offer strict serializability. It has serializability with some limits depending on clock drift. Also CockroachDB does not provide linearizability over the entire database.
cnlwsu··on It's not just obesity. Drugs like Ozempic will change the world
This has 10+ years with tons or people and studies over the side effects. Not to justify the the conspiracy theories, but it’s not apple to apples
cnlwsu··on How to do distributed locking (2016)
You’re describing compare and swap which is a good solution. You’re pushing complexity down to the database, and remember this is distributed locking. When you have a single database it’s simple until the database crashes leaving you in state of not knowing which of your CAS writes took effect. In major systems that demand high availability and multi datacenter backups this becomings pretty complicated with scenarios that break this as well around node failure. Usually some form of paxos transaction log is used. Never assume there is an easy solution in distributed systems… it just always sucks
cnlwsu··on CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail" at defcon
That’s kinda what aws tells people when its services go down. If your backend can’t take a short outage without weeks of recovery then it’s just a matter of time.
cnlwsu··on EU to hit Apple with first ever fine in €500M penalty over music streaming
I’m viewing this from chrome on iOS. What are you talking about
cnlwsu··on If needed, you have a role at Microsoft that matches your compensation
Why? Hiring a bunch of great engineers with relevant experience usually goes over well in teams I been in.
cnlwsu··on Voicebox: Generative AI model for speech that generalizes across tasks
I am mostly excited for cheaper audiobooks with consistent voices for different characters.
cnlwsu··on Show HN: HyperLogLog in Zig
For LSM trees to estimate effectiveness of a compaction
cnlwsu··on Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s?
Seems like unnecessary shade to throw on the helpline. There was a viral thing a bit ago making rounds on social media accusing them of it but its far from reality. There are like 50k of 3 million calls a year that result in contacting the authorities, but its extreme scenarios.

Its a rare thing and highlighting it as the default scenario is spreading FUD and possibly keeping people from getting the help they need. It is true though that if you call and describe an immediate plan to kill yourself there is some legal, ethical, and liability requirements that mean they will call authorities. Exact same thing if you tell your doctor or therapist.

cnlwsu··on John Carmack Leaves Meta
Meta is a different company and this has nothing to do with Twitter…
cnlwsu··on The DynamoDB Paper
To be fair, you can end up spending a lot of time on the boring stuff as well.
cnlwsu··on Tell HN: I let my 6-year-old daughter design my website
My son and I made a video game when he was 6 (started at least). I did 99% of the coding, was 3d and math a little advanced but he drew it out, recorded audio and did a lot of research and work for it.

If the kid is excited about project you don’t need to explain much, it’s more holding them back from grandiose ideas. Kid doesn’t need to be a genius, hard work trumps that.

cnlwsu··on IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts
Self driving cars are not made by IBM. I wouldn’t consider their utter failure at everything they touch to be a sign that that AI field failed.
cnlwsu··on Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL
No bad judgement, small servers are limited and you won’t want huge bill. But there’s some irony in it being down from load.
cnlwsu··on Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing
Xbox, steam, google play store, Nintendo and sony are comparable. Same percentages and everything, 30% is kinda game industry standard. Game engines starting to take bigger cut too.
cnlwsu··on The trouble with Cassandra as an object storage metadata database
It’s not a real requirement. Just a performance thing. Each partition has an index and as it grows the deserialization of it to find the queried start column takes longer. It is lazy loads but there a perf hit. Easier to have a rule of thumb like “100mb partitions” and have more fixed tps per core etc expectations.
cnlwsu··on The trouble with Cassandra as an object storage metadata database
They don’t need to be. It’s just less performant so easier to just say that so people’s expectations on tps etc match. I’ve seen it in many GBs run fine
cnlwsu··on Stripe bans Trump campaign
There was a bomb planted in the capitol... how is that not a terrorist activity?
cnlwsu··on Google Bans Parler from the Google Play Store
Facebook deleted and moderated the shooters content. Twitter and youtube also both delete and moderate content that violates reasonable TOS that overlaps with apples and googles terms of service. Comparison isn’t even remotely the same. Parler had posts inciting violence and refuse to moderate
cnlwsu··on Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
I guess I am older but pre jira things were so much worse that yeah... best version of this thing I’ve seen. Not that I love it but it’s functional and not an Oracle form or some ugly crud tool cookie cut for a process different than my teams.
cnlwsu··on Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 Is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac
How far an electron can travel in a ns is a crazy limiter in computer science.
cnlwsu··on Tables: Tracking work for teams
Even if the complete public distrust of the companies ability to be reliable is "just a meme" it's brand damaging and creates a scenario that impacts adoption of new products.

While products come and go is true, it's more a matter of scale on why this reputation exists.

I know I personally have been burned by the platform I was using going out from beneath me. That memory comes up each time I am considering between an AWS (where its never happened to me), azure, and google cloud solution.

cnlwsu··on How to stay private when using Android
A lot of what you just claimed is completely false or misleading, given your rants throughout this thread though I doubt it’s worth time to enumerate it. You seem very intent to distract the discussions for this post towards Apple and whataboutisms.
cnlwsu··on Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud
Gartner ranks companies by how much they pay Gartner for "advisors"
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