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forkfork··on Why yewtu.be was down: Data loss after being shut down by Oracle Cloud
No specific experience with Oracle Cloud, but contract bullying on other products has led me to blacklist Oracle personally.
forkfork··on Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture
The author is one of the most influential NFT critics: e.g. https://amp.smh.com.au/business/companies/extortion-why-web3...
forkfork··on Heroku: We’ve Heard Your Feedback
I work for a non-Heroku tech vendor, and I have always spoken highly of Heroku to my customers from my past experience of going all-in on Heroku, and receiving a top quality of support from Heroku back in 2017-2019. I'm going to point folks to the recent Hacker News threads now.

It is difficult for me to understand why Salesforce is not aware of the strength of the Heroku brand among experienced technology workers, and how much they have destroyed that brand in the last 2-3 years.

forkfork··on How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight
The bottleneck is gunzipping & deserializing a huge JSON object using a very slow language (Node.js).

This was attempting to simulate the type of load I see in the wild, rather than serving "Hello world" using C++.

forkfork··on How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight
Yep! Inefficient, but it is what I have, and there is no risk to frying my moderately expensive laptop which I hope to keep running for many years.
forkfork··on How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight
Good point. There is: a HFC modem & 2x Google Wifi access points. Totals to about 15W of energy use - which only leaves enough energy budget for a Raspberry Pi.
forkfork··on How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight
I’ll iterate towards a good solution. This was a somewhat realistic but naive solution (I have customers doing largely what I’ve described in the article).

If I could find a way to encourage people to run their work in a power efficient way using economies of scale from this series, I would be terribly happy.

Interestingly I suspect public-cloud FaaS solutions (e.g. AWS Lambda) will achieve highest utilisation rates due to high rate of CPU sharing - but I’m a long way off from showing that with data.

forkfork··on How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight
I’ll try to measure this. I guess I need to purchase a shunt.
forkfork··on How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight
Mostly clouds and rain bring this down to 600Wh/day. Washed the bird poo off the panel to get an extra 2 watts.
forkfork··on How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight
Author here - I’m learning as I go. I thought of talking a out the actual sunlight starting at closer to 1300W and losing efficiency at each step, but I don’t get have the right tools to do that properly.

I’d def love to hear your suggestions though as I continue to iterate this one.

forkfork··on How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight
Intentionally inefficient. I’ve seen a number of my customers doing this pattern, working with ~10 meg JSON for the model layer.

Inefficient but not unrealistic outside of FAANG.

forkfork··on How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight
3 hours comes from averaging the daily power generation my Victron MPPT reports. I’m using a 200 watt panel and it reports and average of 600Wh since I set it up a month ago.
forkfork··on How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight
Author here, you are correct, not tuned.

Will try your suggestions! Much appreciated.

forkfork··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)
Luxury Escapes | Senior Engineer (JS) | Onsite Sydney, Australia | Full Time

We curate/negotiate high quality holiday packages, and have built up a pretty large customer base of people who seem to like us (>$300m a year). We're keen to give our customers a good web/app experience when buying their holidays.

Good new positive team, Node.js & React/Redux, currently dipping our toes into the world of serverless.

Hiring about 3 positions of this type currently - contact me (Head of Engineering) at timothy.downs@luxuryescapes.com.

Although its challenging for us to sponsor people - if we find a really great fit, we can probably find a way to make it work.

forkfork··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)
Lux Group | Mid-Level Javascript Developer | JS/React/Node.js | Sydney, Australia | Onsite

Greenfield work in ecommerce - luxury holidays & experiences.

https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/lux-group#jobs

forkfork··on Show HN: Seashells – Pipe output from CLI apps to the web in real time
I'm a huge fan of these simple projects that are not attempting to create a company, but instead sharing a useful tool.

A similar one I put together last year for my own uses: http://textdash.xyz/