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hintoftimeon Litestream VFS

Does this mean that I can run an application in K8s via one or many horizontally scaled pods all running off DB in s3? No StatefulSet required?

hintoftimeon Django: what’s new in 6.0

Temporal requires a lot more setup than setting up a Redis instance though. That's the only problem with it. And I find the Python API a bit more difficult to grasp. But otherwise a solid piece of technology.

hintoftimeon Django: what’s new in 6.0

Would you consider tools like Temporal, DBOS, Absurd Workflows, PGQueuer as alternatives?

https://temporal.io/

https://docs.dbos.dev/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45797228

https://python-absurd-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quicks...

https://pgqueuer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

hintoftimeon Django: what’s new in 6.0

Here is a nice guide from AWS https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/framework...

hintoftimeon Django: what’s new in 6.0

Why is celery awful?

hintoftimeon Donating forks to the dining hall

When I went there in 2012, there was a fee each semester for dining hall silverware that goes missing. They assumed that you'd take $60 worth of silverware and plates.

hintoftimeon Morgan Spurlock has died

I think I heard he was actually addicted to alcohol, which is information that he withheld, and that some scientists in a European country tried unsuccessfully to recreate his results.

hintoftimeon Improving Interoperability Between Rust and C++

Yeah, PyO3 is great. I've tried to play around with releasing the GIL from rust in Python 3.12. I would enjoy writing a WSGI/ASGI server with a Celery runtime at some point too. Or contribute to Granian.

https://github.com/emmett-framework/granian

hintoftimeon Improving Interoperability Between Rust and C++

This might finally be the push for me to learn Rust. I'm primarily a Python developer working on Django, but I used to do embedded development in C, and Operating Systems with Remzi at UW Madison was my favorite class. It got me excited about CS. With Google and industry backing, it seems like Rust is here to stay.

hintoftimeon Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?

Reading the first part of the book [0] featuring the concepts behind hypermedia systems has helped me to really understand the goals of HTMX. I would highly recommend it even if you don't experiment with HTMX yourself. I bought it as an ebook to support the author but it is also free to read.

[0] https://hypermedia.systems/

hintoftimeon Ask HN: Did My Eyesight Improve?

My optometrist actually said that finding a prescription that works is more like a wine or chocolate tasting than a precise measurement and giving me a hard time for not being able to decide whether one lens or the other is better.

hintoftimeon Lastpass setting the delete account div to display: none

I'm attempting to call support and get them to give me this year's Premium subscription fee back. On the support page for deleting the account, there's a link to Contact Support. [1]

edit: A rep called right away. They will not give me my money back. It's in their terms and conditions that they won't even if there is a security breach and it's been longer than 30 days since I paid.

[1]: https://support.lastpass.com/help/iknow-my-masterpassword-ho...

hintoftimeon Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporate welfare deals

> Facebook, Google and Microsoft have cited Iowa's large inventory of available land, low energy costs, high portfolio of renewable energy and low risk of natural disasters as reasons for locating here.

I'm interested to hear how other states stack up against this and if this factors in at all.