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tormeh··on I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
What's this person's phone OS? This seems somewhat overlooked here. To me, the mobile OS is the centerpiece of any ecosystem. That leaves only two options.
tormeh··on Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
Things work well in Switzerland because the Swiss spend a lot more money on rail. That's unfortunately the secret.
tormeh··on Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
The worst parta are in NRW and in particular Cologne (honorary mention: Frankfurt). Unfortunately a lot of people live there and a lot of trains go through there. Don't understand why it's not getting fixed. Every time more money is dedicated to rail the government of the day decide upgrading the stations is what deserves focus.
tormeh··on You can't design software you don't work on
It's an infuriatingly accurate sketch. A team should usually have responsibility for no more than one service. There are many situations where this is not possible or desired (don't force your kafka connect service into your business logic service), but it's the ideal, IMO. More services mean more overhead. But someone read a blog post somewhere and suddenly we have four microservices per dev. Fun times.
tormeh··on Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
Maximalism? Go to a japanese or chinese website. Those are maximalist. Western web design is all mobile-first minimalism.
tormeh··on Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
That's all fake. LinkedIn is for sales and recruiting. If you see something there - a post, anything - it's meant to sell something. It's all as fake as the contents of an ad break.
tormeh··on Say No to Palantir in the NHS
If you give your data to a Chinese company you make your data available to the Chinese intelligence services. Same with most other countries with geopolitical ambitions. I don't see how this is controversial. This is why you only buy IT services from countries you trust.
tormeh··on Toll roads are spreading in America
Yes, I think Myth Busters did an episode on this. It saves surprisingly little time.
tormeh··on Fahrplan – 39C3
You mean the epitome, the nerve center, the capital and apex of 21st century entrepreneurial capitalism? That left-wing bastion? Ridiculous.
tormeh··on Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
Desktop operating systems really dropped the ball on protecting us from the software we run. Even mobile OSs are so-so. So the browser is the only protection we reasonably have.

I think this is sad.

tormeh··on Paperbacks and TikTok
As someone who has a hard time putting down tiktok, I have to say: Yes, the platform and algorithm is addictive and predatory, but some of the content is really good. Lots of very funny sketches, in particular. I don't like dances and whatever, so I get none of that.
tormeh··on Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash
Are you sure this is how he'll be remembered? Half the US thought him preferable to AOC and Hillary Clinton. It's hard to conclude in any other way than that the perception of his legacy will be equally divided.
tormeh··on Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024)
Lol. Mastodon is terrible, be the tech as it may. At least there's content I care about on Matrix, although Discord is still king.
tormeh··on Lua 5.5
Ypu could probably run it in wasm. Of course, without access to the DOM it won't go any further than anything else on wasm. The whole thing is nuts if you ask me. So much lost potential.
tormeh··on Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf
It's a reasonably cheap and unlocked handheld with fecent battery life. Personally I'd want more pixels, but if it works it works. It seems to be the default choice for remote control these days.
tormeh··on Coarse is better
Yeah, photography (editing aside) is about having taste and getting lucky. A good photographer can of course raise their odds of getting lucky, but still. There's some technique in there too, but that's really not all that complicated. That said, I think few things match a good photo. There's something about a photo subject being real that I find fascinating. A photo exhibition does not display the imagination of the photographers, but rather the incredible in the real world.
tormeh··on Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes
So they should put it on the box. In small font on the back if necessary, but make it an official part of the spec sheet - don't pretend it's irrelevant.
tormeh··on Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters
Oh wow, they really wrote that. I love Rust but this is clown shit.
tormeh··on Go ahead, self-host Postgres
I think the pricing of the big three is absurd, so I'm on your side in principle. However, it's the steady state that worries me. When the box has been running for 4 years and nobody who works there has any (recent) experience operating postgres anymore. That shit makes me nervous.
tormeh··on Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
Hetzner has k8s? I only see VMs and block storage.
tormeh··on Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
It's far cheaper to do it yourself, but the entire point is that you outsource the management of the service. Lots of people don't want to deal with database failovers, or - god forbid - deal with Kubernetes control plane issues.
tormeh··on Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
Absolutely not. There's a gazillion cloud providers out there with hosted postgres+kafka+redis and the other big open source softwares. Hetzner is just not one of them.
tormeh··on Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
I hesitate to call Hetzner "cloud". Hetzner is an EC2+S3 competitor, not an AWS one. IMO the minimum for being a real cloud is you need hosted Postgres, hosted Kafka, hosted Kubernetes, and S3-compatible object storage. Without the first three Hetzner is just not in the same product category. Nobody sensible buys AWS for the comically overpriced EC2.
tormeh··on Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
Indeed. And SAP has no cooperation with any European cloud providers, afaik. It's the big three plus alibaba. SAP wants to move away from on-prem, but I guess it has a solution for critical applications. Maybe that can be shoehorned onto OVH or something.
tormeh··on The state of the kernel Rust experiment
Eh, these are highly skilled individuals that just don't like learning a new thing, no matter how useful. That attitude is a problem to be managed, but these people deserve a certain amount of respect. Anyone saying "suck it" or similar should get a grip.
tormeh··on Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes
The entire point of code names is that you can delay coming up with a marketing name. If the end user sees the code name then what is even the point? Using the code name in external communication is really really dumb. They need to decide if it should be printed on the box or if it's only for internal use, and don't do anything in between.
tormeh··on Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
Seems like the original puzzles were licensed for this game, in which case why not?
tormeh··on I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?
Axum is the most popular web library out there, and sqlx the most popular sql library. Together they look something like this: https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum/blob/main/examples%2Fsqlx-p...
tormeh··on I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?
Often each API route will have its own handler function. That function will - usually through many layers of indirection and abstraction - launch queries towards your database.
tormeh··on I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?
Exactly. Divide the code in impure and pure functions. The pure functions can be easily unit tested. The impure ones can often be integration tested. The rest you'll just have to live with (or cover with whole-process integration tests). For tests spanning larger chunks of your code base it might be worth it to mock impure code. Never mock pure code - that's madness.
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