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Comment · 1 year ago
I wonder how hard it would be to use AI to generatively interpolate the images so it could be a video stream.
Comment · 1 year ago
Woah it even has a w for wa-pi-rio.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yea I start to load the chat and then was like wait a sec and noped out.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm working on an app to address this issue. While putting a cost calculation is a good way to raise awareness, we take a different approach to a solution.

It's called Meet Robbie (https://meetrobbie.com) and we give you an agenda with timers, minutes, and action items and you can use it directly in Zoom.

It's main use case is for recurring meetings where you have a list of business to get through. It encourages common sense things like having an agenda, being mindful of time, and keeping organized minutes.

We just released our so you can try it out. Would love any feedback and thoughts on our approach!

Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks! This has potential. I'll play around with this when I have some time.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thank you! That's a good idea. I have fields for user_id and organization_id that I omitted.

What would you rename type to?

Now here's what I'm thinking

id: uuid | name: string (ex 'Google', 'Microsoft') | type: string (ex 'calendar','task-management'')| properties: jsonb

Comment · 3 years ago
say --rate=500 "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?"
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes I started using this in the past year. It dramatically sped up my watch/test cycle on mac.

It seems like something that shouldn't be necessary on Mac with docker so I hope they just make it a standard docker feature.

Comment · 3 years ago
I don't really find these considerations frustrating just a bit tricky but regardless definitely agree with GDPR and on board with keeping PII secure from the get go.

I'm still having a little trouble grokking when an ID becomes exposed or shared so I guess I'll just have to read up on this as it's certainly important.

In our system I realized user IDs are not shared nor linked to (at least not yet) so in actuality the case where there's a URL with a UUID representing a person does not occur. Content generated does not reference UUIDs for persons either. There are URLs with UUIDs representing other types of resources.

By API key I take it to mean an access key for an external reference. That's a good idea for replacing the PK integer with a PK UUID but keeping an external UUID field. That would satisfy the concern with maintaining integer sequences and migrating data.

Anyway this has been helpful so thank you for sharing your thoughts and I have some things to look go on to stay in the good graces of European regulators.

Comment · 3 years ago
Mainly portability of data and options for the future. I'm all on one postgres instance right now and don't plan on breaking it up until necessary. If at some point I need to take a table and move it to another type of database I want that migration process to be straightforward. If I have integer keys with sequencing behavior I anticipate having to do that porting. That internal key would then become external to do the lookup and if it's an external key I want it to be UUID for security as well. Integers as IDs are guessable so I want to keep them internal.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm really not sure what google is thinking with this one. It's not the biggest money maker but google domains is viable and a really easy to use product.

Wondering what other core web services google may sell off.

Comment · 3 years ago
I'm not so much concerned with figuring out scaling in terms of volume as I expect to be able to handle millions of rows in a single DB and that would be an implementation detail and fine tuning. I'm more concerned about scaling in terms of complexity and keeping the system easy to reason about when more people, tech are involved.

Lets say I have a <CAR>-[1:N]-<TRIP> in two tables in a relational DB. This works fine at first even for millions of rows as you say.

At some point in the future it makes sense to have these two entities managed by different team/services/db. Let's say TRIP becomes a whole feature laden thing with fares, hotels, itinerary, dates. So I need to take this local relation and move it to different services and different DB.

If I had been using an integer PK/FK this would be a more complicated migration than if I used UUIDs.

My assumption is that we would not want to have a sequenced integer key used in a distributed system.

In other words it seems safer bet if there's a possibility of needing to move to a distributed system to use a UUID for the key from the beginning.

Comment · 3 years ago
I'm simplifying a bit for brevity and we can do some abstraction to handle it so it's not that the framework is simplistic. I'm just having trouble justifying adding this complexity with two types of IDs.
Comment · 3 years ago
This was generally the reason I went with numeric ID as PK originally. It makes working with and analyzing the data as well as cross referencing relations easier.

For all my tables I have a base schema that looks something like this.

id: integer sequence PK uuid: uuidV4 created_at: datetime updated_at: datetime

The concern I have is when I have to distribute my system when scaling. Those numeric IDs will have to be replaced with the UUIDs so I figure I might as well do it now.

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