dantiberian
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Comment · 5 months ago
I wrote about the UniSuper issue at the time: https://danielcompton.net/google-cloud-unisuper. It was a pretty nasty bug where their VMWare environment was created with a one-year expiry date, but was one "resource" from the perspective of Google Cloud.
Comment · 5 months ago
GitHub has automatic secret scanning on all public repositories which notifies AWS if access keys are pushed. I would have expected these tokens to be immediately revoked by AWS. Is there something different about GovCloud access keys so they weren't detected?
Comment · 9 months ago
Could you please pass on feedback to the team that the git diff view is very hard to read for red/green colourblind users like myself? Colour scheme like GitUp.co is very readable for me.
Comment · 9 months ago
I'd be very interested to know how they produce it if the formula is so tightly held. At some point people need to be purchasing the ingredients and mixing them together.
Comment · 1 year ago
From the article:
The intention of OrioleDB is not to compete with Postgres, but to make Postgres better. We believe the right long-term home for OrioleDB is inside Postgres itself. Our north star is to upstream what’s necessary so that OrioleDB can eventually be part of the Postgres source tree, developed and maintained in the open alongside the rest of Postgres.
Comment · 1 year ago
Looks like it, based on this video driving on the left side of the road in what looks to be Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkh3s6WHJz8
Comment · 1 year ago
I listened to https://www.localfirst.fm/18 recently from Electric-SQL. One of the things James mentioned was that Electric lets you use commodity CDNs for distributing sync data, which takes the load off your main Postgres and servers.
This seems like a good pattern, but of lower value for a SaaS app with many customers storing private data in your service. This is because the cache hit-rate for any particular company's data would be low. Is this an accurate assessment, or did I misunderstand something?
Comment · 1 year ago
Will this be partially available from the Claude website for connections to other web services? E.g. could the GitHub server be called from https://claude.ai?
Comment · 2 years ago
https://where.durableobjects.live is a good website that shows you where they live. Only about 10-11% of Cloudflare PoPs host durable objects. Requests to another PoP to create a DO will get forward to one of the nearby PoPs which do host them.
Comment · 2 years ago
The issue here is that if company.com does not use Google Workspace and hasn't claimed company.com, then any employee can sign up for a "consumer" Google account using [email protected].
There are legitimate reasons for this, e.g. imagine an employee at a company that uses Office365 needing to set up an account for Google Adwords.
Comment · 2 years ago
I don't really understand what this is offering beyond Cloudflare's recent release of running SQLite in durable objects: https://blog.cloudflare.com/sqlite-in-durable-objects/. Is it about providing an external interface to Cloudflare's SQLite databases?
Comment · 2 years ago
Could you explain more why you were you not able to sign the URLs at request time? Creating an HMAC is very fast.
Comment · 2 years ago
The Surface Laptop scored 1,745 on the Procyon AI Score, while the MacBook Air managed 889. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite has 45 TOPS of AI acceleration performance, much more than the 18 TOPS found on the M3.
TOPS (Trillion Operations Per Second) is a meaningless score without including the precision. Are they INT4, INT8, INT16 or FP16? Microsoft's qualifications for a Copilot+ laptop require 40 TOPS at INT8: https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/21/qualcomm_windows_micr.... The new Snapdragon X Elite can do 45 TOPS at INT8.
Apple's M3 has 18 TOPS, and their M4 has 38 TOPS, but the M3 was measured at INT16 and the M4 at INT8: https://www.anandtech.com/show/21387/apple-announces-m4-soc-.... Cutting the precision in half lets you do ~twice the amount of work.
The Snapdragon is very impressive, but it's silly to see TOPS claims from companies repeated by journalists without adding some context.
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I had a look at the Terraform provider but missed that delayHours was hardcoded to 0. I’ll update the article.
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