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Comment · 1 year ago
Nice, lot of money for lot of people just waiting for, ... nothing. To all CompSci Grads.. arr you in thr need of a fixed income while working on your own stuff?
Comment · 1 year ago
I like cryptpad for shared documents... but it bugs with big files.
Comment · 1 year ago
Im just asking why moving away from QEMU when Apples new Framework might limit the count of VMs (containers)? Can You have multiple sub VMs in one VM? Or does this limit also exist for QEMU? (im not having a mac to test)
Comment · 1 year ago
depending on the performance you need (and ofc region).. for eu i can recommend: 1&1, (they have 1€ vps), hetzner, alphavps
Comment · 1 year ago
i hope that encourages the good ones to come to europe sometimes to see how a more friendly, not so competitive and democratic environment could be, with great social security and healthcare systems. Yes we have our flaws, and sometimes the clocks are ticking slower, but we have a stable and more transparent ground at least.
Comment · 1 year ago
I would say, just go and compete with his stuff,.. invent some shitty things and then let musk buy it ... win .. then have a good life. This one has soo much money, why not grab some pieces from the cake as long as you can.
Comment · 1 year ago
Keep americans stupid, so they dont know howto do get taxes returned?
Comment · 1 year ago
But in other countries they dont need to pay so much for social system, insurance or healthcare, kindergarden and so on.. You can not always compare everything with money, when there is a lot around it.
Comment · 1 year ago
Love it, but aggregating different connections (latency, LTE vs Adsl, fiber) is hard. Tried different algos, but always had network hogs or even higher ping that slowest connection.

What made it work best (and rock stable) was using LTE only, or ADSL only connections having same ping to aggregator (VPS) and have the VPS as near as possible. (latency wise)

I did not had the time to set up multiple redundant aggregators, so my SPOF was the VPS some times. Maybe there is a solution out there.

So far my experience a year ago. Our provider then offered a way cheaper managed solution, thats why we stopped using it.

Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah, same,.. Real time game server written in PHP is really interessting. I also know PHP from the old days and now only from certain CMS systems, but not realtime projects. Im amazed! Nice! :)))
Comment · 2 years ago
Thats tricky, maybe hire an DB engineer or ask professionals and partner with them, to train Devs? Restricting them after letting them run loose will make em mad anyway, so what are your concerns? security? performance?

I mean u can put layers on top, like ORMs or graphql stuff like hasura tonabstract access to DBs,or use external managed systems like neondb, supabase or aws/azure own stuff.. to enable restriction on tables and DBs. but this things make management worse if there is no discipline.

Im no DB engineer, just a sysadmin also dealing with same issues, but there is no holy grail. In the company i work for, one Dev who really was into DB engineering took the Owner role and he is discussing engineering, giving access to them and rolling out changes with the the DEVs, when they need something, but not the devs itselfs. He also writes migrations. But he is also a very skilled Dev.

Comment · 2 years ago
Ahwe used them a lot, when lasers were expensive.They also could be used with special endless carbon paper (Durchschlagpapier) to get immediate copies (even 4), one for you, one for the customer and one for the archive as backup and so on. Cleaning those heads and exchanging the tapes everyday while having a chat with the people in the office, was a fun thing. They were quite robust. Some of them also could print 2d barcodes (for archiving or using with scanners which emulated key presses to feed order id's and stuff fast to the erp)
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, but i meant in general, idk if ALL those systems support wal archiving.
Comment · 2 years ago
I think the next few years it will not be dead, there are a lot of instances who can not easily be ported to 17. But yeah, i also read about that new feature a few days ago.

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