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Comment · 20 days ago
Cloud providers have to buy new hardware too to grow and to replace failing/obsolete units. They will have to raise their prices sooner or later too.
Comment · 1 month ago
How is client logic support for different languages designed in your project? Some time ago I found Kafka clients for several languages are pretty much unusable due to bugs and/or performance non-debuggability. The reason, I think, was that the client logic is quite complex and each client project had to re-implement it from scratch (or use some C FFI monstrosity - which was pretty much a dead end too).
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Be careful if you use streaming replication - secondary replica leaks memory on 17.0 (16.4 is fine)
Comment · 2 years ago
A personal warning about 17.0 if you use streaming replication: secondary replica leaks memory quite actively. 16.4 is OK.
Comment · 2 years ago
Got an order of magnitude saving, mainly due to absurd AWS network traffic costs.
Comment · 3 years ago
Why is watchdog needed at all? There is systemd or any other pid1, stdout/stderr should go to journal without any middleware.
Comment · 3 years ago
I fail to see how being on that list implies anything. Imagine for example if you are a person with some status which implies that you are socially/politically active, and some rich folk calls you and invites you to have a talk at a dinner, would you instantly decline it? For example even if you dislike this class of people, don't you at least feel curious how will this meeting pass? Isn't it an interesting, even useful experience even if you know that you are going to decline any offer he will propose there anyway?
Comment · 3 years ago
The font rendering is poor, blurry on edges of the letters, even if I increase the font size (which works poorly anyway because the thin column container doesn't scale, keeps its width)
Comment · 3 years ago
I wouldn't call it noodly.. If her composition was a bit more complex, it would be close to Debussy level probably. She's maybe like minimalist Debussy :) Check her "Ballad of the Spirits" and "The Song of the Sea".
Comment · 3 years ago
Nah, check Fostex TH-900 (25 ohm), for example
Comment · 4 years ago
This is fake indeed. And it is strange and bitter for me to see it unflagged on HN
Comment · 4 years ago
On mobile it is indeed at least not blurry but still harder to read..
Comment · 4 years ago
The font is unreadable, very thin
Comment · 4 years ago
I think, the problem is: the production of languages (and libraries especially) is way too much market-driven, there is too little cooperation, too little time spent to polish and to model at least some major use cases. Also the quality of education is too poor, too focused on time-to-market - it makes harder for non-seniors to understand e.g. complex type systems (which are required for more usable languages anyway).

A language is released too prematurely -> some companies start to use it -> design problems become clear, but the language is in a compatibility trap at this stage -> e.g. it becomes a swamp or it slowly becomes a monstrosity of design afterthoughts and crutches.

It probably even wouldn't require much more spending from corporations, only some initiative. They anyway already invest considerably in language&toolchain development, but often with wasteful goals.

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