loftsy

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a.lofts [at] camypro [dot.] com
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Comment · 11 months ago
How do the other kernels e.g. Parasolid work without seam edges? Without a seam the 2D parametric boundary is not closed.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
True.

I think my system is sort of both. I want to put some events in a queue for a finite set of time, process them as a single consolidated set, and then drop them all from the queue.

Comment · 1 year ago
Very interesting.

I need a durable queue but not indefinitely. Max a couple of hours.

What I want is Google PubSub but open source so I can self host.

Comment · 1 year ago
Perhaps I do. I know that I don't want a system defined as a graph in yaml. Or no code. These options are over engineered for my use case. I'm pretty comfortable building some docker containers and operating them and this is the approach I want to use.

I'm checking out the list.

Comment · 1 year ago
I am about to start a project. I know I want an event sourced architecture. That is, the system is designed around a queue, all actors push/pull into the queue. This article gives me some pause.

Performance isn't a big deal for me. I had assumed that Kafka would give me things like decoupling, retry, dead-lettering, logging, schema validation, schema versioning, exactly once processing.

I like Postgres, and obviously I can write a queue ontop of it, but it seems like quite a lot of effort?

Comment · 1 year ago
Just make a black png and use it as the background?
Comment · 1 year ago
You can make gun fairly easily with what can be accomplished with a CNC machine. It is still illegal.
Comment · 1 year ago
Something is a crime if society determines that it should be so. Nothing more.

Clearly the pressure on government to write these laws is coming from somewhere. You should engage with the arguments the other side makes.

Comment · 1 year ago
I called the ICO a few years ago asking how to comply with an ex-employee GDPR data request for access to their emails. Their recommendation: read them all to determine which contained personal data.

When I told them I (as a 5 person business) obviously don't have time to go through 1000s of old emails they reacted with surprise to the amount of emails. I guess they don't send many. They didn't offer any other solution.

As others have mentioned this org is a tax on all UK business.

Comment · 1 year ago
Its running EfficientDet on the phone using Tensorflow light.
Comment · 1 year ago
I long for a US-like entrepreneurial attitude here in the UK. Business people here think that they are playing zero sum games. Everyone looks to the govt for funding and direction.

I am reflecting on Deepmind. This company saw the AI revolution before anyone else. London based. They did an amazing job. Sold to Google. The problem is that long term the growth and money now goes back to the US. Maybe the UK is just too small to produce world leading companies.

Comment · 1 year ago
I made an Android app in this space a few years back. It's helped a few people but I never got a grip on the market or understanding of the space.

www.roadcount.com

Comment · 1 year ago
Fair enough that sounds hard.

Memory size is an interesting example. A typical Kubernetes deployment has much more control over this than a typical non-container setup. It is costing you to figure out the right setting but in the long term you are rewarded with a more robust and more re-deployable application.

Comment · 1 year ago
Are you self hosting kubernetes or running it managed?

I've only used it managed. There is a bit of a learning curve but it's not so bad. I can't see how it can take 4 months to figure it out.

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