ntoshev
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Comment · 2 years ago
Is vast.ai reliable for production inference where downtime is important?
Comment · 3 years ago
You can modify this one to do that - or write your own using the same approach:
Comment · 3 years ago
Copilot doesn't continuously update your code when you make changes.
Comment · 4 years ago
Musk is an engineer. Engineers want impact, not power.
Comment · 5 years ago
My reading is the server with zsync can be any http server, client is zsync. Rsync on the other hand needs to use rsync on the server, and it scales badly because it does most work on the server.
Comment · 5 years ago
Came here to find the thread discussing this. You stated what I'd think is the conventional wisdom and I expected this to be the top thread.
However, this thinking comes at the cost of UX (or Developer eXperience). Much more mundane instance of the same thinking is hiding elements of the UI you are not allowed to use. This often gets me thinking - is there a way to do this that I'm not allowed to see, or is it just that I can't find the function in the UI?
A solution for the DX issue is logging the real error somewhere only accessible for an admin. Has this been implemeted anywhere in the wild? For UIs, just be honest and show the menu items disabled.
Comment · 5 years ago
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Comment · 5 years ago
Great resource, I'd missed a few goodies. https://javascript.info is similarly good in teaching modern Javascript.
I wish there was such a resource for modern C++ though. I learned and used C++ in the 90s and early 2000s, and apparently the language has progressed a lot meanwhile. People say idiomatic modern C++ (C++14/17/20) can be pleasant and metaprogramming capabilities are really powerful.
Comment · 5 years ago
Network latency is not accounted for: they use AWS lambda calling DynamoDB / Redis in the same data center; Fauna endpoint is somewhere else.
Curious what Firebase latency would be in comparison, when called from the same GCP data center or AWS.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
Abstraction discovery is a hard problem in general. Good names help, but there's probably more we can do. Tooling finding a common pattern that the abstraction eliminates, perhaps?
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