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> 92% of catastrophic failures in tested distributed systems were triggered by incorrect handling of nonfatal errors This. If you take nothing else away from the article (which has a lot) take this…

I’m not sure how to take “open source” when there are closed source commercial things on the trends list.

Not only open source, but extremely well documented.

> especially good muscle mass I thought semi-starvation was the one and only strongly evidenced way too extend lifespan? Which obviously doesn’t require, and in fact destroys, muscle mass.

On the producer side I’d expect to see change data capture being directed to a queue fairly efficiently, but perhaps you have some intermediary that’s running between the system of record and the queu…

We build applications very differently. SQS queues with 1000s of clients have been a go to for me for over a decade. And the opposite as well — 1000s of queues (one per client device, they’re free). Z…

SQS

> As Mark Twain said, “A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.” Actually he probably didn’t say that—but everyone keeps saying he did, illustrating …

I’m not sure I get the connection? Designing systems for sub-linear cost scaling is just an engineering problem.

Everyone doing multi-tenant SaaS wants cost to be a sub-linear function of usage. This model of large unit capacity divided by small work units is an example of how to get there. The tough bit is that…

I tend to put more attention on repos with 15-75 (ish) stars. Less is something obscure or unproven maybe, and above ~500 is much more likely to be BS/hype.

The signal here is how many unpatched vulnerabilities there are maybe multiplied by how long they’ve been out there. Purely statistical. And an actual signal.

VHS for maritime communication. It’s necessary for practical purposes, and safety but audio is often indecipherable.

For the sake of clarity, I’m not being nice and don’t expect it from others. I do however respect your contribution to the conversation and opinions.

Have you checked that? As it turns out, public radio is very popular in rural areas. May I also point out that your assumptions and stereotypes only serve to reinforce others’ entrenchments.

> Their objective was "drive at the speed which is safe for this road" Not really. The problem people are not prioritizing safety, they are rushing in an ego fueled spasm of disobedience …

Let’s start by copying the German requirement that all new cars have intelligent speed assist systems.

I’m trying to imaging learning a skill and not being glad about it. So, all of them? Most recently I’m learning fiberglass repair and gel coat (including color matching, which is really difficult for …

> They also have one shared brain cell. Confirmed. Very early cooperative multitasking.

One recent example (and there are many): The FIRST 30 (former Seascape) isn’t a race boat, it has a sink and fridge.

I finished my first race Wednesday after a few years sailing casually. And, although it’s true that whenever there is more than one sailboat going the same direction it’s a race, being in a fleet on a…

The material seems dated. Modern yachts choose to be limited by displacement speeds but aren’t bound by them. New models that can rise on plane (like a speed boat) because of advances in materials and…

So I was accepted to MIT long, long ago and couldn’t afford to go and ended up at an (excellent) state school. If I’d gone to MIT I would be the same person right? Stereotypes don’t work, and never ha…

Scathing, and wonderfully so.

Honestly, I think it’s just simple imitation. Something is popular, folks are envious of it, they end up building something much like it. Doesn’t matter if it’s houses, logos, or user experiences – se…

Isn’t it weird how “old people” are so much like other people? The insecurities, hopes and so on? It’s like stereotypes just don’t work or something.

Disclosure: I'm building https://proxylity.com , but I'm seeking to understand here, not to promote it. The fixed cost per region seems like a barrier to experimenters and large d…

Maybe a comparison to AWS Global Accelerator would be helpful to understand the "global" aspect. Having instances in multiple regions is just a starting point.

That demo shows the problems splendidly. It “only kinda” works on iOS.