Hacker News: DenseComet

New comment by DenseComet in "Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China"

DenseComet — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 19:56:28 +0000

Cloudflare’s China presence is already operated by a local company, like what Akamai is switching to.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-partners-with-jd-clou...

New comment by DenseComet in "Notes on Guyana"

DenseComet — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 06:31:39 +0000

What method do you use to send articles like this to your kindle?

New comment by DenseComet in "Debugging my wife's alarm clock"

DenseComet — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 23:04:32 +0000

Could you take and upload a picture of your alarm clock? You have made it sound very intriguing.

New comment by DenseComet in "Unified Grid: How we re-architected Slack for our largest customers"

DenseComet — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:54:11 +0000

They put in all this engineering effort, but as a user in multiple workspaces in a large enterprise grid, this unified grid rework has been a strictly worse user experience.

In a large org, if I am in multiple workspaces, that often means they are completely separate contexts and unifying them makes it harder to look at exactly what I want.

New comment by DenseComet in "Apple introduces M4 chip"

DenseComet — Wed, 08 May 2024 22:56:34 +0000

I tried a lot to use remote servers for development when I had an Intel MacBook and I found the experience to always be so frustrating that I upgraded to the M series. Have the tools gotten any better or is vscode remote containers still the standard?

New comment by DenseComet in "Meta Llama 3"

DenseComet — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:07:29 +0000

Interesting to see that their model comparisons don’t include OpenAI models.

New comment by DenseComet in "Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas"

DenseComet — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 20:43:28 +0000

Energy density is much higher, which is important for applications such as aviation.

New comment by DenseComet in "Airbnb is banning indoor security cameras"

DenseComet — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:40:12 +0000

What have you been using in place of AirBnB?

New comment by DenseComet in "Controlling 3.6kW of Solar EV Charging with an Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi"

DenseComet — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 22:12:41 +0000

The Arduino strategy seems to be similar to the Raspberry one - as people who grew up tinkering with Arduinos go into industry and are placed in charge of decisions, an upmarket edition of Arduino is a natural pick.

New comment by DenseComet in "Show HN: Atopile – Design circuit boards with code"

DenseComet — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:01:30 +0000

Congratulations on the launch and good luck building a business around it! I remember running into you folks at OpenSauce last year and thinking just how useful it could be.

New comment by DenseComet in "Linux M1 GPU driver passes 99% of the dEQP-GLES2 compliance tests"

DenseComet — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 17:39:51 +0000

Macos Ventura will let you run x86 code on an arm linux vm using a linux version of rosetta 2, which should fix the speed issues.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...

New comment by DenseComet in "Workerd: Open-source Cloudflare workers runtime"

DenseComet — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:47:55 +0000

> A WebSocket being connected to the Durable Object counts as the Object being active.

> If 100 Durable Objects each had 100 WebSocket connections established to each of them which sent approximately one message a minute for a month, the estimated cost in a month would be, if the messages overlapped so that the Objects were actually active for half the month:

I remember looking at that page before and finding these two lines confusing. Based on the first line, it seems that the objects would be considered active for the entire month, whereas the second one raises the possibility that a websocket can be connected to a durable object without it being considered active.

New comment by DenseComet in "The Case for the /usr Merge (2012)"

DenseComet — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 02:32:07 +0000

The article seems to be from 2012, it makes more sense in that context.

New comment by DenseComet in "Rust 1.63"

DenseComet — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:52:35 +0000

Nope, the threads run in parallel. The variable x is mutably borrowed only once by the second thread. The variable a is immutably borrowed twice, so there is no issue.

New comment by DenseComet in "Helium"

DenseComet — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 20:51:29 +0000

You and others have said this multiple times in this thread. Is this documented somewhere on their website? It's hard to just take your word for it looking at the prices.

New comment by DenseComet in "Rust is actually portable"

DenseComet — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 16:27:42 +0000

They didn't build six executables that run on six operating systems. Rather, it's a single nativity compiled executable that runs on six different operating systems unmodified.

Cosmopolitan is an incredibly cool project that does more than you think.

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

New comment by DenseComet in "RustDesk – Open-source TeamViewer alternative"

DenseComet — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:40:54 +0000

> Each has its own performance hit but that hit can be worth it

Rust's focus on making things explicit has a tendency to make programmers want to remove every clone and allocation and make a mess of lifetimes and references in the process.

Just use Arc>. Clone freely. Box things. It makes programming so much easier, and performance will still match or exceed other languages. GC languages do the same things, but implicitly.

New comment by DenseComet in "Learning Go as a Python Developer: The Good and the Bad"

DenseComet — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 21:55:32 +0000

WSL is a fully fledged VM under the hood, it's just well integrated.

New comment by DenseComet in "Show HN: Svelvet – A component library for building interactive flow diagrams"

DenseComet — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 17:03:16 +0000

It looks like the title got changed and now it says Svelte instead of Svelvet. Congrats on the launch!

New comment by DenseComet in "Ask HN: Could Bitcoin be replaced by an ERC-20 token?"

DenseComet — Thu, 26 May 2022 18:27:26 +0000

Block rewards will eventually be replaced by transaction fees, meaning that to keep transaction fees low, transaction volume needs to be high. If most transactions aren't taking place on the Bitcoin network, then either transaction fees will have to increase to incentivize miners, or the security of the network could be jeopardized.