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New comment by fouadf in "Cyber is a new language for fast, efficient, and concurrent scripting"

fouadf — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 14:42:02 +0000

Adding 'language' or 'programming' to the search query should solve it. Anyway Google seem to retain context when searching certain topics. But yeah there's definitely room for improvement and creativity here.

New comment by fouadf in "“The joy of sharing has been driven from me“"

fouadf — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 05:02:18 +0000

I bet someday in the future new fans of the game will find the art style so fresh. Ron is an artist and true to his craft.

As a fan of the game series I can't wait to see what's in store.

I think the artwork is unique and will attract newcomers, instead of repeating what's already there and serving only the "hardcore fans" who threw all that hate.

New comment by fouadf in "“The joy of sharing has been driven from me“"

fouadf — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 04:53:10 +0000

Agreed, although I think the genre is mostly popular as pixel art retro style, especially that he made thimbleweed park that way.. that's probably why they wanted a different art style.

Personally I think Ron is an artist and I'll buy whatever he's selling.

New comment by fouadf in "When I made another Monkey Island"

fouadf — Tue, 03 May 2022 13:17:40 +0000

It's my favorite game too, this game takes me back to wonderful childhood memories. Ironically that puzzle was the one of the easiest for me to solve

New comment by fouadf in "When I made another Monkey Island"

fouadf — Tue, 03 May 2022 13:15:05 +0000

Big fan of the game series here. Honestly it's such a thrill to have Ron work on RTMI. I can't wait to see what he has in store for us.

New comment by fouadf in "Boring Technology Checklist"

fouadf — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:26:17 +0000

Node.js seems boring at this point

New comment by fouadf in "Devious SQL: Message Queuing Using Native PostgreSQL"

fouadf — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 14:41:00 +0000

Yes it's true, we already use Redis for several workloads and operations so it's not really an extra thing to manage, on the contrary we don't need to learn about say rabbitmq and manage it, just worry about Redis.

Why do you consider it bad for local dev? A Redis instance literally takes 1MB memory when started.

New comment by fouadf in "Devious SQL: Message Queuing Using Native PostgreSQL"

fouadf — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 07:53:22 +0000

At our company we use Redis, it's lightweight and has list structure which can be used as a push/pop queue

The basic gist of it is that on one end a producer pushes to the list and a consumer(s) on the other end pops the job and executes it. Fire and forget style.

New comment by fouadf in "Optimal coverage for Wordle with Monte Carlo methods – Part III"

fouadf — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 14:01:12 +0000

I start with autos and miner Most common consonants and all vowels covered A try or two from there will get you covered

New comment by fouadf in "Heroes of Might and Magic"

fouadf — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 17:36:33 +0000

HoMM3 was soo interesting to me when I first saw it, I thought it was like chess (dumbed down) and a boardgame. The mythology was also like a reference to me. I played it for so many hours when I was a teenager. I played HoMM4 and HoMM5 also. HoMM4 felt like an incomplete game but very nice to play. HoMM4 has an amazing soundtrack, I occasionally still play it while working.

I think recently there was an imitation of the game on mobile, and we all know how bad that would probably be given the horrible game mechanics of mobile gaming (ads, play to win, waiting to build)

New comment by fouadf in "Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (2019)"

fouadf — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 06:33:32 +0000

Good point. My assumption is that the first hit would be memory usage, way before core usage.

There are many options for scaling:

- vertically scale by adding more memory

- start redis instance on another port (takes 1mb) if decided to add more cores on the same vm

- separate data into another vm

- sharding comes out of the box, but that would be my last resort

New comment by fouadf in "Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (2019)"

fouadf — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 03:08:22 +0000

A single core small Redis server can do wonders.

For fire and forget type jobs you can use lists instead of pub/sub: save a job to a list by a producer, pop it on the other end by a consumer and execute it. It's also very easy to scale, just start more producers and consumers.

We're currently using this technique, to process ~2M jobs per day, and we're just getting started. Redis needs very little memory for this, just a few mb.

Redis also supports acid style transactions.

New comment by fouadf in "Learn X in Y Minutes"

fouadf — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 15:11:12 +0000

I once copied the following comment from another post here, I find it spot on: "I’ve a few different approaches I take depending on the task (and if I’m honest, my mood or levels of motivation): - a new programming language, especially something closer to a systems language, I have a standard set of things I’ll try to implement. Read/write a file. Turn a structured object into JSON, parse JSON to an object. Basic script that can be run from CLI, parses flags/args, reads stdin. Send a HTTP request. Implement the most basic web server."

New comment by fouadf in "Hayao Miyazaki prepares to cast one last spell"

fouadf — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 08:23:30 +0000

To be fair it was bad, it lacks depth and imagination that Hayao has

New comment by fouadf in "Hayao Miyazaki prepares to cast one last spell"

fouadf — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 08:20:14 +0000

This makes me so happy, lately the only movies I've been genuinely enjoying are his. There's something healing about his movies.

New comment by fouadf in "Mudita pure: a classic “dumbphone” with e-ink screen"

fouadf — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 06:25:21 +0000

Looks very interesting, but I'd rather go with something based on Android maybe? And what's up with the meditation timer? That sounds like bloatware, made me lose interest

New comment by fouadf in "Lebanon's central electricity grid shuts down as fuel shortages continue"

fouadf — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 02:54:24 +0000

Cost is the most important factor, after that comes finding a space, most people live in buildings in the city, one roof won't be enough for all the apartments. Houses are usually in villages.

People are getting interested by seeing it work for their neighbors and friends, it's still new and people want see some garuntee for such a long term investment.

How would you describe the income level of the clients you shipped solar panels to? Were they building a new house?

New comment by fouadf in "Lebanon's central electricity grid shuts down as fuel shortages continue"

fouadf — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 02:36:56 +0000

Can you please show me an example product? personally I wired my router to a power bank so the internet stays up

New comment by fouadf in "Lebanon's central electricity grid shuts down as fuel shortages continue"

fouadf — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 11:24:35 +0000

It's starting to kick off, several households are implementing it, it costs $5k+ here which given the current situation isn't the top priority But honestly I do hope we reach a point where private solar and wind take over the main grid and the generators

New comment by fouadf in "Lebanon's central electricity grid shuts down as fuel shortages continue"

fouadf — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 05:51:49 +0000

Hi, I live in Lebanon

We're still getting electricity from the privately owned generators. The main grid has always had shortage, it never provided 24/7, the reliance has always been on the privately owned generators.

Due to the severe fuel shortages since the beginning of the year, the main grid provided very little hours, less than 2 hours per day in many cases.

The privately owned generators haven't been able to keep up either, we're getting power cuts for several hours during the day, every day. And the fees are increasing.

Here's a rundown of the current situation

- fuel is rare, queues at stations are horrible, it takes up to 6 hours to get some, violence and accidents there has killed many people

- fuel prices have increased 4x since the beginning of this year

- currency inflation from $1 = 1,500 LBP to $1=19,000 since late 2019, max reached 23,000, could reach more