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New comment by niffydroid in "We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner"

niffydroid — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:03:35 +0000

Having run a small mongo database and having it hosted in 3 different places at one point. The last point was atlas, yes it was expensive but we got replication, we could have an analytical node, we even had data residency. If I remember correctly you can have your replicas in different providers at the same time.

One of the biggest issues was cost, but we were treated like first class citizens, the support was good, we saw constant updates and features. Using atlas search was fantastic because we didn't have to replicate the data to another resource for quick searching.

Before atlas we were on Compose.io and well mongo there just withered and we were plagued by performance issues

Kicked my Synology NAS to the curb and replaced it with a server running Proxmox

niffydroid — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:47:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.xda-developers.com/replaced-synology-nas-custom-built-proxmox-server/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45791590

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New comment by niffydroid in "German industrial output falls to 2005 levels as auto sector craters"

niffydroid — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:40:56 +0000

Sorry, the T7 is actually the multi van now, which is VW based The old transporter and panels vans were called T6 and this is where confusion lies. None the less, the Transporter etc are Fords.

Re T naming convention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Transporter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Transporter_(2024) Straight up based on the ford platform Vw Transporter Panel Van £38,620 Ford Ford Transit® Custom £33,350

New comment by niffydroid in "German industrial output falls to 2005 levels as auto sector craters"

niffydroid — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:23:21 +0000

That's different though. Skoda Seat etc you know is VW maybe not the latest generation or iteration but still the base is a VW

New comment by niffydroid in "German industrial output falls to 2005 levels as auto sector craters"

niffydroid — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:17:09 +0000

But also their cars can cost too much. They're doing a lot of sharing with Ford. Take for example the T7 platform. Why pay VW prices for a Ford?

New comment by niffydroid in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

niffydroid — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 11:10:54 +0000

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/09/openreach-give...

Recently in the UK a major communication company had issues with batteries

New comment by niffydroid in "FAA is granting Boeing “limited delegation” to certify airworthiness"

niffydroid — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 09:56:54 +0000

^ this. My father is an aerospace engineer. He has worked for many companies and in various positions, director/head of engineering/certification across various sectors. He now works for the regulator as an auditor and specialises in the sectors he has worked in and often with companies he's worked for. There is a huge amount of integrity involved for the profession and I've never heard of any cases where this has been questioned. At the end of the day, there are rules and processes to follow, don't follow them and it's quite simple you loose the power to verify your own work, no business wants this and it's much easier to work with the regulator and conform to the rules. Also if the regulator determines there is an issue or fault then they can ground the affected aircraft, in a number of cases the airlines/manufacturer even have clauses with these companies that are the along the lines of "if your product grounds us, you will pay us x amount per day" The regulator will also specify how much cost to rectify work will be so the company will lose money, that's why it's easier to just follow the rules!

I should add that the regulator will be to the letter. I was told a case where the company followed the test form a spec from standard x, but standard x was superseded twice. The latest spec and standard x, the testing was exactly the same but because the company had done the testing against x and not the latest they had to redo all the work. Regulator would not shift or give dispensation on passing it.

New comment by niffydroid in "Node 20 will be deprecated on GitHub Actions runners"

niffydroid — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:46:03 +0000

I don't expect to come back after x years and a build system to work. You're very much at the mercy of multiple components in your stack and environment. For example you could be on a Mac and 2 years ago you were using x64, but now you are on ARM64. Whole load of stuff just breaks from that alone.

New comment by niffydroid in "Why does a fire truck cost $2m"

niffydroid — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 07:48:53 +0000

In the UK the NHS/local health trusts actually have a few fast response cars which contain at least a paramedic but more often someone who is trained higher. Even the fire service will have a small car as part of an incident response team.

I've also seen more ambulances that are based on a transit/mini bus platform for call outs that aren't major, think old person falling over. They save the big boxy ones for more serious issues.

New comment by niffydroid in "Erythritol linked to brain cell damage and stroke risk"

niffydroid — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 10:05:32 +0000

I find it flare IBS. Which means anything with Stevia I can't have as it appears erythritol is used, I think, as a bulking agent

New comment by niffydroid in "Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home from US"

niffydroid — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:45:05 +0000

I thought this has been attributed to pro russian Ukrainians on the far right?

New comment by niffydroid in "How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes"

niffydroid — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:44:06 +0000

Why use this method over just having a script do a clone or pull elsewhere? Got is about distribution right?

New comment by niffydroid in "The U.S. needs a shipbuilding revolution"

niffydroid — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:32:33 +0000

laid 2022 * Type 26 laid 2017

New comment by niffydroid in "The U.S. needs a shipbuilding revolution"

niffydroid — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 08:54:24 +0000

The UK has been in a similar situation. We have a ship building industry plan and it seems to be going ok. Top of the range ships like type 26 are massive, expensive and cutting edge so will take time to build and commission. So what we've done is gone and brought an off the shelf design (Iver Huitfeldt-class frigate) and started building it. It's not cutting edge or massive, it should need less crew and most of it's system should be off the shelf. The first in class was paid in April 2022 and is to be launched this year with an inservice date of early 2027. To compare that against the first in class of the type 26, that was laid down on 2027 and is looking to be in service at the same time as the first type31! We're also building nuclear subs as well!

New comment by niffydroid in "World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating"

niffydroid — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 11:06:27 +0000

This wins the day for me

New comment by niffydroid in "We're excited about our new roundabout"

niffydroid — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 12:31:42 +0000

I feel like this is something that's pretty normal in the uk

New comment by niffydroid in "Intel Solidifies $3.5B Deal to Make Chips for Military"

niffydroid — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 06:12:40 +0000

What normally happens is they will store a bunch of chips for the future and then shut the line down, when they need more they'd have to use a newer chip in it's place.

New comment by niffydroid in "I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened"

niffydroid — Thu, 30 May 2024 11:10:01 +0000

This sounds like a mutal consent sort of thing. Its like with football managers, normally the board is unhappy with the manager and the manager knows it and even agrees with it (to some extent) so rather being fired and having the animosity of it, they all agree things aren't working out and walk. Sounds similar here. YC basically implied you're spreading yourself thin so we think its best you pick one and it sounds like he agreed!

New comment by niffydroid in "RAL Color Standard"

niffydroid — Fri, 17 May 2024 17:07:22 +0000

I've recently clad my garden office in a composite cladding, the brand makes use of RAL. Makes it much easier to get the matching trim and silicone and even a touch up pen for any scuffs or scratches

New comment by niffydroid in "Unison Cloud"

niffydroid — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 20:35:44 +0000

I was thinking the UK Union unison when I saw the title