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New comment by optimuspaul in "How to do distributed locking (2016)"

optimuspaul — Fri, 12 May 2023 17:18:01 +0000

what would you define as a correct system?

New comment by optimuspaul in "The Prime Video microservices to monolith story"

optimuspaul — Sun, 07 May 2023 22:43:35 +0000

I disagree very much. I don't think any blanket statement like that makes sense.

I recently started building a service and need to keep costs down. Serverless is perfect for it. My service has low to moderate traffic, costs pennies to run on AWS Lambda and MongoDB Atlas. If I had gone the boring route of JVM + PG + k8s, putting aside the time it would take to defamiliarize myself with anything on the JVM, the cost to run this service would have been in the hundreds of dollars a month vs the pennies. Interestingly the most expensive part of my current setup is the NAT Router on my VPC. With JVM + PG + k8s it would have been PG or K8S depending on where I ran PG.

I do agree that there is a misconception with containers taking longer than server less. I don't think either takes longer considering the current tooling available.

Seems like you got burned on Serverless at some point, I'm sorry that happened, but for many people and teams it is a productivity multiplier and can be a big cost cutting solution.

New comment by optimuspaul in "An end to typographic widows on the web"

optimuspaul — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 20:01:24 +0000

Off topic(?) but, "what next" in that sentence at all seems jarring. English is my first language so I could be wrong, but should it be "what's next" or "what is next"?

New comment by optimuspaul in "Ruby 3.2.0 is from another dimension"

optimuspaul — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 14:43:02 +0000

> These languages are more alike than they are different.

I agree with this point. I learned python years before I learned Ruby and I found them to be very similar. Ultimately I dropped ruby because I didn't care much for the syntax and I like whitespace.

New comment by optimuspaul in "Ice not recommended for soft tissue injury treatment (2019)"

optimuspaul — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 15:38:27 +0000

I don't think you'd sound like a jackass saying "O is for optimism. But we are not done yet. V is for vascularization...." but wouldn't you rather sound like a jackass than give bad advice? I'd rather hear this than the clinical robotic "Rest Ice Compression Elevation", I mean come on, I'm a person!

New comment by optimuspaul in "Meta Myths"

optimuspaul — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:58:39 +0000

> How are those "metaverse"?

Good question. My guess is because those things are all 3D virtual worlds (to some extent) and/or a platform that is focused on social connection. Obviously they all need some connective tissue and evolution before they are a legit meta verse.

New comment by optimuspaul in "Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash"

optimuspaul — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 20:35:48 +0000

donations?! you just buy guns and they get your money, and "bonus" you get a gun.

New comment by optimuspaul in "DevDash: A highly configurable terminal dashboard"

optimuspaul — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 15:00:30 +0000

looks like they rolled their own. github.com/Phantas0s/termui

edit: forked one anyway

New comment by optimuspaul in "How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST?"

optimuspaul — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 14:23:16 +0000

I think the plot that Roy set for us was lost a long time ago. Right or wrong we can let things evolve.

New comment by optimuspaul in "Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++"

optimuspaul — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 14:19:59 +0000

This is interesting. I've been relearning C++ after not using it for 25 years. It is hard, I was a Java dev for years, now Python with some Golang. Carbon looks much easier to take up.

New comment by optimuspaul in "How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST?"

optimuspaul — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 20:36:52 +0000

Anarchy, it always has been. Everyone has their own ideas about what REST means or what Hypermedia means.

New comment by optimuspaul in "Notion Acquires Cron"

optimuspaul — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 17:19:21 +0000

Is Notion based in Somolia?

New comment by optimuspaul in "Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources"

optimuspaul — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 15:55:16 +0000

I think you proved their point.

New comment by optimuspaul in "Ghost in the ethernet optic"

optimuspaul — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 14:49:10 +0000

the metadata service is http and not encrypted.

New comment by optimuspaul in "Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia"

optimuspaul — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 17:59:24 +0000

I agree with the low contrast comment, but the gatekeeping is not constructive

New comment by optimuspaul in "There’s a queue coming for Tesla charging"

optimuspaul — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 16:47:47 +0000

Wow! 150kW. The chargers I use now are 7kW max. I wonder what kind of stress that puts on the batteries.

New comment by optimuspaul in "There’s a queue coming for Tesla charging"

optimuspaul — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 16:44:07 +0000

On average it isn't true. The average profit margin is 1.4% for gas stations in the US. Clearly the majority are not making much money on gas. Presumably that low average could mean for many gas is a loss leader.

New comment by optimuspaul in "Crypto crash deepens, stocks slip"

optimuspaul — Wed, 19 May 2021 15:37:50 +0000

Do you care how many chickens or how many beers you can get with BTC?

New comment by optimuspaul in "Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards"

optimuspaul — Wed, 19 May 2021 01:57:20 +0000

I am doubtful this will have any real affect of prices but I am hopeful. I need GPUs for deep learning and simply cannot afford the current prices if I can even find them available. I am so sick of cryptocurrency.

New comment by optimuspaul in "Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?"

optimuspaul — Tue, 18 May 2021 13:31:09 +0000

this. I had piloted a project in Elixir a few years ago. It wasn't until I really learned Erlang that it became a pleasant experience. In the end it was replaced by another team in another language.