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New comment by sbstp in "Rivian's gambit for full autonomy"

sbstp — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:25:44 +0000

Out of curiosity, do you live in a place that gets heavy snow? I've always felt that FSD would struggle to handle heavy snow fall, roads with snow banks on the sides and difficult driving/braking conditions in the snow and on ice patches.

New comment by sbstp in "AI Responsibility – OpenAI and Anthropic"

sbstp — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:04:16 +0000

See Colossus: The Forbin Project

New comment by sbstp in "Go 1.27 Interactive Tour"

sbstp — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 04:47:20 +0000

Go's standard library has always been it's strength, especially the crypto package! Lovely stuff.

New comment by sbstp in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

sbstp — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:43:20 +0000

Don't you reboot servers to get kernel security updates? I usually have unattended upgrades with the option to reboot during the night if necessary

New comment by sbstp in "Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus"

sbstp — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:34:56 +0000

Incus is great. I've been trying to revive an unmaintained ansible collection to manage incus resources https://github.com/sbstp/ansible-collection-incus

New comment by sbstp in "Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to appeal against fraud conviction in FTX case"

sbstp — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:08:48 +0000

I think Kraken has been selected to redistribute the funds, but not sure if it has happened yet. These things take time, I think Mt. Gox took like a decade to be distributed

New comment by sbstp in "UK Government’s ‘AI Skills Hub’ was delivered by PwC for £4.1M"

sbstp — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 04:40:44 +0000

CGI is a terrible company known for going over budget and under delivering on a ton of projects. Not that many companies bidding on large government contracts unfortunately

New comment by sbstp in "Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users"

sbstp — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:31:53 +0000

This article has very little useful information...

There's nothing novel about optimizing queries, sharding and using read replicas.

New comment by sbstp in "Poison Fountain"

sbstp — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 05:32:03 +0000

Assuming they ever manage to turn a profit...

New comment by sbstp in "Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux"

sbstp — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 03:54:55 +0000

Tried to play dota 2 on Linux, it has a bad memory leak that made the whole system hang after an hour or two. Plus it seems to get worse fps on Vulcan, but I read that it might just be a bad implementation in my card (6650 xt)

New comment by sbstp in "I tried Servo"

sbstp — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 02:39:50 +0000

Using WebKit (even JavaScriptCore) and working with Apple wouldn't be the worst thing to my eyes as a Firefox/FOSS user. Duopoly isn't great but it's better than a monopoly.

New comment by sbstp in "AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API"

sbstp — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:57:41 +0000

Project 2025 strongly opposes everything good in this world.

New comment by sbstp in "Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts"

sbstp — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:32:45 +0000

RabbitMQ next?

New comment by sbstp in "Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale"

sbstp — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:24:22 +0000

I've been disappointed by Nats. Core Nats is good and works well, but if you need stronger delivery guarantees you need to use Jetstream which has a lot of quirks, for instance it does not integrate well with the permission system in Core Nats. Their client SDKs are very buggy and unreliable. I've used the Python, Rust and Go ones, only the Go one worked as expected. I would recommend using rabbitmq, Kafka or redpanda instead of Nats.

New comment by sbstp in "Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions"

sbstp — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 02:40:26 +0000

yuck.

New comment by sbstp in "My Database Is My Application: Rethinking Webhook Logic with DuckDB and SQL"

sbstp — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:23:03 +0000

There seems to be a few typos in the article, unless I don't understand what's going on.

In step 1, the register uses the source path 'github-events' but the payload is using 'github-pushes'.

In step 3 it says filter_query passes since payload->>'ref' is 'refs/heads/main' but we never see that filter being inserted in the service, the only filter we see is type IN (\'PushEvent\', \'PullRequestEvent\').

Was the article edited midway through and missed some pieces?

New comment by sbstp in "I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either"

sbstp — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 06:55:48 +0000

Most control planes are not free anymore, they cost like 70$/mo on AWS & GCP. Used to be a while back.

New comment by sbstp in "Tcl 9.0"

sbstp — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 03:48:40 +0000

I'm not a TCL user, but from the description of wduquette is sounds similar to Python's zipapp

https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html

New comment by sbstp in "QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet"

sbstp — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 03:23:44 +0000

Even HTTP/2 seems to have been rushed[1]. Chrome has removed support for server push. Maybe more thought should be put into these protocols instead of just rebranding whatever Google is trying to impose on us.

[1] https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/h2againagainagain.h...

New comment by sbstp in "Building static binaries with Go on Linux"

sbstp — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 02:10:02 +0000

I feel like there's a lot of potential between Go and Cosmopolitan libc. Go itself does not use libc much, as shown in the blog, but some great libraries like SQLite3 need it (unless you use https://pkg.go.dev/modernc.org/sqlite).

The ability to build a single static binary that works on Linux, Mac and Windows using Go would be life changing for the internal tools I develop at work.