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New comment by sudhirj in "Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds”"

sudhirj — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:42:00 +0000

Did the Max plan ever promise unlimited anything? I’m on it, and I remember seeing and paying for 20x, not infinity.

There is a case to be made that they sold a multiple and are changing x or rate limiting x differently, but the tone seems different from that.

New comment by sudhirj in "DaisyUI: Tailwind CSS Components"

sudhirj — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:11:28 +0000

This is a rebuild of the antithesis of Tailwind on Tailwind. Bootstrap had this for decades (Daisy even copies the same semantic class names in some cases). Tailwind was supposed to break away from this, to specific actual styles directly, but looks like we're coming back full circle again. Why not just use Bootstrap?

New comment by sudhirj in "DaisyUI: Tailwind CSS Components"

sudhirj — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:09:44 +0000

How does the version of Tailwind itself make difference? The look depends on what styles are applied using Tailwind, not the ability to specify styles. Think the problem is the most tailwind sites have a similar set of styles applied, most likely copies of the docs or examples. TailwindUI is a paid system, but yeah, could be a case of most of the defaults copying that.

New comment by sudhirj in "OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio"

sudhirj — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 07:21:30 +0000

If a human meeting had lot of silence (assuming it's between words and not before / after), I would consider it a very efficient meeting where there was just enough information exchanged with adequate absorption, processing and response time.

New comment by sudhirj in "Claude Code does our releases now"

sudhirj — Mon, 26 May 2025 07:21:04 +0000

Please ask the agent to help write a workflow script (GitHub Actions yaml or makefile or similar) instead of using it as a runner - if you do that the release pipeline changes with each execution. You do not want a non deterministic release pipeline that's mostly correct. You want one that's checked in to version control and always does exactly the same thing, with all logs and artefacts recorded.

By all means use whatever AI agent you have to help set that up.

New comment by sudhirj in "No Pay, No Work; Early Career Lessons"

sudhirj — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 09:34:06 +0000

Well yes. With the possibility of high upside also comes a chance of a downside.

New comment by sudhirj in "Anno 1800: Shadows of Beauty"

sudhirj — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:42:27 +0000

It depends on your perspective. If you internalize God mode, where you spin your disk world while leaving the sun in place, it's very intuitive.

New comment by sudhirj in "We were wrong about GPUs"

sudhirj — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:07:30 +0000

This is context based dichotomy, not a person-based one.

In my personal life, I’m curiosity-oriented, so I put my blog, side projects and mom’s chocolate shop on fully self hosted VPSs.

At my job managing a team of 25 and servicing thousands of customers for millions in revenue, I’m very results-oriented. Anyone who tries to put a single line of code outside of a managed AWS service is going to be in a lot of trouble with me. In a results-oriented environment, I’m outsourcing a lot of devops work to AWS, and choosing to pay a premium because I need to use the people I hire to work on customer problems.

Trying to conflate the two orientations with mindsets / personality / experience levels is inaccurate. It’s all about context.

New comment by sudhirj in "I live my life a quarter century at a time"

sudhirj — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 02:51:43 +0000

Old Hindu philosphies have a similar split.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%80%C5%9Brama_(stage)

0-25y grow and study

25-50y develop your household, your family, your community and gain wealth (non-extractive, provide value).

50y-75y hand over all worldly things to the next generation, advise, teach and help those around you. Focus on your spiritual enlightenment.

75y- renounce the world and disappear into the forest as a monk / hermit.

New comment by sudhirj in "Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated"

sudhirj — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:42:45 +0000

Not entirely. If a load balancer is set to buffer say 4kb of data all the time, your SSE is stuck until you close the connection.

I think there is a HTTP/2 flush instruction, but no load balancer is obligated to handle it and your SSE library might not be flushing anyway.

New comment by sudhirj in "Thruster – HTTP/2 proxy for Rails apps with built-in Let's Encrypt and caching"

sudhirj — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:39:20 +0000

Nothing this does that Caddy can’t do, but Thruster is more the omakase type thing. It’s set up to automatically handle one scenario very well - a single server rails app running defaults. If you have a single server rails app running defaults, this is actually shows up automatically in the automatically generated Dockerfile.

New comment by sudhirj in "macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time"

sudhirj — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:34:18 +0000

Why, wasn’t The Martian an example of hard sci-fi, a story that conforms strongly to the known laws of physics? Not necessarily probability, economics or politics, but hard sci-fi is written to be plausible.

New comment by sudhirj in "Advanced Civilizations Could Be Indistinguishable from Nature"

sudhirj — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 02:40:36 +0000

We’re not considering the possibility that most civilizations will consider progress to be a move to a utopian state of living in harmony with nature, with buried machines. Not paving the planet and the sun with solar panels.

New comment by sudhirj in "Advanced Civilizations Could Be Indistinguishable from Nature"

sudhirj — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 02:38:18 +0000

A lot of sci-fi already makes this premise. The bright future is not one of concrete and metal, it’s sunsets and trees and lakes tended to by invisible robots, with all the ugly machines, generators and data centres buried deep in rock.

New comment by sudhirj in "In Search of a Faster SQLite"

sudhirj — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:58:37 +0000

I would assume so, the extreme case being just one key, which of course has only one partition. But see https://youtu.be/NXehLy7IiPM (2024 Reinvent S3 deep dive) - there’s still replication happening on single objects. So it’s still sort of sharded, but I do think key partitions where groups of keys have shared choke points based on sort order exist.

New comment by sudhirj in "In Search of a Faster SQLite"

sudhirj — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 04:41:51 +0000

I asked the S3 team what “prefix” meant at reinvent, and my current understanding is “whatever starting length of key gives a reasonable cardinality for your objects”.

So if your keys are 2024/12/03/22-45:24 etc, I would expect the prefix to be first 7 characters. If your keys are UUIDs I’d assume first two or three. For ULIDs I’d assume first 10. I this there’s a function that does stat analysis on key samples to figure out reasonable sharding.

New comment by sudhirj in "S3 Express Append has issues"

sudhirj — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 19:08:37 +0000

Ok, S3 is not a file system replacement. Trying to fit a square peg into a round hole and claiming there are “issues” with the peg is disingenuous.

S3 has and always will be object storage, that’s how it’s architected, and unless there’s a full rewrite, effectively making it something else, that’s not going to change.

Multipart upload is implemented as a grouping of a list of objects. This append operation is implemented the same way. It does share the name with the block storage append, but it’s a different use case.

Think of this as the objects being comprised as a list of sub objects, like a multipart upload. This feature allows you to add new sub-objects to the end of the list. Same rules continue to apply.

There are some cases where this is useful, like logs batched with Kinesis or any other batcher, live streaming, chunked video footage, etc. For those use cases it works fine. It’s not a file system.

New comment by sudhirj in "Hyrum's Law in Golang"

sudhirj — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:09:01 +0000

Weren’t there a couple of anecdotes where Windows couldn’t fix a bug because some popular game (maybe SimCity?) depended on it, so the devs hardcoded a SimCity check inside Windows and made the bug happen if it was running?

New comment by sudhirj in "Electromagnetic coil gun seized in Japan"

sudhirj — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:56:46 +0000

“The killing power is the electromagnetic gun, the gun is held by the gun, the gun is held by the gun, and the 29-year-old blunderbuss is used to tolerate the suspect. The Suspicious Person is produced and written by the anime and distributed by the anime and distributed by the public.”

Yeah, we have a long way to go with translations.

New comment by sudhirj in "Real GDP (purchasing power parity)"

sudhirj — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 18:23:40 +0000

When talking about currencies being over or under valued, we're usually not referring to the value of 1 unit of each currency being equal, more the exchange rates themselves. See the Big Mac index for example, for a real life illustration. You can buy a Big Mac in the US for $X, and a Big Mac in India for INR Y, but $X doesn't necessarily buy you exactly INR Y in the market right now. Might buy you more or less, and if you're using the Big Mac as a standard you would say one of the currencies is over or under valued.