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New comment by zipmapfoldright in "Reduce bandwidth costs with dm-cache: fast local SSD caching for network storage"

zipmapfoldright — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 08:50:26 +0000

Google's L4 cache? https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer...

New comment by zipmapfoldright in "Mary Meeker's first Trends report since 2019, focused on AI"

zipmapfoldright — Sat, 31 May 2025 10:44:14 +0000

Am I in the minority that finds these slides hard to parse?

One stylistic quirk is its liberal use of `=` and `+` for things that aren't equivalence or summation, which keeps throwing me off.

Does she ever do a presentation of these, talking through / commentary on the slides? If a recording of that, I'd 100% clear half a day's worth of meetings to watch it.

New comment by zipmapfoldright in "Google is winning on every AI front"

zipmapfoldright — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:02:43 +0000

what we need is not more regulation

New comment by zipmapfoldright in "An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip"

zipmapfoldright — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 09:50:47 +0000

I think of a lot of thing in terms of distributions, and I think the how-much-people-value-quality distribution is not that much different.

On the right side, you have the minority of connoisseurs. And on the left, there is a minority who really don't care at all. And then the middle majority who can tell bad from good, but not good from great.

New comment by zipmapfoldright in "An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip"

zipmapfoldright — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 09:12:11 +0000

anyone _can_ see it, but _most_ people don't (and don't care)

To be clear, I am not saying it's not valuable, only that to the vast majority, it's not.

New comment by zipmapfoldright in "Ask HN: What are your Favorite Things? (2024)"

zipmapfoldright — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:43:08 +0000

Curious what desktop speakers you are using? I'm in the market for a set.

New comment by zipmapfoldright in "Coffee prices: Analysts warn it may take years for the rally to fade"

zipmapfoldright — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:40:20 +0000

My first thought was: I wonder if this will have a knock on effect of coffee shops and cafes going out of business.

But then I remembered that the price of coffee is probably just a small fraction of their running costs.

New comment by zipmapfoldright in "Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties"

zipmapfoldright — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 23:36:57 +0000

Sweet setup! I'm curious if you use the machines for anything when it isn't being used for a LAN party.

New comment by zipmapfoldright in "IMG_0416"

zipmapfoldright — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:27:36 +0000

what's the default though? defaults matter, most people don't change them.

The Real State of VR (and the long game) [video]

zipmapfoldright — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:40:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JcRXUWA_s0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42059646

Points: 2

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New comment by zipmapfoldright in "Accident Forgiveness"

zipmapfoldright — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 23:03:47 +0000

This is absolutely not true. Customers regularly shift spends in the >= 7-digit between cloud providers. Yes, it takes planning, and it takes many engineer-months of work, but it definitely happens.

And also factor in (1) the claim that most cloud growth is ahead of us, eg. moving large customers from on-prem to cloud, and (2) it would be terrible policy to try to charge existing customers more than new customers.

New comment by zipmapfoldright in "My IRC client runs on Kubernetes"

zipmapfoldright — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 22:56:19 +0000

TIL about Talos (https://github.com/siderolabs/talos, via your github/onedr0p/cluster-template link). I'd been previously running k3s cluster on a mixture of x86 and ARM (RPi) nodes, and frankly it was a bit of a PiTA to maintain.

New comment by zipmapfoldright in "My IRC client runs on Kubernetes"

zipmapfoldright — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 22:51:46 +0000

That's the same with.. the Linux kernel? I'd wager that most services people write have less complexity than the the kernel it runs on. We choose to do that not because we need its full feature set, but because it gives us useful abstractions.

New comment by zipmapfoldright in "Dan Geer on CrowdStrike: It Is Time to Act"

zipmapfoldright — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 06:33:34 +0000

"We know that in a large system redundant components make intentional faults more likely to produce global faults."

This is... non-obvious to me. Anyone know what he means by this?