Romario77 (u/Romario77)

Romario77 commented on IBM to acquire Confluent confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-... · Posted by u/abd12

spyspy · 7 days ago

I'm still convinced the vast majority of kafka implementations could be replaced with `SELECT * FROM mytable ORDER BY timestamp ASC`

Romario77 · 7 days ago

pull vs push. Plus if you start storing the last timestamp so you only select the delta and if you start sharding your db and dealing with complexities of having different time on different tables/replication issues it quickly becomes evident that Kafka is better in this regard.

But yeah, for a lot of implementations you don't need streaming. But for pull based apps you design your architecture differently, some things are a lot easier than it is with DB, some things are harder.

Romario77 commented on IBM to acquire Confluent confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-... · Posted by u/abd12

gnatman · 7 days ago

Pretty bleak, and describes my experience to a T (although involving other companies). Has there ever been an example where a company has been acquired and culture/morale/conditions have actually improved rather than dissolved?

Romario77 · 7 days ago

I wouldn't describe it as improved necessarily, but successfully integrated. This happened many times - youtube by google for example. Facebook acquisitions are pretty successful too (not looking if it was good for humanity, just from business perspective).

Some companies like Amazon buy companies and let them run almost independently - IMDB for example, Zappos, Twitch, Whole Foods, Zoox, Audible.

Romario77 commented on Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop tinycorelinux.net/... · Posted by u/LorenDB

noufalibrahim · 9 days ago

In around 2002, I got my hands on an old 386 which I was planning to use for teaching myself things. I was able to breathe life into it using MicroLinux. Two superformatted 1.44" floppy disks and the thing booted. Basic kernel, 16 colour X display, C compiler and Editor.

I don't know if there are any other options for older machines other than stripped down Linux distros.

Romario77 · 9 days ago

I mean - DOS or it's equivalents still exist and for older computers you will probably be able to find drivers.

Romario77 commented on Ghostty is now non-profit mitchellh.com/writing/gho... · Posted by u/vrnvu

losvedir · 12 days ago

Ha. That counts the cents, though, I assume? I didn't think Hashicorp was that big, right?

Romario77 · 12 days ago

Hashicorp was sold for 6.5B to IBM.

Another thing - when it went public it was valued at 13B and Hashimoto owned 8.5% of it according to the filing.

So, depending on when he sold or converted his shares it is pretty plausible that he got a billion.

Romario77 commented on “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill nber.org/papers/w34524... · Posted by u/mhb

stevenjgarner · 12 days ago

Great intention, but too simplistic. The lawmaker has a third party set up a trust for the benefit of his children and the trust owns a company in yet another jurisdiction that just happens to not only take a position in a certain stock, but probably provides "consulting services" for a healthy fee. And that is the simple version. By the time the lawmaker's interest is fully obfuscated, the legal structure is fully compliant with every letter of the law, just not the intention. Better to have fewer laws that are actually enforceable.

Romario77 · 12 days ago

There are already insider trading laws which almost everyone has to comply with, congress people being an exception. They specifically allow insider trading for themselves while prohibiting it for everyone else.

If you work in a financial company which does trading often times you are very restricted in what you could do. You also have to report all of your accounts plus close relatives accounts.

And if you have an insider info and give it to someone else, no matter how remote from you it's still against the law to trade based on that and it's not "fully compliant with every letter of the law"

Romario77 commented on Gemini 3 blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/preek

sd9 · a month ago

How long does it typically take after this to become available on https://gemini.google.com/app ?

I would like to try the model, wondering if it's worth setting up billing or waiting. At the moment trying to use it in AI Studio (on the Free tier) just gives me "Failed to generate content, quota exceeded: you have reached the limit of requests today for this model. Please try again tomorrow."

Romario77 · a month ago

It's available in cursor. Should be there pretty soon as well.

Romario77 commented on Zed is our office zed.dev/blog/zed-is-our-o... · Posted by u/sagacity

jes5199 · a month ago

I could imagine that in ten years git will feel strangely slow and ceremonial. Why not just continuously work and continuously deploy live-edited software

Romario77 · a month ago

it doesn't work quite well for complex projects that require integration with other teams/software.

You would need to either have separate versions running at the same time or never do breaking changes or devise some other approach that makes it possible.

It's not always feasible to do it this way

Romario77 commented on Solarpunk is happening in Africa climatedrift.substack.com... · Posted by u/JoiDegn

wlesieutre · a month ago

I don't get how it makes this jump

> Then $40-65/month over 24-30 months

> replacing $3-5/week kerosene spending with a $0.21/day solar subscription (so with $1.5 per week half the price of kerosene)" in the next paragraph.

If it's $40-65/month that's $1.33 to $2.17 per day, not $0.21/day (assuming month with 30 days)

Romario77 · a month ago

It's an AI generated article full of errors. Simple arithmetic errors. Probably copied from a video or another article.

Romario77 commented on Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time agwa.name/blog/post/googl... · Posted by u/agwa

trubadors · a month ago

This is so true. That's why I always say it's better to choose smaller companies with whom you can still get in touch with a human being, not just a chat bot. I went with Tuta Mail and haven't looked back: quantum-safe encryption, no tracking, no ads. Plus, with my domain I can have as many aliases as I like.

Romario77 · a month ago

with smaller companies there is another problem - they get acquired and then you get the same deal.