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apayan commented on Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack justfuckingusecloudflare.... · Posted by u/MyNameIsTito

mgaunard · 4 days ago

That's Milan to Amsterdam though. Aren't there some mechanisms to have a handoff as close to Milan as possible?

I was pretty sure there was a way to have something that's just a fixed cost, maybe with a partner third party service.

apayan · 4 days ago

Yeah, you're right. A direct connect in Milan at Equinix ML2 is $2.48/port-hour.

> "description": "$2.48 per connected HC-10G port-hour (or partial hour) (EU (Milan), Equinix ML2, Milano, Italy)"

https://gist.github.com/arashpayan/b115e834191fbc89ac1bc1cdc...

apayan commented on Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack justfuckingusecloudflare.... · Posted by u/MyNameIsTito

mgaunard · 5 days ago

To my knowledge direct connect is a fixed cost, as is running your own dedicated infrastructure, so you don't pay for bandwidth.

apayan · 4 days ago

I just pulled the DirectConnect prices from the AWS API, and I think there is still a per/GB charge. Here's a description of a random direct connect point in Amsterdam (Equinix AM3). https://gist.github.com/arashpayan/a91c46c3787ac610e7884b77b...

If I'm reading the description correctly, egress from there is 2 cents/GB, while the regular price for egress (less than 10 TB) from eu-south-1 is 9 cents/GB.

apayan commented on Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack justfuckingusecloudflare.... · Posted by u/MyNameIsTito

mgaunard · 5 days ago

My understanding is that S3 egress is only a problem if you need to take data out of AWS, which you can simply avoid by having some kind of dedicated AWS direct connect or some such to route the traffic yourself?

apayan · 5 days ago

Connecting to an AWS egress point for direct connect reduces the egress price (about half) but doesn't eliminate it. It also costs thousands of dollars a month just to have the connection, so it's not great for small operations. :-/

apayan commented on GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders thegamer.com/gog-private-... · Posted by u/haunter

haunter · 2 months ago

Heroic is way easier to use imo, but both are good options https://heroicgameslauncher.com/

apayan · 2 months ago

I hadn't heard of Heroic before. I'll check it out. Thank you.

apayan commented on GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders thegamer.com/gog-private-... · Posted by u/haunter

branon · 2 months ago

I like GOG a lot but it's wild to me that their GOG Galaxy client doesn't work on Linux! A lot of gamers who care about preservation and availability are spending money with Valve because Steam's DRM is mostly inoffensive and the Linux support is so good.

The addressable market segment of people who play PC games and also care about DRM-free accessibility would be larger if GOG's launcher ran on Linux and targeted Linux users. It seems like a logical overlap to me.

Valve is eating GOG's lunch in this segment but it could easily change. Sure it might be small but it's bigger than ever, still growing, and seems to fit GOG's mission.

I would definitely start repurchasing my Steam games DRM-free on GOG if only they provided a launcher with the tooling necessary to download & run them on my system.

As things stand now, and for all the good GOG does... it's not enough to be DRM-free but only distribute Windows installers. You've just outsourced the DRM scheme to Microsoft. If the software doesn't run on a DRM-free OS, the job is only halfway done.

And in the meantime, GOG's product is tragically subject to piracy, (I believe) partially enabled by their decision to _only_ package games for the OS upon which most piracy traditionally takes place! :( I hope this could be offset by packaging for a crowd with more ideological overlap.

apayan · 2 months ago

I agree that GOG needs to port their client to Linux for all the reasons you stated, but as a workaround you can use Lutris which lets you log into your GOG account and download+install games (Windows games too).

It's not as pain free as Steam, because you sometimes still have to apply wine fixes, but it works well with the most popular games.

apayan commented on Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO deepmind.google/discover/... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

AlanYx · 5 months ago

IMO doesn't reuse problems, but Terence Tao has a Mastodon post where he explains that the first five (of six) problems are generally ones where existing techniques can be leveraged to get to the answer. The sixth problem requires considerable originality. Notably, both Gemini and OpenAI's model didn't get the sixth problem. Still quite an achievement though.

apayan · 5 months ago

Do you have another source for that? I checked his Mastodon feed and don't see any mention about the source of the questions from the IMO.

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao

apayan commented on Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020) cloud.google.com/blog/pro... · Posted by u/hui-zheng

nsonha · a year ago

> GraphQL is even better

just a casual sentence at the end? How about no. It's in the name, a query-oriented API, useless if you don't need flexible queries.

Why don't you address the problem they talked about, what is the cli tool I can use to test grpc, what about gui client?

apayan · a year ago

grpcurl is what I use to inspect gRPC apis.

https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl

apayan commented on DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/redm

scarface_74 · a year ago

Yes because government regulation of tech has been so successful in the past. Just look at how well the anti trust lawsuit against IBM went - that they later just dropped because it wasn’t relevant anymore - or the Microsoft lawsuit in 2000.

No there was never a browser choice mandate in the US

apayan · a year ago

I think the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit was neutered on purpose by the Bush administration.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2001/sep/07/microsoft...