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dardeaup commented on Ask HN: Best Marketplaces for Used Servers?    · Posted by u/bloudermilk
leakycap · 7 hours ago
Likely craigslist unless you're willing to make some local connections.

Be aware this equipment is not pleasant to be around (loud, hot)

Server hardware is too heavy/bulky to be able to support a big online marketplace. Your best bet is to identify the type of organizations that buy the server hardware you want to buy used and find out how they get rid of their excess.

I've gotten a handful of free server equipment (no drives) by being willing to show up and take whatever is being offered.

dardeaup · 4 hours ago
This part is worth repeating:

Be aware this equipment is not pleasant to be around (loud, hot)

dardeaup commented on Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers   github.com/cvilsmeier/go-... · Posted by u/cvilsmeier
Mawr · 3 days ago
Nit: "For benchmarks I used the following libraries: <snip>". This is begging to be a table.
dardeaup · 2 days ago
I had the same thought. A table indeed!
dardeaup commented on Go is still not good   blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go... · Posted by u/ustad
thiht · 3 days ago
Where's Pascal today?
dardeaup · 3 days ago
Ouch!! Pascal's lack of popularity certainly isn't due to the fact that it supports such nice enumerated types (or sets for that matter). I think he was just pointing out that such nice things have existed (and been known to exist) for a long time and that it's odd that a new language couldn't have borrowed the feature.
dardeaup commented on Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever   mavericksforever.com/... · Posted by u/Wowfunhappy
carlosjobim · 3 days ago
Aren't there old versions of those browsers?
dardeaup · 3 days ago
Sure there are but running older browsers is a security risk. The older it is the more vulnerable it is.
dardeaup commented on JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language   infoworld.com/article/402... · Posted by u/pjmlp
tracker1 · 10 days ago
I was thinking about Delphi myself.
dardeaup · 10 days ago
Yeah, I think that JetBrains might be able to do some really cool stuff with Object Pascal. I don't know if they have the chops to take on cross-platform UI like what Lazarus did with LCL, but it would be awesome.
dardeaup commented on CPS investigated her 4 times because she let her kids play outside   reason.com/2025/08/09/chi... · Posted by u/leephillips
dardeaup · 14 days ago
It seems the CPS folks need to dial down their knee-jerk reactions a bit. Some people will still complain to them with both legitimate and non-legitimate claims. CPS folks need some training on knowing the difference.
dardeaup commented on Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers   ergaster.org/posts/2025/0... · Posted by u/JNRowe
mvanbaak · 17 days ago
totally agree. That's why my homelab storage server(s) are 2nd hand enterprise machines. They come with ECC.
dardeaup · 17 days ago
True! Unfortunately, an enterprise machine is more likely to have considerable power draw and quite possibly be much louder. I have a 2013 Apple Mac Pro (trashcan) that uses ECC. They're also cheap, small, and quiet.
dardeaup commented on Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers   ergaster.org/posts/2025/0... · Posted by u/JNRowe
yamapikarya · 17 days ago
i bought dell wyse 5070 for building talos cluster using proxmox. pretty great and you can upgrade ram to 32gb
dardeaup · 17 days ago
The published technical specs indicate that the maximum RAM is 16gb (2x 8gb).

https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/pl-pl/products/thin-c...

Have you tried it with 32gb? If so, was this 2x 16gb or 1x 32gb?

dardeaup commented on SimpleW – Web Server Library .NET Core   github.com/stratdev3/Simp... · Posted by u/prodbro
prodbro · 19 days ago
> I hate when someone's software advertises itself as 'blazingly fast' and then provides NO DATA to back up the claim

agree, that's why there is a performance benchmark at https://stratdev3.github.io/SimpleW/guide/performances.html with code as you can reproduce at your own.

i'm adding other tests, more complete than the hello world one.

dardeaup · 19 days ago
Cool! Please add link to that page from your github project's main page.
dardeaup commented on SimpleW – Web Server Library .NET Core   github.com/stratdev3/Simp... · Posted by u/prodbro
sltr · 20 days ago
The library's tagline says "Powerfully Simple. Blazingly Fast." So there. ::folds arms::

Joking aside, I do agree that ASP.NET Core is a behemoth. On .NET 9, I just now did `dotnet new webapi` followed by `dotnet publish --self-contained -p:PublishSingleFile=true` and the binary is 103MB. That would blow up the size of a mobile app considerably, just to listen to HTTP.

There a separate use case that SimpleW won't solve: When you're on a platform that .NET Core doesn't support, like Raspberry Pi Zero (armv7l). In this case all you have is the mono framework and binding to raw ports.

dardeaup · 19 days ago
I hate when someone's software advertises itself as 'blazingly fast' and then provides NO DATA to back up the claim. It's possible that it really is blazingly fast, but to make the claim and provide no data is sad. In God we trust - all others please bring data.

u/dardeaup

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