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gmmeyer commented on HubSpot Acquires Clearbit   hubspot.com/company-news/... · Posted by u/jcolman
jahewson · 2 years ago
No, nobody is interested in de-anonymising, it’s not useful. To target, say a car ad all that is needed is to know that cookie 1234 is interested in buying a sports car, and when that cookie is encountered, serve it a sports car ad.
gmmeyer · 2 years ago
It's very useful for b2b people to know who is looking at your website and who might be good targets to reach out to. Knowing that Steve the SVP at Databricks is looking at your website vs cookie 1234 is a pretty key differentiator
gmmeyer commented on Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as previously believed   phys.org/news/2023-07-age... · Posted by u/hsnewman
kleene_op · 2 years ago
IANAP, but as a mathematician it seems extremely inelegant that there would be a start to the time dimension of the space-time object we live in, when we don't even know if the spatial dimensions are finite themselves.

It is my understanding that the density of the universe billions of years ago was radically different from the one we now observe, and since density is intrinsically tied to our perception of space and time, wouldn't it make more sense that time actually stretches infinitely the further back we go, thus nullifying the concept of a beginning?

I guess I'm having a hard time with the idea that space-time could be discontinuous.

gmmeyer · 2 years ago
The question is "how long has it been since the big bang." It's an important and relevant question for cosmology and physics. It isn't really a stance on the "beginning of time," which may have started long before this moment, but it is the start of the universe as far as physics is concerned.
gmmeyer commented on A not so unfortunate sharp edge in Pipenv   0xda.de/blog/2022/12/a-no... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
aniforprez · 3 years ago
I genuinely don't understand how someone can be a "proponent" of pipenv. In the mangled space of python package maintenance, pipenv is probably the absolute worst solution

- pipenv install updates your lockfile on install exactly like how `npm install` updates the package-lock.json and requires additional flags to use the lockfile instead

- pipenv's dependency resolution is the slowest among all the tools in this space including poetry, pip-tools, hatch and so on

- pipenv has consistently failed to do its job to simply install dependencies because of issues like the one described in the article where it fails to resolve changes in hash simply because a new wheel was added for the platform

- Tons of longstanding bugs that fail to be resolved in any sort of timely manner like this one: https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues/2413

I am sick and tired of the python packaging space pushing this godawful tool for Python. Please just use pip-tools or poetry instead.

gmmeyer · 3 years ago
Every solution in the space is bad and it's a wonder that any python software is maintainable and I think the only real answer is everyone gets fucked all the time with these bugs and rough edges

I say this as someone who has done an unfortunately large amount of work in the python packaging and python package distribution space and still get bitten every few months

gmmeyer commented on Pitchfork: Rack HTTP server for shared-nothing architecture   github.com/Shopify/pitchf... · Posted by u/bkudria
skrtskrt · 3 years ago
I have now worked at several significantly-sized companies that ripped Ruby out of everything as they scaled, usually replaced with Go, though none as large as Shopify.

I wonder what that financial calculus looks like between these options for a large organization:

1. trying to basically reinvent the workings of an entire programming language and migrate your Ruby apps to these new tools/runtimes/typecheckers/whatever

2. incrementally rewriting critical paths to something more performant (Go/Rust) & just throwing more servers at the Ruby stuff you haven't managed to replace yet.

gmmeyer · 3 years ago
My personal experience is that the bulk of the time these rewrites don't end up delivering the performance increases that people expect because they don't really understand what's making the prior system slow and don't develop good enough requirements

This is not saying you shouldn't, it doesn't really matter to me. But I think a lot of the time this is driven by engineers who feel like they need to do this rather than a financial decision to save money

gmmeyer commented on LastPass confirms hackers had access to internal systems for several days   techradar.com/news/lastpa... · Posted by u/mikece
dingosity · 3 years ago
Isn't this sort of the opposite of what you want happening?
gmmeyer · 3 years ago
You don't wanna get hacked but basically everyone gets hacked, so it's more of a question of "how well does your security and monitoring stand up to hacking?"

The big red flag here is that they didn't catch it for so long! How did they not notice?

gmmeyer commented on The best and worst of 1994 and predictions for '95   panix.com/~kgreenb/iw/bwv... · Posted by u/miniatureape
quickthrower2 · 3 years ago
I miss /~username/ urls.

Also that HTML!

    <html>
    <BASE HREF=http://www.mecklerweb.com/mags/iw/v6n1/feat26.htm>
    
    <TITLE>v6n1 January 1995 Best and Worst</TITLE>
    
    <H1>The Best and Worst of 1994 and 
    
    Predictions for '95</H1>
    
    <I>by Eric Berlin</I><P><I>
    
    </I><HR>
...

No </P>'s to be found :-)

gmmeyer · 3 years ago
it's funny that web browsers parse Ps in there
gmmeyer commented on FOMO is disastrous for company strategies   rubenugarte.com/fomo-is-d... · Posted by u/rubenugarte
Linosaurus · 3 years ago
Meta recently announced a $100 price increase. So they are able to increase prices without lowered supply. It's not entirely clear why but fits the pattern of popular -> price goes up.
gmmeyer · 3 years ago
that is not the part of the parent comment I’m taking issue with though!
gmmeyer commented on FOMO is disastrous for company strategies   rubenugarte.com/fomo-is-d... · Posted by u/rubenugarte
Animats · 3 years ago
The other side of FOMO is appearing as the US transitions to a shortage economy, like the former Soviet Union. It used to be that if something was popular, more of it would be made, and then the price would go down. Now, if something is popular, the seller is likely to restrict the supply to push the price and margins up. Buy now, while you still can.

Cars. Houses. AWS S3 space. Meta's VR headgear. Meat. Most of the toiletries and drugs CVS and Walgreens sell.

gmmeyer · 3 years ago
I can just go buy a meta headset on their store, it's been that way a while I dunno if I would say there's a shortage there lol

Other headsets are more difficult to buy yea but the meta one is very much available

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gmmeyer commented on Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed   legiblenews.com/speed... · Posted by u/bradgessler
bradgessler · 3 years ago
Yeah I was surprised by this too because their total page payload is pretty light, but I ran the test a few times and it hovered around in the 40's. They're doing something wrong with their JS or their ad-auctioning script takes way too long.

Details at https://legiblenews.com/speed/websites/drudge-report and of course you can run it yourself and dig in at https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrudgerep...

If you look at it in your own browser, be sure to turn off your ad-blockers. Pretty zippy when you do that.

gmmeyer · 3 years ago
I think it's a bug when I visit drudge in the browser it extremely does not take 7 seconds until it's interactive

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