Readit Newsgoliatone commented on WebAssembly: TinyGo vs. Rust vs. AssemblyScript ecostack.dev/posts/wasm-t... · Posted by u/buradol
OT but I’ve been working with WASM and TinyGo and hit an unexpected roadblock: TinyGo lacks JSON support (because the native go implementation uses reflection).
That meant that I couldn’t find a way to serialize structs between host and WASM compiled functions/modules.
The initial implementation of what I wanted to do took me half an hour. Trying and testing serialization libraries (JSON, protobuf, msgpack) took me four days and couldn’t find one that worked (working on a apple M1 made things more complicated). The one left to try is karmem but I just had to move on and be productive.
I used goja instead to get unstuck but now I want to find a working solution :)
goliatone commented on Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend arnoldgalovics.com/micros... · Posted by u/galovics
Often with monoliths, once they go into production service at scale, the deployment can be "3 days, arranged 4 weeks in advance, requiring 9 sign offs including one VP"
I would call that a megalith, and not to be cute but to give a sense of scale which is useful. I think there is a point in which a monolith grows so big that is painfully obvious that size became an obstacle greater than the benefits.
Pain tolerance differs so the label gets applied at different sized monoliths.
A few weeks ago, somebody on HN referenced a name for that generically-friendly, ubiquitous style of web art. It's driving me nuts that I can't recall it.
I vaguely recall that it was of a form like [Adjective] [City], where [City] was something kind of unexpected (having to do with some art movement in the past).
Corporate Memphis :)
goliatone commented on LaMDA: Google's New Conversation Technology blog.google/technology/ai... · Posted by u/rnd2
I came here to point this out - this is how people from California communicate. They simply take turns talking about themselves, orbiting around the same subject until somebody says something with enough gravity to drag the conversation into its next orbit. It was really off-putting when I first arrived, I got used to it over time, though I still don't like it and it's sad to see it used as the default model for this type of application.
California is Borg. All will be assimilated.
I often interpreted this as a conservative interpersonal communicative approach. It is safer to talk about yourself than to ask questions from people because there risk of inadvertently saying something offensive.
Sure, you will find people that are a bit more self absorbed and would just pong about themselves.
But there are so many conversational constraints- asking “why” is aggressive, direct feedback is discouraged, slipping pronouns or other identity traits is a minefield, etc. You should not follow up when others say something because they were being polite and you’re putting them in evidence…
If you get to engaged in a conversation people can feel weirded out, like you’re supposed to go through the motions but that’s it.
Not talking also can get you in trouble.
Talking about yourself is probably the safest thing to do.
PlatformIO is super hard to install.
I really don't get why developers spend so much time developing some really great piece of software and then just make the install a really horrible experience. The last mile of software development, the install processes, needs to be unremarkable and boring.
I only used the VScode extension and is great. Except that it modifies the whole interface so I have two IDE instances one for with platformio and one without. It even encouraged me to write test for my arduino projects
goliatone commented on Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today? · Posted by u/philippb
MinIO is an option as well and would allow you to transition from testing in S3 to your own MinIO cluster seamlessly.
I wonder if anyone can comment if they have experience running minio at scale. It would be a pleasant surprise if a “simple” minio cluster could handle such workload
goliatone commented on Prisma – ORM for Node.js and TypeScript prisma.io/blog/prisma-the... · Posted by u/janpio
We've explained this in the blog post here: https://www.prisma.io/blog/prisma-the-complete-orm-inw24qjea...
I think this quote summarizes our plans nicely: Prisma's vision is to democratize the custom data access layer used by companies like Facebook, Twitter and Airbnb and make it available to development teams and organizations of all sizes.
The open-source ORM we're launching today will of course remain open-source and we'll keep investing into it since it's be the foundation for the commercial tools that folks will be able to use on top.
How does “democratize the custom data access layer” make money?
The framework provides a clean way to define expectations and to produce data that can then be visualized in grafana.
https://k6.io/