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jacob-s-son commented on Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server   disco.cloud/blog/how-idea... · Posted by u/jryio
jacob-s-son · 2 months ago
It’s all fine and dandy, but I wonder why so little discussion around this (mainly high-level comments “DBs are hard”?

> disco provides a "good enough" Postgres addon.

> This addon is a great way to quickly setup a database when Postgres is not mission critical to your system. If you need any non-basic features, like replication, automatic failover, monitoring, automatic backups and restore, etc. you should consider using a managed Postgres provider, such as Neon or Supabase.

How come automatic backups is considered an “advanced” feature?

Also I can’t think of a single application since 2012 that I have worked on that did not have a secondary/follower instance deployed. Also suggesting Neon and friends is fine, but I wonder what is your average latency, Hetzner does not have direct connection to the DCs these databases are hosted.

jacob-s-son commented on The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: Science and Sacrifice in a City Under Siege   lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n... · Posted by u/mitchbob
jacob-s-son · 10 months ago
My great-grandfather was wounded during WW2 and after lengthy rehabilitation his command reassigned him from active combat duty to Ladoga’s “road of life”. The trucks would routinely attempt to cross the lake during winter with canned goods and were regularly blown up or sunken through the cracked ice. My great-grandfather was a trained diver, his task was to pull up crates from sunken trucks. So there definitely were attempts to deliver food. You talk about how easy it could have been to supply the city given the intent, but I encourage you to read how hunger stroked has been Gaza in the past year. And they were not surrounded by Nazis, who would indiscriminately blow up to pieces any approaching vehicle.
jacob-s-son commented on Tolkien's Paintings   tolkienestate.com/paintin... · Posted by u/mhb
jacob-s-son · 4 years ago
As Lion Feuchtwanger put it: "Talented person is talented everywhere."
jacob-s-son commented on Microsoft Officially Launches Azure Machine Learning Platform   techcrunch.com/2015/02/18... · Posted by u/claytheboss
jacob-s-son · 11 years ago
I'd prefer them improving UI allowing such simple things in browser as root shell to Linux VM. Otherwise you can kill hour or two trying to reset password that ex-colleague forgot to pass you. Sometimes you can't do it at all, without contacting support .....

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KarmaCake day9February 19, 2015View Original