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rswskg commented on Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets   inferable.ai/blog/posts/p... · Posted by u/lunarcave
whoknowsidont · a year ago
>Given the author mentions C# is part of their stack I don't know why they didn't mention signalr or use that instead of rolling their own solution.

Not saying this is why but SignalR is notoriously buggy. I've never seen a real production instance that didn't have issues. I say that as someone who probably did one of the first real world, large scale roll outs of SignalR about a decade ago.

rswskg · a year ago
I believe it's changed alot since then? I was abit cynical of it from that initial experience but recent usage of it made it seem reliable and scalable.
rswskg commented on New study shows: EV batteries last much longer than expected   electrive.com/2024/11/24/... · Posted by u/kungfudoi
Tostino · a year ago
Their hydrogen obsession has set the world back decades.
rswskg · a year ago
How?
rswskg commented on Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X   theguardian.com/media/202... · Posted by u/Jimmc414
MrSkelter · a year ago
This is incorrect. The example you give is perfect. Twitters community notes reflect the received wisdom of a mob. Not the truth. They stand when the Twitter user base thinks they should.

As a right wing hub they oppose realities which don’t fit their world view.

Using the example you linked there is a long documented history of minorities in the Uk, including the Irish, being treated much more harshly by British police. Stop and search laws and multiple incidents of innocent people being framed for crimes.

The rights which to pretend this is targeted at the white majority, simply because multiply convicted criminals like Tommy Robinson are being jailed, is a myth.

No British policeman can stop you on the street by psychically intuiting your political views. They can stop you if you are breaking windows, chanting slogans, or have a different skin color.

The Guardian publishing real journalism (the paper has broken more significant news stories in recent decades than any other British outlet) into a toilet of right wing opinion doesn’t make sense.

As there is no way to rebut a community note the last word is always with the mob.

rswskg · a year ago
', or have a different skin color.'.

Really?

rswskg commented on Study reveals blood sugar control is a key factor in slowing brain aging   bgu.ac.il/en/news-and-art... · Posted by u/gnabgib
thepuglor · a year ago
In the study they use Mankai Duckweed, which is a proprietary strand of Duckweed that is no longer sold to consumers as of 2022 or so. The corporate website still has an intake form for distributors and restaurants/businesses.

Studies that use proprietary plants are always suspicious to me.

rswskg · a year ago
Yeah agreed, this feels like an advert
rswskg commented on $1B Solar and Battery Storage Project Breaks Ground in Utah   electrek.co/2024/09/23/a-... · Posted by u/m463
energy123 · a year ago
Battery storage doesn't need to be cheaper than nuclear on a kWh vs kWh basis, because you only need about 5 hours storage to get to 98% renewables.

The combination of solar and wind and battery storage needs to be cheaper, and it is. The CSIRO, who factored in all costs on both sides, found that it's about 50% of the price of new nuclear in Australia. This conclusion may vary in places with less sun or an existing nuclear industry with a track record of building cheap plants quickly.

Note also that a nuclear grid will also need battery storage because demand itself is variable. Unless you overbuild nuclear and run at a low capacity factor, but that carries with it its own additional costs.

rswskg · a year ago
Overbuilding nuclear and diverting the excess in liquid hydrocarbon synthesis would be a great way to do things.
rswskg commented on Six Ideas for Poland   noahpinion.blog/p/six-ide... · Posted by u/paulpauper
brnt · a year ago
UKians don't like to hear this, but from a Dutch perspective it is really a notch below the rest of Western Europe. Most Dutch people experience underdevelopment when they go south in certain parts of France, but these regions are generally rural and remote-ish. In the UK major road connections are ungraded, narrow roads occasionally still going through town centers,; French departmental route level if you are lucky. On British highways, you will just suddenly drive into a roundabout...

Time stood still. It reminds me of eastern Europe pre-EU.

rswskg · a year ago
No british motorway has a roundabout on it. A road's yes. Same as in france.
rswskg commented on Closing factories will not be enough to save Volkswagen   economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/doener
lpcvoid · a year ago
Why do you think that nuclear energy, requiring Uranium, a resource that again has to be bought from another country (a lot of the supply comes from Autocracies), is the better alternative to renewable energies?

Edit: And moving away from russian energy is the best thing Germany did since the Berlin wall fell.

rswskg · a year ago
Until storage is solved (and it might not ever be), then nuclear is excellent for base load. Germany lacks coast line for wind and is in northern europe. Nuclear is ideal for them.
rswskg commented on She Ate Poppy Seed Salad Just Before Giving Birth. Then They Took Her Baby Away   motherjones.com/criminal-... · Posted by u/stareatgoats
aaomidi · a year ago
Why the fuck are they drug testing?

Fuck this shit. Hospitals aren’t police.

rswskg · a year ago
Do you understand the effect they have on unborn children?
rswskg commented on Show HN: Feature Flags Backed by Git   flipt.io/... · Posted by u/bullcitydev
GeorgeMac · a year ago
On this, we support publishing the state to object storage (S3, Azure, GCS) and to OCI as well in Flipt.

Flipt Open-Source can be run to consume from these locations. You can go as far as configuring a workflow to publish on push, so that you can combine our managed UI with any of these distributions methods through Git.

With any of these backends (including Git), we periodically fetch and cache data in-memory. Evaluations work on an in-mem snapshot. So temporary downtime doesn't propagate into your applications being unable to get flag evaluations.

rswskg · a year ago
Caching in this scenario isn't something I'd lean on unless you can invalidate or repopulate easily. I've used etcd in a feature flag scenario due to the speed of it's replication and it's ability to queried frequently without the need for caching.
rswskg commented on Show HN: Feature Flags Backed by Git   flipt.io/... · Posted by u/bullcitydev
varun_chopra · a year ago
This post comes at a great time! I've been wondering what folks prefer - git or DB backed configs and feature flags. How do you decide to go with one or the other?

What do you guys do when GitHub inevitably has an outage?

rswskg · a year ago
I worked with a mesos config app, backed by git. Watching the whole go down when github died resolved none of us to ever trust it again for that sort of role.

Use s3. Honestly.

u/rswskg

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