If you are in an enterprise setting and you currently evaluate ArcGIS vs QGIS, pick QGIS and thank me later. ArcGIS Enterprise is a piece of software that feels straight out of the 90s and has no native linux binary (can be started with wine). It is expensive as hell and resource hungry.
Readit Newsrthnbgrredf commented on Oldest recorded transaction avi.im/blag/2025/oldest-t... · Posted by u/avinassh
> I call it rock solid durability.
Literally! But this is survivor bias: you only see a piece that remained intact for 5k years, and I bet 99% of them were eroded/destroyed over time.
While survivor bias is relevant, I strongly doubt any modern transaction stored digitally in a DB such as Postgres could last 5k years.
rthnbgrredf commented on Qwen3 30B A3B Hits 13 token/s on 4xRaspberry Pi 5 github.com/b4rtaz/distrib... · Posted by u/b4rtazz
Very impressive numbers.. wonder how this would scale on 4 relatively modern desktop PCs, like say something akin to a i5 8th Gen Lenovo ThinkCentre, these can be had for very cheap. But like @geerlingguy indicates - we need model compatibility to go up up up! As an example it would amazing to see something like fastsdcpu run distributed to democratize accessibility-to/practicality-of image gen models for people with limited budgets but large PC fleets ;)
I think it is all well and good, but the most affordable option is probably still to buy a used MacBook with 16/32 or 64 GB (depending on the budget) unified memory and install Asahi Linux for tinkering.
Graphics cards with decent amount of memory are still massively overpriced (even used), big, noisy and draw a lot of energy.
rthnbgrredf commented on Half an year on Alpine: just musl aside blog.jutty.dev/posts/half... · Posted by u/zdw
I think it could be worthwhile to fork Alpine and maintain a glibc variant. That way we would keep nearly all of Alpine’s advantages while avoiding the drawbacks of musl.
rthnbgrredf commented on Use One Big Server (2022) specbranch.com/posts/one-... · Posted by u/antov825
Bare-metal servers sound super cheap when you look at the price tag, and yeah, you get a lot of raw power for the money. But once you’re in an enterprise setup, the real cost isn’t the hardware at all, it’s the people needed to keep everything running.
If you go this route, you’ve got to build out your own stack for security, global delivery, databases, storage, orchestration, networking ... the whole deal. That means juggling a bunch of different tools, patching stuff, fixing breakage at 3 a.m., and scaling it all when things grow. Pretty soon you need way more engineers, and the “cheap” servers don’t feel so cheap anymore.
rthnbgrredf commented on Tetris is NP-hard even with O(1) rows or columns (2020) [pdf] martindemaine.org/papers/... · Posted by u/isaacfrond
I haven't thought that the game is actually that hard. However, Hateris actually is https://github.com/qntm/hatetris
rthnbgrredf commented on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use? · Posted by u/rickybule
In case known VPN providers are blocked you can pick a small VPS from a hoster like Hetzner and setup your own VPN.
Used ThinkPads from eBay, especially the smaller models from the X-Series, can make surprisingly cost effective "MiniPCs".
If you need multiple devices, as mentioned in the article, you can even stack the laptops and build a small tower of "MiniPCs" all with different purposes.
Another advantage is that they already come with a built-in screen and keyboard allowing for quick debugging, without needing to connect external peripherals.
Do you have a green filter on all of your images to make it look more creepy?
Now where ArcGIS enterprise succeeds is being in an actual enterprise (thousands of users), having groups collaborate, data control, and more. None of the enterprise-y bits exist.
And QGis is more akin to ArcGIS Pro, not Enterprise.
Now, yes, it is definitely resource hungry. And also, if you administer it, HA isn't really HA. Theres tons of footguns in how they implement HA that makes it a SPOF.
Also, for relevancy, I was the one who worked with one of their engineers and showed that WebAdapters (iis reverse proxy for AGE) could be installed multiply on the same machine, using SNI. 11.2 was the first to include my contribution to that.
Edit: gotta love the -1s. What do you all want? Screenshots of my account on my.esri.com? Pictures of Portal and the Linux console they're running on? The fact its 80% Apache Tomcat and Java, with the rest Python3? Or how about the 300 ish npm modules, 80 of which on the last security scan I did showed compromise?
Everything I said was completely true. This is what I'm paid to run. Can't say who, cause we can't edit posts after 1 or so hours.
I would LOVE to push FLOSS everywhere. QGIS would mostly replace ArcGIS Pro, with exception of things like Experience Builder and other weird vertical tools. But yeah. I know this industry. Even met Jack a few times.
I'm not saying that it can't run in Linux, I'm saying there is no native binary for Linux.
They have bash scripts that starts the windows executables in wine.
You can see that when you read the scripts or in htop.