You've just never played Factorio.
I have never played Factorio nor knew about it. It seems to be a very good game, thanks for the recommendation!
Readit Newssantiagobasulto commented on Good system design seangoedecke.com/good-sys... · Posted by u/dondraper36
santiagobasulto commented on Good system design seangoedecke.com/good-sys... · Posted by u/dondraper36
> I’m often alone on this. Engineers look at complex systems with many interesting parts and think “wow, a lot of system design is happening here!” In fact, a complex system usually reflects an absence of good design.
For any job-hunters, it's important you forget this during interviews.
In the past I've made the mistake of trying to convey this in system design interviews.
Some hypothetical startup app
> Interviewer: "Well what about backpressure?"
>"That's not really worth considering for this amount of QPS"
> Interviewer: "Why wouldn't you use a queue here instead of a cron job?"
> "I don't think it's necessary for what this app is, but here's the tradeoffs."
> Interviewer: "How would you choose between sql and nosql db?"
> "Doesn't matter much. Whatever the team has most expertise in"
These are not the answers they're looking for. You want to fill the whiteboard with boxes and arrows until it looks like you've got Kubernetes managing your Kubernetes.
I’ve been in software for 20 years and it’s the first time I hear “back pressure”. Am I too old already?
santiagobasulto commented on Court records reveal Sig Sauer knew of pistol risks for years smokinggun.org/court-reco... · Posted by u/eoskx
I don't know much about guns so maybe can help me understand. How is it possible that a holstered gun has pressure in the trigger in the first place? And also, shouldn't the safety always be on?
santiagobasulto commented on Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks blocked.org.uk/osa-blocks... · Posted by u/azalemeth
If I am right it is the opposite. It's because website owners block the UK IP addresses, as otherwise they could face criminal charges unless they buy an expensive compliance-as-a-service solution to check the age of all visitors and hire lawyers to craft "compliance policy" Ofcom can read. Otherwise you have a criminal liability.
Think it as a bit like GDPR but 1) much more expensive 2) with criminal liability 3) Makes even less sense than GDPR as it does nothing to prevent harm for minors 4) derimental for user experience and users.
"Funnily enough" the companies who lobbied for Online Safety Act, and former Ofcom employees, are now selling age verification check services and compliance services related to Online Safety Act. They have pretty good profit margins there, making even Google and Facebook look poor.
More here:
You are right, my bad.
santiagobasulto commented on Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks blocked.org.uk/osa-blocks... · Posted by u/azalemeth
EDIT: I was wrong in this comment, I thought it was blocked but the owners decided to take it down.
Original comment follows: They blocked irish.session.nz: "Resources for learning Irish music by ear". This is either a mistake or a very early example of a political abuse of the OSA. Both are wrong of course and prove what a stupid and concerning thing OSA truly is.
As Koffiepoeder suggests, since the vast majority of content on my site is static, I only have to compress a file once when I build the site, no matter how many people later download it. [The small amount of dynamic content on my site isn't compressed, for the reason you suggest.]
That’s a good point, didn’t know it was cached on top.
> the load on my server is reduced
isn't this the opposite? Enabling compression will INCREASE the load on your server as you need more CPU to compress/decompress the data.
If you want to print ahead: https://neatnik.net/calendar/?year=3000
I feel like 3000 will be my best year
santiagobasulto commented on Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker · Posted by u/yujonglee
The most honest version is the company is paying for the tool. The most stretched version I’ve seen is a former employee of a company uses the tool in a personal capacity. Most commonly for newly launched things it means someone with an @company email has tried the tool (even if they didn’t pay). You could, for example, set up a waitlist and then let anyone with a logo-worthy email in.
I think this is way too far. For me personally, the threshold to put the logo is someone within the company is paying, even though the whole company is not in a contract. For example, you might not have a full fledged contract with Google, but one manager of a tiny team might have used her/his company credit card to pay for your tool. If the sum is below a certain threshold, they don't need to authorize or go through vendor vetting and all that.
Wasn't THE SAME said when Google came out? That we were not remembering things anymore and we were relying on Google? And also with cellphones before that (even the big dummy brickphones), that we were not remembering phone numbers anymore.