Slavery. For instance the technology for windmills already existed at the time, it just wasn't that big of a deal in world with an abundance of slaves. Fast forward to the Middle Ages and you find it everywhere.
Readit Newssimo7 commented on Why No Roman Industrial Revolution? (2022) acoup.blog/2022/08/26/col... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
Interesting, I’m starting to think undocumented thresholds are quite common in GCP.
I experienced something similar with Clod Run: inexplicable scaling events based on CPU utilization and concurrent requests (the two metrics that regulate scaling according to their docs).
After a lot of back and forth with their (premium) support it turns out there are additional criteria, smthg related to request duration, but of course nobody was able to explain in details.
simo7 commented on Throw away your first draft of your code ntietz.com/blog/throw-awa... · Posted by u/herbertl
I have a different approach: I'm ok to throw away significant chunks of code as long as I have important new ideas that allow me to do more with less.
Often the problem with refactors is that don't come with enough of these new ideas , there's no real progress, it's mostly moving things around.
simo7 commented on How to raise a Roman army: The dilectus acoup.blog/2023/06/16/col... · Posted by u/civilitty
Are you suggesting that fewer than 1000 men died in this battle?
Fewer than 10k wouldn't be surprising at all, yes.
simo7 commented on How to raise a Roman army: The dilectus acoup.blog/2023/06/16/col... · Posted by u/civilitty
> The affair of 214 suggests that even in a period where Roman armies were regularly being destroyed completely, the draft-dodger rate was something just below 1%.
One of the things that made Rome successful was that they would absorb horrendous losses and still keep going. Their ability to mobilize contributed to their power.
To give an example, at the Battle of Cannae, in a single afternoon, Rome lost an estimated 65,000 men killed. To put this in context, the US lost 58,000 soldiers killed in the entire Vietnam War.
The 65k figure is what ancient historians reported, in reality it’s almost certainly order of magnitudes lower. Exaggerated figures are usually the case with ancient reports (especially about battles).
looks nice and tries to solve a problem i had a while ago: how to deploy a small dockerized app to a cheap vm with declarative deploy (like k8s) but without k8s.
anyone know a similiar tool?
You can ship your local docker context to a remote host and build/run your containers there. All the docker commands you typically run locally you can run on the remote host.
https://www.docker.com/blog/how-to-deploy-on-remote-docker-h...
simo7 commented on Keep the monolith, but split the workloads incident.io/blog/monolith... · Posted by u/kiyanwang
Isn’t a monolith with split workloads just a monorepo?
It's a terrible article. The author misunderstands competition and how much it drives products in this area. Snowflake is incentivized to make their product better on every dimension. If Snowflake don't improve, customers will leave in droves - like when they moved to Snowflake.
In practice, as has been pointed out in other comments, they do improve their performance (for competitive reasons) and it does cost them money when they do it.... They did it a couple qtrs ago and left $97 mill on the table.
https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2022/03/02/sn...
The main flaw of the article is not controlling for product category.
I suspect most data warehouses have similar NDRs.
In many companies a data warehouse is the place where you dump all your data and let everyone run poorly written programs against it.
Add to that poor engineering culture in data teams (often lead by non-technical people) and costs are bound to skyrocket.
simo7 commented on Lessons learned from running Apache Airflow at scale shopify.engineering/lesso... · Posted by u/datafan
I think the main lesson should be not to use it, especially at scale.
simo7 commented on King George and Tsar Nicolas Looked a Lot Alike bramadams.dev/projects/co... · Posted by u/_bramses
Not only they were cousins, in their private correspondence right before the outbreak of WWI they were addressing each other as Willy and Nicky[0].
By the way they fought against each other.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy%E2%80%93Nicky_correspond...
edit: I meant the correspondence between the third cousin, Wilhelm II, and Tsar Nicholas.