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tmd83 commented on YouTube's New Hue   design.google/library/you... · Posted by u/xnx
tmd83 · a year ago
People do love trumping up what they have done. Developers feeling their project was absolutely essential when it might be more about NIH. But are any categories of people more used to trumping up their pointless work so high that any reasonable person would be too shameful to attach their name to the narrative? I guess PR people and politicians can compete with them or even take the first two places.

This doesn't take away from what wondrous thing a designer can achieve. It's an enormously difficult thing to design something that's functional and pleasing and in some cases provide a mood (calm, fast, serious). This sort of bullshit from what I imagine uber expensive designs rebranding major corporations simply highlights the value and rarity of a good designer.

I'm curious were they ever serious about their craft? Or the pursuit of promotion and glory took away their original ethos or they drunk the cool aid so much that they actually believe what they are saying?

tmd83 commented on Sans-IO: The secret to effective Rust for network services   firezone.dev/blog/sans-io... · Posted by u/wh33zle
tmd83 · 2 years ago
Does the actual traffic goes through the gateway or the gateway is only used for setting up the connection?
tmd83 commented on Android features I envy as an iPhone user   notes.ghed.in/posts/2024/... · Posted by u/rpgbr
wvenable · 2 years ago
I have a few Samsung Android devices and I mention them specifically because of all the crazy stuff than Samsung brings to Android.

For audio:

* Have different volumes for different app

* Have one app play its sound on your phone and another app to another device.

* Have two apps play at the same time.

For UI:

* Hide status icons that are just always on and thus meaningless.

* Customize the navigation gestures

* Put apps into windows, split screen, etc.

* DeX for desktop environment when connected to a display -- I can even remote display to my LG TV and the magic remote can be used as a mouse pointer.

For Apps:

* Linux shell and apps (Termux) -- even X windows.

* Firefox, Chome, even Samsung Internet as browsers. Samsung's browser has some unique features for phones and tablets and I end up using it the most.

* VLC for playing downloading media easily on my devices

* Smooth integration with Windows via Phone Link -- notifications, messages, photos, remote access.

* Lots of notification customizations

I could go on. There are so many features that I have never used but that's ok -- we all need and want a different set of features. I use many of these all the time. I used to have an iPhone (and my whole family has i-devices) but I think I'd have trouble going back to such a restrictive environment. But I still fully recommend iPhones and iPads for most people.

tmd83 · 2 years ago
Well, there's good to have vs. stupid. It would perhaps be nice to have per-app volume. But the fact that iPhone has just a global volume ... that my ringtone vs. media volume can't be separate is plain stupid isn't it. I will turn down volumes because at work/kids and lost my ringtone. I mean who makes decisions like that?

Now in terms of a little thing that's a major annoyance is the alarm. Android has this feature where upcoming alarms are shown as notifications which you can turn off (just the next one). I set multiple alarms for the morning so that if I shut off one I get another. Now if I wake up on the 1st alarm I will have the next 2 on notification that I can turn off. On iPhone I will keep having those alarm bells and turn them off (which can wake up my kids/wife) or disable them once I wakeup and I might end up forgetting to turn them on for the next day.

Now the freedom in terms of application or browser and extension!!! are obviously general problems.

tmd83 commented on Grafana Labs Observability Survey 2024   grafana.com/observability... · Posted by u/shahargl
tmd83 · 2 years ago
There seems to be newer players both open source and commercial now. But a lot of the focus seems in metric and specially distributed traces. Does anyone in the open source do code level profiling (cpu, allocation, locks etc.) preferably sampling profiler (including Java)?

I have only really found pyroscope.

tmd83 commented on Three ways to improve parallelized tests   qawolf.com//blog/principl... · Posted by u/casandra333
bionhoward · 2 years ago
One thing I did that helped a ton was make a “flush” Postgres db branch (same db name just appending _flush to the name) and use that for tests on the code to reset the database state. Otherwise you have to mess around trying to make sure the tests of db resetting happen after all the other tests, and that can be flaky and wind up using hard coded delays or ordering tests, slows things way down.
tmd83 · 2 years ago
What does it mean to make a "flush Postgres db branch".
tmd83 commented on Framing Frames: Bypassing wi-fi encryption by manipulating transmit queues   usenix.org/conference/use... · Posted by u/sipofwater
tmd83 · 2 years ago
So if the underlying connection isn't encrypted (like https) it essentially became open to anyone of the same network?
tmd83 commented on Matter 1.2 – New device types and improvements   csa-iot.org/newsroom/matt... · Posted by u/liveder
tmd83 · 2 years ago
Is there anything similar for healthcare IoT? It seems most products have their own App and Backend to share the data and nothing remotely close to universal.
tmd83 commented on Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative   github.com/hyperdxio/hype... · Posted by u/mikeshi42
mikeshi42 · 2 years ago
Thank you, really appreciate the feedback and encouragement!

> It seems like clickhouse is obviously a big piece of the tech here, which is an obvious choice, but from my experience with high data rate ingest, especially logs, you can run into issues at larger scale. Is that something you expect to give options around in open source?

Scaling any system can be challenging - our experience so far is that Clickhouse is a fraction of the overhead of systems like Elasticsearch has previously demanded luckily. That being said, I think there's always going to be a combination of learnings we'd love to open source for operators that are self-hosting/managing Clickhouse, and tooling we use internally that is purpose-built for our specific setup and workloads.

> I saw what is in OSS vs cloud and I think it is a reasonable way to segment, especially multi-tenancy, but do you see the split always being more management/security features?

Our current release - we've open sourced the vast majority of our feature set, including I think some novel features like event patterns that typically are SaaS-only and that'll definitely be the way we want to continue to operate. Given the nature of observability - we feel comfortable continuing to keep pushing a fully-featured OSS version while having a monetizable SaaS that focuses on the fact that it's completely managed, rather than needing to gate heavily based on features.

> on OSS, I was surprised to see MIT license

We want to make observability accessible and we think AGPL will accomplish the opposite of that. While we need to make money at the end of the day - we believe that a well-positioned enterprise + cloud offering is better suited to pull in those that are willing to pay, rather than forcing it via a license. I also love the MIT license and use it whenever I can :)

> On that note, I am curious what your target persona and GTM plan is looking like?

I think for small teams, imo the options available are largely untantilizing, it ranges from narrow tools like Cloudwatch to enterprise-oriented tools like New Relic or Datadog. We're working hard to make it easier for those kinds of teams to adopt good monitoring and observability from day 1, without the traditional requirement of needing an observability expert or dedicated SRE to get it set up. (Admittedly, we still have a ways to improve today!) On the enterprise side, switching costs are definitely high, but most enterprises are highly decentralized in decision making, where I routinely hear F500s having a handful of observability tools in production at a given time! I'll say it's not as locked-in as it seems :)

tmd83 · 2 years ago
https://www.hyperdx.io/docs/oss-vs-cloud

This page shows event pattern available for both oss vs. cloud. The blog doesn't mention exactly how this is being which would be an interesting read but I understand if a secret sauce.

I recall quite a few years ago a standalone commercial & hosted tool for doing something like this just on logs for anomaly detection. Anyone has any reference for similar tools for working with direct log data (say from log files) or in a similar capacity like hypderdx (oss or commercial)

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