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Techinically I can build a Postgres DB on Durable Object on Cloudflare right? I'm kinda tired of SQLite migration cascading all of my tables now. Has anyone tried to implement that on DO?

Why is bullshit detector ringing as hell right now??? This sounds like another billion-dollar-Markov-chain-IP that claimed to change the world, opening with a paper with flying colors.

Valve cuts 30% of your revenue no matter how much you earn. They also cut 15% of the transaction by being the middleman on the market.

They also ignored the gambling/trading plague for too long, until a lot of countries threatened them to stop indirectly promoting gambling (which definitely hit them financially).

They are sitting on a money printing machine and their job is making it print no less to buy GabeN another yatch. They are like the cigarette company who donates shit load of money to the charity and cancer prevention lab while making more cigarrate then ever because people love smoking it.

I don't think they wanted or planned to be monopolized, but they are definitely taking the advantage of being it.

AV1 is not new anymore and I think most of the modern devices are supporting them natively. Some devices like Apple even have a dedicated AV1 HW-accelerator. Netflix has pushing AV1 for a while now so I thought that the adoption rate should be like 50%, but it seems like AV1 requires better hardware and newer software which a lot of people don't have.

Hey I think I've just found a new marketing stunt for a new vibe-coding platform:

"Worried your vibe-coded app is about to be broadcast on the internet’s biggest billboard? Chill. ACME AI now wraps it in “NSA-grade” security armor."

I've never thought that there will be multiple billion-dollar-AI-features that fixes all the monkey patching problems that no one saw them coming from the older billion-dollar-AI-features that fixes all the monkey patching problems that no one saw them coming from...

Well actually they tried with Windows Phone, Windows RT and Windows 10 S but failed miserably. Even Apple didn't even try to lock their macOS from installing 3rd party app.

They are a significant actor in the market, and as a non-pc-gamer I am glad that their business goals align with Linux users.

Until MS (or worse, Oracle) shows up with their half-baked clone (like Xbox Machine or Larry Cube) and ruins everyone's party

From my observation, they are protecting their business through protecting their customers' benefits.

Yeah that's what I mean too, that's why I put the "accidentally" in a double-quote.

This sounds like what Red Hat is doing, they created an open-source software, prove the importance of it in the community then sells the support package to enterprise who interested in using it.

Hope that they will not close the door when Microsoft, AWS or Oracle making their own GabeCube and call it SatyaCube, BozosCube or LarryCube

Well that explains a lot, because I thought that you guys moved due to their direction sounds more like a political act.

Btw why not GitLab?

Then... don't use GHA and move to other CI/CD/Workflow platform.

If you try it, don't like it then don't use it, GitHub does not force you to use GHA anyway, and moving away from GitHub due to their direction sounds like a political movement. It's like someone who stop shopping from Walmart, not because they sells bad product but because they support the Republic, then going to a local shop that sometimes close unexpectedly sound unreasonable.

I think Valve is not some kind of God who free the human from the hand of Microsoft, they are a private company, they are just protecting their business and protecting their business "accidentally" also protecting the customer's benefits. The movement towards Linux benefits Valve the most since they have invested on Linux Gaming for 10 years now and that movement "conveniently" benefits the gamers too. That's a win-win situation, users can escape themself from a bloated Windows and Valve has the pioneering advantage.

I don't get it, why did they allow GitHub bot to modify and merge pull request automatically? Yeah I agree that MS is ruining everything with AI, but this problem is avoidable, if they turn off the bot's auto merge feature, or turn it off completely. The reason they move to a lesser known Git provider sounds more like a marketing stunt.

Why don't they use their self-acclaimed SE-replacing AI coding bot to fork Bun and called it AnthroBun instead of hiring actual engineers behind Bun?

Neat feature to make use of Containers. I'm thinking of wrapping my video renderer in Containers and use sandbox to spawn the rendering job, but I'm not sure about the limitation of CF containers, such as how much vCPUs I have, how many capability I can get from containers (like SYS_NICE), how many RAM I have and how many jobs I can run at the same time, is there any built-in queue like Runpod (which I am using) to ratelimit the job, etc. I will give this a try.

They might flip the emergency switch that burns a little more money to improve the cold start, schedule more CPUs to each V8 process or remove the `sleep(100)` somewhere in the code. I kinda doubt that they have actually made any code improvement but just a marketing stunt that make everything seems to be faster for a month then everything will be just as slow as it is, or they are buying time to actually improve the code.

CF used to encouraged people to move to Workers instead of using Pages. They recently removed the message in their landing page that said so (just checked, you could visit Wayback Machine to verify), so I guess Pages will still be available anyway. Btw the best thing that Pages gives out is allowing people to use different domain from another domain registry when Workers force user move their domain to CF.

It’s good that CF is actually trying to improve its platform instead of blaming others for smearing its product. Still, the breakneck pace is a mixed blessing. Things change so fast it’s hard to keep up, and launches often outrun polish. The R2 Data Catalog still lacks Iceberg v3 support; Wrangler has shifted dramatically in just a few months; and Pages seems to be on the way out, leaving me with Workers Assets that are painful to migrate. Configs that worked in Wrangler 3 didn’t carry over cleanly to Wrangler 4, and it feels like Wrangler 5 will introduce yet another interaction model.

Finally there is a sensor that can measure my tilt.

I know that putting all eggs on one basket and giving it all to Cloudflare is not a good idea, if they have an outtage then I would also have it to. But when they are down, one third of the internet is down with them too. With 240$ a year for CDN, 60$ a year for serverless and $0.015 / GB-month for S3-compatible storage with free egress, I don't think anyone could find a better alternative than CF. I'm mixing with AWS, CF and self-hosted machines and the infra cost is less than 5k$ a year. Now I can spend the remain hard earned money for some fresh marlboro cigarettes.

Well at least Cloudflare will not charge me for this situation.

Well you should guard your site with Cloudflare, at least Cloudflare will not charge me for this situation.

In the end I just opened Apple’s “TV” app and bought the movie for $9 instead.

In my case, I have to pirate the movie because I couldn't find any streaming service which stream my movie, especially the director's cut or final cut. I once paid apple to buy a movie just to find out that half of the movie is cut due to censorship.

This change will affect people in the poor countries where people don't have high speed internet and fast computer.

IMO, most of people who always flex bout their skill on using arch or kali linux doesn't really use it and don't have basic knowledge about unix/linux. As a DevOps and sometimes be sysadmin, I've interviewed a lot of self-proclaimed "hacker" (most of them are young) and most of them lack of fundamental knowledge about process, memory and networking, when they are the most important thing to do anything seriously in linux/unix.

it's close enough for basically everything I want it to do.

People has been making argument for years about the best distro and which distro makes them look like a god. Now, anything which helps me do my job as fast as I can is the best and I think Debian/Ubuntu is the best distro to work with. Large user base, familiar interface and pretty up-to-date software is the selling point of Debian/Ubuntu.

Just another tech bubble and people fall for that every time. NFT, Cryptocurrency, AR/VR, Metaverse, now it's AI. The formula for a tech bubble is always the same, and the result is also the same: The sharks take all the money and FOMO people lose their life savings

Until now I've convinced that people don't code Rust for higher performance, it's a cult and people use that to be looked cool. Rust are not some kind of black wand that can zap your 100k lines of C/C++ code to be 100 lines of code with the same speed. If you want high performance then it's not just the language which is fast, it's the way you implement your idea.

People are always talking shit about things to make people think they are smart, like people around me think they are Larry Wall, bashed Java for being slow, but they don't know that a lot of important, performant thing are coded in Java.

If you want raw performance, use C/C++. If you want simplicity, then use Python. If you want reliability and safety, then use Java/Go.

Julia is fast, but the community is too small. I once had a bug which cannot modify the column in DataFrames.jl. No one response on SO, GitHub, just a bunch of devs who has the same problem as me. Dropped the project and switched to Python. Rust is not a beginner friendly to create a high performance program, but somehow it became a cult and coding in Rust is some kind of flexing like finishing a Dark Soul game.

There must be a reason why C, Python (and Erlang/Elixir) is popular.

As an average developer who works on high level interface, I don't really see the benefit of AVX-512. I've heard that some math calculating software MAY gains some benefit from AVX instructions (like BLAS), but I've never use it personally. Can you guys please explain?

Proactively asking on SO is a no go to solve any problem. Just digging for anyone who already answer your question, or open a issue on the github repo which host the library you use. SO used to be a place where people could ask anything they want, but now only difficult questions could be answered, or else it will be downvoted, marked as duplicated or answered by some toxic people, definitely not a good beginner experience.