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Is this hyperbole, or are you seriously claiming that the Jewish men who run Breitbart, or Jewish founders like Ben Shapiro or Andrew Breitbart, are neo-Nazis?

The issues that I have with Redis are not at all its API (which is elegant and brilliant) or even its serialized, single-core, single-threaded design, but its operational hazards.

As a cache or ephemeral store like a throttling/rate limiting, lookup tables, or perhaps even sessions store, it's great; but it's impossible to rely on the persistence options (RDB, AOF) for production data stores.

You usually only see this tendency with junior devs, though. It might be a case where "when all you have is a hammer, all you see are nails", or when someone discovers Redis (or during the MongoDB hype cycle ten years ago), which seems like it's in perfect alignment with their language datatypes, but perhaps this is mostly because junior devs don't have as many production-ready databases (from SQL like Postgresql, CockroachDB, Yugabyte to New/NoSQL like ScyllaDB, YDB, Aerospike) to fall back on.

Redis shines as a cache for small data values (probably switch to memcache for larger values, which is simpler key-value but generally 3 to 10 times faster for that more narrow use case, although keep an eye on memory fragmentation and slab allocation)

Just think carefully before storing long-term data in it. Maybe don't store your billing database in it :)

Complexity == risk.

It seems like the thing getting backed up shouldn’t have the privilege of deleting backups in case it gets compromised.

(agreed)

For backups, I added a nightly cron job which > exports my SQLite db to a write-only S3 bucket.

Why not only do this and use an s3 sync instead? You can safely backup SQLite databases while they're being written to, so no need to export (dump) them; just copy the files themselves.

This might mean that your entire backup/restore strategy is just to copy some files. If so, that's ideal.

(Of course, s3 sync does require reading as well as writing, so perhaps just increase your cron job to run more often so it fits within your RPO)

Agreed, or even just start with sqlite for your globals and then scale to those later.

OLAP questions are usually out-of-band and preferably by a tool designed for it (like Clickhouse). Scanning all DB's is something that can be done in the background for most of these use cases.

Don't do this

What's wrong with that? Of course it will work fine; SQLite, with or without WAL, has a ton of protections against corruption from writes-in-progress, which is what makes hot backups work.

If that will fit your RPO, why not only do that? Saves a lot of complexity (and risk).

physics isn't just a good idea, it is the law.

That is awesome.

Both sides agree that America has provided at least $100 billion and possibly up to a half-trillion in aid and other consideration to Ukraine. That's a fair bit of money!

And, if Zelenskyy is to be believed, it was a "grant", or a gift, which makes Zelenskyy's disrespectful attitude and hubris in the White House even more outrageous.

Technically, Zelenskyy instituted martial law and cancelled Ukrainian elections, so although he is the undisputed leader in power in Ukraine, he's not an elected president.

Do actual presidents show up in sweatshirts and insult their benefactors?

It doesn't take more than engineers to maintain an open-source browser, though. Why does it have to be a company at all? Remember Firefox? Firefox was literally just an act-of-love fork from some engineers from a dead acquisition by a dying dot-com era behemoth.

Put another way, does the Linux kernel or the Python language need to be run by a company, or will foundations does these jobs ok?

There are plenty of open source projects that are enormously successful without a single lawyer or project manager in sight.

It's a bit odd that literally every single top comment is pro-Zelenskyy and anti-White House.

I haven't seen a single thoughtful critique of Zelenskyy or his behavior on HN; it seems very one-sided and strange.

(also interesting that the BBC mispelled his last name, even though they're obviously big fans..)

Complete legal arguments as well. If I was an attorney, I'd love to have a sophisticated LLM write my crib notes for anything I might do or say in the court room, or even the complete direction that I'd take my case. For some cases, that'd be worth almost any price.

Mozilla owns Pocket.

Mozilla now sells data, while Brave does not?

Yeah, that's an interesting question, because it sounds like a ton of data vs not enough compute, but, aside from this all being in a SAN or large storage array:

The larger Supermicro or Quanta storage servers can easily handle 36 HDD's each, or even more.

So with just 16 of those with 36x24TB disks, that meets the ~14PB capacity mark, leaving 44 remaining nodes for other compute task, load balancing, NVME clusters, etc.

AI is potentially so much deeper than MAD status quo.

Most LLMs default to being sycophantic yes-men, but if you create a custom prompt, it can help mitigate any issues.

I have a custom prompt that instructs gpt4o to get aggressive about attacking anything I say (and, importantly, anything it says).

Here's my result for the same question:

https://chatgpt.com/share/67984aa9-1608-8012-be93-a77728ab8e...

Admitting one mistake doesn't moot the whole incident, nor does it take Google off the hook.

But, if it is listed on the company website, then..

But you're right: simply say "given that this is a sensitive security matter, thank you for the heads up. Don't call me, I'll call you (click)"

Clicking a link signals the user's intent. That's how hypertext works.

Click here to agree.

Individually applied styles kinda defeats the purpose of cascading style sheets though.

As someone who's quite conversant with regular CSS, I really did like the ease of applying whatever style I wanted right in the code without needing to "worry" about whether this div is a "panel" or a "hero" or whatever, but it really does tend to make a huge mess of my HTML in very short order.

I was seriously looking at their Tactix 7 Pro Ballistics watch. But, yeah, that's a total no-go for me then too.

"So you want to build OUT your own data center" is a better title.

because providing tech support for custom OS's (in addition to the wide variety of popular handsets) is more costly.

Ah, it's the same with supporting browsers other than Internet Explorer!

On that note, https://github.com/aws/aws-codedeploy-agent/issues/30

You fear for other people's kids.. over politics?

I agree with most of your comment, but a bit more nuance with the last statement.

The taxes were core to supporting freedom among the colonists. These were not ordinary taxes. The Boston Tea Party, where they tossed the tea into the ocean as a mostly non-violent act of protest, was directly related to the Tea Act which followed the Stamp Act and other Acts that not just directly levied taxes onto the colonists, but actually made other sources of tea that weren't purchased from the British East India Company illegal.

Even worse, the colonists had no representation at all in Parliament or in England at all (hence the cry, "no taxation without representation"). Those accused of even heinous crimes or abuse in the colonies would simply be sent back to England to stand trial rather than by 'a jury of their peers'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Act

This was in 1773, more than three years before the Declaration of Independence, and it marked a crucial turning point in the colonists' reaction to the Crown's acts against them, which had been ongoing for more than a decade at that point.

This was followed by the 1775 Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms, which you should read in its entirety (it's only a few pages), because it again predated by a year the final straw -- the "Declaration of Independence" in 1776.

The Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms, written by Thomas Jefferson, is a crucial document that is often overlooked. In it, the colonists again gave the Crown multiple warnings that they were not going to be abused like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Causes_and_...

Why did the King ignore it? He led the most powerful empire in the world, and probably the most powerful war machine that had ever been seen in history until that point. He was, literally, almost invincible. What did colonists thousands of miles away really think they could do to him? Why would he pay any attention?

That document is quite explicit as to exactly what crimes the Crown supported or directly undertook against the colonists (a bit old English and hard to read, but worth the read). And, unlike many other British colonies and subjugates such as India itself, the colonists were armed and they could make their own guns, which they did, beginning in the Connecticut River valley, in which could properly be understood as the very beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

The founding fathers recognized that guns in the hands of ordinary citizens were a bulwark against tyranny, which directly led to the drafting of the Second Amendment less than 15 years later (easily ratified in 1791).

Not coincidentally, the banning and seizing of small arms during the American Revolution were also what helped foment the Texas War for Independence as well, many decades later, and which led to the "Come and Take It" from Gonzales in 1831 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_take_it) and finally led to the Alamo and the Goliad Massacre in 1836 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliad_massacre), where the Mexican Army executed, en masse, the defeated Texian Army.

There is indeed a lot of revisionism going on, so the best way to resolve that is to actually read the contemporary documents from that time period and understand what people actually thought (or at least what they were brave enough to write down!)

Thanks for reading, even if you disagree.

Starbase, too and the hill country towns. And also way out west, Marfa.

No Mexicans died for anyone's freedom, including their own or other Mexicans. They were serving under a dictator and didn't have a choice. (And, yes, there were some slaves in Texas, but comparatively few compared to the rest of the South.)

The small force there knew they would eventually be massacred by the thousands of troops surrounding them. The defenders held them off for 13 days. When they requested parley, Santa Anna signaled no quarter. Legend has it that Davy Crockett was on the roof, fighting to keep the horde from coming up the ladder, but he died with the rest of them.

Santa Anna ordered the execution of the six surviving prisoners of war. The Alamo defenders fought bravely and died in support of an idea: that men can govern themselves and live in freedom. It would take another 30 years before the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, would sign the Emancipation Proclamation and free the slaves.