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aramattamaraon Austria: Pylons as sculpture for public acceptance of expanding electrification

Have they tried burying the cables? Yes, it's more expensive, but if they care so much about the views...

aramattamaraon Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)

Wouldn't it be appropriate now to call the next version SSL again? It's still widely used by everyone, so let them keep using it.

aramattamaraon Lottie is an open format for animated vector graphics

Lottie hogs CPU in browser like crazy.

aramattamaraon The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state

Try MySpace, classmates.com? They are still around.

aramattamaraon Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)

Try faking your data next time, dude! You will be famous for some time. Do you even know how hard it is to make data points that seem natural but follow some clear pattern you want it to follow? I spent a good half of a day looking for that proper inverse formula.

aramattamaraon Using AZs can eat up your budget – From Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics

Performance benchmark:

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/mimir-benchmark/

aramattamaraon Using AZs can eat up your budget – From Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics does support occasional updates/deletes (e.g. you may need it for GDPR compliance).

aramattamaraon Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?

That’s Schengen zone, some countries are in Schengen but not in EU.

aramattamaraon AWS S3 Tables?

Thanks for reply! I thought that this S3 table would be something other than Databricks or Snowflake.

aramattamaraon AWS S3 Tables?

Can somebody explain what is unique about s3 tables?

aramattamaraon OpenTelemetry and vendor neutrality: how to build an observability strategy

The problem with OpenTelemetry is that it really only good for tracing. Metrics and logs are kinda bungee strapped later: very inefficient and clunky to use.

PS: And devs (Lightspeed?) seem to really like "Open" prefix: OpenTracing + OpenCensus = OpenTelemetry.

aramattamaraon Ancient Eastern European mega-sites: a social levelling concept?

War was way more abundant and routine in those days. To the east of the study area, there was constant presence of nomadic tribes. I guess it's easier to defend in large groups. The other way to deter invaders is to not have anything to eat yourself (hence frequent fires when settlers burned their own settlements ahead of enemy).

aramattamaraon Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

It's hard to invest millions in employees who are likely to leave to a competitor later. That's very risky, aka venture.

aramattamaraon Guava: Google core libraries for Java

What about Java modules (aka JEP-200, aka Project Jigsaw, completed in 2017)?

Used it for JavaFX apps with no problems.

aramattamaraon Guava: Google core libraries for Java

Yes, it's called Java modules (aka JEP-200).

Although people often skip it and put everything in one module. It was released in Java 9 (started in 2014 and completed fully in 2017).

aramattamaraon My solopreneur story

> 95% of tech companies are _driven_ by profits

They are obliged to, by definition. Unlike non-profit or public-benefit companies, commercial companies must maximize profits for shareholders, otherwise they might be prosecuted by law.