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very slow for me too

but isn't MongoDB webscale?

Weird that this is framed as a bad thing. Fats are good.

that's not what a true Gigachad would say

the highest EV outcome for her was to hit the Wynn

I take a lot of notes in Vim (neovim) and am planning to build a connector from Neovim to Anki. Haven't looked into it deeply but I'm guessing an easy way is to run the Anki connect and execute curl from inside Neovim, passing structured note details.

a lot of these "just use bare VMs" arguments don't address how you do service discovery, load balancing, networking, rolling deployments, etc. A lot of the benefit my team gets from K8s is from these abstractions, not anything to do with "scale" per se

yeah they'll probably offer some hybrid cloud/agent approach where the config lives in their cloud and syncs the config data down to an agent in your env with its own storage

lots of misinformation here about the current state of play with respect to GTO. If you're interested in understanding the principles of GTO and how amateurs currently leverage it check out the Finding Equilibrium youtube channel. Specifically, there's a series where this guy teaches his girlfriend to play poker by building heuristics that generally mimic solver advice. It's a cool way to see how solvers are changing the live poker game; from this relatively basic series you can extrapolate how professionals refine their strategies and heuristics to get very close to solver approval in the majority of situations.

agreed, this is a false dichotomy. I wouldn't look to any search engine to "answer" questions like “What do NFT collectors think about NFTs?" Answer != Organize

not a bad analogy!

We connect directly to the Federal Reserve. No middleware (i.e Fiserv/FIS), no other banks.

this is an important point. There are other providers who offer programatic creation of bank accounts, payments, etc. But all existing solutions wrap a bank, who then wrap middleware providers and core systems. When you work with Column, you're working with only Column. This has implications for cost (fewer people taking a slice of the pie), performance/usability/experience (modern, tightly integrated systems), and development velocity (fewer players in the game of Telephone). Column collapses the layers of the financial services stack and exposes this functionality via API.

its for developers looking to build financial products that need bank accounts, payments, card issuing, lending, etc. Imagine you wanted to build Venmo; this would be pretty easy with Column APIs. Create bank accounts, deposit/withdraw, and send money between accounts programatically. That's probably the simplest example I can think of.

Yes, you can use Column to create and offer bank accounts as well as build debit/credit/charge programs. There's a part of the website that describes some common use cases https://column.com/docs/guides/#use-cases

life is "fractally" complex. Sometimes I feel computing is also fractally complex.

interesting post, but tough to take any security-minded blog seriously when served over HTTP

I agree. come on, two whole months with a pig's heart that has been installed into your chest and has pumped blood to your whole body for two months is a pretty big leap

does Postgres support online DDL like MySQL? Seeing the docs for this mention "pg-osc supports when a column is being added, dropped or renamed with no data loss" but MySQL supports this out-of-the box via the `ALGORITHM=INPLACE, LOCK=NONE` params. Just curious as I'm currently learning about this.

the most bizarre thing about GH actions is the I/O mechanic where you produce outputs by executing `echo ::set-output name=<name>::<value>.`

do you have a write up or blog post on your setup?

Reading about this home-assistant thing -- why do you need an OS dedicated to the "home automation" use case? Isn't home automation simply an application level use case? Hard for me to see why we'd want a new OS/kernel for this.

killer instinct

yes, can't believe they squealed and celebrated, they should have solemnly nodded to eachother in respectful silence. Shouldn't have expressed joy, no.

I concur.

ha, no the pump has nothing to do with lactase. It refers to blood filling your muscles -- you probably get a pump in your forearms from climbing. Feels like someone stuck a bike pump in your arm and "pumped" you up.

I use it for bodybuilding. Helps with the pump. It's in a lot of pre-workouts.

need to pass the bag to someone else. Not buying into another cult of personality.

>We are highly dependent on the services and reputation of Robert J. Scaringe, our Founder and Chief Executive Officer.

I'd agree -- philosophically I'm not sure it's possible to truly brick hardware unless you've physically disturbed the hardware's integrity, via physical trauma.

these are valid questions to ask but I'd be wary of falling into this very common trap that I see on HN, which is dismissing the sophistication of a product based on, well, nothing really. Given that another company was willing to pay $1b, and given that this is a free market, do you think it's more likely that ExpressVPN was simple and "not special", or that there is actually some substance there?