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gorbak25

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Random trash panda trying to start his own startup.
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gorbak25··on We replaced Firecracker with QEMU
I've tried to use virtio-pmem + DAX for the page cache to not be duplicated between the guest and the host. In practice the RAM overhead of virtio-pmem is unacceptable and it doesn't support discard operations at all. So yes a better solution would be needed.
gorbak25··on We replaced Firecracker with QEMU
I think their usecase makes a lot of sense as their workloads consume a predefined amount of ram. As a customer you rent a VM with a specified amount of memory so fly.io does not care about reclaiming it from a running VM.
gorbak25··on Show HN: Hocus – self-hosted alternative to GitHub Codespaces using Firecracker
Not really, if you develop inside containers in k8s then you will have a hard time: - Installing something into the container - Run docker/podman/k8s etc...
gorbak25··on Ask HN: What do you self-host?
For me it's generally k8s. I'm currently migrating most of my stuff to a new setup :) I want to give headscale a shot. I've used my k8s to run Gitlab CI jobs and some of my apps/toy projects.
gorbak25··on ChatGPT is not a reliable teacher
I think the real value of ChatGPT is rewriting existing text, essentially turning crappy writing into whatever you want.
gorbak25··on Change name of startup for international market?
Depends on your target audience, if your target is fluent in one specific language then using that language is a good idea.
gorbak25··on Ask HN: Which tools increased your productivity the most?
Isn't it problematic to work on it via ssh on high latency connections?
gorbak25··on Ask HN: Which tools increased your productivity the most?
Toggl. Generally having a feedback loop on what you spend your time is the perfect tool for self improvement.
gorbak25··on Ask HN: How do you manage dev servers?
Can't you use NixOS for this stuff? I think it's the main selling point of NixOS that every developer has the same environment. You may also deploy those nix environments via terraform.