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gytisgreitaion Oracle slashes 30k jobs

Clearly you are in USA. It’s not how their business works and Startups are not their target. Lobbying governments across the world with questionable practices are

gytisgreitaion Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems

So perhaps don’t use kafka at all? E.g. Adyen used postgresql [1] as a queue until the outgrew. In this case it seems there are a lot of things that can go south in case of major issue on the event pipeline. Unless the throughput is low.. but then why kafka?

[1] https://www.adyen.com/knowledge-hub/design-to-duty-adyen-arc...

gytisgreitaion Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems

Would be interesting to see the numbers this system processes. My bet is that they are not that high.

gytisgreitaion AWS outage shows internet users 'at mercy' of too few providers, experts say

What cost? Complexity - yes, to some extent.

gytisgreitaion Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant

Is there a tech blog of how Pix is built?

gytisgreitaion Launch HN: Modernbanc (YC W20) – Modern and fast accounting software

Which ledger api is that and which PCI vault?

gytisgreitaion Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf

I need this for openwrt:)

gytisgreitaion You might not need Redis

Exactly. Lots of people read post by companies doing millions of qps and then decide that they need redis, kafka, elastic, nosql, etc right from start. And that complicates things. We are currently at 500k RPS scale and we have probably around a handful of use cases for Redis and it works great

gytisgreitaion Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget

1.7k€ and 300w for a playground. Man this world is getting crazy and I’m getting f-kin old by not understanding it.

gytisgreitaion Show HN: Itineraries.io – I built a joint trip planner in between surgeries

Why is it not available as soon as I open the front page? First name? Last name? Email? Perhaps add DOB and a phone number or some other personal data so that I could the pretty please try out your product? What line of thinking is there “i’ll put everyhing behind a signup wall”?

gytisgreitaion Show HN: Itineraries.io – I built a joint trip planner in between surgeries

You will get far with “primarily desktop” in 2024

gytisgreitaion Show HN: Itineraries.io – I built a joint trip planner in between surgeries

You have created a signup form not a joint trip planner. Asking users to signup without giving them anything - thank you but no

gytisgreitaion Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge

Good. Android will continue becoming s*t show.

gytisgreitaion The brain has its own microbiome

Full article anyone?

gytisgreitaion My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

Not an OP, but same issue on Windows10 on two laptops, non of the workarounds work

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/startm...

gytisgreitaion Swipos-GIS/GEO, nationwide GNSS RTK correction for centimeter accurate location

That is insane. My mower runs for ~100 minutes per day. This means 50CHF per day which as I see is around 50 euros. Home made base station cost with unicore gnss is around 220 euros…

gytisgreitaion Swipos-GIS/GEO, nationwide GNSS RTK correction for centimeter accurate location

http://rtk2go.com/

gytisgreitaion Fintech engineering mistakes (2022)

yet with all those a) b) c) d) they still use that. Point is not "I call stripe api". Point is - those companies, that process wast amount of transactions, use integers. Probably for a reason. And its not in cents rather _minor units_ which you as working in fintech should ought to understand the difference

gytisgreitaion Fintech engineering mistakes (2022)

Stripe uses integers [1]

Adyen uses integers [2]

Square uses integers [3]

So not sure that the industry would agree with you

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/api/prices/create#create_price-unit_...

[2] https://docs.adyen.com/api-explorer/Checkout/70/post/payment...

[3] https://developer.squareup.com/reference/square/objects/Mone...

gytisgreitaion Jellyfin: Free software media system

Can you explain more? I am using Infuse with nfs mounted shares and have been pretty happy. Anthing to gain from jellyfin?

gytisgreitaion GitHub Sponsors will stop accepting PayPal on February 23, 2023

Considering the fees paypal charges - no wonder. At our company we are also trying to ditch paypal, since it constitutes to the lion share of total fees we pay payment processing, though paypal overall share compared to other payment methods is in the bottom percentage. Congratulations to Github on this step!

gytisgreitaion Winter & Cold Weather EV Range Loss in 7,000 Cars

Citroen ec4 (with heatpump) WLTP: 350km ev-database: 260km Short city distances (5-10km) in summer: 310km Short city distnces (5-10km) at -4 Celcius: 100km

wltp is a joke. Guessometer is a joke. Range with ev in winter is a joke.

gytisgreitaion Ask HN: What are some of the best podcasts for developers?

On top of my head:

- the epbf episode where one of you started talking like back in the old days you treated servers as pets and not as cattle

- the episode about auditing startups where most of the talk you were carried away and even said somethin “let’s continue or we won’t finish” or something

- oh and that Silicon Valley tv show stuff that just keeps popping every other time

It’s like that uncle of mine that I meet every Christmas who is always “back in my days” (I remeber when we…) or “in my old hometown they used to” (here at changelog we…)

but that’s just my personal opinion. Time is scare these days so I’d like to get as much info as possible.

But hey, I’m sure there are millions that adore you, cause in general the guests and topics are great

gytisgreitaion Ask HN: What are some of the best podcasts for developers?

I have such love and hate relationship with them. They tend to pick interesting topics and invite truly awesome people, but gosh do they both suck as hosts - they often get carried away into their mildly related personal experiences or small talk about nothing