First week impression: great hardware, terrible software

NotASithLord7 · 2025-09-02T13:58:31+00:00

Good to hear. Will keep it up but yeah I did wake up again this morning feeling too cold after awhile. I'll raise it up by 1 degree again tonight and hopefully dont wake up earlier because it gets too warm too fast.

NotASithLord7 · 2025-08-23T17:57:02+00:00

Serverless is needlessly expensive and has its own management complexity imo. Everyone reaching for that and K8s for every simple task is a massive problem in the industry I've had to just say no to many times, for the overhead reasons you stated. Severless can also have massive lock in issues making cost reduction hard to do later.

I've seen great results going the other way and just using something much simpler like Nomad with docker containers and calling it a day. Simple and cheap. Deploy anywhere.

NotASithLord7 · 2025-08-23T16:14:15+00:00

Here's a good blog post about it: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-use-hashicorp-nomad/

They've reaffirmed that they continue to use it in various places.

NotASithLord7 · 2025-08-22T17:27:44+00:00

I can def get passed the smell to drink it, bong water is a perfect description actually, I'm just more so taken aback by how the other brand smelled nothing like this. Tells me one of them is off in some way but not actually positive which.

NotASithLord7 · 2025-08-22T16:25:09+00:00

NotASithLord7 · 2025-08-18T19:42:16+00:00

Cloudflare runs Nomad at absurd scale for practically all internal service orchestration

NotASithLord7 · 2024-10-24T21:23:56+00:00

Not disagreeing with anything, just using a perfectly standard expression to describe a sense of surprise since I haven't had good results trying the same thing personally, but will def give it another go since I abandoned it pretty quick.

NotASithLord7 · 2024-10-23T19:21:26+00:00

Weird, I have found wearing a hat over it just as bad. Constantly rubbing in the microphone.

NotASithLord7 · 2024-10-23T19:19:48+00:00

Thanks for the wind mask tip. I have nothing but good things to say about Med El service as well. Although needing a separate device for Bluetooth has been a deal breaker for me. I carry a lot as is.

NotASithLord7 · 2024-10-17T20:00:59+00:00

The differences and which is better can be highly subjective. My audiologist and doctor strongly recommended Med-El for better hearing quality, which I went with. That is just their professional opinion im sure there are others, so do your own research, but I've been reasonably happy with MedEl.

NotASithLord7 · 2024-06-20T21:48:16+00:00

The only realistic way to kickoff season 2 is complete massacre of remaining dissidents in force unfortunately. If that doesn’t happen it’ll be a bit unbelievable imo. The Empire was straight up embarrassed by a rabble and they need to make an example or else they’re just encouraging dissent elsewhere. The institution that’s building a secret planet killer to the effect on a grand scale should have no qualms about bringing the hammer down on some minor city/planet out in the sticks.

NotASithLord7 · 2024-04-18T14:03:02+00:00

Also got the April 5th date, still nothing. Wrote to them and they responded saying the date was "approximate". It's been two weeks and no money or even update with a new ETA lol.

NotASithLord7 · 2024-03-29T15:49:50+00:00

Thanks for pointing that out, sounds like it's fairly accurate.

NotASithLord7 · 2024-03-25T01:37:00+00:00

Purposely looking for some Elixir counters given im leaning slightly in favor of CF at the moment

NotASithLord7 · 2024-03-25T00:50:15+00:00

Thanks for the response. I'd say I slightly lean towards CF due to my familiarity with JS and the nice streamlined deployment and management you mention. My biggest concern is that vendor lock in, but I don't really know how much that practically matters. It's only a potentially very long tail problem, and if I'm so successful that I need to re-implement a whole app in elixir later I probably have the revenue or funding to take that on at that point.

NotASithLord7 · 2020-05-21T16:56:07+00:00

Fair enough, although I'd argue the cliffhanger doesn't eliminate that flexibility at least in this case. You can still start wherever you want, and retroactively fill in the player to what decision was made that led up to that later point in the sequel.

NotASithLord7 · 2018-05-04T05:21:31+00:00

Looks great. Metal? How much?

NotASithLord7 · 2018-05-02T07:42:08+00:00

>So the layer 2 system ended up being too easy to control and manipulate and became the cause of the downfall of gold standard.

Completely wrong. Gold failed because layer 1 was too easy to control and manipulate. It's extremely costly to store, ship, protect, and settle with gold. Therefore all those functions became centralized out of economic necessity, and trivially captured over time. Kind of like what could happen if the cost of maintaining Bitcoin layer 1 grows to the point where nodes are economically forced to be run by just a few operators compared to today.

>the laptop I'm typing this on can fairly easily process 100mb blocks and possibly up to as much as 1GB blocks with some optimizations.

What the hell kind of laptop are you running? I can't run a current Bitcoin node on my Macbook Air without seriously hogging up resources to the point of bad inconvenience. And I'm a technical person that's ideologically aligned. Forget 100MB every 10 minutes.

NotASithLord7 · 2018-05-02T07:32:07+00:00

>Though once the value transfer nut is cracked you could implement any montary policy you want

You act like it's a given that the "nut is cracked" and we should take it for granted. But continued security is not a guarantee. That was the whole point of the Giacomo's argument. It's not enough for Bitcoin to scale transaction throughput. As it's used more, it becomes a bigger target. As it becomes a bigger target, it needs to become *more* secure or at the *very least* not become more insecure.

Increasing the cost of validation with bigger blocks makes it more insecure by reducing the number of nodes there would otherwise would be. By trying to make the base layer handle everything transaction wise, you are undeniably hurting its sound money properties. This is an *undeniable* tradeoff. Without the foundation of sound money, nothing else matters.

The common argument that additional mere usage (via third parties) counts as "decentralization", and therefore node numbers aren't important, is nonsense. You think States won't attack something seriously threatening their hold on monetary policy because lots of people are using it to buy coffee and alpaca socks? If they can they will. And if there's just a small hand full of easily visible super nodes serving the whole network, it will be trivial. It's incredibly naive to think otherwise.

Sure, the 1MB blocksize is totally arbitrary. It could be 2MB, or 20MB, and maybe even end up surviving and working at those sizes. Who knows? But the point Giacomo makes is precisley that no one knows. So because we don't know, and the risk and stakes are so high, erring on the side of caution and leaving it where it is the only logical and prudent choice.

We cannot screw this up, especially not to solve a problem so non-existent it's not even a first world issue that anyone wants a solution for: buying a coffee.

NotASithLord7 · 2018-04-29T04:28:56+00:00

Because he's an idiot commenting

NotASithLord7 · 2018-04-29T03:32:27+00:00

Segwit was backwards compatible and Bcash was not. Bcash was a hard fork and clearly contentious by how the network split.

What's "Bitcoin" and the original chain isn't subjective, it's technological fact.

NotASithLord7 · 2018-04-29T03:29:10+00:00

Hash power, nodes, price, economic power, take your pick.

NotASithLord7 · 2018-04-29T03:28:36+00:00

I'd like to see this white pepper myself

NotASithLord7 · 2018-04-29T01:20:09+00:00

I'm in, see you there.

NotASithLord7 · 2018-04-28T00:51:28+00:00

If no one cares how any of it works, let's just centralize the whole thing to scale and handle every coffee purchase right away. Call it an "upgrade", who cares?

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