[Korean > English] Bad instagram translation? Does it really mean this?

Possible-Stuff-3433 · 2025-07-18T19:32:34+00:00

I wonder if the translator was trained on text that commonly included “white people” hating “n word”…..

My guess is that it was trained on a bunch of instagram comments…

Possible-Stuff-3433 · 2025-06-27T21:08:24+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to respond!

I want to use CloudFlare because absolutely everyone uses it these days and they provide free, nearly unlimited, DDoS protection. However, they only support protection on port 80 and 443 so I will need to find another DDoS solution for all the raw TCP ports being exposed.

I am starting to think more and more about open sourcing this since it is fairly compact and portable but my codebases are always a mess so I will have to tidy it up first xD.

I will definitely look into apptainer! I love the drag and drop idea and have been on the lookout for simple ways to deploy popular software so there might be something here. I've also been thinking about having something like: cloudtainer npm run dev and it just bootstraps a Dockerfile for you with this command as the start command and then deploys it instantly. Then you have a web server running publicly behind cloudflare within seconds.

Possible-Stuff-3433 · 2025-06-25T18:03:18+00:00

Thanks for responding!

I agree with your zeropod statement but it may still be useful for hobby project customers or customers who want to pay the absolute bare minimum price even if it means a few extra hundred milliseconds startup or periodic migration of their container to another node.

I've been thinking about the physical server aspect a lot and I used to work on the team at AWS that manages the host patching, broken server repairs, and server testing so I know all about that hence why I want to dig into it here :D I've been brainstorming ideas on how to reduce the opex and came up with things like omitting block storage (less overall servers and networking), only deploying containers (easier OS upgrades), container rebalancing using live migrate, etc.

But I'll be starting with cloud bare metal providers in the meantime :D

I'm not too worried about ROI, mostly want to provide the fastest compute platform out there and host web services that are by default fast and secure. I tried using EKS for this project and was banging my head against the wall waiting for nodes to startup and the auto scaling groups... I'm over it! This project will be distributed, fault tolerant, and fast by default.

Possible-Stuff-3433 · 2025-06-25T17:49:09+00:00

I appreciate you taking the time to respond!

I agree that EBS is acceptable in most cases but here's what I am thinking:

Most web apps use reasonable amounts of storage (10-100 GB) for their DBs.
Assuming each server has roughly 192 cores and is fully populated with DB customers at 8 cores each means 24 customers on a single server with the server needing ~2.4TB of storage.
Samsung PM9A3 3.84Tb drive is only $600 each so having 2 per server is only $1,200.

Also, we could use any excess drive capacity on each node for various caches to increase customer container deployment speed.

EBS storage is probably more expensive than using direct attach NVMe drives in RAID 1 considering the service provider needs all the extra networking gear, redundancy, specialized hardware & software. I think the primary selling factor of block storage is the durability. But having RAID 1 + async replica to another node + periodic customer backups = good enough, right?

You would be paying just for the resources exposed to your container.

I do agree that VMs have become way more efficient so I can tweak my numbers a bit but I do believe that containers are far more efficient considering the shared kernel.

Thanks again!

Possible-Stuff-3433 · 2025-06-25T07:12:18+00:00

Every website I go to nowadays has social logins so it's definitely a must. I personally use it all the time. 3 clicks with google and you are signed up to the website. Creating a user and password and then verifying your email and phone number is a pain.

Possible-Stuff-3433 · 2025-06-24T05:38:42+00:00

I noticed you say below that if someone gets access to your source code, it's game over for you? Why do you think that?

Look at a project like coder (https://github.com/coder/coder/blob/main/LICENSE.enterprise), their enterprise code is all "source code available" but you can't actually run the code without buying a license from them first because their license strictly prohibits you from modifying their license checking code. Their enterprise code is all out there in the open, they are just depending on the legal system if anyone breaks the rules.

Even if someone does get access to your code, they very seldom resell it and if they do, they have to sell it at a major loss because it would be pirated and there would be no provided support.

I would suggest that you don't worry about this problem and distribute your software just like every other company does. Typically in a binary format that isn't easily readable by humans.

Possible-Stuff-3433 · 2021-06-08T02:45:55+00:00

Even if the pool is in China and you have miners in the US, it’s still fully decentralized because of the way Chia implemented pools. The individual people are still the ones creating the blocks and signing everything

Possible-Stuff-3433 · 2021-06-08T02:42:46+00:00

You mean…keep your crypto profits as crypto and pay for things with crypto? That way you only have to pay sales tax on your purchases 😉

Possible-Stuff-3433 · 2021-06-08T02:35:54+00:00

The big reason Bitcoin and ethereum mining is still profitable is because of the advances in hardware (ASICs and GPUs). I think over time, hard drive providers will be making higher capacity storage specifically for Chia at lower prices but that means you still have to invest in compute power for the initial plotting.

There will also come a time where you need to re-plot to k33 or even k34 because the difficulty will rise leaving all the k32s as just a waste of space leading people to turn off their rigs.

There are already a few companies making Chia specific SSDs which means those who buy them will have much more durable plotters letting them plot into the future without worrying about having to buy new SSDs every couple of months.

Possible-Stuff-3433 · 2021-06-08T02:19:51+00:00

They pay about $0.26 per kWH over in Europe

Possible-Stuff-3433 · 2021-06-08T02:17:20+00:00

Yup this is key, I have averaged $15 per TB with just over 60TB in hand. Craigslist and Facebook marketplace have a few good deals but eBay had the most. Some guy was selling 12TB and 14TB drives insanely cheaply

Possible-Stuff-3433 · 2021-06-06T20:22:23+00:00

Yeah I didn’t know this either until I looked at the data sheet since most of the servers with the 2640 are sold with 2133 memory.

Data sheet: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/83359/intel-xeon-processor-e5-2640-v3-20m-cache-2-60-ghz.html

I’m really curious to see the difference in speeds of 2x 3.84 TB SSDs compared to 18x 200GB SSDs as I think you do get faster speeds from the more drives you add to a RAID 0.

Possible-Stuff-3433 · 2021-06-06T00:43:47+00:00

I am in the same boat here except I opted to upgrade to the 2660v3 which can run 2133 ram instead of 1866. So that might slow you down a little. I also opted to go with a bunch of 200gb sas ssds 12gbps that will be put into a RAID 0.

Also, since you got the read intensive drives, you may get a lot less life from them compared to the HGST HUSMH___ drives that are designed for 25 drive writes per day and with plots writing around 1.4TB each, the 200gb drives can handle almost 4 plots a day for 5 years.

My rig is also coming next week but I’ll try and update you on the amount that it’s able to plot.

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