dhdgrygev's comments

dhdgrygev | 3 years ago | on: The Future of Thunderbird

I'm super confused to come here and see people complain about its performance.

For me it runs lightning fast, especially compared to other tools like Outlook. Clicking any message loads it instantly, searching through my 30000 emails in 10 different accounts is also instant, etc. Why is my experience so different? Mostly everything is on default settings.

Pretty much the only complaint I have about this tool is that parts of the window sometimes flash for seemingly no reason when it is left open for a while.

dhdgrygev | 3 years ago | on: Big data is dead

Maybe this should give you a hint that said work is completely pointless and merely exists to waste student's time.

dhdgrygev | 3 years ago | on: Lastpass setting the delete account div to display: none

The average person, when not allowed to use a convenient password manager, will either use the same password for every site or come up with a predictable pattern. Encouraging a password manager helps make sure they don't get destroyed completely when a blog they signed up on 5 years ago is hacked.

This is partly because so many things want an account now. I have over 500 passwords saved, it would be straight up impossible to remember unique strings for each site.

dhdgrygev | 3 years ago | on: The Verse Programming Language [pdf]

Do you have some examples of things in here that you think will help you solve current problems?

I'm approaching it from the angle that I don't see how functional programming is at all useful for the kind of gameplay programming that would be done in a "metaverse" or is done in Unreal Engine today. So "it can do functional programming stuff" by itself doesn't cause any excitement. Rather the opposite. There are zero code examples of using it for anything besides abstract math. It executing code out of order seems to serve no purpose besides letting people create undecipherable monstrosities with it.

I'd maybe sum up this presentation as "we took functional programming and tried to make it less unusable by letting you actually mutate state" but I'm still lacking the original motivation of why I'd want to use that in the first place.

dhdgrygev | 3 years ago | on: The Verse Programming Language [pdf]

It doesn't. This presentation contains absolutely nothing of value for a real programmer trying to actually make stuff.

Hopefully we'll get more useful info soon, once it can be used in Fortnite.

dhdgrygev | 3 years ago | on: Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location

I've seen a lot of customers frustrated with the limits and how reluctant you are to raise them, I assume because people weren't paying their invoices.

Perhaps it could be an option to let people back up their words with money up front? I.e. put $10k in the account, proves you can probably afford more than 10 servers.

dhdgrygev | 3 years ago | on: Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location

You've been saying this for several years, and yet there is still no object storage. It's getting to the point where it seems more realistic to believe that it will never happen.

Very happy with both the cloud and dedicated servers, but it's weird how bad the communication is on the object storage thing. If it's not going to happen, why not say so?

dhdgrygev | 3 years ago | on: EU Regulator: Proposal to force websites to pay telcos puts Internet at risk

Of course. But it will provide you with free egress for files, a game changer for many projects. I've seen some projects from the community be several orders of magnitude cheaper to run than on competing services.

Definitely worth exploring if you have any kind of large files to distribute, which seems like it might be the goal given the question was about bandwidth specifically.

dhdgrygev | 3 years ago | on: EU Regulator: Proposal to force websites to pay telcos puts Internet at risk

What are you talking about? Website operators already pay for hosting, which at large scale includes paying for your bandwidth aswell.

Some platforms may use their own scale to provide some form of free hosting, such as Cloudflare pages, but at the end of the day this is just moving costs around between users, and Enterprise customers still pick up their hosting bill.

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