Post AxP11nHa9K0kbHvxC4 by f4grx@chaos.social
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 (DIR) Post #AxNlzwL1oiXxdVFAfI by mhoye@mastodon.social
       2025-08-21T02:04:18Z
       
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       I'ts not just vibe coding; SAAS has just destroyed people's ideas of how fast computers are or what anything costs. I'm in a... somewhat awkward conversation in a different forum where people are talking about a database migration that's "millions of rows" and "as many as 57k transactions month" and I'm sitting here thinking, ok so on average a transaction every 40 seconds or so, have you considered putting it on an SD card and mailing it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxNlzxb18kvlXNjSE4 by ErgonWolf@pawb.fun
       2025-08-21T02:33:17Z
       
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       @mhoye What's the old canard?  Never underestimate the data transfer rate of a station wagon loaded full with magnet tape driving from A to B?
       
 (DIR) Post #AxNlzyahRQGqcgaiMy by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-08-21T03:52:51Z
       
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       @ErgonWolfFrom Chairman Morrow (George Morrow). @mhoye
       
 (DIR) Post #AxOe5xi91Lh79kNPkm by mhoye@mastodon.social
       2025-08-21T12:42:24Z
       
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       “So, do you have a _database_ or do you have a table that happens to be stored in a database” is not a question that makes you friends with CTOs it turns out.(It’s a table that happens to be stored in a database.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AxP11lsjMEXQFvIaoq by tito_swineflu@sfba.social
       2025-08-21T02:40:15Z
       
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       @dashdsrdash @mhoye "big data", sure, but try getting a excel->csv export with no newlines and 150 rows of data.  That will crash pretty much any machine.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxP11nHa9K0kbHvxC4 by f4grx@chaos.social
       2025-08-21T06:26:23Z
       
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       @tito_swineflu @dashdsrdash @mhoye how do you get 150 lines without newlines? 🤔
       
 (DIR) Post #AxP11nsRwFVARdBOeu by josgeluk@mastodon.nl
       2025-08-21T06:53:35Z
       
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       @f4grx I'm thinking: newlines to separate rows, yes, but no newlines within fields@tito_swineflu @dashdsrdash @mhoye
       
 (DIR) Post #AxP11of11gLksFuBMG by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-08-21T18:15:54Z
       
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       @josgeluksed @f4grx @tito_swineflu @dashdsrdash @mhoye
       
 (DIR) Post #AxP1834CNRqfI8ekCW by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-08-21T18:17:09Z
       
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       @mhoye "Big data" seems often related to penis size.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxQFayA5HnmIzd3OYi by calcifer@masto.hackers.town
       2025-08-21T15:30:40Z
       
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       @mhoye @djsundog I’ve been fighting this type of argument with network and web traffic since the early 00’s. “But we get over a million queries a month!” my friend, there are over 2.6 million seconds in a month and a query per second on average can be served by an old desktop we’ve got lying around.  “We get 100k unique visitors per week!” One every six seconds on average? Yeah we don’t need massive infrastructure for that.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxQFazATXpgY78FDo8 by paoloredaelli@mastodon.uno
       2025-08-21T18:01:35Z
       
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       @calciferThe issue is not the number of daily, weekly or monthly visitors but their spikes. 100k/week visitors could easily means short severe spikes@mhoye @djsundog
       
 (DIR) Post #AxQFazpF6GIM9ZJmLo by mhoye@mastodon.social
       2025-08-21T18:13:37Z
       
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       @paoloredaelli @calcifer @djsundog 100k/_day_ is about three requests every two seconds on average. A Raspi can handle 100x that without warming up.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxQFb0MZ6MwxouuOI4 by Flux@wandering.shop
       2025-08-21T20:57:38Z
       
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       @mhoye Now, now.  You're assuming it's a reasonably built server instead of a random pile of python API calls strung togther willy-nilly into some pandas dataframe hell that loads a 1TB parquet file for each connection.@paoloredaelli @calcifer @djsundog
       
 (DIR) Post #AxQFb0wMxFadbxez68 by mhoye@mastodon.social
       2025-08-21T21:09:13Z
       
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       @Flux @paoloredaelli @calcifer @djsundog Crazy talk, I know, but hear me out: maybe if we learn how to computer, we won't need to rent the computering from the people who charge a 10000% markup to be not good at it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxQFb5gxHzEOLbUFGa by calcifer@masto.hackers.town
       2025-08-21T15:33:45Z
       
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       @mhoye @djsundog I still have a basic vhost with 8 cores and 16GB of RAM that happily serves 5M requests a month, and it only needs to be that big to handle peaks.