I lived in China for many many years and this is not a good example. Parking, and driving in general, is chaotic and unregulated. Yes, you have cameras everywhere that detect running on red or taking a wrong lane, but that's about makes it. Speeding, haphazard parking, everything is allowed. Scooters go anywhere. Bikes go anywhere. People go anywhere. Red, green, anything in between, it's a free for all. Like a policeman smoking under "no smoking" signs is totally normal. I'd say, you can get away with mostly anything in China, nobody would care (unless you're non-Chinese, then dutiful neighbors will report your every sneeze).
PS: Yet I do find OP's idea reminding me of China. Having a society that polices itself (just in China it's more about thought, not behavior) is definitely not a thing I would enjoy.
I’ll never understand how people believe bike and pedestrian “infractions” to be the same as that of motor vehicles.
Members of this “get off my sidewalk!” group often fail to realize this: Did you study to become a pedestrian? Did you go to a bicycle driving school to acquire a permit to operate one? Was an exam at all given in order to use public foot or bike paths?
If the answer is no, then you aren’t held to the same standards as cars, which are heavily regulated and require licenses to operate.
Obeying road signs for bicycle and pedestrians are suggestions, rarely enforced, and the worst case scenario is usually you hurt yourself. Your ability to hurt others has an upper bound that society deems acceptable.
Redis Streams is a "go-to" for me, mostly because of operational simplicity and performance. It's also dead simple to write consumers in any language. If I had more stringent durability requirements, I would probably pick Redpanda, but Kafka-esque (!) processing semantics can be daunting sometimes.
I didn't have anything but bad experiences with RabbitMQ, maybe I cannot "cook" it, but it would always go split-brain, or last issue I had, a part of clients connected to certain clustered nodes just stopped receiving messages. Cluster restart helped, but all logs and all metrics were green and clean. I try to avoid it if I can.
ZeroMQ is more like a building block for your applications. If you need something very special, it could be a good fit, but for a typical EDA-ish bus architecture Redis or Kafka/Redpanda are both very good.
I'm moving internationally (from China to EU) and the quote is 2.5-3x higher than 3 months ago. Sea freight seems to be inspected at a much higher rate, and they don't recommend it, and air freight is more expensive because of much lower volume overall. Not a good time to ship your stuff. And that's when you think "I'm far away from the US and the madness does not concern me"...
Good point, but several Chinese freight forwarders say, on the contrary, the shipping lanes are empty. The "ship" costs a fixed amount, if you can make a full load, the cost is shared between parties. With LCL (less-than-container-load), I'm very dependent on the volume.
I've also seen pictures of empty roads to Yantian port circulating on LinkedIn (usually it would be completely jammed during May holidays).
That's also a far different route... Has demand for additional shipping to Europe gone up because of increased demand? Is it seasonal? Does the US army's fairly incompetent police action [1][2] against Yemeni Houthis have much impact?
If the quote is higher, doesn't that mean the demand is higher and less empty containers are available? The EU does not have an extreme tariff on most products from china, only some. I guess I'm missing something here.
Same number of ships, but they are skipping the shortcut through he Suez canal (and have been for a year) thus meaning they take longer and so can haul a lot less.
Folks are anticipating increases in shipping due to large companies making last-minute buying decisions for the Christmas holiday instead of starting to ship things now through December. As a result, it will be very hard to find a container toward Q3 (at least this is what I'm reading across news articles)
If the assumed be negative indicators for the US economy come to light, and it’s made clear that the US has committed economic suicide, now with data, there aren’t going to be many safe harbors in the world for the average person.
The Suez canal is very much affecting anyone in the EU and has for a lot longer than Trump has been in office. Almost no ships have been going that way since early/mid last year, preferring to go the more expensive/long way around Africa instead.
Well, I had two quotes: one right before the tariffs at 22 rmb/kg door to door, and one end of April, at 58 rmb/kg door to door. We shopped around quite a bit, everybody say it's crazy right now.
GlitchTip had replaced our Sentry (9.x, pre-Clickhouse madness). It was just a matter of updating DSN in a few Configmaps/Secrets, good to go from day one. The UI is a bit buggy and "resolve" doesn't always work, but it does 99% of what Sentry did with 10% of the effort to maintain a modern Sentry setup.
> If you are like me, come first of the month, you are going down that page and applying to whatever seems a good fit
Nope. I'm going down that page (in my case, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/) and click off the "US only". Then I'm looking at 1-2 postings left. Then I close the page.
I've been in a similar situation and I eventually walked away to keep my sanity.
However, that being said, there are some simple heuristics you can try first:
- if you have more power via your shareholder agreement, you can prevent your co-founder from running the company, effectively firing them,
- if it's a 50/50 or they have more power, you can try to "disagree and commit" for a certain limited amount of time (e.g. 1 year) to see if what you "genuinely believe" is correct, or maybe they are more correct,
In any case, my advice would be to avoid an emotional decision.
My wife is from a small town just 50 km southeast of Nanjing, that is now folded into Nanjing proper, with metro and all. The town's language has nothing to do with Nanjing, they cannot understand each other at all. The town's cuisine is completely different, there's no duck at all, no similarities besides focus on rice as a staple.
I applaud the author of the article. Living and traveling China for 13 years drove me to understand that, to me, there's really no "X Chinese Cuisines", every little town has something unique and some cooking methods that are totally different from the next little town. Same with the language.
China is good at producing things (thanks to the infrastructure and cheap labor, for now), but is pretty bad at consistent service and general customer friendliness. We can also be sure that their cars are not made to any stringent standards, "chabuduo" attitude (negligence + cost cutting) is very much alive. I'm waiting with interest for the first cutoff "these cars should start failing about now" date to see how Chinese brands will handle repairs, parts, and general service. My bet is, besides most of the today's brands will even disappear by that time (since it was a subsidy grab to begin with), it will not be a great experience for the owners.
"What makes PlanetScale Metal performance so much better? With your storage and compute on the same server, you avoid the I/O network hops that traditional cloud databases require [...] Every PlanetScale database requires at least 2 replicas in addition to the primary. Semi-synchronous replication is always enabled. This ensures every write has reached stable storage in two availability zones before it’s acknowledged to the client."
Isn't there a contradiction between these two statements?
My personal experience with EBS analogs in China (Aliyun, Tencent, Huawei clouds) is that every disk will experience a fatal failure or a disconnection at least once a month, at any provisioned IOPS. I don't know what makes them so bad, but I gave up running any kinds of DB workloads on them, using node local storage instead. If there are durability constrains, I would spin up Longhorn or Rook on top of local storage. I can see replicas degrade from time to time, but overall systems work (nothing too large, maybe ~50K QPS).
it's not a contradiction but there is nuance. local disks mean we can do a significant amount of the operations involved in a write locally without every block going over the network. It's true that a replica has to acknowledge it received the write but that's a single operation vs hundreds over a network.
Admittedly, I moved everything off around 2020. We do have a few smaller "on-prem" style installs for a few customers, with much less traffic than our main installation. One of the Aliyun installs does experience block device issues from time to time, but since I effectively RAID them, it goes unnoticed, though it doubles the price. But the install is small (<1TB data) so it's not a problem.
PS: Yet I do find OP's idea reminding me of China. Having a society that polices itself (just in China it's more about thought, not behavior) is definitely not a thing I would enjoy.