The eggs had better be deviled, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deviled_egg

Vile eggs need de-viling, otherwise not.

They probably mean "Should look like the output of json_encode($data, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT)". Which most PHP devs would be familiar with.

It sounds plausible, but they really need to spell out exactly what the formatting requirements are, because it can make a huge difference in how efficiently you can write the json out.

It's a challenge for PHP programmers. I imagine the relevant people would recognise that format.

An unchanging community is a dead community, period.

Attempts to "preserve" a community, both online and offline, tend to end up preserving unhealthy power dynamics within the community as well, which would have been slowly replaced with something else if you had just let the community evolve (or disappear) naturally.

Often, members of the community who benefit from the status quo are the ones who cry the loudest for such preservation.

NIMBYs

I don't think NIMBYs have much of a community to begin with.

That looks like a rather flat trapezoid for something that fell from high above.

With a fast-moving object, we can usually tell its trajectory across the map much more accurately than we can tell where along that trajectory it impacted the ground. See: MH370.

Maybe fits the "DoD is shooting something at some kind of incoming drone" explanation - they know they're shooting _from_ the top of the trapezoid but in terms of direction, only that they're vaguely facing south. (Doesn't really explain why the TFR doesn't extend into Mexico though.)

The area they would expect to find it would be much narrower than the area they would expect a plane overhead to be able to observe it.

Do you get updates to the proprietary software stack if you go without a subscription license?

If the answer is no, then you might own the hardware on paper, but you don't control any of the software that makes said hardware useful.

If the answer is yes, on the other hand, then one must ask who is paying for those updates, because that can't be sustainable.

So while most of the software is open source rather than proprietary, you still have a fair point that customers pay for support (as they do with most enterprise products). One could theoretically use the product without first-party software updates, managing the open source oneself... but that would have practical impediments (and runs counter to the all-in-one simplicity that customers value in the Oxide product).

Two points about your last point. First, software improvements benefit all customers; as the business grows, the effective cost per customer shrinks. Also, most customers grow their Oxide deployment or will replace hardware after a depreciation cycle. The sustainability of investments into the software (and the product generally) is on solid ground.

Back in the 90s and 00s, lots of companies churned out software products that were sold once, supported forever. It was a sort of Ponzi scheme, supporting old customers with money from new customers. Which was okay during a period of high growth. But sooner or later the market matures, growth plateaues, and the cost of ongoing maintenance becomes a much bigger problem.

Right now you're growing fast and swimming in VC money, so this is probably not an issue. At some point, though, you might find that even hardware depreciation cycles don't provide as much of a cushion as you hope they will. In an economic downturn, people might suddenly realize that Oxide hardware actually remains serviceable much longer than they expected. :)

> Do you get updates to the proprietary software stack if you go without a subscription license?

what proprietary software stack? they just publish it all on https://github.com/oxidecomputer/ .

The software is open source and developed in the open. You can pay for support, but there’s no software licensing cost.

Finally, we can create splash screen animations in pure CSS!

That's not enough. As the article explains, SVGs can reference external resources. So you also need to prefetch those external resources, recursively, if you want to be thorough.

To add to this, those external resources aren't limited to images, they can be basically anything, foreignObject allows video.

I'm also wondering if you could (ab)use SMIL mouse events to bypass this approach.

Judging from GP's description of how extension IDs work in Firefox, I wouldn't be surprised if LinkedIn were trying to brute-force those UUIDs!

MySQL actually has a BLACKHOLE storage engine designed specifically for universe-scale data storage for those who don't care about persistence.

It does have its use cases :)

In a typical CRUD web app, any query that takes milliseconds instead of microseconds should be viewed with suspicion.

In a more charitable interpretation, maybe the parent is talking about sub-100ms total round trip time for an API call over the public internet.

But OP never said it's a CRUD app. Maybe OP did some experimentation with OLAP use cases.

OP here. Roughly 50GB in db size. Fairly standard queries (full-text search + filters). Most queries are on the order of 10-100ms. Some more complex ones involving business logic exceeds 100ms.

This is well within my budget, but it sounds like there might be room for improvements?

Regardless of your use case, EXPLAIN ANALYZE can show you whether there's any room for improvement.