I think "leaders" have lost touch with reality. Actually, people in general have lost touch with reality, with instagram and tiktok influencers essentially saying you are a loser if you don't have these luxury products that "everyone" has.
Were they ever in touch? Whenever reporters ask most leaders in my country, what the minimum and average wages are and what the ballpark prices of electricity, gas, eggs, milk, meat and bread are, they have no idea if they weren't schooled beforehand by their advisors.
If this becomes mainstream, then the economies of scale should bring down the cost significantly. And cost aside, it would be safer and more customisable- you can install the switch anywhere and even change the location easily, don’t need a conduit with wires behind it.
It should be illegal to restrict tethering or charging differently for tethering. There are really no technical reasons for a phone to even convey whether it is using the data or sharing data using a hotspot. It is purely for price gouging. I also hate that even unlocked phones don’t have a way to stop the provider from knowing whether tethering is being used or not.
It is not just that most people can’t afford an EV, but they don’t have home charging! The article doesn’t even mention this problem and just assumes that everyone has that privilege. Most people in developing countries park their cars roadside. And many people live on rent in apartments. The owner and the renter, neither want to pay for the charger installation.
It is not really a fair comparison. I would expect that an old android phone that is just sitting in the cupboard to be used for hosting. I think the goal should not be “hosting website” but to be able to repurpose an old compute device for something useful.
Phones these days are really good computing devices. 8GB or 16GB RAM, fast and efficient ARM processors, flash storage, inbuilt ups, Wi-Fi and 4G/5g connectivity, gpu and hardware accelerated encode and decode for video codecs etc.
An equivalent VPS (hardware wise) would be more costly imo.
Unlike JSON, orc requires batching of rows to write to disk. It's because it does a lot of computation - maintaining indexes, encoding columns (run-length, dictionary), calculating statistics, maintaining bloom filters, compressing columns etc.
Doing this at the source where you are more interested in serving an individual request as quickly as possible doesn't look like a good idea.
If you want the orc files to be useful, you need to batch a lot of rows together otherwise you don't get the benefits of columnar storage. So logs in the happy path will be delayed, and in the unhappy path if the process crashes, recent logs are gone.
JSON isn't really bad as a logging format. And it can be stored temporarily to then asynchronously convert to a columnar format.
The Motherduck website says “ SERVERLESS DATA ANALYTICS WITH
DUCKDB”. Does this mean using lambdas or cloud functions?
This looks very similar to https://github.com/cloudfuse-io/buzz-rust
If it is economical, the benefits must be passed on to the consumers. Maybe luxury cars have become commoditised and BMW can’t think of any new innovative thing to charge for so this is what they do.
