ChildrenHalveTraffic

joined 2 years ago

Good article. Document, document, document.

 

Hey all, I am having trouble submitting requests this morning to Lemmy.ca. Creating posts (like this one) I attempted 3 times all of which failed to complete their requests after minutes of waiting.

Beefier servers needed? More caching? Sure, let's do that. That said, I think there should be some UI improvements on the client side that improve the experience when we do encounter flakey servers.

My suggestion is to time out on the high-request-count workloads on the client side so that you're not accidentally hammering the server with requests that won't complete. Client side js code should convert a request like the create post green button to a error / retry button with text explaning what happened (hey the request timed out after x seconds).

I don't imagine /create_post is a high throughput endpoint, but suffice it to say that my request continued to wait in the queue patiently for the server to never respond and it was also a frustrating client-side experience. Other endpoints are probably the culprit behind any excessive server use.

Client-side it should time out after 15-30 seconds, if not less, so that I'm not just waiting and re-typing everything into the create post form again (because there's no way to retry if it's still waiting for the server response!). Re-typing everything in is the worst!

[–] ChildrenHalveTraffic@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're white, right? An immigrant?

Looks pretty good tbh

[–] ChildrenHalveTraffic@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Another expert I saw mentioned that their predictions of the worst-case stuff for the future is that it will be twice as bad compared to now. A lot of lives and houses, infrastructure, etc. can be lost when live in a reality where our fire fighting has to pick and choose which cities and livelihoods we save.

TSX Venture exchange is also worth a shot

Some great info, thanks. I do have a bike already and I am mechanically inclined.

Excellent, keep it up government. Thank you to the Senate and to the house of Commons 👏👏 great job following Australia!

[–] ChildrenHalveTraffic@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

Link taxes are a great thing for democracy and to combat the largest corporations in history. They're really effective and they've been used before. See Australia. Facebook/Meta paid and is paying.

🙂

Common term. It means dollars of tax per 1,000 dollars of assessed value.

[–] ChildrenHalveTraffic@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes this is true everywhere in Canada. Property owners have very few obligations beyond mowing the lawn and paying property taxes which have shrunk by 70% since the late 90s relative to the sale price of a home. It's dirt cheap to own a property once you've acquired it.

Winnipegs mill rate is 12.9 today. In 2002 it was 29! Before that it was even higher.

 

Hey, I'm looking to buy a new bike (or used!) that's electric in someway. Any recommendations that won't break the bank? $2k for a bike has got me reeling.

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