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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

So expensive

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year 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!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're white, right? An immigrant?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year 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.

🙂

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I left Toronto because I couldn't afford to buy a somewhat cheap condo or a reasonable house. My household income was $160k at the time. It's a nice city with great services, great people, but the housing is unbelievable - it forced me and my family out with our two kids.

I have also visited Copenhagen and it's the same there - extremely high housing costs means that you're poor by default unless you bought in 20-30 years ago. Great, I can buy a beer for 5 kroner, but housing is an apartment for $300k

Calgary, Sydney, Auckland, Vancouver... yes, all of these also apply.

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