long-time java dev and did a portion of my startup on dial-up. they've been hostile to any attempt to optimize for bandwidth for a very long time - i had elaborate hoops i jumped through to implement caching that should have been baked in to the tooling

this is just chickens coming home to roost

I've been a user of the Java/Maven ecosystem for decades. Maven has had local caching of artifacts for as long as I can remember, and there are several ways to set up a private repository mirror for caching and reproducibility.

The interests of the Maven project (i.e. the Maven community), Sonatype and other actors in the space are not necessarily aligned.

But I do wonder where you had to jump through hoops? A basic Squid caching proxy should be enough at least for a pure pull-through like Maven Central. Once you have to publish stuff, okay, that is messy, you won't get anywhere with just Squid there.

what VM/provisioning are you using ?

For work, EC2. For play, the cheapest VM I could find: https://vpshostingservice.co/

They have specials every now and then.

!remindme 500 years

everything can be a moving part if you use enough hydrogen and oxygen

do you run vscode in the container ? if so, can you share your config ?

i've been trying to do this with systemd-nspawn

Easiest way to do it would be enable ssh in container and then use VSCode ssh extension. Your host VSCode “becomes” your container VSCode.

I run it natively on my rocky8 container with UI sometimes but usually just do ssh

there are dozens of us !

i'm on a mid-level laptop, at times with slow or expensive internet, running ubuntu. i want to be able to run nominally-isolated "copies" of my laptop at near-native speed

1. each one should have it's own network config, eg so i can use wireguard or a vpn

2. gui pass-through to the host, eg wayland, for trusted tools, eg firefox, zoom or citrix

3. needs to be lightweight. eg gnome-boxes is dead simple to setup and run and it works, but the resource usage was noticeably higher than native

4. optional - more security is better (ie, i might run semi-untrusted software in one of them, eg from a github repo or npm), but i'm not expecting miracles and accept that escape is possible

5. optional - sharing disk with the host via COW would be nice, so i'd only need to install the env-specific packages, not the full OS

i'm currently working on a podman solution, and i believe that it will work (but rebuilding seems to hammer the network - i'm hoping i can tweak the layers to reduce this). does microsandbox offer any advantages for this use case ?

> 1. each one should have it's own network config, eg so i can use wireguard or a vpn

This is possible right now but the networking is not where I want it to be yet. It uses libkrun's default TSI impl; performant and simplifies setup but can be inflexible. I plan to implement an alternative user-space networking stack soon.

> 2. gui pass-through to the host, eg wayland, for trusted tools, eg firefox, zoom or citrix

We don't have GUI passthrough. VNC?

> 3. needs to be lightweight. eg gnome-boxes is dead simple to setup and run and it works, but the resource usage was noticeably higher than native

It is lightweight in the sense that it is not a full vm

> 4. optional - more security is better (ie, i might run semi-untrusted software in one of them, eg from a github repo or npm), but i'm not expecting miracles and accept that escape is possible

The security guarantees are similar to what typical VMs support. It is hardware-virtualized so I would say you should be fine.

> 5. optional - sharing disk with the host via COW would be nice, so i'd only need to install the env-specific packages, not the full OS

Yeah. It uses virtio-fs and has overlayfs on top of that for COW.

any idea how the webapp is written ? eg, what libraries or framework is used

Pretty standard Next app on Vercel. Some pre-fetching. Food pages are cached post-generation. Custom go-based search server behind a Cloudflare cache. Any other questions?

this is 100% proprietary and the source code for this isn't available: https://frinklang.org/faq.html#OpenSource

i'm open to non-FOSS licenses (and advocate for and use a class of them), but in this case 1. afaict, the license offers zero rights to the user 2. for me personally, i want more rights for a language than for an app, eg mongo

they're trying to demo low-latency so they more-or-less have to be aggressive with cutting you off. that said, i think they're using filler to buy themselves a second or 2 - try a yes-or-no question

we dont use any fillers- we do some cool stuff with speculative responses though to drop a few milliseconds!

But yes- accuracy versus speed of interrupts is a tradeoff we're working on tuning. sorry to hear it was cutting you off. It could have been audio feedback or hug of death, but it shouldn't be talking over you.