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Kubernetes has complexity for a reason. It's trying to solve complex problems in a standardized and mature manner.

If you don't need those problems solved then it's not going to benefit you a whole lot.

Of course if you are using docker already and are following best practices with containers then converting to Kubernetes really isn't that hard. So if you do end up needing more problems solved then you are willing to tackle on your own then switching over is going to be on the table.

The way I think about it is if you are struggling to deploy and manage the life cycle of your applications... fail overs, rolling updates, and you think you need some sort of session management like supervisord or something like to manage a cloud of processes and you find yourself trying to install and manage applications and services developed by third parties....

Then probably looking at Kubernetes is a good idea. Let K8s be your session manager, etc.
Yeah, they'd have to decide which colour of lettering to use with every paint colour. I think you're right that it won't make it to production, at least in its current form.
Exactly - I deployed a k8s cluster with eksctl in about 10 min. Deployed all my services within another 10min (plain Helm charts).
Sorry, I should have been clear I was specifically replying to suggestion that glibc (or any malloc, by which I mean C standard library memory manager) could move memory allocations.
... where Control+L means repeat previous find/replace. (-:
I don't believe the pilot program was ever deigned to be a universal basic income.
Probably it's the same exec who decided BMW steering should become numb and lifeless, apparently to remind drivers that BMWs are luxury cars first and fun cars second.

And to anticipate the response, no, this wasn't inevitable as steering became more electrical. At the same time, several other carmakers produced far superior electric steering systems to BMW's (e.g. Audi, Porsche). About 2012 BMW made a design choice to dumb down the steering response of all their cars, IMO thereby dissing BMW's very identity as the ultimate driver's car. Now I'm not sure they'll ever be able to reclaim those 60+ years of proud history they so cluelessly dismissed.
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The white & blue checkering is actually a nod to the Bavarian colors/flag. The propeller metaphor came later.

https://www.bmw.com/en/automotive-life/bmw-logo-meaning-hist...
Also tried BOINC and got "cannot connect to core server" and apparently (based on googling around) you've gotta open up a specific port. Would be nice if they told you this on the download page or at least where to look after you download.

I gave up on both folding@home and BOINC. I don't have all day to fiddle around with this shit.
I think anyone considering these wild setups should read about how stackowerflow is hosted on a couple of IIS servers. It’s a sobering reminder that you often don’t need the new cool.
> [ $[$RANDOM % 10] = 0 ] && do_this || do_that

> This gives roughly a 1 in 10 chance of do_this running, and a 9 in 10 chance of do_that running.

`do_that` having a 9 in 10 chance depends on `do_this` having a 0 chance of returning a falsy status.
IIRC, it's to create a commercial launch platform and also passenger rockets for quick point-to-point travel. Basically a really big and fast 747
better article showing logo changes throughout the last century+ [0]

[0] - https://www.thedrive.com/news/32440/bmw-starts-the-decade-wi...
What happens when the IP address changes? You need some way to lookup current IP addresses. Why re-invent DNS? Also, how do you protect these services from unauthorized access?
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As someone that grew up in an area where there are many families that have at least two generations of non-working family units I'm actually thrilled by UBI. It won't encourage that any more than the current social welfare system does, even if those numbers increase slightly the rest of the benefits to the rest of the population are still worth it.

Not doing things because some of the population take the piss is not sensible.
Slight tangent, but it seems to me that humans are not bounded by the halting problem like computers are. In other words, given a general algorithm to determine whether a program halts, I can always write a program that fools the algorithm. But I can't write a program that fools my brain. Ergo, human brains are not simply biological Turing machines like everyone seems to think?
Yep. People who oppose universal healthcare because "have you been to the DMV?" don't consider the fact that in this case private industry already has dramatically more bureaucracy than the government equivalent would. My health insurer is already the DMV, just without any legal obligation to help me.

Of course, it would still take tons of legwork to make the actual transition. But the end result would be a net win for simplicity.
Change for the sake of change is how good apps and brands are ruined.

>Jens Thiemer, senior vice president of customer and brand, says it was designed to “radiate more openness and clarity"

Clearly a decision made by a non-technical person thinking with his heart and not his brain. How these people get away with such buzzword bullshit at huge multinational corporations is beyond me. I wonder how much he makes. Reminds me of that infamous Pepsi PDF.

These people get high off their own farts.
If labor remains fixed then people as a whole have more money. Prices go up due to inflation and increased demand, no? I realize that's simplistic, but is it not generally true?
The program was never a universal basic income, just a basic income pilot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Basic_Income_Pilot_Pro...
You don't know ctrl+L?
You are not the only one.

This piece is almost a self-parody. Here's a quote:

Get him started on the subject, ale in hand at The Garden Gate, or on those rare occasions he called in to correct a glib host on talk radio, and Van Allen could go. “We’re an island of, what, 96,000 sq miles? Population that’s sky-high, growing, and the same number of houses we had 40 years ago. Too many people! Not enough houses! Me and most of my friends, we’re all in the same boat, long-termers, a community hundreds of thousands strong, not crashed in the gutter, people in paid employment, and all fucked – have been for years. It’s the way the legislation is … We didn’t choose this friggin’ path. This is the Housing Act of 1996 and every bullshit piece of legislation that’s been put in place since. It’s not our path. I fought it for years and then I threw in the towel. Said to myself: ‘Fuck it, I’m going camping.’”

This is like a McMansion hell of words.

I can't even capture it all with HN's markdown syntax. You have to look at the article. To see the real italics. To see the embedded link.

But you can see the wild flips in perspective, tense and syntax. You can see the nested quote marks at the end. You can see "sq miles".

Riddley Walker is easier to parse than this.

By contrast, I'm currently reading a book by Peter Hessler. He also practices non-linear storytelling. But his words are clear and carefully placed (or well edited). The narrative is not random. There is a continual sense that the reader's trust in the author will be rewarded.
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An easy way to think about database nulls is how you would answer a question in real life about unknowns.

I have a friend James, and another friend Jane. I don't know their ages. Are they of the same age?

Or Jane has a car. James has a blue car. Do car colours differ?

SQL provides human answers: explicitly answers "I don't know".

Other languages treat null as if it was just another value, providing very confusing answers. I wish all programming languages would use SQL style of null.
As a someone who has used Unix for 35+ years, I feel the book is great. It actually does more to explain why things are the way they are in UNIX than any other book I've read, pro-Unix or not.. I don't agree with everything it covers and many of the complaints of the book have been addressed over the years, but it definitely still relevant today.
Because you're using data that doesn't control for occupation, hours worked, etc.
That’s fair. I was thinking about dimly lit bars.
I don't think BOINC is that much better. I got it installed and running and got 'cannot connect to core servers'. Nothing on their download page talked about where to go next for instructions either. After googling around I see something on a message board about opening up certain ports. If they want people to help out with this stuff the first thing they need to do is improve their documentation and onboarding.

At least I got the FAH thing to run, but only on the CPU not the GPU. I give up.
The new category is that Uber is as controlling as an employer in some ways (manner of work) but not in others (time and place of work). There should be a legal framework to handle these hybrid scenarios.
Since cmd+<number> now switches tab in Terminal.app, and the other few things I like, such as remembering the scrollbacks, number of tabs and cwd's, I find I have no use of iTerm2 any longer.

Plus, Terminal.app feels much faster. Using terminal Emacs feels very different in the two terminals.
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> It won't encourage that any more than the current social welfare system does

Citation needed
A couple of years ago I was contacted and did some freelance engagement with a great client.
Not really demographics, but from the article:

> while some people did stop working, about half of them headed back to school in hopes of coming back to a better job.
It's much easier to understand linear upstream history!

Also, with this script you get to see which of your commits is conflicting with which upstream commits. That's really important information to me.
That's for aesthetic reasons though.
> Secondly, who gets to decide what a "firearm" is? All kinds of objects could potentially contain an explosion and fire a projectile.

The Firearms Act does:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/27/section/57

Whether or not the firearm is offence worthy:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/27/section/5
High demand for a place to offshore money != high demand for a place to live. The former is why the price per sqm is high. The latter would communicate that a place is actually nice to live in.
Signs are cheaper than properly-designed roads. They're safety theatre, designed to make people feel better without actually doing anything.
I thought the logo was a airplane propeller. Its actually just the bavarvian flag.. (B standing for "Bavaria" a region of Germany, "MW" Motor Werk.

It has evlovlved slightly over the years, but its kinda still the same. If it looks bad with a transparent background they'll fill it in.

Some "historical" BMW logos.

https://www.motor1.com/news/365668/bmw-logo-isnt-propeller/

Ad with the (not) BMW "Propeller Logo"

https://www.autoblog.com/2010/01/10/report-as-it-turns-out-b...
Looking at the thread here most seem to have a positive experience with Anki and your excessively negative reaction is a bit strange.
> 10% minimum wage increase induces 1%-2% increase in the United States

This shows that absolute rent is going up. Relative rent, the proportion of income going to rent, is going down. This frees up folks' money for other things and improves living conditions.

> Now imagine a 10% raise for every earner.

If everybody made the same exact amount, that would be relevant. With a $25k UBI, you'd see folks who previously earned $50k getting a 50% raise and those making $500k getting a 5% raise. Right now, people in poverty are often spending 40-60% of their income on rent. Not so of people making $500k.
Who is giving you 100% uptime? All major providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc) all have had outages in the past 3 years. And that level of infrastructural failure doesn't care about whether or not you're using k8s.
The overhead managing a container ecosystem to run production is not trivial. IF you are doing this in a service then by all means leverage that package methodology.

If you are managing your systems who already have a robust package management layer then adding the container stacks on top of managing the OS layers you have just doubled the systems your operations team is managing.

Containers also bring NAT and all sorts of DNS / DHCP issues that require extremely senior well rounded guys to manage.

Developers dont see this complexity and think containers are great.

Effectively containers moves the complexity of managing source code into infrastructure where you have to manage that complexity.

The tools to manage source code are mature. The tools to manage complex infrastructure are not mature and the people with the skills required to do so ... are rare.
Rebranding is a thing. It allows corporations to get rid of past negative associations with the brand, be more attractive to younger audience by not looking too differently from brands they are exposed to, even just remind everyone they still exist and should be considered as a choice, things like that.
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There is a lot of misunderstanding in this thread, and a lot of strong opinions.

"UBI" is mentioned repeatedly, but this wasn't a UBI program.

The intention of the program was looking to replace our existing welfare and many Ontario works programs.

Instead, the incoming government (after campaigning on completing the pilot) canceled the program unilaterally, and is looking to outsource our welfare payment programs to foreign companies.

Please read a summary on the program:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Basic_Income_Pilot_Pro...
huh, TIL
Current and potential customers of BMW know what they build.

Don't know if a 3D logo works as a reminder of what BMW does.

I will hate a 3D logo in a company like SpaceX
And the Instagram logo is still bland and unmemorable, hard to apply and a target of mockery. It’s just not in the news anymore.
That's the thing. BMW is recognized as building cars, or as you say _real machines_.

Instead BMW tries to transform its business to provide mobility. Its a service provider and the service is mobility. It is not the cars. The cars are the vehicle to provide mobility, one form of mobility.

BMW has several brands to communicate this mobility, which are ShareNOW, FreeNOW, and ReachNOW. ShareNow is what used to be DriveNow, which is the free floating carsharing. FreeNOW is the Uber-like Taxi-App. ReachNow is the Google/Apple Maps which includes public transport, Carsharing, Taxi, eScooter Rental, Bike Rental so that you can reach your desired destination the most efficient way.
you mean Googol?
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> millions of people lack the basic material resources needed to fulfill anything close to their potential

There is a limited amount of capital in the world. Distributing it now might help those at home, but it does not help the billion people who still lack electricity. There simply is not enough capital in the world to build trillions of dollars worth of infrastructure for free. Investment is a much better vehicle for distribution than UBI as it also creates wealth.
>where mass is the dominant cost factor.

The compounding importance of mass is one factor here, but only half the story. The other half is how SpaceX' quick iterations and ability to retire vehicles early allows ample room to experiment and also to shave off safety factors.

In the more mundane aerospace engineering mass is quite important, but the manufacturing, servicing, longevity etc. are pretty important considerations too. A typical airplane is designed for manufacture of some 200 ... 2000 units and to remain in use for 1 ... 3 decades. This, together with the usual requirement for human flight ratings, ends up dictating rather high safety margins for designs.

Contrast that with SpaceX' vehicles which are supposed to perform a dozen unmanned flights each at most, and where one-way mission of a vehicle is a perfectly feasible strategy for testing while still making decent revenue.

Quick iterations get shit done in aerospace. Among historical examples, that's how MacCready's Gossamer Albatross[1] record-breaker came to be, where other teams failed.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacCready_Gossamer_Albatross
I don't know who we can force to do the work for us, but if my toilet's backing up, the garbage is overflowing, and my back yard is filled with rotting fruit I guess I'd do those jobs.
It's basically "We don't know what this, so let's call it terrorism" - which apparently includes any form of social deviance or unsanctioned initiative.
A disaster, and yet I remember reading about attempts to replace it when I was still in University, and now here I am over a decade into my career and Wayland still isn't ready for primetime, especially if you use a video card from the #1 producer of performance video cards on the planet. Small use case I guess. X lets you do forwarding over the network and maybe sometime in the 2020's Wayland will have some sort of remote desktop solution? Still waiting on that to be ironed out...

Replacing X feels like the nuclear fusion project of the Linux world, constantly receeding into the future even as it maintains its promises of fixing all our problem When It's Done(tm).
So is yours actually: You have people who work but whose work doesn't contribute to society (or at least, makes the world a worse place).

But most of those wouldn't be affected that much by UBI, I don't think.
Only $200k? I'd guess at least double that. If an iconic logo is being revamped for the first time in decades, getting it right would be worth at least a million. Sadly, paying a lot doesn't guarantee a good result...
So as a gender, women choose lower paid jobs and work less?
If this is true and it is a choice, that would mean that women as a gender are either lazy or less qualified.
If this is not true then it is evidence of inequality in the selection of employees.
I don't see either of the above making your point.
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I use it for interview prep. I know some people advise against memorizing stuff in programming but it's been effective for me so far.
You can spend 3-5 minutes in an interview trying to reason about implementing the partition method of a quicksort or translating 2D array indexes into 1d. With anki you can just regurgitate it out of your deep memory in 30 seconds whether you use it in your day to day or not.
It's safety theatre. Signs don't work, properly-designed roads work. But signs are cheaper and make it possible to continue to live a sprawling life in suburbia, so.
We could let the government build factories, mines, and services. Then profits could be directed towards the program. The government services could also have a mandate for automation and job-destruction, in order to maximize the effectiveness of the people's capital.
To be fair: the UHH is a legitimately great book, a fun read, and absolutely something every modern developer should know. It's opinionated in exactly the right way, even if some of its conclusions turn out to have been wrong in hindsight.

But as for X11: yeah. You can complain all you want at microdesign issues, but longevity beats all. I can run an unmodified X11R1 client from 1987 against the default install of pretty much any newly installed Linux/BSD box and it still works, something not true of literally any other contemporary GUI toolkit of the era.
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Smack a large "in my opinion" on there. I don't think anyone has done the statistical modelling for it yet.
Yes! If you all aren't destitute and your parents never worked, your family has time to accrue lots of social capital, which incidentally is extremely economically valuable in this weird age.
It may not be if it's songs that were popular in that area during that time rather than songs FROM that place. I'm not sure if they differentiate which it is, I didn't see any at a glance.
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"they both encouraged us to study so we could do better than they did"

And the parents who do this are not the ones who will sit home and drink beer all day just because they're getting a $2k/mo basic income. Instead, they could go back to school, or start a business, or travel outside the country once in awhile, or spend more time teaching their kids an important skill like music or math or programming because the intense, ceaseless, soul-destroying pressure of just getting by has been lifted a bit.

Also, while I understand that police officers don't make a lot and it's very tough job, it's also a very stable job with benefits, a pension, etc. so I imagine that despite not being anywhere close to wealthy, your parents also didn't need to spend their days focused solely on survival like someone who works minimum wage with no job security, who has possibly no health insurance, who likely has to frequently get high interest payday loans to make rent or buy food... that kind of lifestyle is extremely difficult to dig out of, and it leads inevitably towards family breakdown, crime, health-destroying habits, mental illness, and general despair. That's who basic income is really for. I mean these people are literally killing themselves just to get by, and the response of many folks with far more privilege is "eh, you'd just be sitting around drinking beer otherwise".
I hear people say this, but I'm never clear on the mechanism by which we A) have bullshit jobs now and B) we will stop having them once UBI is implemented. It seems to me like capitalists pocketing more money is already a compelling reason to labor used efficiently.
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Dude, we are faaaaaaaaar from equal opportunity. One of the largest predictors of one's ability to accumulate wealth is still the wealth of their own parents. The U.S. is one of the countries with the highest link between parents' and a child's wealth.
Couldn't you consider older people living on Social Security to be somewhat of a UBI microclimate? I'd imagine you could learn a lot by sending the same questionnaire to them. A lot of the mental factors are the same: desire vs. ability to work, the changes in routine pre and post income, etc.

Also, I wonder if we had UBI there would be facilities that would take care of you if you turned over your income check to them in the same way that some nursing homes do. One wonders how different this would be than a minimum security prison....
Yeah, should have removed the letters too.
Haha, yes I think it would!

But also you probably get more joy in not having to commute / being at home vs. me living with only my partner.