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Exactly my reasons: I don‘t use Docker because it‘s great that i can (could?) scale the universe.

In my case, I simply use Docker because it is so easy to set up n HTTP services listening on port 80/442 on the same server and then put a reverse proxy (traefik) with Let‘s Encrypt in front of it. I don‘t need to worry about port conflicts. I don‘t need to worry about running Nginx and Apache on the same host. I don‘t need to worry about multiple versions of Go/PHP/Dotnet/[insert lang here].

Still, I can‘t scale (single machine) but I don‘t need to. I don‘t have a failover, because I don‘t need one. But I have so much simpler management of the dozen services I run on the host. And that‘s worth it IMHO.

I think it‘s always about the right tool for the job. And I think if the OP does work with an automated script and scp, there‘s nothing wrong with that. Because that also adds reproducability to the pipeline and that‘s just such an important point. As long as nobody ssh‘s into prod and modifies some file by hand.
I think somehow this is related to how business minded people think too. I went to a course where people learn to pitch their ideas to get funds but the basics of business simply did exist much among the technical people.

One simple example (which I suspect most of the business do) is that you do all work either manually yourself or on your laptop while advise them as a resource-rich service. Only when you truly can not handle the demand then you may 'scale up' and turn your business into 'real' business. And there are plenty of tricks like this (as legally as possible).
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Ah so that was it! Thanks for pointing this out. Pushing up a fix now.
Would certainly do me - 3 mile trip to school and back eight times a week to drop the kids off, 50 miles a week, parked on the driveway.

3 million cars in the UK do less than 3000 miles a year, 1.8 million do less than 2000.
“Free speech” that you can only have in your own bedroom is not really free, is it?

It’s about public spaces. News media are not private forums, they receive a public license to operate, which is in the interest of society.
>I actually prefer personalized (targeted) ads, as long as it is a company I trust with my data.

Can you name an ad company you personally would trust?
I'm not sure why you would be so cynical about government abilities. Automated taxes work great in quite many countries worldwide. Do you think US government is somehow especially incompetent?
This year's Dorito season is going to be plentiful.
...but also take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild_(film) and the story behind it for a more cautinary tale.
I am sorry, I didn’t meant to speak about the morals of any specific person but instead of the general idea.

Both Proenneke and Thoreau have made massive contributions, no doubt about that.
The lawsuit against Hasbro was dismissed with prejudice. So clearly the court did not agree on any infringement.

To discount the whole of other original work that has been done in the decades indicates more fanaticism than just a strong bias on your part and honestly I find despicable. I won't discuss this with you further.
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> cultural factors that make software development harder for those who can’t pass as white males

Racist remarks like this need to stop. Being White or not has nothing to do with learning tech. Available resources (internet, libraries, universities) are available usually for free or small fees for everyone regardless of race (at least in the European case). Most other countries in the world haven’t even a significant White minority, and when they have one, they are not plotting against non-White to hinder their learning of technology (often quite the reverse, in fact).
Write Every Time fits. I like this.
They try to minimize the distractions (and they recommend you do too). Personally, I like being distracted a bit and mingling so it worked out just fine for me. Other than the group office hours, they don't insist you attend anything up until the demo day preparation starts.
> from another perspective, using one's native accent on TV when they are perfectly capable of speaking in a more standard accent is arguably more supremacist than "antibigoted".

In what possible way would it be "supremacist" to speak in one's native accent on TV?
Would need pretty beefy supports for wind gusts, including coping with gusts during [un]folding
Coal is about 2.3 times the cost of PV. Costs have changed radically even in the last decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...

Coal $112/MWh vs. utility solar $48/MWh.
I remember reading Donald Sadoway got inspiration for developing liquid metal batteries [1] from watching how aluminum smelting is basically a battery already.

These batteries are more efficient than aluminum energy storage, and were also aimed at large scale with cheap abundant materials (initially at least). But high temperatures involved make it not very convenient.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_battery#Liquid-met...
Of course, if everyone did that, we would have a problem. But this is not a linear thing. If more people would do this than currently does, rest of the society could enjoy more of some of the scarce resources, thus as a society we would be better off. Thus UBI to let more people do things like this.
So where do I get myelin complements/shots? Wanna keep that noggin fresh after all
Coincidentally I'm currently rewriting a flask application that runs on docker in Golang. The application doesn't use any kind of file or persistent data. During the process I've been thinking "Do I really need to run this on docker?".
> SO is also my go-to argument when some smart "architect" proposes redundant Kubernetes cluster instances for some company-local project.

Technically you don't need Kubernetes, yes. But: There are advantages that Kubernetes gives you even for a small shop:

- assuming you have a decent shared storage, it's a matter of about 30 minutes to replace a completely failed machine - plug the server in, install a bare-bones Ubuntu, kubeadm join, done. If you use Puppet and netboot install, you can go even faster (Source: been there, done that). And the best thing: assuming well written health checks users won't even notice you just had a node fail as k8s will take care of rescheduling.

- no need to wrangle with systemd unit files (or, worse, classic init.d scripts) for your application. For most scenarios you will either find Docker-embedded healthchecks somewhere or you can easily write your own so that Kubernetes can automatically

- no "hidden undocumented state" like wonky manual customizations somewhere in /etc that can mess up disaster recovery / horizontal scale, as everything relevant is included in either the Kubernetes spec or the Docker images. Side effect: this also massively reduces the ops load during upgrades, as all there is on a typical k8s node should be the base OS and Docker (or, in newest k8s versions, not even that anymore)

- it's easy to set up new development instances in a CI/CD environment

- generally, it's easier to get stuff done in corporate environments: just spin up a container on your cluster and that's it, no wrestling with finance and three levels of sign-off to get approval for a VM or, worse, bare metal.

I won't deny that there are issues though, especially if you're selfhosting:

- you will end up with issues with basic network tasks very quickly during setup, MetalLB is a nightmare, but smooth once you do have set it up. Most stuff is made with the assumption of every machine being in a fully Internet-reachable cluster (coughs in certbot), once you diverge from that (e.g. because of corp requiring you have to have dedicated "load balancer" nodes that only serve to direct traffic from outside to inside and "application" nodes not be directly internet-reachable) you're on your own.

- most likely you'll end up with one or two sandwich layers of load balancing (k8s ingress for one, and if you have it an external LB/WAF), which makes stuff like XFF headers ... interesting to say the least

- same if you're running anything with UDP, e.g. RTMP streaming

- the various networking layers are extremely hard to debug as most of k8s networking (no matter the overlay you use) is a boatload of iptables black magic. Even if you have a decade of experience...
Rent a car that's delivered to a house reliably available at 8am each morning and 3pm every afternoon, with car seats, when everyone else is after a car at at least one of those times, half a mile from the nearest neighbour, 2 miles from the village, and 7 miles from the nearest town?
Sixty nine miles a day and I would be cheering but per week is a non starter. If it were sufficient if you had such low driving needs why would you even have a car in the first place?

What interest me in designs like this is, can it receive sufficient power to overcome battery maintenance in cold weather even while sitting
More panels actually brings down the cleaning cost.

Build them all in a large strip, side by side. Attach a blower on rails at the top. Done.

C'mon this isn't rocket science.
Tips from neuroscience to keep you focused on hard tasks
Somehow crypto currencies have this strange effect on people who should know better: they see some random claim that sounds impossible and directly invest ridiculous amount of money they would _never_ spend that easily in a different context. I don't get what makes people trust such things but there is something deep at play here, somehow the FOMO makes people take crazy level of risks.
This is one of the things I've done a complete about-face on, as I've gotten older and wiser (and, selfishly, when it started affecting me).

I used to speak English with a pronounced "Indian" accent, and snark about Indians who'd grown up in India, moved to foreign lands and mutated their accent to sound American/British/Canadian/Australian/whatever.

When I moved to the UK though, I was initially pretty "stand my ground" about only communicating in my accent -- after all, I was speaking perfectly correct English. After many rounds of having to repeat myself, and often slow down so that the "locals" could understand the way that I put together syllables, I realised that "being understood with low friction" is a pretty big factor that people use to decide whether or not to engage in future interactions with you.

So I've worked on a slightly more "neutral" accent that's about as close to RP as I can get without accent coaching, and it's worked wonders, both for communication, and given the nature of British society, for my implicit acceptance in certain circles.

These days I can slip in and out of either accent depending on who I'm talking to, but I can now completely see how using just one accent for extended periods of [valuable] time changes that to be the default.
Show HN: Live Curtain – a countdown and banner for meetings
But also Macromedia did not birth Flash, they acquired FutureWave and renamed it (from FutureSplash Animator to Micromedia Flash).

But your point still stands, it became popular during Macromedia age.
Actually it will be much easier for most of them to find a path without coal as they won't have to battle an established domestic coal industry in the process.

I wouldn't underestimate the appeal renewables have in terms of "we get free energy as long as we can keep the facility running" if you don't have much money. It's a rather "obvious" investment.
The village 3 miles away has a bus service 5 times a day. My sister lives in a different village. She gets a bus service on Tuesday morning.
You're assuming that vehicles are charged disparately, rather than having several vehicles charging in tandem in the lot behind the post office.
Hey HN!

Live Curtain is a simple countdown clock and text banner in your browser. You can use it to share a message and a countdown in your online meetings, stand-ups, lessons, etc. It's free, no registration required. Just open it up in your browser, and then share the window in your meeting app.

Like everybody else, I've been in many online meetings and workshops since lockdown started. For most of these meetings, whenever we have a break, we leave the meeting open. To tell people when to come back, we might put some text in the chat, or verbally agree a time.

But I wanted to be able to display a message like "back in 10 minutes", in a nicer way. I also thought it would be a good learning exercise in how to write a web app. (I'm mostly in Java/DevOps/Kubernetes at the moment - and modern web dev has almost completely passed me by).

You type your message, set a countdown and optionally choose a theme. You can go full-screen too. You could potentially use it for kiosks, office monitors, or anywhere where you want to display a message and you don't want (or can't) fire up a slide deck.

I created a prototype of this in vanilla JS last year. (Lots of document.getElementById()...) It was great for getting comfortable with the basics of JavaScript.

Then I went away and created this 1.0 version in SvelteJS. I wanted to use the project to learn one of the modern JavaScript frameworks. I started with React first, but struggled quite a lot with it; getting a broad understanding of the React ecosystem was hard, and some of the tutorials I found online were out of date.

By contrast, Svelte has been a fun developer experience. The template project on GitHub is great, and then Svelte just gets out of the way. I'm surprised at what I was able to create, with little effort. The styling is done in TailwindCSS, which is a slog to begin with, but became easier after a while.

All hosted with Netlify, which has been a great experience also.

For me, this project has been about teaching an old dog new tricks, and having a tool that I can use day-to-day. Hope you find use for it too.

Tom
Great rec, thanks !!
A psychiatrist told me about neurotoxicity. I will trust a doctor 100 times before I trust anything online.

> Otherwise I'd say it's taking some minuscule effect and blowing it out of proportion.

I don't see how psylocybin would help people with a bit of depression or other problems. I don't want to take a drug just to have some fun. I need more than that.

And no, I don't drink. Alcohol is a depressants, so I don't need that.
I would like to see the numbers; how much overbuilding would be necessary. Even if you need to install say 50%-100% extra capacity to meet demand in winter, solar power would still be perfectly economically viable.
And I'm sure a valid use for excess power in summer can be found, e.g. desalination. Fresh water demand is surely higher in summer in the Sahara, and otherwise fresh water is easily stored
I have python script that takes on the book, does what you said and translates everything also. Very helpful, with this + list od 2K most popular words learned english in 2 books when in middle school.
I'm actually perplexed why the people in our ops team have the title DevOps Engineer, when they don't do any dev work, just handle all aws related stuff.

I asked one of them this question, but couldn't get any answer that satisfied my curiousity.

EDIT: For what it's worth I don't view myself as a software developer or operations or systems administrator or frontend or backend or fullstack. I like to think of myself as a Problem Solver. It just so happens that I'm currently paid to solve software engineering problems.

I want to know everything from Dockerfiles to bash scripting to assembly to functional programming to DDD, etc.
Remote batch brought 1 more real benefit of YC: $125k.

Before COVID when you have to relocate to Bay Area this is just a living fee for a low quality house + personal spendings.

Now, 125k is almost a lot for pretty much any place on the planet. Therefore, many remote entrepreneurs can be more relaxed on raising capital. I'd say you even can decide to "bootstrap" with this money + GCP/AWS credits.
An hour is definitely WAY to short. It should be more like a day.

There is no wasted hour - you learn from the failures.

What did this world turned into ?
> a workaround

https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Don't_Put_Your_Device_in_Rice._H...

http://enwp.org/URI_encoding
LCOE is useless when comparing nuclear and ex wind and solar.
One man intersects Devo, Roland, and MIDI
Agree. No one has created anything better than html tables!
If you combine any sentence with "N minutes", you are not for serious work and should go collecting cherries.
iMac Cat Bed
"I previously made a touchscreen Macintosh by replacing the guts with an iPad mini. I was showing that off to my friends and someone offered to give me their old iMac G3! It wasn't working but he still had all of the peripherals and even the original box! I couldn't turn it down even though I didn't have an idea of what to do with it.

Three years later I finally got my inspiration: my cat, Abby! I've seen some of these online before but a gutted iMac makes a great cat bed!"
I had similar treatment after nasal polyps and didn't notice anything.

What was the surgery like by the way? it sounds painful.
>cans are far less popular, for example, and will earn you dirty looks

I never heard nor experienced this myself in Germany. After all, almost all of they get recycled because their price includes a deposit you get back upon recycling.
> By making the russian economy heavily dependent on europe, europe gets geopolitical influence on russia.

That's not how this worked out in the last 20 years of negotiations;

> You'd pre pretty resentfull too btw, if your continent had been carved up by a foreign power with complete disregard for your cultural borders, extracted your resources and the discarded you in a state of chaos.

Agreed, but that just validates the fact that it wouldn't be a good idea to put critical infrastructure in a country that resents you.

> The african people can't be that hatefull if they try to escape their impoverished conditions by seeking an education and better life in europe.

Right, because they individually gain something out of it.

> The european people have a historical responsibility to right the wrongs their ancestors did to the ancestors of the people of africa.

Do African people have a historical responsibility for the wrongs done by Algerian piracy or for destroying each other's empires?

> A inter-continental power grid and energy collaboration is a win win for everybody.

It's really not when the most basic things already don't work in said countries.
You can see the European CoVid-19 help to Tanzania for a little sneak preview.
That's right! I completely forgot about the AWS/GCP credits. Even in a realistic usage scenario, that's adding 25 - 50k to your funding over a couple of years. The legal fees waiver for upto 10k is another one.
A Brief History of the Chinese Internet
It seems to me that a parcel-laden EV that starts and stops repeatedly will still be pretty lossy -- ie, the effective fuel efficiency will be quite low compared to typical EV city driving because regen doesn't work quite so well for precise stops. You're still going to engage the brake pads for a full stop in front of every mailbox.

Also, maintenance would probably be more expensive if you have to train people to work on the electric powertrain.

But presumably they could always modify the powertrain in a future iteration.
And somehow Photopea is fast, free and in browser and suffices for 85% of whatever people do in Adobe Photoshop.
"This [software] is antique. It belongs in a museum, not in a DMCA claim," Hyppönen tells TorrentFreak. "The original tweets stays up. It’s just a link to a site hosted by someone else. If needed, I’ll fight Adobe."

Why does he think he stands a chance? It's not like he linked to a library.
You are making this up mate.... who said anything about resenting ? Is this really discussion or some usual millennial shenanigans.

Baby sitting should not be part of any serious work. If you do that, better go into nursery and let the real engineers do the job. Failure (in your words a "pointless work") is a part of the process. I guess instant gratification generation cant fathom that.

So black and white here - there are worlds between 1 hour and infinity FFS.
This is not really embarrassing code relatively speaking.

Start replacing the global variables with ‘const one = useState(1)’, and get a few of those DOM elements into a render function, and it’ll start to look like what most front end people write now days. Split the helper/utility methods out to a helpers.js file, import in the ones you need. Swap out the Date and Number handling with native methods or decent library.

I’d call this person crazy if he abstracted into something
wholesale unnecessary like a state machine or a pub/sub pattern, or factory pattern, etc.

So far so good, plenty to work with here. The person was not given any bad ideas to even contemplate writing it in anything but a straightforward way.
> OpenGL was designed by committee and politics

Vulkan is exactly designed the same way, by the same people.

I already lost track of the extensions, and the joke it is post Vulkan 1.0 to configure everything, to the point a graphical configuration tool is required to ease the process.
Yes, simplicity is vastly underrated. Our machines are amazingly capable and can take amazing loads if we let them.

Yeah, back in the early 2000s I was asked by the BBC to help with one of their backend systems that was spread over a dozen machines running a hundred processes and connected to their enterprise Oracle.

It was incredibly slow and fell over daily. Also pretty much unmaintainable.

Replaced it with a single jar. Deployment process: copy jar to production machine, start it. Was 100-1000 times faster and also 100-1000 times more reliable. We initially did have a failure because we were all Java noobs and didn't know we had to set a JVM parameter to get it to use all the gigabyte of RAM on its dedicated machine. After that: rock solid.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
if politics is the problem, it would indicate that not even the politicians mean there is a problem. If they were truly concerned with CO2 emissions they would find ways to solve for the criminalization of nuclear we are seeing.
What about peak load

You've got 150 people in a village

Half drive, so that's 75

You've got 10% of people who want a car for this sort of distance (3000km), so that's 8. Of those chances are at least some of the time almost all of them will want to use it over the same period. Maybe you can get away with 6 or 7 cars instead of 8, with some risk, but that's not saving much, and you're adding a lot of inconvenience (car won't be in the right place), overhead, and risk (what if you need a car now and there's none available?)

If you want to tackle the externalities of the resources producing the car, tax them at the same rate as taxing other resources.

Of course that's a big village, what about a group of half a dozen isolated houses 2 miles from the village?
Is the image in the article real?

The image shows a real Elon Musk tweet with a reply by another Blue-Checked Twitter user @joshymcb (Josh McBride), except he changed his display name to Elon Musk (with Unicode variations). His reply had the link to the Bitcoin scam.

If Josh McBride really did that (and wasn’t hacked), how does he still have his Twitter blue check? I was under the impression that Twitter came down hard on people intentionally misleading others by abusing their blue check.

Ie, if have your blue check, you cannot pretend to be someone else.

Update - Josh says his account was hacked :
https://twitter.com/joshymcb/status/1371660418444316673?s=21
Firstly, your undersea cable is gonna cost a lot to build and maintain.

Next, nuclear is expensive because the economies of scale are basically zero. Make a nuclear power plant factory and you can get those numbers way down.

Finally, cost probably isn't the right way to look at it. The issue at hand is mostly efficiency, where obviously the nuclear option wins handily.