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Yes web was decentralised till it became centralised with big tech gatekeepers. AMZN makes more money from sellers fee than AWS now. Thus killing small businesses - the lifeblood of most economies. Link below.

It is time to get rid of gatekeepers, toll collector and have control of our data & communities. Web 3 is a way do that and will take about a decade as the infra builds out. So it certainly is BS for big tech landlords and their retinue.

Crypto, is part of that plan for payments. Certainly there are scams but no different than scams today - where we are treated like lab rats subjected to data stimuli, our data stolen without permission or compensation.

Sure I will take the Internet of 90s any day over today’s web with its surveillance capitalism. But that boat passed long back, as will the current one. Web3 allows users to be in control of the network(s) or communities collectively. That certainly is good for most folks.

https://www.businessinsider.in/finance/news/amazon-has-a-spe...
I already did the official getting started but the katacoda exercises are definitely not a good experience (at least on Safari): the frame is tiny and if I try to full screen it the text disappears… the exercice with Java deployment has a file tree view that just doesn’t work.

The documentation by itself seems extremely good and highly detailed though, but not really learning material. I’ll make sure to read it thoroughly once I’ve finished Kubernetes in action as suggested by someone else!
It never seeked independence, it was expelled
> I did leave them a suggestion to hard-cap the billing instead of just email alerts

Why would they do that? Enterprise customers are just going to pay the bill, and for small customers they get a lot of good will when they make a "special exception" and don't ask you to pay for charges that someone else fraudulently racked up.

The actual cost of providing the service to the fraudsters is probably so low that they don't have a lot of incentive to prevent the fraud, as long as there is a non-zero chance that someone pays for the fraudulent charges.
When did anyone ever say, "He earns what? Well he deserves it". Human nature seems to take a great interest in who is being given more.
That’s the part I’m not interested in: I don’t want to deploy and administrate my cluster, I’m just a user of an existing cluster.
New EC2 Instance Types of re:Invent 2021
Web services is a rather different kettle of fish from their consumer items side, so your comment is rather inane.
I don’t really have a super strong view either way. Here in the U.K. HMRC only knows about you if have a National Insurance Number (which isn’t mandatory) and get payed with PAYE (Pay As You Earn) where your employer collects your income tax on behalf of HMRC.

You can avoid both by only accept payments in the form of cash and bank transfers without a proper payroll. Legally dubious, but there are people out there who actually do this.

> The government has an interest in knowing who it's citizens are.

The government has an interest in many things. Doesn’t necessarily mean that individuals share that interest and should capitulate. Personally I don’t think mandatory government ID is a requirement for a well run civilisation. Interestingly Norways Bank ID is an example of how you solve the issue of ID without making it mandatory (Norway doesn’t have a compulsory National ID and only got a National ID last year), and banks in the U.K. are experimenting with something similar built on top of Open Banking.

Ultimately it’s down to the individual (in my view) to decide how much info they give to their government. But equally a government can request that info in exchange for government services, assuming that info is needed to provide that service.
> All i dream of to make a contribution and make an impact
> I’m thinking my (dead) grandparents would be embarrassed of me being such a loser

Herein lies the problem. Target smaller goals, even smallest one in the beginning. It will help you get unstuck. I.e. - want to be helpful? Volunteer to walk dogs at the shelter. The dogs will be happy and you'll be doing something useful instead of nothing. (not to mention dogs are just so naturally loving and grateful creatures that even just being around them can help you unclench).

BTW, the dog shelter is just an example. It would be ideal for you to pick up work in a direction you already fell some pull towards. I.e. - would you like to see some improvements in your neighborhood/city? - get involved in local community policits. Would you like to see improvements in an open source project you're using? - start contributing. Etc.
I started to build "simdcsv" - based on similar principles to "simdjson", but succumbed to lassitude. There's still a fork kicking around.

Doing the CSV version of the quote convention is actually wildly easier than the JSON version, as you can just treat a record like "foo""bar",hi,1,"hatstand,teakettle" as having 'left the quotes and rentered the quotes" at the double-quote spot when you're busy looking for ','. This isn't, of course, much help for normalization, but for the bit where you're hoping to simply find which ',' characters are separators, it's fine to pretend that there's a gap in your "quoted stuff bitfield" that happens at the "" in "foo""bar", as of course that gap isn't going to land on a ',' anyhow. So it's much cheaper than doing a tedious shenanigan to handle some crafty user who has hit you with 100 \ characters in a row (as opposed to 99 or 101), a la JSON.

IMO the cost of doing the CLMUL all the time vs taking a conditional to handle the 'I have no quotes today' case is pretty low. It makes for shorter and more easily understood (in performance terms) code. I wasn't allowed to take this to extremes in simdjson - we did handle the "common case" for UTF-8 validation (although I wonder if that's a very culturally determined notion of "common case").
The Microsoft acquisition of Minecraft is inexplicably one of the few big tech acquisitions that hasn't completely destroyed the product. It's impressive
Plasmic started two years ago with wanting to build a dream web design tool, but one that connects deeply with code.

What makes it interesting is that you can trivially bring any custom code components and effectively extend Plasmic’s functionality with things like data, interactions, effects, etc. that aren’t built-in. This makes it feel “hackable” and lets you give content editors all the right building blocks, so that they can directly ship to production. Or you can use Plasmic yourself to build complex app components—we use Plasmic to build Plasmic itself.

Questions/thoughts are welcome.
I meant someway for the repo to exist without coming under a specific individual, like an organisation would make more sense instead of having repos under your public profile. But then again the user has to be careful with their email addresses with every commit.
It seems like at a certain level, when a company achieves an unfortunate combination of buttloads of money and incompetent leadership, that company starts to think that it is above puny human concepts like reputation. Compare it with the behaviour of A Certain Database Company, Whose Name Is Similar To “Oral Care”.
Legal system is still playing catch-up with web1.
One nice thing about Apple computers is that Bluetooth works before the OS is booted.

I’ve heard some motherboards with built in wifi can enter the bios using a long power button press or something, and pair from inside the bios. Some Bluetooth adapters can stay paired after a soft reboot too. Both of above I only know about from seeing people complain online that these features don’t work.

There are some usb Bluetooth adapters that let you pair directly from the adapter to a keyboard, no OS required once it’s set up. Some keyboards have an optional usb cable you can use. You can also use a keyboard with a proprietary usb wireless adapter, that is a normal
usb HID device. All Logitech keyboards come with this even if they support bluetooth, probably because tech support is a nightmare otherwise. Amusingly, Logitech Bluetooth devices sold for macs are the same products but simply leave out this adapter.

Come to think of it, I use normal bluetooth devices with a windows desktop and at least once a month I need to connect a usb mouse to turn Bluetooth back on (it’s easy to turn off by mistake) or because things just stop working.
depends on the country where you work.

i believe in the US it is generally assumed that everything you do belongs to the employer even if not specifically mentioned. in some countries it is restricted to work done during work hours or on company equipment. in those countries it is safe if you work at home on your own computer, at least if the contract doesn't mention anything to the contrary. if the contract does claim personal work then it depends on whether that is legal or not.
Doesn't the ultra-realistic mod terrafirmcraft already do exactly that?
Thanks for this recommendation, according to the table of contents and reading a few chapters that’s exactly what I was looking for :)

I bought the (in progress) second edition on Manning (it comes with the physical book when it’s published, the ebooks for both the first and second edition and a +1 free ebook to give someone).
Why this is offline?
Google knew that what they might be able to claim had a very shaky legal foundation, not even taking the public backlash into account. But there is a big difference between taking a picture and taking billions of pictures, analyzing them, and putting them into a publicly accessible database. German courts are not at all dogmatic in the way they interpret the law, because a law written long back might need to be reinterpreted today in the light of new technologies or societal developments.
Here is the link to the journal version of this (I like my DOI's): https://doi.org/10.25088/ComplexSystems.25.4.297
there's middle ground people just choose to ignore it. So many similarities to the dot com bubble. As more time passes I truly feel I would have been one of the people who could spot out Amazon from the webvans and pets.coms. The strength in web3 is bitcoin and ipfs.
I've still never owned a USB-C device. There is an enormous world of devices still shipping with micro-USB ports.
The irony being that except for a register of addresses countries like the UK and the US have much more surveillance of their citizens than places like Sweden or Norway. The UK has about 1 surveillance camera per 11 citizens or so, I don't know numbers for Norway or Sweden, but from my own observations there are orders of magnitude less.

So yes the UK government might not have your adress in a register, but they know where you sleep, go to work, with whom you talk etc..

Lets not even talk about the extensive spying by the 5 eyes.
> the article mentions swarm here as the k8s equivalent, but can docker compose also fill this role

Docker-compose is inherently limited to the single node (single daemon). No redundancy.
The multinode version of docker-compose is docker swarm, in terms of the yaml file being mostly just ready for migration to swarm.

> something being simple and something being sort of done and not under active development are two sides of the same coin

If someone's resumé is basically "5 years experience with docker swarm" they have a harder time on the market than if they had these years with k8s.
Here the question is even a little bit more interesting than just the "open source" code you created I think:

There is lot of discussion about the ownership of the code, but what about the other things related to the project?
Like stars and issues.

In no way stars and issues belongs to the company, they belongs to each user that submitted them.

They submitted them to the project that was on a specific username. So, I'm not sure that the company could legally ask to take over that by force without the user agreeing.

Imagine if a company ask that "you transfer your likes to us"...
> I miss its programmatic approach to deployments

That seems to be people main justification for using Kubernetes. We really need to find an solution that will allow us to deploy software programmatically, without dragging along the complexity of Kubernetes.

I know, Kubernetes is “easy” on AWS, Azure or GCP. Well great, but many of us can’t use managed Kubernetes. Now we’re stuck managing on-prem cluster, just so the developers can deploy three containers and an ingress controller while complaining that they need to update their YAML because some API changed again.

Kubernetes is great, for some project, just not most. Sadly we’re don’t have any good alternative for deploying to VMs.
It is stunningly difficult to do something like this within procedural generation. Remember a given xyz coordinate has to generate given only the coordinate number itself and a seed. You couldn't do stuff like plate tectonics within an "infinite" world because that would require generating every block which is akin to generating every digit of pi
this place is corporate shill-land. Dang allows some corps to spam hard here, I assume lots of $$ are involved, or just protecting investments. You need to walk on eggshells not to trigger the shill army's votes. You need to be all smiles when big corps are mentioned. Some good links are posted now and then.
Although there are mods for the Java edition to allow Bedrock clients to connect to Java servers.
Thanks for the recommendation. I went with Kubernetes in action instead but Kubernetes Up & Running seems equally good based on the table of contents.
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good to know, thanks
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Most people can't taste it at all. And let's celebrate its 'invention' by the mammals so many million years ago as a brilliant solution to the problem of how to temporarily store and then excrete nitrogen in a harmless way as against the uric acid route used by birds and reptiles. People who have a test for the nasty H. pylori bug swallow a solution of urea and find it tasteless as far as I'm aware.
I honestly never understood the appeal of vanilla Minecraft. I only bought the game because of the mods! Mods like AE2 or Thermal Expansion is where the fun is at!
Presumably it means they are obnoxiously pious.
That's what the hardcore mode in Minecraft is for: if you die, the save is deleted.
For those who are not mentally ill and trusting what their chiropractor has told them about synthetic oils, why do we care?

Plants grow around literal tar pits..... https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nature-s-time-capsules...

La Brea Pitch Lake on Google Maps - https://goo.gl/maps/MzuTgrGovebsWfxSA
Very cool hardcore minimalist aesthetic! Do you use it yourself for reading your feeds?
I'm a little confused why he replaced direct burial CAT6 with fiber because of fear regarding lightning strikes versus the easier and more cost effective solution of installing Ethernet surge protectors at each end.
Read the contract before you sign it. Don't work for companies that include any clauses what you can or cannot do in your free time (excluding reasonable exceptions, such as not directly competing with $employer).

This sort of greed/zealotry on the side of employers is why some FOSS projects are such a pain to contribute to (i.e. anything that's part of the Eclipse Foundation). You pretty much have to sign your name in blood on a contributor agreement, and you may even have to get your employer to sign it too. This is madness. Slavery is not a thing. Employers do not own us.
> UK and US have some of the most advanced surveillance states in the world, something that countries like China can only aspire to.

I think that’s a little hyperbolic, the U.K. and US certainly have large surveillance states built in secret out of the public eye and public scrutiny. But China is on a completely different level, if you don’t think that’s true, then research the prevalent use of facial recognition, and the extreme forms of surveillance applied to minority populations like Uighurs. Everything in the U.K. pales in comparison.

Before you bring up the topic of CCTV and facial recognition trials, almost all CCTV in the U.K. is privately owned and inaccessible to the state without a warrant. It certainly isn’t networked into some super surveillance hub. And the facial recognition trials have been a complete farce, more a demonstration of police incompetence, than state surveillance.
Hello again. Can you name ONE way 3D Studio Max's user interface has tangibly improved since Monica Lewinsky brought Bill Clinton a pizza and blew him in the White House? Not ONE?

If you can't, then I rest my case: Max has an ANCIENT outdated user interface, and it's been stagnating for decades. So what if you're used to it? I'm used to Windows 95 and Microsoft Visual Studio 6 too, but that doesn't mean they have good user interfaces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYt0khR_ej0

>"Jim, let me tell you something: there's gonna to be a WHOLE BUNCH of things we don't tell Mrs. Clinton. Fast food is the least of our worries, ok buddy?"
That’s exactly my goal for 2022, I want to pass the CKAD certification :) I’m looking for good resources to get started for that! I went with the Kubernetes in Action book, and bought CKAD with Tests on Udemy (thanks Black Friday) for follow up later on.
I never had an issue with bricking but it is a bit hard to find power bricks that output 15V, which is what the dock requires.
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It means they're about to get a butt load of criticism and I'm an asshole
It makes no sense, but this:

> In many parts of the world (including the US & U.K.) the idea of central government holding an accessible database of everyone’s identifies, and mandating participation, is cultural and political suicide.

Is a very true statement. I am British but I live in Switzerland. If I want to do anything here, I send a copy of my residency permit. Bank statements wouldn't count.

The UK actually did experiment with ID cards under the Blair/Brown government. I never had one, they were only issued in a trial area. There was a campaign against it: https://www.no2id.net/ and the Cameron government (2010-brexit) scrapped the ID cards. The law was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Cards_Act_2006 .

One of the main objections was to the national identity register, which would contain biometrics and not need the card in order to query.

I'm on the fence about this. On the one hand, I'm not sure I trust the UK government to run any kind of IT scheme - they tend to pick huge consultancies, waste enormous sums of money and the result is late, 6x the price and doesn't actually work. Also the biometrics thing seems excessive. On the other hand, there are plenty of centralised databases already and if you ever want to drive a car, at least one of them prints out an ID-0 sized card with your photo on it. I would also, honestly, prefer an identity card over proving my identity with easily forged bank statements.
This reminds me... what about those who do not have a surname?

> Most Afghans have no surname; it is also common to have no surname in Bhutan, Indonesia, Myanmar, and the south of India.

They cannot handle patronyms, and for many people every local document (except passport and tax card) uses initials, for example. The problem is that the bank account name has initials (in many places for many people) which does not match your name.

My friend had an issue with Wise because they wanted the name to match that is on the passport, which was fine because it did. Then it started demanding that it matches his bank account name, which it cannot, because he has only initials there.

They are dealing with international customers. They need to understand these differences, but they do not.
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I think you'll find that most doesn't want to see anyone burn, this is a huge part of why we care to reach out to people.

Annoying as it might be at least the fractions I know actually care for people, and many of us try to do so as "un-annoyingly" as possible.

Misguided or not, we obviously think what we believe is correct and we want to help others - not seing anyone burn if we can avoid it.

Otherwise we should just shut up and enjoy our own lives as talking to people about it is quite stressful.
I wrote Harbormaster because I needed exactly this. It's very simple and has worked extremely well for me, at home as well as in production:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/harbormaster
It was like 40% white, 30% black, 30% other.
> I asset that the tolerant ones are far larger in population than the intolerant ones.

Who is casting votes for the intolerant politicians supporting intolerant laws then?
It is still microsoft. Even if they „win“ this, at some point they will fail and fall behind until they can utilize the work of others again to survive. That‘s just MS DNA.
Source:
https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/this-is-how-many-...
An interesting related question I've always had is what even counts as a contribution. For example, consider the three situations:

(a) I open an issue about a feature not working. E.g.: “When I press the button, the app crashes”.

(b) Same as (a), but I also point out the place in the code where the error is without providing any code to fix it. E.g. “When I press the button, the app crashes, and I think that it has to do with a null pointer dereference in function pkg.foo()”.

(c) Same as (b), but I also provide a simple diff to fix it, but not a formally submitted merge/pull request.

The (c) sounds close enough to a contribution but not quite. And I'm not sure about (a) and (b).