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Over complex control systems are the reason I have stuck to cars from the last century for conversions, my 1990 hilux had exactly 1 microcontroller in the ECU which went straight in the bin when the electric motor went in. I also stuck with a manual gearbox even though it rarely gets out of 3rd. My other 1996 BMW 528i conversion has been on going for 3 years due to over-complex engineering, I ended up throwing out the automatic transmission and am now using a manual transmission fixed in 3rd gear, basically using the auto selector to select R or D only, the digital logic to get a 1996 528i auto transmission selector working is just a few diodes and resistors.
Blade Runner suffers from the same problem as every other important classic.

Younger generations who see it today have already seen 100s's of movies and TV-series, anime etc. that are based on aesthetics and narrative of Blade Runner. The original has little originality left for new viewers because it has been endlessly copied and they have already been immersed in it.

Another great example is Friz Lang's M (1931). It has influenced everyone from Hitchcock to everything in Film Noir. If you watch it now it's almost comical. It has every trope of serial killer movie. Except everyone else is copying M. Even if you have not watched the movie, you have already seen the movie thousands of times.
I could take your last sentence and flip urban and suburbia. Your argument has no substance.
> Apple only offers a slider for this

One way to get the display to turn off immediately is by setting a hot corner in Desktop & Screen Saver>Screen Saver>Hot Corners... to "Put Display to Sleep" and then dragging the pointer to the appropriate corner. Works like a charm.

> there must be an opt-out

There are at least two:

1. System Preferences>Battery

[√] Prevent your Mac from automatically sleeping when the display is off

2. caffeinate(8) command

$ man caffeinate

Note it has some interesting options such as configuring display/system/disk sleep as well as preventing the system from sleeping while running a specified command (e.g. make).
They donate $1 in $60

Microsoft revenue is $160B. Have they donated $2.6 billion to open source this year?
You need only nitrogen for explosives, but nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium for fertilizer. Therefore guano (which contains all three) is overkill for explosives but great as a fertilizer, while synthetic nitrogen compounds are insufficient as a "complete" fertilizer and have to be supplemented with the two other elements from other sources.
It was better than Foundation…
Some lose money on a receding market, so it needs to shutdown, says Pulitzer-prized journalist.
It’s long been my favourite film, so I guess that makes it the GOAT. That soundtrack never fails to resonate. The moral ambiguity of everyone is so well balanced. The set design and props. Everything, really.
How about the time spent reading this (Schrodinger's value) comment on an internet social media site?
+1 tiny teams run infrastructure that previously was responsibility of whole departments at bigco and things mostly work well. Then as soon as they face some minor, totally solvable issues everyone loses their minds.
The big question is: Do you need that kind of functionality? I agree that very large and complex infrastructures have their place - the problem is just that they import a ton of complexity and usually cost a lot.

People are always suprised when they see a minimal webserver instance on a ten year old debian [0] handling tens of thousands of requests, without issue. It might go down once a decade because the disk failed, but it cost 1200$ to run over that decade. I don't think that's the perfect way, but modern infrastructures love to include a lot of complexity when it's not needed. The problem is that including something is very easy and the cost is only payed once it breaks. Also, hardware is really cheap (you might not think so, but if you compare it to western IT salaries, it is).

[0] I know outdated instances with no update strategy are not really a benchmark, but I encourage you to go out and ask people what their container base image upgrade strategy is - the situation really did not change that much.
Anything couched in religious language immediately turns people off even if what is being said perfectly aligns with the reader’s beliefs.

Philosophize this has some good discussions about religious vocabulary when discussing Kierkegaard.
This. Once one posits the abstract properties of God as infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, and a priori to all things, a lot of religious presumptions look like failures of the imagination. It is trivially obvious that God is unknowable, that any God one claims to know is 'another' God placed before the true God. It is literal hubris to experience certitude about the nature of God, and there is therefore no exemption from culpability through the name of God for injuries done to another.
DevOps is a recent attempt to lower the duplicative and ongoing costs of infrastructure.

Here, the saying "you can have it good, fast or cheap, pick one and be ecstatic with two" applies.
The version with the VO? If so, that literally treats the audience like they're incapable of understanding blatant metaphor.

Contrast the theatrical cut: https://youtu.be/AJzIT6fQ3OU (VO at 4:13)
with the director's cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoAzpa1x7jU

The theatrical version is punchier because it's beating you over the head. For a film that's so heavily into metaphor (I mean, Rutger Hauer's character releases a dove at the end, maybe he just likes birds, we will never know since the VO doesn't explain it) it's quite boring to just be outright told what you're supposed to think. And even if you like your scenes explained in the most anodyne manner possible, it's well known that Harrison Ford was phoning it in for the overall performance but particularly the VO, so it's not even a well-done VO in terms of literal recording.

Hardly a 'diehard fan', I like the aesthetic but it's an incredibly slow film, but I hate that VO with a passion.
The emails are disposable, not the service. This causes issues b/c you're constantly having to find and change providers.
Um, "bee"? What's that?

Seriously, I used to see MANY more bees than I have in the past two years, so any conclusion that the bees (or other insects) are OK, is anecdotally wrong.
Playing video games and surfing the web for fun, living with friends and family instead of having a large family and a consumerist lifestyle, would have a smaller footprint
I think it's helpful when seeing the word "fascist" in 2022 to not take it literally. It now simply means "people to the right of me".
What percentage that works up to is totally up to you and that’s the whole point
And now 50% time software engineers are writing infrastructure. Don’t know what is solution but cloud-native landscape has increased cognitive overload.
Sort of related: I could swear that Spotify's weekly recommendation playlist serves me better music on the preceding week whenever the subscription is about to renew. As in, they intentionally do this to keep me on the platform. Am I going crazy?
> which is unusual

It's unusual because a multi-repo environment makes it difficult to do, not because it's not necessary.
I was working on large scale deployments with multiple datacenters, multiple databases, message passing networks and running multiple customer-facing products.

Load balancers and HA setups were already in use. LVS existed. VMs were popular. "CI/CD" existed, without that name.

> 2005 your average box ...

Speak for yourself.
These links are excellent and I hadn't heard of Syd Mead despite being a long time fan of this film. Thank you for posting.
Literally any pre-compiled binary could do nefarious things... why make a big deal out of this one?
The problem with anything like this where one person has multiple “roles” is that it is hard to excel at one or the other and very very easy to not be good at both.

Unless you are given time to spend on both roles independently then you end up cutting corners, it is inevitable as one or the other will be more important at one time and you can’t be in two places at once!
Maybe I’m just young, but what field that you work in that you feel it’s worth investing in preventing the need to stay up to date? In my field, I find myself needing to learn so much every week that the idea of learning a new IDE or something every 3 years seems like a drop on the bucket.

I’d argue that rather than resisting change you should embrace it - future-proofing oneself means adopting new technologies proactively and staying ahead of the curve to avoid being left behind, not finding the magical set of tools than won’t ever become obsolete.
I first saw BR in a theater the month it originally came out. It's hard to appreciate from today's perspective just how revolutionary it was. The film itself, especially the original cut, is flawed due to the studio making last minute edits which the director, cast and writers were against. Yet, it is still the one science fiction film that has been more visually influential than any other. It changed everything that came after it.

> I'd put it in the 80s Cyberpunk bucket

BR largely created that bucket.
I wonder which elements of your "lifestyle" would get you shunned, or disinherited, or imprisoned, or killed for your family's honor. I enjoy almost perfect intersectional privilege, and one of those privileges has been to use my full real Googlable name on all my social media accounts, specifically because I want to be accountable for what I say, and because I've always believed that nothing about my real identity imperils me. (I'm a little less sure, recently, that liberal atheists and our allies will be safe from the American pogroms to come. Too late now!)
Try going outdoor and convince a stranger to borrow you $100. If somebody really borrowed you something then convince him that you return only half.
I think the main problem is that the "DevOps" role significantly differs company to company. A company that desperately needs a solid administrator might not be able to attract the right talent and as a result, end up classifying the open positions as "DevOps engineer". At the same time, there are companies out there legitimately trying to bridge the divide between the two — software and system administrators — job families.
Blade runner isn't even that good, thematically. But I get why it's considered the best.

It's because in most sci-fi movies a lot of effort is spent on the setting and thus the story while many times is good, often lacks the depth of their non-fiction counter-parts.

Bladerunner is one of the few movies that has blockbuster level visuals while maintaining a very serious story with a lot of depth. Gattaca is another sci-fi movie that achieves this as well, though the visuals in Gattaca aren't blockbuster level.
True, I didn't think about how close these gauges were, and was assuming adequate space for the inner and outer rail.
MIT requires that a copy of the license is distributed with the software—which means it is not strictly public-domain equivalent.

CC0 was not intended to be used as a software license, and IRCC includes a clause that the author withholds any patent rights, which which has its own set of concerns.

In practice, either of them would have worked fine, but part of the beauty of public domain code is that you can avoid having to specify a license.
> More are likely to suffer a similar fate as Musk said at the Qatar Economic Forum last week that reduction would take effect over the next three months.

This seems like a great way to ruin the morale of the people who are still working there, as they now deal with the fact that they could be laid off in the next three months but have no way of knowing for sure.

I would imagine a lot of tesla workers are freshening up their resumes and looking for new opportunities in light of this
Advocating violence is not necessarily a crime. For example, in the US that violence must be imminent and likely (see Brandenburg v. Ohio).
> Maybe Dune

I don't think Dune, the 2022 version will make it to the heights Blade Runner is at.

There are some scenes that give you Blade Runner level shivers (e.g. the Sardaukar assembly on Salusa Secundus), but they're few and far between.

And if you meant the original Dune ... nah, it certainly hasn't aged as well as BR.
The "ages" jumping weirdness just ruined it, IMHO. Beautiful middle part, though.
The xenophobia angle is really interesting to me. Despite being born after the movies release I always loved it. But I am also a huge japanophile and am unusual in the regard that I badly want cities as they are in Blade Runner and other Cyberpunk fantasies and was thus blind to the xenophobia, since I see the intended negative as desirable.
I’m definitely not super knowledgeable in cryptography, from the outside, the integrity of BTC is what makes me a bitcoin maximalist when it comes to Crypto lol.

However, the high energy consumption as the tradeoff is definitely like the elephant in the room.
However, a communal Mac Pro may be part of the infrastructure. It's a vow of individual poverty, but that doesn't mean the monastery itself does not contain riches that its monks have access to but do not privately own.
I didn't love Interstellar the first time I saw it.

When I watched Inception for the first time I walked out of the theatre in love with that movie (and I still am), but, leaving Interstellar I felt confused and underwhelmed.

Perversely I think I was actually very overwhelmed by Interstellar because after seeing it many times in the almost a decade since it came out (oh my god how has it been 10 years) it's become one of my favorite films, but, there is just so much going on that it was difficult to connect with it on the first viewing.
Yeah, I don’t recalling loving it either. Perhaps as a kid, it wasn’t upbeat enough for me.

In 1982, 2019 sure looked exciting though. Androids, flying cars, …

I hope kids today have a much more interesting future 40 years from now.
It's so sad to see hyperbolic articles like this saturate HN.

DevOps was a stepping stone and it had many lessons to teach us just like the traditional IT before it and just like the roles that will come after it.

It was a success some places and a failure others but in general it has been an improvement over most companies processes and to say otherwise is just being salty about how it worked for you at your particular job.
I'm another way around: I read the book then watch the movie not long after. I slept.

And everytime I try to watch it I get bored quick.

I think I would have much more apreciate it, the atmosphere et all, if I hadn't read the book before. And I realy regret it because I know it's a good movie.
Agree with the spirit of this observation, but at the scale we work with at Uber, at comes a point in which "too much" decoupling starts biting you in the ass. Sounds kind of bizarre actually, but this is a particular characteristic of a microservice architecture after it's reached a certain amount of elements in the network and certain amount of complexity.

I can't imagine deploying a functionality that needs to interact with 20 other services, if I can't have some zero-cost assurances like Go's typing and having all IDL available at developing time. This is of course is even better if at compile time I can check all contracts are still honoured. Monorepo is a really "cheap" way of getting all this for, close to, free.
>> now that I have kids I'll soon be on the other side trying to convince them that the old stuff I like is cool and special

Nope. Kids today have access to everything under the sun. The classics still resonate with them. My kid loves Queen and Zepplin. Enjoyed the hell out of "They Live", the Matrix and many other classic movies. Not so much John Carpenters "the Thing" which even I found a bit slow these days.

A lot of this was discovered without my introduction too. Music in particular.

Share the movies without explanation. Classics are universal.
It is whatever you perceive it to be. Family life is not like that for everyone, and money is definitely not the only reason.
Devops works for me. I'd rather put time into automation than time into training a crew of people who will fat finger things. Any time I can turn a management or organization problem into a technical problem, its a win.

If I can have machines do it, why would I have people do it? I can test what the machines do, and machines can scale a lot better than humans.
Add backup owners (your #2).
When Postman refers to written word he refers mainly to books. The article mentions the increase of hours spent reading text as a result of texting, social media etc. This form of written word is actually close to Postman's concerns.

It's written word, but its metaphor is the same as the metaphor of mediums like TV.
I've rolled my own following this tutorial[0]. If you are into self hosting this is a great alternative. I am developing an app that a 3rd party site requires a redirect URL. Since my app is still in development and only running locally (and only when active developing) this is what I use.

[0]https://jerrington.me/posts/2019-01-29-self-hosted-ngrok.htm...
you sound like those type of guys that try to be 'cool' by disliking what other people like.

Blade Runner is a great movie for its time and it has inspired a lot of artists. It is a Noir (Sci-fi), and the type of movie that only adults would appreciate, due to its storyline. If you are under 25, probably it is not a good movie for you.

Same with 2001: A Space Odyssey, which came much earlier. any other movies of the time.

Also Interstellar is very unique in one major aspect: They had to model true science (and maybe made a discovery) when they modeled the look of light around the super massive Black Hole.
5 years later, the real black hole halo pictures came out, and the movie got it spot on.

You might not like the story, but good movies like that try to predict the future. They often miss, but sometimes get it right. Blade Runner deals with AI, Androids, and the question of 'What is human'.
We might face this issue if General AI becomes a thing 50 years down the road.
Blade Runner is one of those movies that gets better every time you watch. First time I watched it, I was thoroughly bored. But over the years I seem to appreciate the deeper meaning under it. It tries to present some fundamental questions - "what separates humans from robot/AI?, Is it the act of humans giving birth to other humans or feelings or deeds?, Is robot/AI superior to human or vice a versa?"

For those who find this movie boring, I'd recommend reading the book - "Do Androids dream of electric sheep" and maybe then watch the movie.

I was born after it was released yet I find it's imagery unique even now. Every frame feels like an elaborate painting/artwork. I can imagine how innovative might've been when it was first released in early eighties.
By "breaking programs incompatible with that model" I think he means making it impossible (or requiring a tedious amount of uses of `unsafe`) to write code in Rust to be linked with C code if the C code contains idiom fairly common in C code.
No kids for now but we are making plans. My wife is younger than me and we are planning to have kids in the next 1-2 years. Before we have kids we will decide and settle in one place. We will probably keep our second homestead since we are emotionally attached to it.
This is a build deployment perspective.

I for one do not miss hosts never being patched because all those slight modifications to systems files that were tweaked several builds ago and now everyone is too scare to touch.

I won't miss the 12 month projects to upgrade some dated software to a slightly less dated version of that same software.

From my perspective in Security, DevOps has made life much better.
Come on, who would choose an RV park over BLM land? It's not about the money.
> Only valuing easily-measurable work is ... a modern organizational disease
Military jargon for "command, control, and communication". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_control
Classic over-engineered DevOps, adding complexity for complexity sake. When you have a hammer...

Everything you described was 2005.
Yes, we use Cursive in IntelliJ and love it.
The current setup is (indirectly) a massive subsidy from poor neighborhoods -> rich neighborhoods.
Hey, but what I should do, if, say, I don’t have my own house and I really need to buy one? How can I just stop doing what I don’t love in that situation?

Also, what about the situation when one day you really love your work and find it very interesting and fulfilling, but the other day it’s just the opposite?
I mean the 2022 one. The 1984 one has not aged well. I'm quite the fan of the 2000 tv mini-series one though.

Maybe it will rise to the levels of great sci-fi, maybe it will not, I won't judge it till I can see the complete picture. It has the correct aesthetic and the truly shiver-worthy moments are yet to come.
If I sprinkle some fairy dust and wish for Mount Everest, and the mountain appears in front of me, neither the fairy dust or the mountain need be sapient or even sentient.

On the other hand, if I wish for a friend, and a friendly person pops into existence, we may have some harder questions to answer. Is it possible/meaningful to distinguish the status of the "friend" from the status of the fairy dust?
You could make an argument that people like traveling packed like sardines because airlines flight most people this way and it's also an expensive way to travel. However it does not follow, it's likely that people like convenience of air travel and value it more than the abysmal accommodations. To wit, the richest people travel in roomy private planes with plenty of room and the less rich go with business/1st class, also allowing more room.

Likewise, even the most expensive cities still have mansions in the middle of micro-apartments. If these cities really were valued for their density, the mansions would either be gone or would be cheaper than the surrounding dense dwellings.
What software is bad precisely? The modern browsers? The tools we use to build modern browser apps? Perhaps your gripe is with something else entirely, like modern databases? Or is it the OS that you don't like?

Really not sure what you're commenting about here
Real world experience at the scale Uber works with, directly contradicts this, in my opinion, naive approach.
We use Clojurescript on the frontend as well. Clojure everywhere!

IntelliJ with Cursive plug-in is great. I never got into emacs.
US Oil Consumption and Recessions
>The issue is abusive planning departments

Why are cities being "planned" anyways? So much hubris in thinking that you can plan better than the free market
Did the kids — nest is empty — time to switch gears on life and live the way I have wanted to for a long time (second best time to plant a tree and all that, you know).
To quote myself: "Woke is used because we know who we're referring to, as do you."
That sounds really fun, because it's not enough to absolutely fry my brain every day fixing obscure bugs or developing new features. I'd like to also fix the infrastructure. I might also be able to handle the responsibilities of a DBA. My wife and newborn son will understand why I can't stop working until at least 7 pm everyday and yell at them because the stress never stops and only seems to be getting worse.
if your kids / wife aren’t making you happy maybe you should reconsider the choices you don’t think you have
It takes over 540k$ to max out your Diablo immortal character, not 100k$
You probably know that the ending to Ecclesiastes is a bit controversial in that it might not have been in the original treatise.

It is possible that it was added by an later editor to make Ecclesiastes suitable for inclusion in the canon.

https://books.google.lv/books?id=TX9DuDb9hgQC&redir_esc=y