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> It just seems like you're narrowing the scope of what k8s is often used for, and then calling it simple and easy.

I mean, to me, that's what it means to simplify.

Even in this post, I see people saying "Hey, it's not actually hard to run postgres in k8s" which, ok, maybe? IDK, seemed like not a great idea to me with the complexity of volume mounts and drivers along with adding extra networking in order to hook it all together.

> <language> can be as simple or complex as you want it do be: it's actually really easy to write hello world. You should steer clear for anything more complex than that

To some extent, that's exactly what I'm saying. I'd argue you can make things more featureful than "hello world" with stateless pods and you can get a lot of benefit out of those. Just like I'd tell a new Java dev "Hey, java is simple, so long as you don't use features like the LambdaMetaFactory, Reflection, or the annotation processor. Some people use those, but IMO they are mostly off limits"

Just because something HAS complex features doesn't mean you should use them (or that using them is a great idea)

> But I actually agree with your underlying point. I don't see the benefit or running a db on k8s either. Seems like a lot of extra complexity for little to no benefit.

And who knows, maybe this is my (our?) inexperience with k8s shining through. Maybe running postgres on k8s is actually highly beneficial. I've just not been convinced that's better than doing something like amazon's RDS or Aurora. The headache of setting up ceph or rook or whatever just seems like a pretty high burden for a pretty low payback.

To me, it's features like deployment rollouts, common logging infrastructure, autoscaling, certificate management/distribution, and recovery that are attractive to k8s and all come mostly out of the box.
But I think a lot of the Fed's strategy was jawboning the rate increases - aka offering "forward guidance". Notice how the rate hikes were fairly measured and tepid. They didn't even start the actual QT until a few months ago. There's a limit to how effective jawboning is, and it requires the public have credibility in the Fed to do so. Eventually, you have to back it up with actions.
The correct price in cities is $10 a month. The correct price in rural areas is $500 a month plus. But we have to average them because we insist on taxing cities to subsidise rural lifestyles...
UEFA to debut semi-automatic offside in UEFA Super Cup match
It should end, but people are to use to just eat every piece of crap that Meta drop on them. Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp... neither of these services are the best of their class (some aren't even minimally usable when you know the alternatives), but social inertia and peer pressure is a big issue and non-technical people just give up.
"So, it's not about selling data, it's about usefully linking together different devices to make your home actually smart." - herein lies the difficulty, are they going to check how all third party services use the data?
> What I'd like to know is: Is there any evidence that Apple is retaining this information and using it for other purposes

Sure; all sorts of data leaves your iPhone in the form of encrypted channels to Apple servers, whether you have telemetry/analytics enabled or not. When you fully power-down your iPhone with Find My disabled, your Baseband modem is still sending and receiving information from nearby cell towers. Apple has created conduits specifically for harvesting and retaining this data, they wouldn't collect it all if this wasn't the case.

Oh, and if you still don't believe me, you should look into some of the more recent PRISM revelations (eg. how iMessage and Find My can be used by law enforcement), or the ways that the CCP uses the data Apple collects for them. There is nothing besides marketing that suggests Apple has a commitment to privacy or security.
> Being intelligent[0], I can see more solutions to my problems than most, but I can also see more problems that need solving. And I choose to work on the hardest problems I can manage.

So what description would fit me then: "I can see more solutions to my problems than most, but I can also see more problems that need solving. I still don't act on it lots of times."
This sounds like a net positive considering the data governance, security, and privacy issues around data handling by US firms.
For me the best training exercises to learn to speak better are high pressure events. I don’t mean crowds where you are fending off stage freight. Solving for stage freight is implicit to solving for high stress generally.

I mean there is some epic outage at your mega corp employer and all eyes are on you to fix the problem sort of pressure. Let’s call this soul crushing pressure coupled with time pressure and doing 3+ things simultaneously. There is no way out. No easy escape. You just have to keep slowly crawling towards resolution with the death stare of everybody on you. In order to creep towards resolution you must be able to talk through the problem as clearly as possible. Less is more and precision is epic.

Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.

When you train your mind to operate in this high pressure context your speech will improve.
I love software by this man )
There is a very good Ars Technica article on how an ISP works. It traces the whole network, from submarine cable through to last mile into a house. It was written in 2016, but I imagine it's still relevant:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/how-t...
Happiness has to do with brain chemistry and disposition. It has nothing to do with intelligence or problem solving. Achieving goals and rewards gives a dopamine hit but it doesn’t produce happiness in any lasting sense.
If I were really rich, I would spend a gigantic amount of money for the sole purpose of fucking over Comcast.
Of course you can't, but who is to say that we will not grow indefinitely until 2500? Or even 3000?

I don't think we're anywhere near the limits of human productivity, let alone all the ways we can enhance it through innovations and mechanical aids.

I think it's a fair question to ask, but then I'd say you'd have to prove we have reached a plateau.
So if you open up the Symfonisk, you'll find that the cables running up to the tiny tweeter and woofer speakers have a nice flat crimp connector on them.

So simply unplug those (carefully, use tweezers to squeeze the connectors and they'll pop off without friction), and connect those on some cables which you'll run to your speakers. The connectors can be found at your local electronics store.

The speakers you'll be connecting need to have a crossover that you can bypass (typically four connectors on the back versus two, with a piece of metal in between to short them). Total upgrade would be to mount all the electronics inside, but I haven't dared to cut mine open yet
I'm curious if you could share more on the GraphQL part of the situation you describe here, and if being architected on your more traditional "RESTful" (however you want to define that, but usually Rails defaults get you a wonderful implementation of "RESTful") API convention would have made any difference in the performance issues you encountered at Shopify.
Several things come to mind at once.

Thinking, with intent to convey that thinking into words understandable by your chosen audience, involves understanding your audience in the first place. You must learn to observe your audience; this is far more important than whatever idea you may want to express; if your audience is not receptive to you, you have lost before you begin. To generalize, listen before you speak.

Once you have an idea about how you may best express your idea, you should give a thought to how you are structuring your idea. For the details, it is generally considered a good idea to read, and read a lot. It is best if you read authors who are comprehensible to you, but have a firm grasp of the kind of style you wish to cultivate in yourself. After a bit of this, you really do have to write a lot - quantity is much more important than quality when you are hoping to improve yourself.

Almost all of what I wrote above can be tied to sources, and I would have liked to add more, but unfortunately I do not have the time to find references at this point in time, or write more.
The BLS reports inflation. It doesn't control inflation. The Federal Reserve does affect it with the fed rate, but it's independent, and the chair was elevated to his current role by Trump, so save the insinuations about this being somehow engineered by Democrats to win the election. I'm no fan of Democrats, but this is absurd.
This sounds more like an advertisement. Do you have a link to a post about this, or maybe you can post the recording afterwards?
> They have like 90 percent margins on those syrup/water mixes.

Not really. There's this myth that it only costs a few pennies to fill a cup with soda.

I was a manager at a Subway from 2006 to 2012, so I got to see the costs of all our food. I did the math and found it cost about 1.7 cents per ounce dispensed, so a 32 oz soda cost 54.4 cents to fill assuming no ice. The cup/lid/straw cost us about 12 cents. At the time, we charged $1.69 for the soda, giving a margin of about 60%. This margin of course went up if they used ice, but went down if they refilled it.
That's all about burglary; I'd sooner be burgled than mugged.

And all the links in that Telegraph article seem to be to other Telegraph articles. It's not clear who these "victim's watchdogs" are. It's not clear what they mean by "neighbourhood".

And you seem to be relying on the Tory house newspaper.
I don't see then how that can explain why smarter people are less happy.

In fact if you believe this article, unhappiest people have avg. IQ. Low and high IQ are happy, with >120 being the happiest: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-19659985
The fact that more secure alternatives are freely available, and by sabotaging SMS/iMessage they would be losing their wiretap on the nation's text messages?
I suspect that "works well" means that the model will output words in "official german" and kind of corrects pronounciation errors? I am asking because I had the use case to automatically give feedback to non native german speakers.
He's been a backbone guy since the the mid-1990s.
I once worked with someone who was also different in that sense. I'm not sure if he was autistic, but he had a hard time understanding or wanting to understand the business or functional part. His explanations were sometimes hard to understand, especially for non technical people.

He would get really frustrated when he would get vague specs to implement.

He and I however, got along fine, because I'm also a developer.

I see the author of the article is here on HN, so here is my advice: try to set yourself up in an environment where you mainly communicate with technical people, and receive proper specs. You can let the other developers work more closely with functional and business people. I would guess try to program something that interfaces not with users, but with other systems.

The "hey I read a blog post that we should use this" would also frustrates me a lot :D. That is the kind of person that should be made clear about where the boundaries are of their and your expertise.
It's hardly a natural process. It takes a lot of moderation labor to keep reddit as left-wing as it is.
Drops, while accurate, feels so disingenuous. The messaging should be that it’s slowing down
Oh yes let's ask the handful texhsavy people from Argentina.

Let's ignore how most people in El Salvador are not able to use their crypto because they don't understand it. Let's ignore that most of them not even understand lightning.

Let's ignore that the evil actors can miss use crypto as well which weakens sanctions.

Completely ignore all other obvious issues with crypto which have been brought up by me and others without any answer to them as long as there is the one person in <add country> who apparently is able to exchange their money with crypto.

Let's also ignore that plenty of people have been exchanging their unsta Le currency with other money before crypto like us or euro.

Who ever was able to exchange their money to crypto would have been able to do so without crypto...

Let's also ignore that 99,9999 % of people will be hurt by all the co2 before they have ever any benefit of crypto.

And as my final argument: crypto means that everyone who started to do it early gets more value in out of crypto as everyone after them. No one in their sane mind will ever switch their money over into crypto and loosing out by making the earlier adopters even richer.

Cryptobros go f yourself...
Clearly I am and that is just how things are.

In general when the facts are not recognized ie. pretended that they are not happening, long term it is bad for the country as a whole.
That's really fair criticism.

OP, if you're still reading, please don't take anything I wrote here as an attack on you. Instead, it was meant to be a reflection on your situation from someone who struggles with many of the same communication issues, in many of the same ways.
Google would have been a lot more productive if it had hired people to work on one good messaging app instead of 13+ bad messaging apps.

Google has long had an attitude of "we hire the best so we can afford to have them stand on one leg and balance on a ball while holding a cane in their mouth and balancing a bunch of dishes on the end of the cane while typing with one hand on a chorded keyboard and looking at a monitor through a mirror." I've heard stories that range from "of course I am productive, I am shooting the s--t all day with the smartest people to" to "I have no idea of how what I'm doing impacts the bottom line".
That case doesn't require additional legislation nor justifies diminishing freedom of speech. Anyone should be free to say stupid things or self-incriminating things at their own peril.
There are wholesalers that provide "dark fiber", then you buy data services from another "wholesaler". When I looked into it, dark fiber was available through some utilities and through a government funded non-profit. Data to light-up the fiber was available through several different data centers that connected to that dark fiber.

You still had to build-out the last mile though, and thats what will get you. You either need private easements, or be a registered telecom utility to use public utility easements. That last mile is $20k +/-, depending on your circumstances. If your semi-rural or less, there's ROI sucks. Hence, many smaller ISPs are wireless.

At least in area, there are already a number of wISPs, 5G is rolling out, Starlink eventually. and lots of gov't funding going to the big players to expand their networks (and drive the start-ups out of business.)

There some other business models out there too that look interesting. Underline in Co Springs, for example. They provide a basic tier of service, in order to qualify as a telecom, install the fiber and then allow multiple competing ISPs to use their network.

IMHO, any utility that has the benefit of government privilege should be required to allow competors to use the infrastructure that the taxpayers funded.

I'm waiting on one of you brilliant folks to defy the laws of physics to create a decentralized, wireless mesh internet.
Great. All I know is I'm trading a lot more time for money this year. Way less takeout, avoiding toll roads unless it saves at least 30 minutes, fewer streaming services (will renew on a show-by-show basis), and food is getting so crazy I might start going to multiple stores to try and save money instead of my one consolidated trip to Wegmans.

I'm also stuffing my freezer with meat and have a year's supply of non-perishables, not because I'm a prepper but because I know it'll be so much more expensive next year as to be worth it.

Also my rent is up 6.9%, but that's because I locked it in for two years. Would have been 10.5% for a one-year lease, and that's on top of last year's comparatively conservative 4.5% increase.

And my salary is up a mere 4.5%, and that only because I took on stretch assignments at work.
looks like he's been able to find some deals on equipment and stuff since he operates on such a small scale. I guess he can just continue as a small business indefinitely if he gets enough cash flow.
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> Very much a fantasy.

Why? Look at Japan, there is places where land is being given away, some of this land was absolutely prime real estate in the early 90's, you couldn't even buy it.

Even in those places, if you buy something, you risk being asked to move due to now crumbling or unsustainable infrastructure. So explain why this doesn't happen in other countries who are facing population decline also ?

> I have 40+ years of work ahead of me. We had recessions before.

The point of the article is that young people don't feel like they want to work and save for forty years due to bleak outlook though?

It's true what people say, we don't have an economic model for what the future looks like here. I'm not saying it's a catastrophe, I'm just saying that you might be expecting a return to normality which might be strange given the changes we're seeing in the climate, demographics etc. Likely I'll just "buy back in" because what else do you do?

My strategy at the moment is not to worry too much about paying stupid money for land, and put my money into yes, bonds or other boring crap.
There's a reason movie theaters push supersized popcorn and sodas. The ingredients cost almost nothing. (OK, that's an exaggeration but they're certainly high margin--especially at movie theater prices.)
Why is that the case? I only do screen recordings and it's a fantastic tool for it.

I haven't used SSR before, but I'm not even seeing a meter for adjusting your microphone volume.
Naval Ravikant asks, "If you're so smart, why aren't you happy?".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIht5-FwZUI
The RFC number is less interesting then the ASN; he has a low ASN, which is for backbone nerds a little like getting a very short domain name; the short ones are long since exhausted, so it's like an O.G. indicator.

(An ASN is a BGP4 network number; think of it as an address in the backbone routing network.)
It’s purely anecdotal but me and a bunch of people I know reduced driving quite a bit since the prices went up.

Is it possible that the demand went down? Could the recent price movements be partially attributed to the demand supply paradigm?
Thanks for the anecdotal counterpoint, that is what I was looking for!

I think we're talking about different things though.

I think OP was suggesting/questioning whether a typical Rails apps may spend 90% of it's overall time in I/O.

I am suggesting the reverse, that typical Rails apps (so long as they don't have bugs where they fetch more than they need) will spend spend 60-80% of their time in CPU rather than I/O.

I am curious if this is true of shoppify's app; my guess is it still would be (especially cause I think shopify will not have very many bugs where it's fetching things inefficiently or that it doesn't need to fetch, shopify will be higher-quality than a random rails app).

You are suggesting, I think, that at shopify atypical, problem requests were always due to I/O.

I think all of this can be simultaneously true.

I think a side issue to what I'm talking about, but:

> We spent significant amounts of time finding ways to work around Rail's inability to do these sorts of things in parallel

Rails 7 actually recently introduced a feature to do multiple ActiveRecord fetches concurrently... perhaps motivated by/developed by Shopify? https://pawelurbanek.com/rails-load-async

I haven't used that one yet. In the past when I've needed to do things like external API requests in parallel, I have had success just using futures/promises from Ruby::Concurrent, without even telling Rails about it. I've had to do this only rarely, but I haven't run into too much trouble. But one thing you can run into if your threads try to store things in ActiveRecord themselves, is running out of database connections with Rails "long connection checkout" model, involving explicit handling of pool checkouts once you do your own threads. Sequel (vs ActiveRecord) has a much more connection-efficient way of pooling database connections, where they are transparently checked out of the pool, under the hood without you usually needing to manage it explicitly, for only as long as it takes to execute a single statement. When doing heavily concurrent things with AR, I have often wished it used Sequel's concurrency/connection-pooling model.
I came here to make the same points that you made so eloquently. The only thing I’ll add is that I wonder if there is some correlation between the traits that make someone so good at solving “well defined” problems and mental illnesses. You can’t be “happy” if you’re paranoid (as one of the OP examples- a 9/11 conspiracy where his own theory- Cognitive Theoretical Model of the Universe, or CTMU- is under attack.
Microsoft joins ONDC network, to launch a shopping app in India
> It turns out I cannot "reload" any of those offloaded apps if any one of them doesn't support my iOS version anymore.

You can – unless the application publisher decides to disable this. It sounds like Facebook disabled your ability to install an older version of WhatsApp that supports the version of iOS you are running. All it would take for this to work for you is for somebody at Facebook to tick a single box that allows their users to do this.
Rule change for reporting sexual misconduct could hurt grad students and others
It is government subsidized. He just wanted good internet in the area.
I don’t think the landscape has changed much since then. However, from my experience you should do everything possible to avoid a headless browser for scraping. It’s in the region of 10-100x slower and significantly more resource intensive, even if you carefully block unwanted requests (images, css, video, ads).

Obviously sometimes you have to go that route.
Indeed. Ron Amadeo has done a lot of in-depth coverage of Google's RCS push the past few years, and he brings up some very good points I didn't see talked about much. Here's the latest article about Google's new campaign:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/new-google-site-begs...

I said in another comment that Google continuing to call RCS a "standard" is disingenuous. What they're really pushing for is Apple implementing Google's proprietary fork of RCS, where most messages are routed through their own servers. That doesn't sound like a standard to me and I don't see why Apple would/should go for that.
I'd be glad to hear those usecases. I'm still in the camp of thinking it's not a great idea.

I have a hard time thinking coordination between something like postgres and the volume wouldn't be an absolute nightmare to handle. What sorts of volume drivers do you use there? How do you get over the network latency? How does scaling end up working?
Selenium with custom geckodriver/chromedriver (to counter antibot hacks)
Please talk to any energy technician working on national grid.

We have troubles generating enough power to not force blackouts in EU and we talk about introducing hundreds of millions of EVs / to every household.

Currently it all works only because they are a novelity.