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> What does the public debt have to do with any of this?

I compared it to the wealth of billionaire. Just the cost of servicing the debt is nearing $1 trillion in 2024. It's a blackhole, created by the governement.

I'm not making it about money: it's literally an article about "billionaires making democracy impossible". billionaires = money.

What's making democracy impossible are bureaucrats capturing all the wealth (Washington DC: highest GDP per capita in the US) and an ever growing government, always ever extending its reach, always ever trespassing on citizen's freedom.

I don't see billionaires as preventing me from living my life. The bureaucrats, politicians, and very left-leaning governments on the other hand...
> There’s an understandable focus on the first-generation billionaires — the Bezoses and Musks — and their surging wealth gains during the pandemic. But America also has growing and persistent “wealth dynasties”: multigenerational inherited wealth families. There are fifty dynastic families in the United States with a combined $1.2 trillion in wealth that we know of. Most likely there are trillions more hidden in trusts and offshore sites. The twenty-seven wealthiest families that were billionaires in 1983 have seen their wealth increase over 900 percent in the last thirty-seven years.

I don't know, the article seem to make more a case of feudalism.
People talk about Kubernetes as container orchestration, but I think that's kind of backwards.

Kubernetes is a tool for creating computer clusters. Hence the name "Borg" (Kubernetes's grandpa) referring to assimilating heterogeneous hardware into a collective entity. Containers are an implementation detail.

Do you need a computer cluster? If so k8s is pretty great. If you don't care about redundancy and can get all the compute you need out of a single machine, then you may not need a cluster.

Once you're using containers on a bunch of VMs in different geographical regions, then you effectively have hacked together a virtual cluster. You can get by without k8s. You just have to write a lot of glue code to manage VMs, networking, load balancing, etc on the cloud provider you use. The overhead of that is probably larger than just learning Kubernetes in the long run, but it's reasonable to take on that technical debt if you're just trying to move fast and aren't concerned about the long run.
Here’s a fun story about HSW and Marshall in the 90s

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kpwebb_like-scot-wingo-ive-sp...
Samurai: SAM for Zero-Shot Visual Tracking with Motion-Aware Memory
The other bonus is most opensource software support a Kubernetes deployment. This means I can find software and have it deployed pretty quickly.
Watching this, I'm left wondering why my brain doesn't want to blend the visual and the audio. I don't think it's the bad lip sync. I have this weird feeling that these persons, were they real, wouldn't have these voices. But I can't quite put my finger as to why. I haven't watched movies dubs in a while, but maybe that's the same kind of phenomenon that makes dubs sound bad. Or maybe we grow an intuitive sense of what a person's voice might sound like based on the appearance of their face's bone structure and muscles?
> but it would have made extending the address space further much simpler.

Given published information [1] that the 8086 was designed in a weekend as a panic stop-gap to provide some form of "more advanced CPU" to keep Intel in the market while the iapx432 project was underway, but falling far behind schedule, it seems doubtful that the designers would also have been thinking of "ease of further expansion for future revision" on what was, at the time, just a stop-gap CPU to sell while awaiting the shipment of the iapx432. Published information is that at the time Intel never expected the 8086 to create the huge extended family it has created, and instead expected the iapx432 to be that "grand family ancestor". The market, of course, had other ideas, and IBM's choice of 8088 for the IBM-PC was the catalyst that launched the 8086 design into the family it is today.

[1] I no longer have a reference to the publication
> everyone will fight as hard as possible with whatever means at their disposal to be maximally selfish

No, I'm saying loss aversion is often misunderstood [1]. Both in its existence and strength. And the fact that it operates in relative terms, i.e. someone who is materially better off than they were 10 years ago may still throw their toys out of the pram if their neighbor is much better.

> the wining strategy is not in fact to drive housing prices so high that the homeless problem eventually wrecks your property value

Sure. The point is you also can't drive home prices down, because that hurts homeowners and activates them as a political bloc. (The solution is real home price growth as close to zero as possible amidst rising real incomes.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
The article is specifically about 27 families who in 1983 had $1B. Musk and Jobs obviously performed better than 900% with their personal income, which is what those 27 families averaged. Making Mars candy.
A legally binding as well as moral yes. If you drive a 2000
pound death machine, know how it can kill you. The idea that you are somehow not culpable in the situation you've given is baffling. Of course you are.
For something this simple, multi-cloud seems almost irrelevant to the complexity. If I’m understanding your requirements right, a deployment consists of two instances and a load balancer (which could be another instance or something cloud-soecific). Does this really need to have fancy orchestration to launch everything? It could be done by literally clicking the UI to create the instances on a cloud and by literally running three programs to deploy locally.
I'm not sure google cloud run can be considered a fair comparison to Kubernetes. It would be like saying AWS Lambda is a lot easier to use than EC2. I've used both Kubernetes and GCR at the current company I cofounded, and theres pros and cons to both. (Team of about 10 engineers)

GCR was simple to run simple workloads, but, an out of the box Postgres database can't just handle unlimited connections and so connecting to it from GCR without having a DB connection proxy like PG bouncer risks exhausting the connection pool. For a traditional web app at any moderate scale, you typically need some fine grained control over per process, per server and per DB connection pools, which you'd lose with GCR.

Also, to take advantage of GCR's fine grained CPU pricing, you'd have to have an app that boots extremely quickly, so it can be turned off during periods of inactivity, and rescheduled when a request comes in.

Most of our heaviest workloads run on Kubernetes for those reasons.

The other thing thats changed since this author probably explored Kubernetes is that there are a ton of providers now that offer a Kubernetes control plane for no cost. The ones that I know of are Digital Ocean and Linode, where the pricing for a Kubernetes cluster is the same as their droplet pricing for the same resources. That didn't use to be the case. [1] The cheapest you can get is a $12 / month, fully featured cluster on Linode.

I've been building, in my spare time, a platform that tries to make Kubernetes more usable for single developers: https://canine.sh, based on my learnings that the good parts of Kubernetes are actually quite simple to use and manage.

[1] Digital oceans pricing page references its free control plane offering https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing
zsh has been available in every version of macOS since 10.0 - there's never been a version where bash was installed but zsh wasn't.
IDK, that seems like a pretty unfulfilling job. A lot of jobs are like that, but not all of them are. Staying in your own lane is boring.
Docker swarm would have worked for 98.5% of all users (how k8s won over swarm should be a case study). And kamal, or some thing like it, would work for 88.25% of all users.
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPNFilter

The lack of major cyber wins in the invasion of Ukraine is still very surprising though. Maybe holding their cards for something big (something they didn't expect to win in "3 days"), or US really helped prepare Ukraine, or it's harder than it sounds :)
It would be a cheaper alternative for at least some use cases. At least some companies that were currently using the big version would switch to the lite version.
I think OpenWRT is the right approach at this point. Open source really excels where there is a 'commons.' We all have a shared interest in secure networks. Commercialized gate keeping of router firmware doesn't make sense. These manufactures should just switch to OpenWRT and skin it.
People don’t want solutions, they want holistic experiences. Kubernetes feels bad and a pile of scripts feels good. Proudly declaring how much you buy into feelings feels even better!
> "but what about plants"

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals -- I'm one because I hate plants.
Let’s be honest - we all know the “market share limitations” are just a construct to eliminate Tesla from eligibility, not something to actually help other automakers - which would not make sense anyways since Tesla has a better product and is the only one manufacturing in CA. This is obvious political discrimination and it shouldn’t be legal. We need to change the law to treat political views as a protected trait, to protect individuals and organizations.
I don't recall EOL being acknowledged until quite recently, a quick search brings me to a "confirmation" last year [0]. Not to mention the 2015 evangelism slip up that errantly put on record that Windows 10 would be "the last version of Windows" [1]

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2023/04/30/microsof...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2015/05/08/window...
Don't be ridiculous. Consumers will still have plenty of American-made laptops, made from American-sourced parts, to choose from.
/s
The relevant part being near the bottom:

> These images are a composite of separate exposures acquired by the James Webb Space Telescope using the MIRI instrument. Several filters were used to sample wide wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image associated with an individual filter. In this case, the assigned colors are: Blue: F770W, Green: F1130W, Red: F1280W.

Chasing some numbers up, it looks like they've made the wavelengths around 20 times shorter to bring the picture into the visible spectrum.
Eh. I agree that there are a lot of shitty LEDs out there, but any of the Philips bulbs that say "EyeComfort" are actually pretty decent. I have replaced tons of incandescent bulbs with them and it has pretty much always been a noticeable upgrade. No weird shadows, no flickering (I'm super sensitive to this, unfortunately), and their CRI numbers seem legit.
> It's not what happens at all. Billionaires like Jobs or Musk were made for creating Apple products or Tesla/StarLink for us. Or billionaires like Buffet: by investing in companies who created products for us.

I take it you did not read the article? It is focused on inherited billionaires specifically, and explicitly excludes Jobs, Musk and so on.

I guess it's addressing more, what will we do to avoid their children from further enriching themselves and lobbying to keep their estate for generations to come.

I don't have a conclusion of my own yet, but give the article a chance, even though it comes from a openly biased publication.
I think this article and its "research" is not healthy. Anecdotally, I've spent many hours debugging issues with code, where the fix was 1-2 lines of code. Or what if I am an engineer that "--amends" my every commit? What if I pair program? If a "researcher" looked at my productivity for that particular timeline and determined I was a "ghost" engineer, what would happen? Would the research be truthful?

There are lazy developers out there, but we know who they are. Most managers do, too.

The article, does make the caveat at the end, but I think the damage is done:

>> Before you start side-eyeing your coworkers, it’s worth noting that measuring productivity in software engineering is notoriously tricky. Commit counts or hours logged are often poor indicators of true impact. Some high-performing engineers—the mythical “10x engineers”—produce significant results with fewer, well-thought-out contributions.

Soon CTOs will be making performance judgements based solely on commits! Forcing. Developers. To. Commit. Every. Single. Little. Change.
Secondary sanctions are an impediment to free trade and frequently argued to contravene against international law as a result.

Can you point to any notable instances of such arguments?

(It's easily searchable I'm sure, but I'd appreciate any tips you have).
That's pretty much it. I think the main issue nowadays is that companies think full stack engineering means OG(FE BE DB) + CICD + Infra + security compliance + SRE.

If a team of 5-10 SWEs have to do all of that while only graded on feature releases, k8s would massively suck.

I also agree that experienced platform/infra engineers tend to whine less about k8s.
> Kubernetes comes with substantial infrastructure costs that go beyond DevOps and management time. The high cost arises from needing to provision a bare-bones cluster with redundant management nodes.

That's your problem right there. You really don't want to be setting up and managing a cluster from scratch for anything less than a datacenter-scale operation. If you are already on a cloud provider just use their managed Kubernetes offering instead. It will come with a free control plane and abstract away most of the painful parts for you (like etcd, networking, load balancing, ACLs, node provisioning, kubelets, proxies). That way you just bring your own nodes/VMs and can still enjoy the deployment standardization and other powerful features without the operational burden.
Better enough to overcome the switching cost.
Feudalism appears 6 times.

> Looks like feudalism, smells like feudalism.

If legitimate grievances, like the asymmetry of offshore tax havens, must be dismissed as groundless in order to participate in politics, then extreme reactions will look like extreme reactions to feudalism.
I wish he took more time to heal emotionally. He might have seen this was not a place he wanted to work.
The real scandal is the web of bad incentives in academia. Sure it results in fake data scandals like this one. But even studies without faked data are mostly bad, often due to a poor grasp of statistics, poor control of confounding factors, or other issues. Everyone wants to pretend they’ve made some important contribution but publishing is basically a weak signal that serves as a ladder to some other goal like a professorship or industry job. The ones caught up in a scandal are a symptom of bigger problems not the root cause.
I think that title should go to Lynn Conway. RIP :(
"Fuck everything, we're doing five covers."
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"Put another misdirect on that fucker, too."
How to Debug the New Claude Model Context Protocol?
My highly customizable split mechanical keyboard. Not naming the product because it's my fault that I regret it. It's very high quality and does exactly what it claims to do, and I'm sure many users are happy with it. It cost nearly $400.

It's a ~60% keyboard, which means it's missing a lot of keys. Notably the F keys and the navigation keys (pgup, pgdn, ins, del, etc). There are ways to remap the blank keys to what you really need, and of course there are all the key sequences and chords you can use. But you have to memorize this stuff, because many of the keys are unlabeled by necessity.

I use it on my PC, Mac (work), and Linux (steamdeck). It's a lot of cognitive burden remembering shortcuts and which modifier keys do what on which OS, with the added headache of having to remember which unlabeled or remapped keys are which modifier keys. I love the feel of it and for normal typing it's great, but anytime I stray from the basic keys (A-Z, numbers, etc) it becomes difficult. I end up doing embarrassing things like using right click on my mouse to do things like copy/paste.

If I was on exactly one OS all day long, I think I could make it work. But juggling 3 is annoying.

If I could redo it all over again I'd realize I didn't need a split ergo keyboard, and would have gotten something more traditional.
I've had a food processor for maybe 20 years.. I use it at most twice a year specifically because it's a pain in the fucking ass to clean. Though thanksgiving is when I always bring it out, one bag of cranberries, one whole orange (quartered before throwing it in the food processor, peel and all), and sugar.. run it until you get a nice chunky relish.. deeeelish.
Why did Google spec them so heavy?
Judge says he must still approve sale of Infowars to The Onion

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/judge-review-alex-jones-attempt-block-infowars-sale-onion-rcna181377

so... what is or is not actually happening with this??
just get unsmoked yerba and never drink it burning hot to lower the risk of esophageal cancer
Looks great. Anyone using this in production?
I like to describe it similarly, but as a way of building platforms.
Yes:

https://www.fortressofdoors.com/stenography-for-programming/...

It was interesting and fun but I didn’t have enough time/patience to get really good at it.

To get good requires both a lot of practice and building up a personal dictionary. Also steno itself is more adapted for transcribing speech than code, which uses symbols and special characters a lot.
They charged him with money laundering. He plead guilty to attempted money laundering. I don't know the exact laws he was charged with breaking.
> Can you reduce it further? What if you don't require 2 cloud providers? What if you don't need zero-downtime?

I think the "2 cloud providers" criteria is maybe negotiable. Also, maybe there was a misunderstanding: I didn't mean to say I want to run it on two cloud providers. But rather that I run it on one of them but I could easily migrate to the other one if necessary.

The zero-downtime one isn't. It's not necessarily so much about actually having zero-downtime. It's about that I don't want to think about it. Anything besides zero-downtime actually adds additional complexity to the development process. It has nothing to do with trying to be large actually.
How many more are hidden across government and industry? This is the next escalation in asymmetric warfare from the likes of China and Russia. There was even news of North Korea conducting spying programs that abuse remote work:
https://www.ibtimes.com/north-korean-spies-are-infiltrating-...
You can also schedule your posts, commits, etc to go out at some fixed hours each day.
Wrap/unwrap is free, and methods on the newtype are typically free as well.

I totally agree with your analysis, but in practice it's not always possible to merge implementation upstream and that's exactly what the article is about. Say you're working with a small scientific library and you want to serialize one of the data structures, but the authors haven't provided a Serde implementation. It'd be nice if you could upstream it, but if the authors aren't responsive you're forced to use a newtype. It sounds like this differs from Haskell, which (if I understand your comment) would allow you to implement it directly on the base type (with a warning).
Truly next level would be for him to be one of the investigators.
I've worked at tiny startups before. Tiny startups don't need zero-downtime-deployment. They don't have enough traffic to need load balancing. Especially when you are running locally, you don't need any of these.
If you're looking to run a few containers you may also want to look at docker swarm itself. You h get some of the benefits of orchestration and a small manageable overhead. And it's just part of docker.
Sorry, that was a misunderstanding. I meant that I want to be able to run it on two cloud providers, but one at a time is fine. It just means that it would be easy to migrate/switch over if necessary.
You don't see a link between billionaires and government? You must be blind.

Edit: Though I agree with your point about wealth capture in bureaucracy, I find inherited wealth, and billionaire estate and dynasties similarly problematic, and I think those two things are highly intertwined as each one protects each other in a form of crony capitalism.
It’s not a marriage. Have you ever watched any racing of any sort? One team frequently has multiple contestants. First and third is better than just third.
> All that said, if you aren't using wifi to connect to the network, turn the damn thing off.

Sure, but as a hacker who just hacked that machine, i can just turn it back on and you probably won't even notice. i can probably make it hard for you even TO notice.
Why Rust and Its Memory Safety Lulls Developers into a False Sense of Security
CPUs are ~300x more powerful and storage offers ~10,000x more IOPS than 2005 hardware. More efficient server code exists today. You can scale very far on one server. If you were bootstrapping a startup, you could probably plan to use a pair of gaming PCs until at least the first 1-10M users.
True, but you only hear about the ones who slipped up. I wonder what is the actual proportion of criminals being caught due to poor opsec.
Actually, I totally agree. ECS (in combination with secret manager) is basically fulfilling all needs, except being not so easy to reproduce/simulate locally and of course with the vendor lock-in.
Covid-Lockdown Critic Jay Bhattacharya Chosen to Lead NIH
The problem with this argument is that two professors are using a PMC-type of argument about "self-regulation" theory—a pop-psych fad since the 2010's—to psychologize a peer whose behavior is more simply explained as being a creation of the philosophical-industrial complex. In trying to warn prospective readers about Parfit's books/legacy, this essay inadvertently tells on itself, it is casting judgment instead of reflecting on the madnesses of philosophy itself.

It would save lay people a lot more time if they just said what was wrong with Parfit's works, rather than this thinly-veiled biographical ad hominem exercise.
how about not being a coward being enough of a reason to stand up for what you believe in. no where is it written that being brave entails success. sometimes though it is said that success entails being brave
Because it increases development speed. It's maybe okay to be down for 5 seconds. But if I screw up, I might be down until I fix it. With zero-downtime deployment, if I screw up, then the old instances are still running and I can take my time to fix it.
There are stories everywhere. They are very varied. So no, one more story is actually detrimental, making the reader feel good "Oh, some silly unusual situation I would never find myself in". This is already all too common a position "Well, I have nothing to hide".
And there's very few investment points below it.

You can cobble together your own unique special combination of services to run apps on! It's an open ended adventure into itself!

I'm all for folks doing less, if it makes sense! But there's basically nothing except slapping together the bits yourself & convincing yourself your unique home-made system is fine. You'll be going it alone, & figuring out on the fly, all to save yourself from getting good at the one effort that has a broad community, practitioners, and massive extensibility via CRD & operators.
Hackers, Wizards of the Electronic Age (1985)