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boblin,

Warm Blooded Hugger.

boblin,

Sometimes the X is not quite at the spot. My guess is that it’s under the sand too the right on the first picture (possibly underwater).

boblin,

16 and below is unambiguous. It’s a child up to and including 16 years old. Compare that to “below 17” for example, which technically means the same but might be confused to include 17 by someone skimming the question.

boblin,

TL;DR: It’s Prometheus, and he didn’t call the whole film dumb, just a lot of its plot points.

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    boblin,

    As an ally I would prefer if the second panel said “homophobes” instead of “straight people”, but I get the sentiment of the meme. It’s like a Bechdel for the audience.

    boblin,

    You are correct. A little bit hurt maybe to be grouped with the bigots, but as I said I understand the sentiment, and I also understand that in certain demographics it’s close enough to the truth.

    boblin,

    I believe they’re referring to the character of Jaskier/Dandelion, who in the lore is a womanizing, promiscuous bard. Pretty much the DnD bard player character archetype. It is also pivotal to a number of plot points, because the character’s womanizing habits frequently land him in trouble, making him a “damsel in distress” supporting character. Which in itself works better when the character is straight because it subverts the trope.

    The thing is also that there’s plenty of characters in the story who are or could be made gay without serious repercussions to the plot.

    boblin,

    But Jaskier isn’t gay in the show, either. He’s bisexual.

    Oh yeah, that completely changes things, and does completely fit in with the character.

    I do have to admit that I did not watch the latest season, not because of Jaskier but because of what they did to Eskel in the previous season. So I took the other commenter’s word that the character was made gay. I guess that’s what I get for assuming honesty until proven differently on the Internet.

    boblin,

    Take a machine with Linux preinstalled. Will it run Linux without problems? Yeah, of course.

    Take a machine with Windows preinstalled. Will it run Linux without problems? Check the list.

    boblin,

    Why not both?

    boblin,

    It relates to “real” (physical, tangible, immovable or inseparable) property pertaining to land. In other words land plus buildings and resources attached to it. It contrasts with personal property and intellectual property.

    boblin,

    data centers

    recharge while the computer is off

    I don’t know of many data centers that don’t run their servers 24/7

    boblin,

    There’s also the fact that credit rating agencies in North America have hardly any supervision and are prone to make mistakes because they take correlated data by face value.

    boblin,

    They aren’t lap cats. They’re trying to smother you, but are not very good at it.

    boblin,

    Configure port forwarding for the VM.

    boblin,

    Getting awfully close to raclette territory there.

    boblin,

    I’ve seen this one before…

    boblin,

    Stör is German for sturgeon. And it happens to sound like a lot of other words. Stör Wars, stört your engines, etc. The admins let it run for a while and then put a ban on Stör memes, so everything quieted down. Until this week, when c/risa got the Morn/Gorn/Rom bug.

    boblin,

    Summit. It feels the most like RiF.

    boblin,

    You can’t run vmalert without flags

    Running grep without parameters is also pretty fucking useless.

    500 words in to the over 3,000 word dump, I gave up.

    Claims to have a Unix background, doesn’t RTFM.

    Nobody really uses Kubernetes for day-to-day work, and it shows. Where UNIX concepts like files and pipes exist from OS internals up to interaction by actual people, cloud-native tooling feels like it’s meant for bureaucrats in well-paid jobs.

    Translation: Author does not understand APIs.

    Want an asynchronous, hierarchical, recursive, key-value database? With metadata like modified times and access control built-in? Sounds pretty fancy! Files and directories.

    Ok. Now give me high availability, atomic writes to sets of keys, caching, access control…

    I’m ashamed enough that I can’t really apply to these jobs

    This reads as “I applied to the jobs and got rejected. There’s nothing wrong with me, so the jobs must be broken”.

    boblin,

    I am someone with kubernetes in my job title. If you as a developer are expected to know about kubernetes beyond containerizing your application then your company has set itself up for failure. As you aptly said kubernetes is an ecosystem, and the dev portion is a small niche of that.

    boblin,

    Literally copied and pasted that from the article.

    boblin, (edited )

    This vmalert tool is just an interface to another, even more complicated piece of software.

    Not really just an interface. It is a pluggable service that connects to one or more TSDBs, performs periodic queries, and notifies another service when certain thresholds are exceeded. So with all those configuration options, why is the standalone binary expected to have defaults that may sound same on one system but insane in a different one? If the author wants out of the box configuration they could have gotten the helm chart or the operator and then that would be taken care of. But they seem to be deathly allergic to yaml, so I guess that won’t happen.

    Since when do Unix tools output 3,000 word long usage info? Even GNU tools don’t even come close…

    You just said that this software was much more complex than Unix tools. Also if only there were alternate documentation formats….

    HTTP and REST are very strange ways to accomplish IPC or networked communication on Unix when someone would normally accomplish the same thing with signals, POSIX IPC, a simpler protocol over TCP with BSD sockets, or any other thing already in the base system.

    Until you need authentication, out of the box libraries, observability instrumentation, interoperability… which can be done much more easily with a mature communication protocol like HTTP. And for those chasing the bleeding edge there’s gRPC.

    I would hope the filesystems you use are “high availability” lol

    They’re not, and I’m disappointed that you think they are. Any individual filesystem is a single point of failure. High availability lets me take down an entire system with zero service disruption because there’s redundancy, load balancing, disaster recovery…

    the humble file metaphor can still represent these concepts

    They can, and they still do… Inside the container.

    It’s not a lack of skill as your comment implies but rather a rejection of this way of doing things.

    Which I understand, I honestly do. I rejected containers for a (relatively) long time myself, and the argument that the author is making echoes what I would have said about containers. Which is why I believe myself to be justified in making the argument that I did, because rejecting a way of doing things based on preconception is a lack of flexibility, and in cloud ecosystems that translates to a lack of skill.

    boblin,

    I probably did go a bit ad hominem in my last paragraph. By the time I was done with the article I was very frustrated by what seemed to be some very bad faith arguments (straw man, false dilemma) that were presented.

    boblin,

    Probably need to keep in mind incidental versus essential complexity here.

    Go on…

    Because this is how much of what we use already is implemented. Significant effort goes in to portability, interoperability and balancing compromises. When I’m doing software development e.g. writing HTTP APIs (of which I apparently know nothing about ;) ) - I feel like I’ve got a responsibility to carefully balance what I expose as some user-configurable thing versus something managed internally by the application. Sometimes, thankfully, the application doesn’t even have to think about it al all - like what TCP flags to set when I dial some service.

    In the case of vmalert, the binary makes no assumptions as to default behaviour because it was not meant to be run standalone. It comes as part of a container with specific environment variables, which in turn is packaged as a Helm chart which has sane configurations. Taking the vmalert binary by itself is like taking a kerberos server binary without its libraries and config files in /etc files and complaining that it’s not working.

    You bring up containers which is a great example of some cool features provided by the Linux kernel to solve interesting problems. If you’re interested, have a look at FreeBSD’s Jails, Plan 9 and LXC. Compare the interface to all these systems, both at the library level and userspace, and compare the applications developed using those systems. How easy is it to get going? How much do I need to keep in my head when using these features? Docker, Kubernetes, and the rest all have made different tradeoffs and compromises.

    I am very well versed in jails, chroot, openvz, LXC, etc. OCI containers are in a different class - don’t think of them as an OS-like environment, think of them as a self-contained, packaged service. Docker is then one example of a runtime runtime on which those services run, and Kubernetes is an orchestrator that managed containers in runtimes. And yes, there are some tradeoffs and compromises, but those are well within the bounds of the Pareto principle - remove the 10% long tail of features on the host, reduce user-facing complexity by 90%.

    Another one I think about is SQLite. Some seriously clever smarts. Huge numbers of people don’t know anything about for-loops, C, or B-Trees but can read & write SQL. That’s technology at its best.

    Are you arguing that Kubernetes doesn’t do that for you? Because with Kubernetes I can say “run the service in this container with these settings and so many replicas”, attach some conditions like “stop sending traffic to any one container that takes longer than N seconds to respond” and “restart the container if a certain command returns an error”, and just let it run. I can do a rolling upgrade of the nodes and Kubernetes will reschedule the containers on any other available node, it can load balance traffic, I can update the spec of a deployment and Kubernetes will do a zero-downtime upgrade for me. Try implementing the same on a Unix system. You’d need a way to push configs (Ansible, Puppet, etc?). You need load balancing and leader election (Keepalived?). You need error detection. You need DNS. You need to run the services. You need to ensure there’s no library conflict. There’s a LOT of complexity that a Kubernetes user does not need to worry about any more. Tell me that’s not serious smarts and technology at its best.

    What I’m struggling with are thoughts of significant vested commercial interest in exposing this kind of detail, fuelling multi-billion dollar service industries. Feelings of being an outsider despite understanding how it all fits together.

    You seem to be conflating Kubernetes and cloud services. Being a cloud native technology does not mean it has to run on a managed cloud service. It just means that it has certain expectations as to how workloads run on it, and if those expectations are met then it makes certain promises about how it will behave.

    Have you ever written this kind of software before?

    I have contributed to several similar open source projects, yes. What about it?

    It sounds like you are comfortable with the status quo of this part of the software industry, and I’m truly jealous!

    I am comfortable with my knowledge of this part of the software industry. There is no status quo - there’s currently an equilibrium, yes, but it is a tenuous one. I know the tools I use today will likely not be the same tools I will be using a decade from now. But I also know that the concepts and architectures I learn from managing these tools will still be applicable then, and I can stay agile enough to adapt and become comfortable in a new ecosystem. I would urge you to consider the same approach for yourself.

    boblin,

    Stört your engines!

    boblin,

    Wouldn’t he consider the collective the upper class, and any non-Borg the commoners? Although he might be at odds with the whole “assimilate” thing.

    boblin,

    I kept scrolling through thinking whoever designed this was definitely not responsible for cleaning. The sheer despair I would feel if I had to dust all those rock surfaces!

    boblin,

    Getting Happy Death Day vibes off this.

    boblin,

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