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by Rantenki 4y ago
OMFG so much this. I worked at a large company that deployed it's own Kubernetes stack, on a VERY large number of physical hosts. The theory was that the K8S would simplify our devops story enough that we could iterate quickly and scal
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by Rantenki 4y ago
It's worth mentioning that Jason (the author) has dedicated his life to the preservation of information as the "containing" technologies are shifting like sand beneath our collective feet. He's thought about this stuff f
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by Rantenki 4y ago
I recently was working on highly connected autonomous public transportation. Can confirm that connectivity is only increasing, and that cloud connectivity is going to be a hard requirement in the future. As for security, while the automotiv
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by Rantenki 4y ago
Any corporation which fails to extract more value from it's employees than it pays them doesn't stay in business for long. But yes, you are absolutely correct, and the value added by a productive developer is probably vastly large
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by Rantenki 4y ago
Conservatives: "ChatGPT has gone woke!" Also conservatives: "Let's trick this chatbot into repeating racist/misogynist hard-right talking points" ref: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft
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by Rantenki 4y ago
You underestimate the power of the Dunning-Kruger effect. That 1000 random people will build it, get it on the launchpad, and press the button. That's not the problem. It's getting to orbit (and back) that would be highly unlikely
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by Rantenki 4y ago
Breathing through your mouth for hours at a time _while_ doing that ^. Also not good. Your gums get dried out. Lots of endurance athletes take the "long in the tooth" look a few steps further than usual. https://www.ucl
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by Rantenki 4y ago
It's worth mentioning that the world could use a few more grug-brain developers: https://grugbrain.dev/
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by Rantenki 4y ago
I forget the actual source of this quote that I am about to mangle, but: Bitcoin/Blockchain was designed specifically to circumvent the legal frameworks used to regulate financial transactions. It follows then that any non-fr
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by Rantenki 4y ago
Chesterton's Fence: There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see th
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by Rantenki 4y ago
Not to be too inflammatory, but it's always amazing to me how people will ignore a threat as long as possible, then pretend it just appeared once they are forced to acknowledge it. Not a perfect XKCD match, but pretty close: https:&#x
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by Rantenki 4y ago
Great; phrenology except the method is an inscrutably complex AI/ML algorithm which will end up hidden behind IP and trade-secret barriers, so it's harder to call bullshit on. And the people in control of the training corpus get t
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by Rantenki 4y ago
This is true IFF you get to the point where you have to split up. I know we're all hot and bothered about getting our apps to scale up to be the next unicorn, but most apps never need to scale past the limit of a single very high-perfo
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by Rantenki 4y ago
Aircraft spruce sells tubing in a variety of lengths, and ship to Canada. They're a good source for tubes that don't fit normal framebuilding supply inventories. They ship to Canada directly: https://www.aircraftspruce.
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by Rantenki 4y ago
I just read the post, and I don't see what's worth criticizing there? Sounds like he's suffering from depression and isolation, and navel-gazing on his situation in life. Has the post been edited or something? I'll admit
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by Rantenki 4y ago
Grug state Chesterton's fence very easy understand way.
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by Rantenki 4y ago
That's a configuration problem, and not hard to correct. Tell him to go into the audio settings, then "advanced audio settings", and add the "sync offset" in milliseconds required to bring the audio and video into s
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by Rantenki 4y ago
Some additional items to keep in mind: - Those developers in India are 180 degrees out of phase time-zone wise. There is effectively zero overlap in working hours from the west coast of the US to India. Makes it hard to collaborate. - You g
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by Rantenki 4y ago
Calling it .5 QPS to downplay the severity is willfully ignoring the complaint in the article. It's not just a query, it's a full Git clone of the entire repo with it's history. That's a huge difference.
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by Rantenki 4y ago
Our ECS containers all run continuously processing Kafka messages. Dev has variable throughput, but it's hundreds of messages per second at least. The containers all use between 256MB and 2048MB commits (they're stream processors,
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by Rantenki 4y ago
Absolutely. My setup is, as stated, a dev instance. We have a substantially larger prod setup, but I can't get into the details about production scale on a public forum. That said, even the dev instance is moving a substantial amount o
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by Rantenki 4y ago
I have a personal dev cloud on AWS that has: * AWS MSK (Kafka server) with redundant instances across 3 AZs * Aurora Posgres instance with redundancy across 3 AZs * Multiple Lambdas for incoming messages from MQTT to Kafka * IoT/MQTT a
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by Rantenki 4y ago
Update: My instance was recovered over this weekend (Apr 16). We've verified that integrations (webhooks, jira integrations) are working, and no data was lost that we can see (nobody works overnight, so our last change was at the end o
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by Rantenki 4y ago
Thank you for responding here. Even a single successful restoration, anecdotal as it is, makes me feel a lot better about the situation. I was honestly wondering if Atlassian was just pushing the date out to soften the eventual backlash whe
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by Rantenki 4y ago
Hey Mike; Not dumping on you personally, but the RTO claims to be 6 hours. I can understand that being a target, but we're at 32X that RTO target, with a communicated target date of another 12 or so days IIRC. That's literally two
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by Rantenki 4y ago
I've repeatedly asked Atlassian if: 1. They can confirm that they have backups of our data (about a thousand stories, substantial confluence, opsgenie history, and three service desks). 2. Will our integrations, configuration, and cust
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by Rantenki 5y ago
As someone who is impacted, this is obviously immensely frustrating. Worse, outside of "we have rebuilt functionality for over 35% of the users", I haven't seen any reports from the people who have ostensibly been recovered.
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by Rantenki 5y ago
This story is nonsense. "Now that we've established unstoppability as a net new feature, I’ll make my most speculative and contentious proposition: Hyperstructures can be simultaneously free forever to utilize and extremely valuab
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by Rantenki 5y ago
You probably already know this, but EAA does still get a discount for the maker license of Solidworks. $50/year. I'm actually designing a mold for some generative art with it right now :)
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by Rantenki 5y ago
This article reads like a combination of sour grapes with the odd clever observation. Yes, Catia was a PITA to use and support, but it was productive in the right hands. PTC Pro/E was also a PITA to use, but very productive for experts

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