dinvlad

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   by dinvlad 4y ago

   Same thing with Kubernetes and every other bit of enterprise software ever written. It's all rotten to the core with the same principle, even when the initial motives might've been pure.
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   by dinvlad 4y ago

   And also "what can we do that will make our cloud even more enterprisey and vendor lock-in than AWS?"
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   by dinvlad 4y ago

   I don't want to assume things, but in many orgs this just means "we waste 10x more than we could have without it, and equally more on multi-team developer/management workforce needed to support it, because of course everythin
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   by dinvlad 4y ago

   Unfortunately, one common approach with clouds these days is "unless you're big enough or in good relation with us and advertise us to others at every opportunity (or otherwise align with our vision where we want to be), we won&#x
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   by dinvlad 4y ago

   I wanted to give it a try, but SecureBoot is refusing to be set up correctly, despite following the manual '( (I suspect the problem is with NVidia drivers..)
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   by dinvlad 4y ago

   Very profound, thanks for sharing!
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   by dinvlad 4y ago

   > just read the source code That's the problem though - code is not enough for understanding. Very well-written and documented code can be, but it's not a given. And the complexity grows exponentially the more of the code there
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   by dinvlad 4y ago

   For sure - and I don't think we necessarily have the ANYONE part either :-) The reason for that is folks who build systems often leave, and the details of why or even how they did something leave with them. At some point, there's
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   by dinvlad 4y ago

   I'm not so sure about the economics of what you describe. I think it could very well be that small customers don't really consume that much "bandwidth" that their resource requirements could be subsumed entirely by large
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    I really wish managed Kubernetes offerings remained "free" for small use, and would only expose "empty" nodes ready for full utilization by end-user containers. The reality however is that every managed node (like on GKE
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    > Context and interdependency are everywhere. Very much applicable to software as well :-) Modern systems are so complex there're very few people (if at all) who understand everything in them, even though they were man-made over tim
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    I don't even think we understand software, much less biology :-) We can only hope to understand the pieces that are most relevant to the business domain we're trying to solve (like curing a disease or expanding an online business)
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    I'd even claim that we don't really fully understand how computer systems work anymore. Let me explain. When someone creates a new system, we could argue they have a complete understanding of it, since they build everything from t
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    So good to see a renaissance of "portable apps", now on the web. All of this extra complexity associated with multi-tiered multi-microservice arch is not needed for many categories of apps, and especially for small teams.
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    I think strong versioning in event-driven arch is a must, to avoid strong coupling. Otherwise, it becomes even worse than "normal" call-driven service arch, because it's already plenty hard to find all of the receivers, and i
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    I'm just surprised no one mentioned https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html yet :-) Nano actually did (and does) make sense from access control perspective - if a service has permissions to do one thing
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    I started sorta the opposite and thought that nano(!) services (think one AWS Lambda per API call) were the best approach, and now I look at that younger wisdom with a parental smile..
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    This sounds great, actually! I'm personally a fan of maximized windows for most of everything, and would very much like to use something that allows me to pin certain windows to certain workspaces like you describe. Not sure if Windows
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    Is there a guide on doing the opposite?
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    Wolfgang's channel had an interesting take on it recently: "Tiling Window Managers suck. Here's why" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n_rl9jWUMo
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    They don't allow auto-blocking unknown numbers even.. which is why scammers like it, I think.
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    Mine arrive mostly to Whatsapp, but there's no technical way to auto-block unknown numbers. I feel like such a simple control would solve the problem in majority of such cases.
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    Tbh, most of big enterprise software UI just plain sucks. I see this as a natural consequence of being too packed with features, to target the widest audience possible. Best software UX is made by smaller teams that dedicate themselves to s
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    I wish game intellect was far more advanced than graphics, by this point. Without good in-game AI and unless there's really good writing (which is rare on itself these days!), it all gets boring really fast. Talking about single-player
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    Depends on what the startup is about. If you're in the business of hardware, biotech etc. that _requires_ an initial investment, just don't. Particularly if you're building SaaS, I'd seriously consider bootstrapping. Jus
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    I would imagine their threat model pretty much assumes anyone can do anything on that host :-)
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    As an interesting alternative, Fedora Silverblue is another experiment with immutable OSes for the masses. Haven't played with it myself, but heard good things. The DevEx might not be a solved problem with it though - chaining multiple
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    "Back in the days" I used to think 256KB of RAM on a modified Speccy was already plenty, and dreamt about getting one of those 256MB(!) PCs, which would open a _universe_ of opportunities. Heh, that was so naive - not because of i
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    Meaty! Thanks for sharing.. At this point, it's pretty clear universally everyone within the top management ranks of big companies are sociopaths with money mania. All while feeding the lower ranks and the public beautiful stories abou
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    by dinvlad 4y ago

    Almost the same experience, 4 years. I've even stayed after it for another ~3 years because it was ~3x pay as a tech for doing less restricted stuff (no need to convince my committee what I do is important) and learning to run essentia