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by erulabs 2y ago
The net is bifurcating and, twitter vibes aside, I think we should all be a bit concerned with this “balkanization” of the internet. I don’t blame any one person, and it’s arguably better than everyone on one platform, still…
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by erulabs 2y ago
My explanation is that their tight control is an illusion. Not to get political, but the illusion of power is power, and suggesting they control billions of peoples speech is certainly an illusion of power. China, and all other (supposedl
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by erulabs 2y ago
Genuinely appreciative that Stripe has remained private long enough to single handedly keep both M&A and crypto active post-ZIRP. I know it’s not a popular opinion here, but decentralized internet currencies are a good thing for the hum
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by erulabs 2y ago
I used gVisor to sandbox containers for a short-lived "free-tier isolated-kubernetes-namespaces-as-a-service" startup. It was really neat, and it worked pretty damn well. Alas, we were attacked constantly by crypto miners and fail
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by erulabs 2y ago
Aside from the .env points, which, fair enough, don't use "environment variables in a file", this always boils down to one actual security concern: Are you okay with every piece of code in your codebase having quick and easy
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by erulabs 2y ago
Recently became totally enamored with Wittgenstein - one of those thinkers who's core ideas have lived, inarticulate, in my heart, since I was a child: Language has no definite meaning, we operate in a fog of connotation, real communic
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by erulabs 2y ago
A 10% chance of making $100 costs $10. To make a 10x return, OpenAI would need to be worth 1.6T. So investors are thinking that there is a about ~10% chance of AI growing to about ~10% the size of the service industry (10% of service indust
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by erulabs 2y ago
I’ve had a long day and for just a split second I was excited for this to be something other than exactly what I expected and exactly what it is. For about 700ms I felt real technological excitement again. Dang. Funny tho!
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by erulabs 2y ago
At the risk of sounding snarky: It wasn’t. It does however, answer the question. “We” do not need to change our allocation strategy whatsoever because “we” didn’t allocate any resources towards this and “we” aren’t the arbiter of what other
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by erulabs 2y ago
The use of the word “we” is curious. You didn’t come up with the puzzle, you didn’t “waste” the resources. The purpose of the we is to appoint yourself judge and arbiter and to steal yourself into the in-group. Just post your judgement: you
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by erulabs 2y ago
Well I think it's neat. The bit I find most provoking is the "if you already have Kubernetes..." premise. I find myself having a hard time not wanting to shove everything into the Kubernetes framework simply to avoid having t
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by erulabs 2y ago
> also want it to be a bit more redundant so that if one physical computer dies then it'll just be rescheduled to another machine and I'll be back up and chatting within minutes without human intervention. It seems an explicit
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by erulabs 2y ago
If AI remains in the cloud, nvidia wins. But I can’t help but think that if AI becomes “self-hosted”, if we return to a world where people own their own machines, AMDs APUs and interconnect technology will be absolutely dominant. Training m
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by erulabs 2y ago
Lots of reasons, but three big ones: I like to root for the home team (tech entrepreneurs like my former self getting paid out for taking a risk makes me happy) M&A activity is a positive sign for the economy. Stripe wouldn’t be buying
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by erulabs 2y ago
Good to see M&A get back on track -- PC, whom I would trust much more than any living economist, must be somewhat positive about the near future? Congrats to the lemon squeezy team!
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by erulabs 2y ago
I don’t disagree, but a counter point is that no one has ever agreed on everything - and colloquial names for species already exist — and that language drifts to and fro like a fog. Statis in connotation or denotation sounds somehow totalit
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by erulabs 2y ago
“Kubernetes is bad and complexity is bad, things should be simple like they used to be” is such a huge red flag. If the market uses a tool, and you don’t understand the tool, perhaps reserve judgement or even feign interest. The example of
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by erulabs 2y ago
It’s only a bad model if he didn’t love what he did for a living. Otherwise I find it quite inspiring.
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by erulabs 2y ago
https://youtu.be/Rc0K4WhNOvY Enjoy!
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by erulabs 2y ago
Somewhat related, I fell in love with a pretty obscure philosophy lecturer who uploaded his old Princeton lecture series to YouTube, dr Micheal Segrue. Genuinely the best overview of various philosophers I’ve ever seen. Highly recommended.
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Several issues: 1. Of course you can live in poverty without being an addict, that wasn't an implication of what I said. 2. Biochemistry is technology. 3. Tech will, has, and is 'solving' poverty. 4. My point is that it is no
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by erulabs 2y ago
You can say “just sort out who is doing this!” and you can say “what has happened to the world that it’s come to this!” And the answer to both is the same: Drugs. You’re stealing copper wiring because you’re an addict. You’re not getting a
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by erulabs 2y ago
Hospitals need to be BIG. Basic logic does something like “population * sickness-rate = mean required beds for hospital budget”, but this is logical for lossy services, not mandatory ones. Not to get political, but when a service goes from
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by erulabs 2y ago
Walk a bit, have some friends, don’t be broke, don’t drink too much, live a little longer: news at 11
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one could say that what the market is is simply the lack of newspapers having the ability to decide what people do and don’t need
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by erulabs 2y ago
Counterpoint: a monolith usually contains a complex init system which allows multiple ways of running the codebase. Microservices can avoid at least that one complexity.
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by erulabs 2y ago
My experience is that OpenEBS and Longhorn are cool and new and simplified, but that I would only trust my life to Rook/Ceph. If it's going into production, I'd say look at https://rook.io/ - Ceph can do both
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by erulabs 2y ago
Oh? I only rarely drive my wife’s Tesla but that’s excellent to know, thank you!
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Around then they rolled out a change that I hate, which was to remove cruise control and replace it with self-driving. Previously “one tap” was cruise, two was self-drive. Now it’s right into self-drive. I assume that increased hours signif
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People can be awkward and weird and have inconsistent moods and change their minds and aren't completely in sync with their feelings. These are the complexities of actual human beings . "Dan" is a fantasy, and unfortunately,

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