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> What is the alternative to k8s that does not need people to have any technical knowledge? Paying for a managed provider. Heroku, Elastic Beanstalk, GAE, GCP, Fargate, etc. You push some buttons, they manage your cluster/services.
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Some more hits and misses: ONC-RPC, DCE/RPC, JRMI, MSRPC, RPC over HTTP, MAPI over HTTP, JSON-RPC, JSON-WSP, WAMP, M-RPC, MTProto, ICE, Cap'n Proto, PRyC, DRb, AMF, RFC, D-Bus, Thrift, Avro, GWT
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Well, I'd answer that with two things 1) good leadership is probably rare, and 2) doing the wrong thing isn't always wrong. In my experience, the best leadership comes from people who don't hyper-focus on one thing, but are c
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> They force you to not share memory on a single system, So instead people use a single SQL database between 20 microservices. > give you scale and failure isolation, Only if you configure and test them properly, and they actually te
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The thing it's solving is not needing to configure the software to bind on a particular port and IP at runtime. I will agree that this is the easiest possible solution from a usability standpoint. But this functionality adds a unique n
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Not aware of an SMTP replacement, that will be a real doozy. Maybe one day FastMail or Google will write a new overcomplicated poorly-documented API-driven cant-do-anything-without-15-layers-of-abstraction replacement and we can spend a cou
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> Let's build some more of that so we won't need to drive anywhere Have you been to the projects? There's housing, and nothing else. People still have to sit 2 hours on a bus to get groceries because it's still a food
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Abroad in well-developed nations with healthy economies, violent police aren't so much a thing. Our police mimic our own American society, which is inherently violent and promotes criminality (through a draconian justice system that ha
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> I think it must be a lot easier to be a weird misfit now than it was in 1935. Everything is easier for people now than it was in 1935.
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Nomad isn't really feature mature or user friendly enough, you still eventually need 100 bolt-ons. I think a Distributed OS is the only sane solution. Build the features we need into the kernel and stop futzing around with 15 abstracti
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Every person I know who wants to use k8s has never had to maintain it. "Developers love it!" Yeah, I'd love someone to drive my car for me, too. Doesn't mean it's a great idea to use technology so complex you have
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Multiple US municipalities have convened conferences and created sort of joint task forces to investigate the use of micromobility to supplement public transit. The scooters and bikes could have been donated to local governments who could t
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Early 2000s: Remember when everyone wanted to try to build a business on the idea that "internet + non-technical-business = $$$$$" ? Early 2020s: Remember when everyone wanted to try to build a business on the idea that "inte
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> The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup. You really can't come up with a better set up to an episode of
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I've come to accept that Markdown is time-consuming and difficult for documents more complex than a README. I now truly appreciate Wikis with WYSIWYG interfaces and complex macros. Would love to see extensions to Markdown to give it mo
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I like ordering groceries online, but I think the idea of instant grocery shopping is flawed. 1) You're depending on & supporting an oppressed segment of the labor force (people who need multiple jobs to make ends meet, because n
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Claims about variolation/inoculation, not vaccination. Vaccines were discovered 6 years after Franklin's death.
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Some things to note about variolation wrt Coronavirus: - About a 2% death rate when used with Smallpox (compared to 20-30% without variolation), so we could expect mortalities from variolation with Coronavirus. - You actually get infected w
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At scale? It's not only usually unnecessary, it's a bad application<->data model, and will lead to fractured code, deploy processes, and bit rot. Depending on design. Remember that a database is supposed to be shared. It&#x2
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This is a misuse of the term immutable to latch onto its cache as a popular term. Immutability has nothing to do with verifiability or security or integrity. Immutable just means 'does not change'. It's like saying read-only.
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The script and Dockerfile I use are pretty long, but they set up everything needed to map in the most common stuff like ssh and aws creds, ptrace, sudo support, uid/gid runtime mapping, etc. Once you start developing your shared repos
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I appreciate these posts for "I just need to do X..." google-search-for-my-fix problems. But I've always found it frustrating that this is what the whole www is now: a whole lot of spread out individual docs for individual pr
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That's a good point, but on the other hand, who wrote the languages? Is it possible for a human to write a language which another human can use and create no bugs? In either case - unsafe language and safe implementation, safe language
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Postfix has 9 CVEs. Qmail has 1. It would seem the numbers don't agree with you.
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The only way that could improve the quality is for DJB to rewrite it in Rust. If anyone else rewrote it in Rust, it would just contain different security bugs, and probably run worse.
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All the typical sizes depend on the compiler and the flags you provide. If you provide the wrong flags, the sizes of each type may change, but you won't see any warnings about it because it's expected behavior, and now you've
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I think this is phase 1, where phase 2 or 3 is "enabled by default and don't fall back to plain DNS". So it's trivial to defeat until they change a setting. But that's not even the big problem here. The big problem
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Note: You shouldn't use int , unsigned int , char , short , long . Use int16_t , uint16_t , uint8_t , etc (or their _fast equivalents) from stdint.h . The former's sizes change based on platform, cpu, and compiler; the
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A platform isn't public or private. It's a platform. You can use it any way you want. But if it's not your platform , you don't get to make the rules of how it can be used or how it works. I don't think people real
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> having a near-monopoly on various public communication channels > Google's "We're a private company" get-out-jail-free card cannot continue to apply You're upset that they have a monopoly on their own websit

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