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by sofixa 2y ago
> It also attracted dozens of community flags I've noticed that a lot of the articles describing various Trump admin abuses (be it DOGE, or Trump crypto scams, or whatever) get flagged a lot. (While they're very relevant, nobod
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by sofixa 2y ago
https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/ None of this is new, AWS' dedicated US government stuff has existed for around a decade. > To what degree is the federal government subsidizing Amazon's retail dominance
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by sofixa 2y ago
> Hopefully these 4 years energize people to vote You are assuming there will be next elections that are free, fair, and matter. Trump says a lot of things that ultimately doesn't matter, but he has also said, and is the type of bru
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> This sort of thing is happening across the federal government. There is no rhyme or reason. DOGE has been given an unrealistic target for cuts and they're desperately cutting whatever they can get their hands on You make it sound
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by sofixa 2y ago
> Wow I’m genuinely surprised that’s not getting more press It's hard reporting on the current administration, it's the classic Russian flood style messaging, where you just flood as much (mis)information as you can, and people
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by sofixa 2y ago
> probable free trade deal While hoping is free, the negative impact of Brexit has been extensively documented. Hell, there's even a Wikipedia page about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_effects_of_Bre
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by sofixa 2y ago
To be fair one of the most common ways of managing Kubernetes clusters and what is deployed on them is to use ArgoCD, which gives you the same issue of dual stateful control planes. Even more fun is if you then run your Kubernetes cluster o
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by sofixa 2y ago
> Just about every time someone complains about ansible, there's a comment to plug this project but pyinfra seems to opt-out of the cloud provisioning part Which Ansible is absolutely atrocious at, so that makes sense. Use the best
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> modern VMs don't emulate hardware They provide pretend hardware which isn't really necessary.
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By almost everyone who has done a comparison. VMs have a full OS that needs to be maintained (patched, upgraded when EOL, etc.). Hypervisors traditionally cost a metric crapton of money per core. Yes, Proxmox is pretty good, but it's t
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by sofixa 2y ago
How does it handle notifications? How do you access it remotely? How do you share it for common events with others? Comparing a paper calendar to a digital one is like comparing a Nokia 3310 to a modern smartphone. Yes, technically both are
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> A big european country’s government just arrested a popular politician to prevent her from running for president using some silly charges that could have been used against any politician Silly charges being blatant stealing of public m
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by sofixa 2y ago
> You can't be sent to jail in the US just on them just suspecting something. All the people sitting in an Salvadorian prison for having a shitty tatoo would strongly disagree.
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by sofixa 2y ago
> Americans generally don't understand the degree to which the rest of the world gets the CNN 5min recap of what's going on in the US, and it's very much the CNN recap and not the Fox one. No, Americans generally don'
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by sofixa 2y ago
> Out of curiosity, what do you think it's like to travel to Europe as someone who is dark-skinned, has a beard, and does not have a European passport? Depends on which part of Europe. In the more diverse parts, nobody would bat an
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by sofixa 2y ago
> Do these nationalists always dismantle their nation That's a very interesting premise. I can think of a few counterexamples (Franco in Spain, for all the atrocities committed by his regime, Spain unquestionably progressed economic
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by sofixa 2y ago
The Framework Desktop is one not absurdly expensive option. The memory speed isn't great (200 something GB/s), but any faster with those requirements at least doubles the price (e.g. a Mac Studio, only the highest tier M chips hav
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by sofixa 2y ago
Agree to disagree on if a license change (to one that impacts nobody but potential resellers) constitutes a rug pull. BSL and similar are the second best thing (after open source licenses), and still drastically better than proprietary&#x2F
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by sofixa 2y ago
If Docker Swarm is on the table (it's practically abandonware), I'd like to throw in Nomad by HashiCorp. It's also fairly lightweight, very flexible (can run various types of containers but also exec any executable), decent e
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by sofixa 2y ago
Funnily this (only its local not foreign propaganda) is kind of what's happening in India. The BJP (party in power) is leaning very heavily on propaganda towards the uneducated masses to boost their image.
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by sofixa 2y ago
> This is actually a tax on the rich Nope, it's a tax on everyone. Rich people will pay more of it, but non rich people will be harder hit as % of income. Same as sales tax/VAT.
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by sofixa 2y ago
Which NGOs? > Now we can't build anything Yeah, this isn't due to the debt. Most infrastructure projects in the US are disasters (usually due to layers of outsourcing, tons of consultants, corruption, lack of competence) that c
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by sofixa 2y ago
1 and 2 have been constant for months now. In fact, rates have already started going down after inflation did. So no, it's mostly the tariffs.
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by sofixa 2y ago
> the client/server model and its knock on effects (IIRC, needing to upload changes with knife?) was annoying It also has tons of advantages, notably around scale (Ansible id very slow when working with thousands of machines) and e
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by sofixa 2y ago
Nonsense. I was there around a year ago, and while I didn't like it (locals were very pushy and scammy with tourists), there is nothing dangerous other than the classic potential theft/getting bitten by a monkey/snake stufd.
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by sofixa 2y ago
> I'm pretty sure the election was manipulated, but the court only said so because it benefits the incumbents, which control the courts and would lose their power. Why do you think that's the only reason the court said so? The
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by sofixa 2y ago
> That doesn't change the raw GDP figures though That's assuming they're relevant, and spoiler, they aren't for the topic at hand. How is any individual's life better because they work at a café selling $20 coffe
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by sofixa 2y ago
> His statement was that he was Citi Bank's best trader in 2011, which is true Is it? Nothing in the FT articles indicates that, and they clearly state that 2 years prior a trader got a $100 million personal bonus (so on profits m
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by sofixa 2y ago
That's a dumb racist dogwhistle, Marrakesh and Kandy are very homogenous yet quite filthy. The common denominator is education and poverty, not skin colour or religion or whatever you imagine it to be.
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by sofixa 2y ago
> Politicians won't tax gas because they'll get voted out. Have you seen gas tax rates in the EU? > We know that Trump is not captured by corporations because his trade policies are terrible. Unless you think it's a lon

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