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931.
by stouset 2y ago
My salary directly depends upon me deeply understanding both AWS and Kubernetes. Better luck next time.
932.
by stouset 2y ago
It’s almost as if politics impacts many things in the world around us.
933.
by stouset 2y ago
Gold is also a generally terrible asset to hold as a long-term store of value.
934.
by stouset 2y ago
And in your hypothetical scenario, how did you get that value into Bitcoin to begin with?
935.
by stouset 2y ago
One important difference here is I don’t have to imagine a mortgage. Bitcoin proponents always talk about how it has the potential to do x, y, and z. Okay so do it already.
936.
by stouset 2y ago
Which trade, specifically, is Bitcoin facilitating in practice?
937.
by stouset 2y ago
Sure, what do I know, I only operate the Kubernetes platform (on AWS) that runs most of a $50bn public company.
938.
by stouset 2y ago
I think you comically underestimate what Kubernetes provides. Autoscaling groups give you instances, but Kubernetes automatically and transparently distributes all your running services, jobs, and other workloads across all those instance
939.
by stouset 2y ago
Kubernetes and AWS aren’t alternatives. They occupy vastly different problem spaces.
940.
by stouset 2y ago
This is precisely why financially literate people hold on to the amount of cash necessary to buy and sell goods, keep some excess in an account that bears interest, and the bulk of the rest goes into productive assets.
941.
by stouset 2y ago
I encourage you to actually work on a twenty year old piece of technology. It’s easy to forget that modern computers are doing a lot more. Sure, there’s waste. But the expectations from software these days are exponentially greater than w
942.
by stouset 2y ago
Those only require you to understand them because you’re working directly on top of them. If you were writing a filesystem driver you would absolutely need to know those details. If you’re writing a database backend, you probably need to
943.
by stouset 2y ago
Right now I’m typing on a glass screen that pretends to have a keyboard on it that is running a web browser developed with a UI toolkit in a programming language that compiles down to an intermediate bytecode that’s compiled to machine code
944.
by stouset 2y ago
Next to nobody is actually using it as a means of exchange because it is poorly suited for that purpose in practice. The only type of commerce for which it’s viable in practice are typically crime or crime-adjacent. There is of course a sma
945.
by stouset 2y ago
And there’s a lot of people to prey on who don’t understand the difference between day trading and investing.
946.
by stouset 2y ago
You’re the only one hypothesizing here. “Crypto isn’t a productive asset and is an energy sink” is a simple and straightforward observation. But if you’re going to hypothesize things out of thin air, you can give them literally any property
947.
by stouset 2y ago
> As far as I'm concerned, the environment is a read-only input parameter set on process creation like argv. This holds for a lot of programs, but what if you're writing a shell?
948.
by stouset 2y ago
Got it, sorry that I misunderstood. I firmly agree.
949.
by stouset 2y ago
Which of the advisory boards do you think were run by incompetents or blind adherents to generally unpopular opinions? Do you think it was half? More? Less?
950.
by stouset 2y ago
I’m not asking them to abandon anything. Apple Health has been around over ten years . Oura could have figured out in the intervening time how to read heart rate data from Health. All I’m asking for Strava, Garmin, and the rest is to just
951.
by stouset 2y ago
There’s a very easily-discovered button to export everything. It goes to some sort of XML format that I haven’t bothered to inspect but which I assume others have written extractors for. I don’t think I really care all that much though. Oth
952.
by stouset 2y ago
What strikes me is that I alread have a central authoritative store of health and fitness information on my Apple devices bundled directly into the operating system but every single app in that category wants me to use them as the single
953.
by stouset 2y ago
ATC instruction can be countermanded in the event of gross error or emergency. That said, ATC instructions are to be followed promptly in the absence of such factors. You don’t get to wait and check hundreds of possible minor and irreleva
954.
by stouset 2y ago
To underscore your point, the original flight plan almost certainly did not transit that region. So the pilot likely wouldn’t have even been aware that there’s a TFR somewhere vaguely adjacent to their intended path. ATC issues minor deviat
955.
by stouset 2y ago
In this case, DAL neither did anything wrong nor bears any responsibility. They were being controlled by ATC, ATC told them where to fly. ATC erred.
956.
by stouset 2y ago
Did you know that some people actually choose to live in cities? Personally I can’t wrap my head around the continuous boredom of living in rural areas or suburbia, where anything interesting is an hour or more of wasted life in a round-tri
957.
by stouset 2y ago
The only reason they even need this further hack is because people can reasonably assume that 1 is bool. Now, because of this confusion, they’re special-casing 1 to actually mean 0. But other integers are still themselves. They’ve also now
958.
by stouset 2y ago
In an earlier iteration the configuration value was Boolean true/false. A 1 was interpreted as true. They changed it to an integral value. This is the entire setup for the problem in the article. Elsewhere, 1 is still allowed as a true
959.
by stouset 2y ago
1 was also accepted as a Boolean true in this context, and it still is in other contexts.
960.
by stouset 2y ago
The “real” issue is an untyped configuration language which tries to guess at what you actually meant by 1. They’re tripling down on this by making 1 a Boolean true but other integers be deciseconds. This is the same questionable logic be

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