EdwardDiego

At least your two year old learns.

KSQL?

I'm really unsure where the drive for this is coming from tbh. (cough CFLT share price since IPO, big enterprise customers cough) If this was so desirable, everyone would've jumped ship to Pulsar already.

I'd started using it at v0.8 at a previous adtech company because my problem was "We generate terabytes of events a day we need to process and aggregate and bill on, how the hell do we move this data around reliably?"

The data team I'd inherited had started with NFS and shell scripts, before a brief detour into GlusterFS after NFS proved to be, well, NFS. GlusterFS was no better.

Using S3 was better, but we still hit data loss problems (on our end, not S3 's, to clear) which isn't great when you need to bill on some of that data.

Then I heard about Kafka, bought a copy of I <3 Logs, and decided that maybe Kafka was worth the complexity, and boom, it was. No more data loss, and a happier business management.

I was headhunted for my current company for my Kafka experience. First thing I realised when I looked at the product was - "Ah, we don't need Kafka for this."

But the VP responsible was insistent. So now I spend a lot of time doing education on how to use Kafka properly.

And the very first thing I start with is "Kafka is not a queue. It's a big dumb pipe that does very smart things to move data efficiently and with minimal risk of data loss - and the smartest thing it does, it choosing to be very dumb.

Want to synchronously know if your message was consumed? Kafka don't care. You need a queue."

It's been dead since Netanyahu became Prime Minister.

https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-748435

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/knesset-overwhe...

Only one Palestinian authority was recognized in the Oslo Accords as representing Palestine, and they've supported it since 1982.

Which is why Israel funded Hamas to weaken the PLO.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...

Being the dominant player, I presume, starve out the rest by being _the_ way to do your big data.

Them and Snowflake have been in an acquisition race, gobbling up data engineering startups like Pac-Man.

That costs a fair bit of dosh.

There's a lot of research in this area :) May I introduce you to the term "inflammageing"...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6146930/

Good on them. Not sure who the Knight brothers are, but glad to see them putting money into an important public service.

> A 38-year-old Russian crime gang leader arrested in ... Kyiv, Ukraine.

That tracks. How many Russian cybercriminals can you think of who were arrested in Russia? Hence why a lot of malware checks for your keyboard's language - so the payload doesn't deploy in Russia, which _would_ actually get you arrested.

But if you're targeting people outside Russia, you're golden.

As for why he's in Kyiv? Maybe his girlfriend is from there. Maybe he prefers Kyiv to Moscow or whichever oblast he's from. Maybe he's hiding from the Russian draft?

> Every crop is subsidized.

Then there is no free market, so the real value of any of those crops can't be determined.

You need to read more of the source blog - he's been pretty pro LLM, but is now acknowledging where it's going too far.

You need to read more of the source blog - he's been pretty pro LLM, but is now acknowledging where it's going too far.

Interesting, Simon Williamson has been rather engaged with and positive about LLM usage, so it's good to see some nuance developing.

$15M per year is a rounding error in the military budget.

So... how many ground based CO2 stations are there?

And do they have the same coverage as a satellite?

Also, why do we need weather satellites when ground wx stations work perfectly fine?

> Farmers care about carbon dioxide levels?

But I thought it was good for plants? You appear to have some cognitive dissonance at play.

You're not familiar with the geography of Australia, huh.

A) They're not growing mangoes in the desert. B) They're pretty fucking terrible at water management, google the Murray - Darling and learn you some Australian water management.

The corn that gets turned into biofuel isn't edible without further processing into maize derived products, so in a crisis scenario, hope you can still highly process corn.

> In the case of corn and soybeans, there is a really good reason why they are grown so much: Because that's where the market is. It is what people want to buy. They are the most competitive and highest value crops in the regions they are grown.

Given the fact that they're subsidised, I doubt that they're the most competitive crops. Competitive crops don't need to be subsidised.

Also, if they're so competitive, then why has the demolition of USAID caused them economic harm? A competitive product doesn't rely on a taxpayer subsidised buyer to make their market.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/1232435535/how-usaid-cuts-hur...

Yeah my mindset was "Everything that happens is my fault" when riding - obviously false, but it was a good way to approach defensive riding.

That car that changed lanes into me? My fault for being in its blind spot and assuming they'd actually check it. So make sure to never linger in blind spots.

The car that did a u-turn in front of me that I nearly hit - my fault for not interpreting the car's body language. Make sure to note the angle of the front wheels of cars pulled to the side of the road in my scans in future.

That time I low sided because I was thinking about work not my ride and then hit a corner slightly too fast right as my front wheel hit a pile of small gravel from a road resurfacing - that was entirely my fault for not focusing on the ride.

And in the US, a lot of the subsidies flow towards food that isn't edible without processing - soybeans and field corn as opposed to sweet corn.

Why? Because they've always grown it. So the subsidies encourage them to keep on growing it instead of diversifying into more competitive or higher value crops.

New Zealand did this in the 80s. Caused a lot of pain in the rural community, a bunch of bankruptcies, marriage failures and suicides as farming operations only sustainable because they were subsidised failed.

We now have a very internationally competitive agricultural sector, but yeah, getting there caused a lot of pain.

Well that was anticline-matic.

Yeah my old colleagues who work on Kroxylicious are now IBM. I keep asking them if they're wearing a blue tie to the office yet, they still don't think it's funny.

I quite like Micronaut, especially the ability to use its compile time DI as a standalone library in a non-Micronaut app.

Quarkus is pretty similar, but is built on top of Vert.x so a lot of the fun of Vert.x (don't block the event loop!) is still present. It also does compile time DI.

Golang string templating in a whitespace sensitive config language suuuuucks.

I might use Helm charts for initial deploys of operators, but that's about it.

Kustomize is, IMO, a better approach if you need to dynamically modify the YAML of your resources and tools like ArgoCD support it.