EdwardDiego

I also recommend Pheme Perkins.

Well, it contains things not found in the other three - the wedding at Cana with the water into wine bit etc.

> Having observed the Great Calcutta Killings of 1946, where the absence of British troops led to a riot that saw hundreds of thousands of Hindus butchered

Citation reaaaaaalllllly needed. Also, no Muslims killed eh? Just Hindus? Sure?

Jaysus.

So is every other language that fits your brain well.

Thanks for explaining your stance not a whit.

I was genuinely interested in your thoughts, "you wouldn't understand it, but trust me" is deeply unhelpful.

> Until you’re at quite a high scale, you probably don’t actually need Kafka.

As someone who accidentally specialised in Kafka... ...bingo.

So many companies using it who don't need the sheer scale it offers, and get to pay the complexity cost anyway, with no benefits.

My company contributes to FOSS projects we use :)

People within my company do contribute to the development of the FOSS software we rely on :)

> Relying on volunteer support of varying degrees of quality for your business sounds insane.

Given my experiences of Confluent paid support, and my experiences of the volunteer support around Kafka, I disagree.

I'm so curious to know _why_ the Greeks went "yep, that river Acheron, that's one of the five rivers of the underworld".

Does it emerge from a cave? Drain into a cave?

Just look spooky at night?

TIL `raise from` especially the `raise from None`, yeesh

If you ever hit an issue with Kafka or Strimzi, go to their Slack, some of the most intelligent people I've ever had the privilege to work alongside will be there, helping you.

For 0 money. That kinda free.

Sure, but you can also go to a Slack channel and get help from the people who wrote the FOSS code you're using.

For free.

Yep, if your Kafka is mission critical and crashes hard, that is bad.

But things like Kafka are _never_ a black box you just spin up and never worry about, if anyone thinks so, CAP theorem will give them an awful surprise one day.

You're always going to need someone in your team who understands the tech and how to make best use of it.

MSK won't tell you how many partitions your topic needs, or whether your retention strategy should be delete, or compact, or both.

You still need that knowledge of the "managed" service to make effective use of it.

And that knowledge sits rather close to knowledge of how the system works, so given you'll need that knowledge anyway, may as well cultivate it instead.

Oh, and the operators also solve a lot of the unhappy paths too, FYI.

I tend to describe the operator approach as "half-managed" because things like multiple-AZ stretch clusters need some configuration.

But then, maybe you didn't want a 3-AZ cluster? Maybe a 2.5? MSK says no.

Unfortunately, it's a false dichotomy you present, it's not a binary choice of fully managed or entirely roll your own.

E.g., if you're running K8s (one thing I typically recommend you buy a managed one of), you can install your own Kafka in it, using an operator that does about 85% of what MSK does.

Sure, you'll need to dedicate person hours to support the operator, but is supporting that any more expensive than supporting AWS products? That you're already paying through the nose for?

My issue is the usual with laptop cameras, if I'm looking at you, my eyes are looking downwards, and it's very awkward speaking into the camera without seeing your face as I speak.

Fedora is a "move fast maybe sometimes break things" distro, e.g., early adoption of Btrfs as the default, Wayland etc.

So yeah, these things sometimes happen.

This happened when I was in LA for work, everyone's phone went off with the emergency notice noise, I thought there was a big quake happening.

Nope, it was an elderly person who had wandered off from a rest home, in some far part of LA.

Scared the shit out of me.

> The years 1865-1905 were some of the most amazing years in human history

Interesting claim, what metric are you using?

The Brett Weinstein who told Joe Rogan that he believed AIDS could be caused by amyl nitrite?

> "Covid is going to mutate into a yet more deadly virus"

Delta very much did happen, and was very much more deadly than earlier strains. But as we know, viruses tend to drift towards being less deadly if it helps them spread.

Okay, Australian Outback holes weren't what I was thinking of. Was mainly thinking about the ability to get a wireless connection underground being pretty rough, especially when it's a cave filled with water. (Sonar based wireless? Sofi?)

Imagine being in the first submarine on Europa.

Can't WFH in a cave...

Is Sentry based on FOSS?

I just hold down the vowel, then hit 9 for the macron.

I'm a fan of MacOS for making it real easy to type vowels with umlauts / macrons etc.

Yeah, I'm using it and it's nearly everything I need.

The fact that they attacked them via their communication network that was intended to avoid Israeli surveillance, is irregular warfare at its finest.

The main injury inflicted on individuals was psychological - we got into your supply chain this far. Also, your attempts to avoid us failed.

But at an org level? They just disabled the entire comms system, whether through explosions, or by making people scared of explosions.

What's the contingency plan for this in Hezbollah? And will it have credence, given their last grand idea of "let's use pagers to avoid the Israelis" ended with a large number of simultaneous explosions?

It's a very clever attack from a psychological POV.

I got 5, was annoyed it only asked about mothers being hit, when it was my mother doing the hitting, learned how to take a punch from her... ...but anyway, turned out alright I think.

I mean, one rather disastrous marriage, but I've got full custody of my amazing kids.

And yeah, I'm the same, don't feel accomplished but reality is I'm doing financially better than most people in my country.

I am currently working on undoing a lifetime of negativity towards myself, left home at 15, never graduated from high school, never got a degree, but have managed to take some computer science papers via correspondence. (Diagnosed with ADHD at 40, but obviously had it as a kid, my mother preferred a pseudo-science approach, which didn't work)

Generally, from my time in a radio spectrum regulatory body, you start by enforcing EMR compliance at the importer/manufacturing level, so no-one can buy a new 900ishMHz baby monitor that would cause interference - either by regulating allowed transmitter power or just flat out verboten.

Then you respond to interference complaints as they come up, and commercial operators tend to be very vigorous in monitoring their spectrum that they're paying for, and can often pinpoint the location reasonably well already, and then the nice radio inspectors come out, triangulate it, and have a friendly talk.

Never really had a situation where spectrum that was regulated as "general user" (e.g., no need for a licence, but also no protection against interfering signals) and heavily used by by consumer appliances was modified to no longer be general user though.

The Telegraph Track is a life goal of mine.