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EdwardDiego··on How I think about Kubernetes
I like to use operators for intra-cluster infra, they tend to offer a "sorta-managed" experience. I'll use a Helm chart deployed by ArgoCD to provision the operator, then go from there - mainly because I try to limit Helm usage as much as possible.
EdwardDiego··on How I think about Kubernetes
When you say infrastructure in this context, are you referring to the actual K8s cluster infra?

Or is it what I tend to call "intra-cluster infra" - DBs / Prometheus / Kafka etc. Infra that support apps?

EdwardDiego··on How uv got so fast
My biggest complaint with pipenv is/was(?) that it's lockfile format only kept the platform identifiers of the platform you locked it on - so if you created it on Mac, then tried to install from the lockfile on a Linux box, you're building from source because it's only locked in wheels for MacOS.

Poetry and uv avoid this issue.

EdwardDiego··on I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me
People who work there - mixture of all genders. Which is worthy of celebration at least, that everyone has the equal opportunity to build the Torment Nexus.
EdwardDiego··on Perl articles are being memory wiped from Wikipedia
When did the Perl Monks run a kingdom?

Apples and oranges.

EdwardDiego··on I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me
> I already felt immense pain and anger by the decision of my husband to suddenly end our marriage. And now I feel a double sense of violation that the men who design and maintain and profit from the internet have literally impersonated my voice behind the closed doors of hidden metadata to tell a more palatable version of the story they think will sell.

That's a bit dismissive of women, does she think that women aren't capable of designing and maintaining software too?

EdwardDiego··on Engineering dogmas it's time to retire
> Thanks Linear for supporting today’s article!

Wtf, it's like I'm reading a Youtube video, except it doesn't have the production costs of an actual Youtube video.

EdwardDiego··on Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics
Sure, Jan.
EdwardDiego··on Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not Anymore
Wow, so many sources provided for claims made in this article. /s
EdwardDiego··on Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)
What's the difference between a blog post and an article these days? Some of my favourite reporting is a "blog post".
EdwardDiego··on Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)
Author in 2015:

> If every time you write a blog post it takes you six months, and you're sitting around your apartment on a Sunday afternoon thinking of stuff to do, you're probably not going to think of starting a blog post, because it'll feel too expensive.

Author in 2025:

> This is why it’s so useful to work on an article for a long time. If you’re reporting on something for six months, even if the really concentrated part, the key visit, is only a week or two of that, you have time for notes to accumulate.

What a difference 10 years of experience makes eh?

EdwardDiego··on China is building the most powerful hydropower system deep in the Himalayas
Given the geology (and rainfall) of the area, it brings to mind a certain Italian dam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajont_Dam
EdwardDiego··on Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
As soon as you said "death panels" you invalidated your entire point, I'm sorry.
EdwardDiego··on Ford kills the All-Electric F-150
I'm from NZ where 640km range is plenty, for even our gnarliest terrain, so I'm stoked. I have to say, this is a bit dismissive out of hand.

> urban bros that do casual offroading on well-developed trails with associated infrastructure.

Yeah, no, that's not what I'm talking about. Not everyone commenting here is from the US.

I'm talking about things like driving up braided riverbeds to places like this, Mathias Hut, just downstream of a glacier or two. [0]

Or like this, Avoca Hut, in an isolated valley two days walk in otherwise. [1]

Or some of the very rugged routes on the West Coast of the South Island / Te Waipounamu. [2]

Trips like this in the Southern Alps. [3]

Or Napoleon Hill. [4]

640km range would get me to that route, from the east side of my island via an alpine pass [5], through the route, and back home again, on one charge, which is awesome.

We don't have the same scale of distance as the USA, that's true, but we have the same scale of challenging terrain, so please don't be so quick to dismiss our use case as "urban bros doing casual offroading", just because the distances are lower, please.

As for well developed 4WD trails, lol.

I used to be a ranger in a national park here, and American tourists were routinely gobsmacked that our tramping (hiking) routes (trails) didn't have bridges, (and also, often didn't have an actual track or trail, you just picked your own way up the riverbed) and you'd have to walk through the rivers - and no, don't take your boots off, because you're going to cross that river another 5 - 10 times, you just have to accept you're going to have wet feet, welcome to NZ hiking.

So if we don't have that many well developed hiking trails, we certainly don't have well-developed off-roading trails.

[0]: https://dea83hfeh03sc.cloudfront.net/media/3171/conversions/...

[1]: https://www.doc.govt.nz/thumbs/hero/contentassets/10442f8efa...

[2]: https://nz4wd.co.nz/article/hard-drive-denniston

[3]: https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/nz/97642423/brea...

[4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnZ6dMg4yvs

[5]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Arthur%2...

EdwardDiego··on Ford kills the All-Electric F-150
Holy hell, that's 640ish km, that's plenty - and yep, I'm not from a large continental country, 640 gets me to the other side of my island and 2.5 times, and to the northern or southern end once.
EdwardDiego··on JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet
> Not sure I’d call crossing traffic “within a few miles” a near-miss. Even at full cruising speed of 500-600MPH (less because the JetBlue was still on a climb) the civilian aircraft would cover a mile in 6-7 seconds, so we are talking 18 to 24 seconds to close 3-4 miles.

Sweet, so they've got less than half a minute to avoid a collision.

EdwardDiego··on Ford kills the All-Electric F-150
I'd love an off-road capable electric 4WD (because think about how amazing having computer controlled precision torque applied to wheels individually would be for getting out of a tricky situation).

Especially if you could buy some kind of field charging kit - maybe something you could power off a wood fire or flexible solar panels that you could stow. I imagine that's not realistic at the moment, but a boy can dream.

EdwardDiego··on Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source
From now on, we're running the Army like a frat party. No fat chicks! No fuggos! And if you're a fat dude, you better be damn funny!

-- Secretary of War ~~Pete Hegseth~~ Colin Jost.

EdwardDiego··on Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source
According to Secretary of State, fonts can be woke now, so I guess?
EdwardDiego··on How the Disappearance of Flight 19 Fueled the Legend of the Bermuda Triangle
IIRC some passenger aircraft had a sweet periscopic sextant installed, and even the 747 still had a sextant port - not that it stopped KAL-007 crossing the Kamchatka peninsula...
EdwardDiego··on Addressing the adding situation
Ah thank you!
EdwardDiego··on Show HN: Walrus – a Kafka alternative written in Rust
Thanks, I have been highly remiss in catching up on that podcast :)
EdwardDiego··on Catala – Law to Code
I suspect this works better outside of common law legislation.
EdwardDiego··on Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in React and Next.js
Unrelated but... wow, this is... certainly some code.

      return "*" === metadata[2]
        ? moduleExports
        : "" === metadata[2]
          ? moduleExports.__esModule
            ? moduleExports.default
            : moduleExports
          : moduleExports[metadata[2]];
EdwardDiego··on Show HN: Walrus – a Kafka alternative written in Rust
They asked about data plane replication - e.g., leader -> followers. Unless I misunderstood them.
EdwardDiego··on Show HN: Walrus – a Kafka alternative written in Rust
> It's the very architecture of Kafka itself due to the notorious head of line problem

Except a consumer can discard an unprocessable record? I'm not certain I understand how HOL applies to Kafka, but keen to learn more :)

EdwardDiego··on Show HN: Walrus – a Kafka alternative written in Rust
TBH I don't think anyone can utilise S3 for the active segment, I didn't dig into Warpstream too much, but I vaguely recall they only offloaded to S3 once the segment was rolled.
EdwardDiego··on Tested: 1981 Datsun 280ZX Turbo (1981)
Struts == arms, missed the edit window there.
EdwardDiego··on Addressing the adding situation
I hope you have a moustache you can twiddle while saying this. Possibly followed by a "Nyah!"
EdwardDiego··on Addressing the adding situation
Centaur-chess?
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