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Kreotiko··on Show HN: Open-source tool for creating courses like Duolingo
You are probably right to be honest. I think Duolingo is hyperhyped because of the main market it operates, americans tring to learn a second language, which has a very low bar.

I speak already most of the main languages Duolingo teaches and the other courses are pretty weak

Kreotiko··on Show HN: Open-source tool for creating courses like Duolingo
Duolingo is useless, my father has 140k experience, 3 years streak and can't speak or understand any English in real life.
Kreotiko··on The Impact of Posing with Cats on Female Perceptions of Male Dateability
I’d like to see the same study but with golden retrievers
Kreotiko··on GitHub Actions by Example
another thing I have seen is preloading them on the runner itself and reference them via relative path
Kreotiko··on GitHub Actions by Example
Yes the change from private to internal was sneaky but I am glad we got something now!
Kreotiko··on GitHub Actions by Example
Sure, the main things for me are:

It doesn’t matter how smart you are with reusable workflows you will never get to a truly DRY setup that scales for dozens of repositories.

Another major pain is that we still haven’t private actions. It was due end of 2021 (maybe it is out now but I checked a couple of days ago).

Setting up runners to look after a pool of repositories needs elevated permissions.

GH offers a way to enforce a list of enabled actions but this does not work with private binary registries hosting pre built Docker actions. The only thing that could prevent you to pull software at runtime from the internet, which means, if you want to have a decent security posture all you are left with is referencing actions using the full git sha version.

Many common use case require hacks, which is fun for a weekend project but isn’t great for a large scale operation. An example is simply running a workflow dynamically targeting the folders containing changes. At the moment you have to create a job, generate a build matrix on the fly and pass it in input as the matrix to the actual job.

Kreotiko··on GitHub Actions by Example
Word of advice, if you are thinking of running self hosted runners and use Actions for your organisation, do yourself a favour and check them out in a year or two and use something like Argo Workflows or Tekton instead.

GHA isn’t a product thought for GH private organisations, you will find that every much needed feature for this use is very low in GH roadmap.

Kreotiko··on Third High Severity CVE in Log4j Is Published
If information security people would spend the same amount of time they are spending complaining about this vulnerability trying to educate their organisations on the importance of supporting open source solutions they depend on we wouldn’t be in this situation. I am sick of reading of very senior people complaining about the impact this vulnerability has had on their week when their companies don’t even contribute a penny to open source projects.
Kreotiko··on Ask HN: How does Kubernetes modify/add API endpoints at Runtime?
Thanks, I was actually interested in understanding how Kubernetes own API gets extended at runtime when you create a CRD
Kreotiko··on Ask HN: Good examples of Kubernetes operators codebase?
I am the person who asked and I was probably unclear. I mentioned the operator sdk because that is what I am trying at the moment but I am open to other approaches so this example is welcome
Kreotiko··on Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions
I tried moving away from Safari but I can’t find anything equally good. Damn Apple
Kreotiko··on Terraform vs. AWS CloudFormation
I don’t see how you couldn’t learn both. Terraform is dead simple to learn and cloud formation is the best way to define your infrastructure in code in AWS. Even more wrapped by CDK. I don’t think you would go that far career wise knowing only with Terraform for IaC.

I also don’t understand those organisations that use every single AWS managed solution (RDS, Redis, Elasticsearch, EKS) but then they feel the need to manage their infrastructure state themselves with Terraform instead of choosing the managed solution for this.

Kreotiko··on Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?
You are very much right, cheers
Kreotiko··on Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?
Good point but I have travelled from London to South Italy on a vehicle called bus by their operators :)
Kreotiko··on Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?
The title is misleading, it should state that is within the U.K. You can get to south Italy from London in less than 24 hours.

Edit: My fault, it is not misleading. I didn’t get the context of somebody using British English.

Kreotiko··on Native speakers are hard to understand in a lingua franca situation
That’s the problem. People think they can get away without knowing languages just because most resources have been translated. They don’t know that they are missing out on a huge portion of information they will never fully understand. The education system is lacking on promoting culture rather than eligibility to work in U.K. and this makes things much worse
Kreotiko··on Native speakers are hard to understand in a lingua franca situation
I believe it to be a cultural thing. Sure, you don’t necessarily have the incentive to learn a language for work but the education system does not promote it either. I know a lot mainland European who speak languages other than English just out of interest for other cultures with no real use in their daily job.
Kreotiko··on Native speakers are hard to understand in a lingua franca situation
In other languages it wouldn’t happen at the same scale due to people also speaking a second language and realise these dynamics. Do you know many native English speakers speaking a second language fluently? I have been living in the U.K. for over 10 years and can count them on a hand.
Kreotiko··on Native speakers are hard to understand in a lingua franca situation
It doesn’t help that native English speakers are less inclined to learn another language and don’t get to understand the experience of being at the other end
Kreotiko··on Apple Watch Likely to Gain BP, Blood Glucose, and Blood Alcohol Monitoring
Hope it doesn't end up like Google's blood glucose monitoring contact lens but very likely it will
Kreotiko··on Buying a Bitcoin emits 195x as much CO₂ as buying an iPhone
The title should be 195x as much CO2 as producing an iPhone. In regards of buying and if you are drawing a comparison with fiat currencies you should take into consideration the environmental impact for producing, circulating and securing the money that is used for the transaction.

Nobody ever talks about what is around fiat, ATMs, money counting machines, heavy armoured vehicles moving them around, etc.

Kreotiko··on Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work
It isn’t that easy in Italy
Kreotiko··on Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work
Exactly and it would be much easier than finding a company willing to pay you that way. Also considering that currency exchange rates are pretty low these days too.
Kreotiko··on Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work
Pay me what you want but possibly in cryptocurrency so I can commit tax evasion should be the title
Kreotiko··on TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England
> The United Kingdom is somewhat unique in the world for requiring those households which view broadcast television to purchase a licence for the privilege.

This is actually pretty common and almost everywhere in Europe. I will never stop being surprised by how little my fellow British people know about other countries.

Kreotiko··on DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
Been using it for few years now, technical searches and in some languages other than English are still subpar compared to Google but you can add !g and it will open google on those ones
Kreotiko··on Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
Easy to apply these policies only now that he lost the election.
Kreotiko··on Do not compare EU salaries with the US
I agree, I don’t consider a good trade a much higher salary but having to live in that society. Life is not only about money and in this sector we are lucky enough to have a above average salary everywhere in the world.
Kreotiko··on UK-EU trade deal refers to Netscape Communicator 4 as “modern email software”
It is probably to have it aligned with the existing regulation on the matter
Kreotiko··on Robinhood was indeed too good to be true
Must be some EU/U.K. rule imposing clarity on risk but usually I find this stuff buried deep in terms and condition.
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