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My local BC school district does not have winter hours, it is the same all year.

You are not alone according to polling in BC.

I think fundamentally it comes down to energy for me. I have very little energy in the morning so I am not going to harness the pre-work daylight hours to do something outside like taking my dog to the park, biking, or running. For me I don’t actually start feeling energized until maybe 9-10AM.

After work however, I have much more energy to do things outside with the daylight.

100%. Almost nobody goes to bed at 8pm and wakes up at 4am, so high noon is a pointless exercise.

Penticton is also in a valley so in reality the sun goes behind the mountains in the west around 3:30PM.

Winter sucks anyways when you live in the north. I grew up at 56 degrees north and you are cooked no matter what is done. Better to optimize April-October.

> Things might very well be trending down, but they can still be better than the past in some ways, and worse in some ways.

Maybe, I would take a guaranteed pretty good 80 years over the next 40-50 years where things are trending downwards. And for all we know, the past 80 years were a fluke caused by WW2 and the carbon impulse happening at the same time.

> Would you want to be born a girl in the 1940s?

My grandma was born in the 40s and said it was better back then.

> Decades before the Civil Rights Act and Jim Crow laws still existed?

I don’t live in the USA so that is irrelevant.

Also, keep in mind I still have over half my life to live and the future seems very uncertain. Maybe I am a pessimist, but I would take 1940-2020 which I now know in hindsight was a pretty decent time to live compared to whatever the next 40 years holds. Maybe I am wrong and we will magically cure cancer, solve wealth inequality, 20 hour work weeks due to automation, and stay WW3.

> But, if somebody offered me a time machine to travel back in time and live at any point in history, would I take it? Hell no.

If given a choice I would rather be born in 1940s. 80 years of relative peace, prosperity, cheap education, cheap housing, only single parent needs to work, stronger community network, less overpopulation, better access to doctors, better wealth equality, and you get to partake in the first generation of computers before computers became a method of spying and manipulation of purchasing decisions. Honestly I would much rather be hacking on v6 unix than what I am currently doing.

Sign me up.

> I know, but the density of the data is much less in human case.

Is that really the case? How much data is it for 4k video, high bitrate auditory, spacial mapping, internal and external nervous system, emotions, and a dataset to correlate all of these in time?

You know what they say, shit rolls downhill. I don't personally know the CEO, but the feeling I have got from their public fits on social media doesn't instill confidence.

If I was a CF customer I would be migrating off now.

The way I think of it is that a DB should only be accessed by a single replicaset in k8s. Only processes of identical code should share the DB. Everything else is through RPC interfaces.

This is how large scale systems are built, but the pattern makes less sense the smaller your footprint is.

> for example, it'd be easy to write code that creates a resources based on the current time of day

Some languages make that impossible to do, for example starlark.

Project 2025 was publicly available prior to the election. Tariffs were one of the many policies within the larger plan. If you voted for Trump you are responsible for the Tariffs, this is not a hoodwink where Trump rug pulled everyone after getting elected — it was literally there in the open.

> The AI should decide

That is a great recipe for systematic discrimination.

Ceph has synchronous replication, writes have to be acked by all replicas before the client gets an ack. Fundamentally, the latency of ceph is at least the latency between the OSDs. This is a tradeoff ceph makes for strong consistency.

If you setup ceph correctly (multiple failure domains, correct replication rules across failure domains, monitors spread across failure domain, osds are not force purged) it is actually pretty hard to break it. Rook helps a lot too as rook makes it easier to set up ceph correctly.

Definitely, ceph shines in the 1-100 petabyte range whereas minio excelled in the 0-1 petabyte range.

Regarding aistore the recommended prod configuration is kubernetes, which brings in a huge amount of complexity. Also, one person (Alex Aizman) has about half of the total commits in the project, so it seems like the bus factor is 1.

I could see running Aistore in single binary mode for small deployments, but for anything large and production grade I would not touch Aistore. Ceph is going to be the better option IMO, it is a truly collaborative open source project developed by multiple companies with a long track record.

> Then again, if this is the case, why would you risk your own reputation to vouch for anyone anyway.

Maybe your own vouch score goes up when someone you vouched for contributes to a project?

Sorry

I proposed a logically consistent perspective where both my experience and the study are true at the same time? What is your response to that other than comparing me to a flat earther? Do you have something useful to contribute?

I don’t write frontend stuff, but sometimes need to fix a frontend bug.

Yesterday I fed claude very surgical instructions on how the bug happens, and what I want to happen instead, and it oneshot the fix. I had a solution in about 5 minutes, whereas it would have taken me at least an hour, but most likely more time to get to that point.

Literally an hour or two of my day was saved yesterday. I am salaried at around $250/hour, so in that one interaction AI saved my employer $250-500 in wages.

AI allows me to be a T shaped developer, I have over a decade of deep experience in infrastructure, but know fuck all about front end stuff. But having access to AI allows me as an individual who generally knows how computers work to fix a simple problem which is not in my domain.

Honestly, that is a “skill issue” as the kids these days say. When used properly and with skill, agents can increase your productivity. Like any tool, use it wrong and your life will be worse off. The logically consistent view if you want to believe this study and my experience is that the average person is hindered by using AI because they do not have the skills, but there are people out there who gain a net benefit.

Some tools are not meant for individuals. That 100k software defined radio isn’t meant for you either.

$200/month is peanuts when you are a business paying your employees $200k/year. I think LLMs make me at least 10% more effective and therefore the cost to my employer is very worth it. Lots of trades have much more expensive tools (including cars).

OI WHERE IS YOUR GPU LOISENCE!?!?

Sounds like we need an open source index fund where you can make one payment that goes into a pool of money which is invested into the top 1000 open source projects.

less is more

As said in other comment, my PRs are using my real name and my HN account does not, so I don’t want to connect the two by linking my PRs.

> According to the above, I bet that "mandate" is a total fake; a PR move only.

The CNCF is a registered non-profit and they have a legal duty to fulfill their mandate.

Like I said, it isn’t worth my time fighting this, I just keep local patches now. Etcd is such a dead project that my patches almost never have had conflicts with new releases, because nothing actually changes in etcd because they don’t facilitate external contributors.