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An sh script is a series of things that almost any developer who uses Linux can understand: command line statements. We use them all the time. Suppose the complicated declarative model you've made doesn't work one day and the person who originally wrote it is gone? Even if you have someone to debug it who knows the k8s languages: usually you can't just use the yml files alone, you need terraform or something, plus maybe some other services and "sidecar" containers that do other things for you. With a sh script, you just have the script with a bunch of commands that you can understand and look up easily, in a linear order, to figure out the problem. You might not understand every command, but you can run each one until you get to the error, then focus in on that area. With k8s, you need to figure out a huge series of intermixed deps and networks and services just to start, then find the one that is failing (if that is the one failing and it's not just being masked by another failed service that you didn't know about).

It just hides the complexity in some yml files instead of in a deploy script or a sysadmin's head.

Because everyone chases the newest, shiniest thing in tech, and it's not cool nor fun to make boring old stuff in C then copy one binary and maybe a config to the server.

I very much enjoy art like this, thanks for making something fun to the site creator. There's too many "check out my framework or saas company" here and not enough of this stuff.

I've become skeptical of everyone's narrative, if anything, but why would a person realize the official narrative is usually a lie, and then go on to trust someone else or some other group blindly? My guess would be binary thinking (it's always gotta be liberals vs conservatives for every argument), the misapplication of the law of the excluded middle (maybe there's a multitude of answers on a scale of correctness, not just two: right and wrong), and other fallacies and things like that.

The article actually doesn't answer the question, it's just a mix of random words and ideas about why it could be that older people share more misinformation with some incredulity towards 'ageism'.

All search plus some form of spaced memorization scheme for pages or blocks within pages would be nice, I wouldn't have to actively structure my notes that way. I hate structure, I'm always refactoring, so I prefer just saving things in one big folder with labels if I can. I wish I didn't even have to use folders in my file system!

> 500Wh battery

"Off-grid" for an hour or two?

I think stashes are tagged with the branch name somehow? When I do a `git stash push && git stash list`, I get something like `stash@{0}: WIP on {branch}: {hash} {commit message...}`.

Or you get enough vehicles running 24/7 that you can get the customers to come get the package: "Free delivery if you can come pick your package from the van between 545am and 555am on the 24th" and then you can notify the customer as the van arrives. You make the van into a mobile Amazon Locker Hub or whatever those are called (we have one in my apartment complex). You can even schedule a half dozen deliveries at once for houses close together with a larger window: "Your Amazon Delivery Hub Van will be located 100 yards from your home to the west, at 123 Main St. from 5PM until 6PM tomorrow, please enter 123456 to get your package."

My dell died recently and I wasn't sure why, since all the components that I could check were working. It seemed like the thing just had no power. I sent it for recycling after stripping some parts, but now I wonder if this was the issue I had. I didn't get a Dell for my replacement, so I'm happier now with a lighter, nicer computer anyways.

I wish we had a world with zepplins ferrying people around, land trains with several gas turbine engines, and nuclear powered aircraft. I'm bored of the same Material design web sites, phones that look the same, every apartment is the same, etc. I want imagination and crazy ideas to rule the world.

Ah, sure, that makes more sense. I have to retrain myself to think of "car batteries" as something other than a heavy, plastic box of acid.

Looks like I found that "home server" to replace my over-use of cloud resources that I've been looking for!

I am very glad that I sent you all a rude message requesting my account deletion a few years ago, this is an awful response to a huge issue. Good luck with the recruiting business when no one trusts you!

You can't discharge and recharge a lead acid car battery very many times before it loses capacity.

In the last week both my laptop and gaming PC died. I replaced the laptop easily (system76, first one) but finding decent motherboards and video cards is really hard right now. I'm trying to get the newest stuff, but i think everyone else had the same thought already. I don't think I'll be able to rebuild my gaming PC for a few weeks or months now, at the worst time, while I'm unemployed and stuck in my house!

If anyone has a good source for parts online that isn't backordered to next year, let me know!

The restaurant owners aren't knowledgeable enough in this area to understand the harm from the contracts, they're not dumb, but they don't realize the power they give to the company. That's an unethical practice, to take advantage of someone like that.

Yes, the unethical part is stealing the Google search results, taking the tips from the drivers instead of distributing them, etc. All the stuff you heard about over the past years. If they had an ethical business, we wouldn't be reading this article.

That feature would be useful on the user's personal 'threads' page to respond to new comments, I'll email you!

The Quantum Thief: imagine a world (mainly in the local solar system) where all the coolest tech exists. Nanites, uploading your brain to a computer, the ability to control quantum effects, meyacortexes, advanced cryptography, etc. It's hard to read since it's kinda based on hard physics, but very fun. I'm on the second book in the series.

Ninefox Gambit: the physical world (some far off place with a lot of worlds in space) can be controlled by events that occur and the common use of a specific calendar system and using specific formations like a 'spell'. It's basically a heavily math oriented magic system that runs all of the tech in the universe, and different calendar systems have different effects. It's hard to explain here, but a really fun 'sci-fi fantasy' novel.

Sorting by new might be nice also, in comments, for this type of thread.

This software is gross and I'll live on the street before I install it on any device I own. If my employer wants to use it on my laptop, fine, but I'll be looking for another job after I setup mouse wigglers and GPT2 models to type slack messages in the interim. Sure it's unethical, but so is spying.

The article is short to the point of almost uselessness, but maybe more people will see it this way.

I'm interviewing with a company that's taken a month so far with 8 different calls and still 3 phone calls to go. I keep doing it because they have never been less than honest with me. Everytime I ask a hard question, like what's the burn rate or how's the code base, they tell me the good and bad stuff, and how they're trying to fix it or if they don't even have time to fix it.

When I wasn't sure I wanted to continue, the hiring manager called me for 45 minutes to discuss why, and convinced me that I should continue without making any promises and without lying about the fact that my concerns were real and that it wasn't garaunteed that my concerns would be fixed, but I felt better because he told me about how they're trying to fix them. Contrast that with my last company which blew smoke up my ass for the whole interview process and later I found it was a very badly run company on top of badly designed tech and bad financial modeling and that anything to fix it was impossible because of the politics.

Further, I've been talking to the interviewers like they're real people rather than some god sent down to flummox me with dumb programming exercises and show off how cool they are.

I'll never do another interview the "old way" again, I like being treated as a human in a two way process rather than a one way information extraction exercise.

I'd love a way to see what i actually installed as a first party install, no package manager I've seen does this, if you ask it "what packages are installed?" every manager just lists every library and other garbage, rather than the items I asked it to install, specifically. It's fucking stupid, and I can't believe there isn't a way to list those in every package manager.

So yes, a tagging system would be nice so maybe you could have it auto tag everything i install as "user installed" and the rest as "dependency for user install" or "system base image package", for example.

The tech that runs a business and the business are inseparable. The tech team needs to learn the business enough to know why the business team needs certain features to work certain ways. The business team needs to learn enough about how software works to know that sometimes simple looking features are hard and take time. Both teams need leadership to know how to talk to each other to solve mismatched goals. It's very hard because most people only care about their own job and the goals they have set for themselves. It takes smaller egos from the tech team who thinks they know everything because they write the software, even if they don't understand why the business makes money, and it takes a patience from the business team to understand that the tech team is the caboose, the last step in the chain in the building of some feature, so any delays prior to actually building (like requesting vendor data to build a tool that takes longer than expected) night not be their fault and they still need the 2 weeks to build it even if the deadline is 1 week away.

Without the tech, the business fails. Without the business, the tech is useless. Both need each other.

Tl;dr: developers and businesspeople need to communicate and work together.

Prisons are horrible places, we need to treat prisoners like humans who made a mistake and can be redeemed, not like cattle to extract resources and value from. In the USA, at least, prisoners are almost literally slaves and are basically tortured.

Good luck to this team, I hope it's a great success and demolishes the competition.

I was wondering why my Android Firefox was zoomed in a bit on the front page, this is the second time this week I've seen it, now I know!

I've been rejected because i use an .link domain, so it has 4 characters and they theft emails without 3 TLD characters! Luckily I also have an .com in that case.

One Fastmail alias can be "(asterisk)@domain.tld", by the way, so you can send and receive emails to every address possible. When you send an email from the (asterisk) alias, you can type whatever you want in the from address box. I use their DNS as my primary DNS for all my domains so I can email to/from all of them easily like this.

(asterisk) means the character itself, I can't figure out how to type one on this site though.

Edit: this wasn't a feature 3 years ago, I only discovered this 4 months ago when I added a few domains to my account and they added the (asterisk) aliases for those automatically.

I don't have anything other than to say this is really cool! Congrats to the creator, I love useless, cool shit like this. I prefer seeing this kind of awesome stuff instead of another boring "How we upgraded our server" blog from Slack or Instagram.