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If anyone else is as puzzled as me I think i've cracked it: rich hickey and rob pike are language owners. That's a real specific job, and it's one that requires unbridled arrogance. Pretty sure that's what we're seeing here. Why else does their anger seem so poorly thought out.. so surprised? So it's one of those tragic flaw things. So let me piss them off by saying: thanks! thanks but your immense focus has forced you to ignore until now this huge thing bearing down on us.. but we who use your stuff and respect your work would benefit more if you happened to find time for a more thoughtful take on this massive thing happening right in our backyard, now that you've deigned to notice it at all. What would be cool would be if you were like "yes this is all terribly powerful I will apply my massive intellect towards helping it not cause our extinction, sorry about yelling at clouds, that was distracting"

I need this, and I need it for seats, but I need it on-prem or it will never get approved. You should sell an iOS subscription based version that allows changing the api/auth url so we can self host. Plenty of companies would be willing to do the infra/config schlep in exchange for holding onto their data, and I mean if you charge 100 bucks per month per seat for the app, can I really complain?

yep totes. good style is sometimes proximate to good ideas because both indicate the author has spent lots of 'thinking tokens' on the thing, which is a costly and therefore sometimes-more-reliable signal. but i believe it falls apart under intensive selection -- the things we read are popular, and so on average are selection-survivors, which means they'll approach the optimal ratio of thinking token spend on style/vs substance for survival, which may not be the same as the best ratio for precise or insightful communication.

but the best communication survives too because it touches universal truths by connecting them with specific real phenomena. the worst (most harmful) communication survives because it frantically goodharts our quality evaluation process, even when it contradicts truth or reality. e.g. Orwell on the good side, L Ron Hubbard on the bad side. Unfortunately these categories are often not well sorted until after the principals are all dead (probably because everyone has to die before you can tell whether the values are universal or just generationally interesting), and there's a style-bar that has to be cleared before you even get to join the canon for consideration; interestingly this this would tend to increase the illusion that style is associated with substance, especially in older writing.

If I may ask, just to educate myself

where do you keep the ECS service/task specs and how do you mutate them across your stacks?

How long does it take to stand up/decomm a new instance of your software stack?

How do you handle application lifecycle concerns like database backup/restore, migrations/upgrades?

How have you supported developer stories like "I want to test a commit against our infrastructure without interfering with other development"?

I recognize these can all be solved for ECS but I'm curious about the details and how it's going.

I have found Kubernetes most useful when maintaining lots of isolated tenants within limited (cheap) infrastructure, esp when velocity of software and deployments is high and has many stakeholders (customer needs their demo!)

In so many wayswe don't own the technology we buy anymore, and playing with someone else's toys doesn't invite the same enthusiasm, especially long term where ecosystems are involved.

How can this not be GDPR-illegal?

err nope, now that they've got an Si lead and control teh whole vertical, they can abuse us all the want; we literally have nowhere to go.

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hm not sure but I think at high growth rates the majority of soil N does come from decomposition even when nitrogen fixation is present.

In the thread: bunch of tech workers acting like 19th century small farmers. The story here is that chemistry is a blunt tool and in 50 years we won't need it for agriculture. Biocontrols will have totally taken over. In the meantime anything we can do to remove incumbent chemical technologies and create economic room for their replacements is.. important. Why? cause we're gonna need those biocontrols anyway to keep farming at current yields under an evolving pest/weed regime.

We got through the 20th century without sustainable farming. I'm OK with that, it led to things like me existing. Now it's time to focus a little more effort on doing the job properly.

e.g. some of the 'copper coated' stuff that is 'PFOA' free

Just make sure it's PFAS free and not just PF(X) free for some X; 3M is hell bent on getting this shit into your system

metallic taste == nutritionally available iron. Also rust is trivial. We once put our cast iron through an oven clean cycle by accident. It rusted all to hell, turned solid orange, but re-seasoning returned it to better-than-ever condition.

Eating a meal always implies eating your cookware and packaging. I don't want to eat chromium and friends, or PFAS. Non-stick is gonna get banned eventually, mark my words.

Note to self, see how this post has aged in 5, 10, and 20 years

Doesn't need to have the same boiling point, just needs to have some partial vapor pressure at 1 atm and be miscible with water.

One big mechanism for dispersal is sea spray aerosols, probs because pfas chemicals have fun surface chemistries. Concentration of pfas in sea sprays can be 10,000x concentration in bulk seawater

Ah the carbon fluorine bond, truly the most underappreciated 20th century demon. Ya know, nothing in the biosphere can reliably break that bond today! That's some geological epoch boundary shit right there.

Folks this is not a good thread for sarcasm. Anyway, good morning Dilberts!

Humming and thrumming down 60 percent, bubbling and burbling at all time lows. Oh dear! I think she has us confused with fish in an aquarium?

zoiks

The test to see how depressed a lab mouse is, is to put it in a bucket of water and see how long it struggles. True story.

Might be a language thing. Observationally, the products of hardware design cross language barriers better than software/UX. Therefore software producers compete mostly within their own language, but hardware producers must complete globally. This would tend to produce a deficit of HW engineers in countries like the US/UK, just because there isn't as much money to chase vs software.

> people who.. don't understand the important role of nil pointers

... I guess you're right; I really do not understand

https plz thx

presumably the last time he made a game people weren't such huge dicks about it... no big deal but modern gamers cause a chilling effect in the industry by behaving this way, inevitably. Creative professionals /don't/ have to get used to being punching bags.. they're exactly the type to take their toys and go home. That's what happens when you do something for love (and take a pay cut to do it).

The hateful gamers will just have to continue to enjoy loveless games made by companies who know that a 100mm budget is table stakes to protect them from their customers. The passionate makers will find something else to love; that's their power.

The art style feels like an homage to Grim Fandango, one of my favorite adventure games. I don't understand the hate at all.

huh you're right! sorry I haven't been sleeping well lately :)

Huh... These comments have given me an idea: MS needs to be forced to train a model to compensate (pay) code authors and codebases based on snippet suggestions given by their tool: the Spotify model replacing Napster!

Just came to say that those of you in this thread who are spitting on teachers, are real pieces of shit!

Some day I'm gonna figure out what Eggdrop is.

Well, you don't do the maintenance yourself, you get some bored person to do it-- the important thing is they're not on a payroll and the result isn't someone's IP. Right now this strategy probably seems insane, because we are all so well compensated that the opportunity cost of working on OSS for free is massive, but sometimes you get 'lucky' and a software downturn frees up some engineering hours for further pro bono work on OSS. Pretty sure that has happened several times already, might happen again soon.