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God in the gnostic Logos sense: the all encompassing universe, the forces that act within it, so on.

In more current vernacular: do humans trade with the big bang? do humans trade with the expansion of the universe, and it's inevitable collapse back into the initial singularity?

I only drink when I fly. Not on trains, not on car rides, not socially, not alone in my home — only when I fly.

There is nothing to do in an airport or an airplane. It’s like solitary confinement. All you can do is eat, drink, maybe buy a shitty book from the local duty free shop, and wait out your sentence.

A terribly uncomfortable experience.

Whippersnapper, at one point HN was full of jolly, good fun, and filled with cracks and quips.

I quite like noduerme‘s writings, because it’s novel, raw, and most of all original. Pedantism for its own sake is not discussion — but noise. And most of all… he’s been here longer than you and still retains the original ethos of this platform (punk, create, disrupt — not curmudgeon, consume, and conform).

Off-topic: but do you know how the college/university situation is in Spain vis-a-vis Americans and PhDs?

I’m going to be doing one in mainland Europe, and a friend has recommended Spain and Portugal.

Damn, I miss the east coast.

Rude, brash, and raw. Problems are solved with heated verbal sparring — then you both get it out of your system and move on with life.

Everywhere else feels like I’m walking on eggshells or having to really restrain myself to get along.

Thoughts on finding the latest “punk” workplace?

Gonna assume it’s a “who you know” and “right place, right time.” But I’ve been holding out in AngelsList for some time.

Had to read the source code. Go to /register

I assume someone already snapped it; since no permutations of the above work

A wasp made its way into my car on the highway -- I opened the window to let it out, but the napkins in my cup holder made a break for it, as well.

Are you open to sharing an invite?

In my experience, giving code preferential treatment is how you end up with complexity lunacy; so I’ll add an addendum to Conway’s Law:

“Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure — and which mirrors the skills of its key creators.”

K8s is designed to solve Google problems. Your startup will not have Google problems. Your startup will have Pinterest problems, or Gitlab problems, or Reddit problems — at which point you do not need K8s; you need someone who knows infra (which I expect devs to be working on distributed systems to understand).

Using K8s in a startup context is a sign of conformist thinking, detached from any critical aspect.

I don’t see the reasoning.

A startup that outgrows an EC2 server will be making enough money to hire more people to scale the system properly than what was initially designed: trading away everything for development velocity.

Kubernetes is not the right tool for this startup. Kubernetes is what large, old-school non-tech companies use to orchestrate resources, because it’s easier to find someone that “knows k8s” (no one knows k8s unless they’re consulting) than it is to find someone that can build properly distributed systems (in the eyes of whoever is in charge of hiring).

DNS records are usually set once and forget. You read the documentation once when you’re doing it, and then you basically never have to touch it again. I had to look up the difference between a CNAME and an A record, even though I’ve set them numerous times before. Not useful in day-to-day.

DNS servers: going to assume you query a DNS server that has a map of domain names to IP addresses, with basic routing via DNS records, which then resolve to a final address which is sent back. Again, never going to have to know this unless I’m a network admin.

Port-mapping: what is there to understand? I have literally never had to map ports unless I’m port-forwarding a game server I’m running on my local machine, that’s using a router to be exposed to the outside network. Literally, every cloud provider will give you an endpoint address that does not require port-mapping. If you’re setting up a company network you have to port-map, but not if you’re deploying a simple server/app. Ergo, network admin’s job.

Compilers: lol. There’s tons of languages, and tons of different compilers for each language. Then there’s distinguishing compilers, interpreters, compiler-interpreters, and transpilers. At the end of the day they take text (usually) and transform it into another form. I’ve built a compiler before (toy AST & recursive descent), but I have never needed to know about it in a CRUD context.

I’ve been reading into autism lately; and a brief thought about “intelligent people” has popped into my head.

Intelligence is just a tool, that’s used to achieve the underlying organism’s goals. For example, a crow’s intelligence is used to keep out of danger and to find food. Most neurotypical people use intelligence to gain resources like money, status, and power to fulfill biological imperatives like being part of and respected by their “tribe.” Whereas some autistics will not care about this sort of thing, and be biased more towards the truth, rather than what’s socially most advantageous. For example: Stallman. He has little concern for social appearances and such, so he is free to express something close to “truth,” rather than socially-rewarding “truth.”

At that point, it becomes fairly depressing how little research and “knowledge” attainment is actually geared towards “truth,” and not personal enrichment.

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And a tangent. I think what separates the outcast autist and the socially well-regarded autist is confidence and self-esteem. If you act and present yourself like a low-status person, you will be treated like it, as people regard your “offness” and associate it with low-status. Whereas if you’re self-assured and act like what you’re doing is innately correct, people will pick up the body language and signs, to think that you’re actually “right” and should accept it.

Sort of like those methed-up cult leaders who are utterly insane, but project unwavering self-assuredness, which people naturally gravitate to.