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jakevn··on Red Hat contributes etcd to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Not saying it will happen (just that it usually does), but I almost never see acquired companies immediately turn into the parent. Usually the acquired maintains its course until attrition and cross-pollination replace its original culture with that of the parent. The acquired company eventually exists only as a collection of intellectual property and history. Could take many years depending on how tightly IBM squeezes. That and the acquisition isn't even finalized yet.
jakevn··on Leave Gmail in 10 steps
There is a great difference between in-transit encryption and at-rest encryption. The former is not really comparable, as the existence of the email at rest will forever be vulnerable, in contrast to the time of transmission. A window of seconds versus years.
jakevn··on Lime and Bird are growing rapidly
People keep bringing up this problem because it's still a problem. If it's so easy to solve, why is it not solved?

Cities should simply impound any scooter not properly parked and charge $200 to get it back. Since solving the parking problem is so easy, this will push Bird/Lime into finally solving it.

jakevn··on How Many Computers Are in Your Computer?
Huh. I personally have never treated the word computer as a synonym of CPU, APU, GPU, Turing Machine, etc. To me this article reads more like, "I want to redefine what computer means and then tell you all of the things that fall under my definition."

But yes, there are indeed many components that make up the modern computers that are our smartphones, laptops, et cetera.

jakevn··on iPhones are allergic to helium
Why would that be disturbing? Electronics and organisms do not have identical environmental tolerances/intolerances.

Presumably, the sensors exist to protect humans, not electronics.

jakevn··on Why almost everyone was wrong about Tesla’s cash flow situation
My TCO for my 2003 Toyota Sequoia has been $70 a month. I paid $8,000 for it 3 years ago and have paid $500 in maintenance (standard scheduled maintenance plus $60 in repairs). I pay $23 dollars a month for liability insurance. Depreciation has been approximately $1,200 (at worst). I'm not so sure I'd own anything but a larger (safety) Toyota (reliability) that old, but just wanted to provide some anecdata.
jakevn··on Why almost everyone was wrong about Tesla’s cash flow situation
It's not about whether or not people _should_, it's just that our debt-driven society encourages it. Almost everyone these days seems to get a loan so that they can buy a vehicle they don't have the money for. This is one socially acceptable way to burn a huge chunk of your money.
jakevn··on State considered harmful: A proposal for a stateless laptop (2015)
The author actually has to clarify what they meant in the paper, as RAM carries state as well.

> state-carrying (persistence-carrying)

So what would be more accurate, I think, is "Persistence considered harmful".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(computer_science)#Progr...

jakevn··on Asterisks in Python
Essentially, then, expressiveness (language complexity for the sake of flexibility), beats ease of learning or "one right way to do things".
jakevn··on Huawei caught cheating performance test for new phones
By gaming benchmarks, I mean falsifying results. Burst performance is the normal optimization for all CPUs and GPUs.
jakevn··on Huawei caught cheating performance test for new phones
Are you implying that short burst performance is for gaming benchmarks?
jakevn··on A response about dep and vgo
The vacuum was filled, thanks to them. Now, an official solution is being presented. Why is there a problem?
jakevn··on What tech stacks are indie hackers using for their apps, and why?
I agree that managing complex workflows, or really any situation involving a lot of contributors/branches/activity may send you running to your nearest search engine with regularity.

That being said, for GP's use, they can work solely from master, requiring only a few commands with little to no chance of difficulty.

jakevn··on The Rise of Edible Insect Farming
There is no hormonal side effect for humans consuming large quantities of soy.
jakevn··on Lemming Suicide Myth: Disney Film Faked Bogus Behavior
Suicide is deliberate. Any unfortunate death due to overcrowding attributed to suicide is simply false. There is no evidence of intentional death or racing towards a cliff, merely that when faced with no other apparent route of escape, they have a great chance of dying when trying to cross a body of frigid water. That's entirely different from the portrayal by Disney and the associated myth.
jakevn··on AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner
Has Trump been busting monopolies?
jakevn··on Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds
Many of the issues I've had with German vehicles were not related to the ICE. These are the issues I faced in 100k miles of German car ownership: Window motor, Parasitic draw, Blower motor, Headlight ballast, Wheel bearing, Strut mount bushings, Sunroof drain channel
jakevn··on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
Which Gitlab? The software is less important than the ecosystem. Git is the major component, but Github/Gitlab are about usefully centralizing it. Gitlab is still a centralized service, even if there are N instances of centralization.

In other words, I don't know how much use it is to fork Gitlab if the community around it is dispersed. Git is already based around decentralization, and I don't see how running my own instance of Gitlab makes it any less disruptive when the most popular instance of Gitlab is disbanded.

jakevn··on Show HN: JavaScript/WebGL webcam face swap with color correction
Do you have any screen recording/sharing software?

This seems odd, so I'm wondering if there is a webcam driver installed that actually feeds your video output.

jakevn··on Will Kubernetes Collapse Under the Weight of Its Complexity?
Thank you!
jakevn··on Will Kubernetes Collapse Under the Weight of Its Complexity?
Could you link to the k8s docs that does each of those?

Not trying to be snide, but so far I haven't found k8s to be much more than primitives with which to build those things.

I've also only begun working with it recently, so I do not have much experience, and any guidance would be much appreciated.

jakevn··on Say yes to the progressive web
Does not work for me on Firefox 59.0.2, macOS 10.11. It just displays "polarr".

Web console:

TypeError: asm.js type error: 'byteLength' is not a standard constant or typed array name dcraw.js:10:8742 Unhandled rejection: InvalidStateError: A mutation operation was attempted on a database that did not allow mutations. editor.js:37:1316317 Unhandled rejection: OpenFailedError: InvalidStateError A mutation operation was attempted on a database that did not allow mutations. create@https://v5.polarr.co/js/build/editor.js:37:1338577 z@https://v5.polarr.co/js/build/editor.js:37:1319767 z/<@https://v5.polarr.co/js/build/editor.js:37:1320053 _e/<@https://v5.polarr.co/js/build/editor.js:37:1315784 Y@https://v5.polarr.co/js/build/editor.js:37:1312869 $@https://v5.polarr.co/js/build/editor.js:37:1313523 ie/<@https://v5.polarr.co/js/build/editor.js:37:1314171

jakevn··on Amazon Launches Own Pet Product Brand, Wag
Is it really competition if one of the competitors doesn't need to be profitable? How do you compete with that?
jakevn··on "@" on Twitter
Possibly a difference in implementation of unicode between validation and persistence/use. Validates successfully due to one or more "valid" unicode characters -> translated to zero characters due to stripping of invalid unicode character at some point after validation.
jakevn··on Apple open-sources FoundationDB
I think the use of monolithic here is that CockroachDB is higher level than FoundationDB. The project was not designed to be your do-everything-DB that you layer different systems on, but has a specific goal and is intended to be used directly.
jakevn··on Apple open-sources FoundationDB
This _is_ the usual trade off, but what makes FoundationDB so crazy is that it's a CP system that has a performance profile that AP systems would have a hard time matching.
jakevn··on What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
The $300 add-on unit I have does self-cleaning after every use. When the sprayer retracts, it again sprays, but since there is now plastic directly above it, it cleans off the sprayer head on the rebound.
jakevn··on Frequent versus infrequent developers, in languages and so on
> The thing I don't like on this front for Go is the whole "dependencies on Github" thing.

Agreed. I really dislike the GOPATH concept that the original tooling is built around, but I strictly make use of vendoring.

jakevn··on Frequent versus infrequent developers, in languages and so on
I also recommend avoiding unnecessary libs/frameworks for any code that you expect to run for a long time without change.

I do this at work when writing small services in Go and it works out well. Some have been running for three years now without being touched yet there is no code rot and anyone can easily pick it up.

jakevn··on Feds Bust CEO Allegedly Selling Custom BlackBerry Phones to Sinaloa Drug Cartel
Yes, sorry, that is what I meant by "corporate elite".

I'm not so sure it applies in this case as I don't really see the corp in question as being big (relatively speaking).

To your point, this is basically what the book covers. It is the logical conclusion of both fiduciary duty and the overwhelming effect that strong legal representation has on the justice system. At this extreme, the legal representation outright prevents prosecution instead of simply affecting the outcome.

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