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jchiu1106··on Technical Details on Today's Outage
Where are the technical details?
jchiu1106··on Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO
Lower cost of components doesn't mean lower quality. What made the cost lower is logistics and the availability of components within the region.
jchiu1106··on TIL–Python has a built-in persistent key-value store (2018)
My first real software development job was doing plone development which uses zodb as it's persistent layer. Good times!
jchiu1106··on TikTok owner quietly launches search app Wukong in China, where Google is banned
If TikTok refuses to censor anti-vaxer in the west, they'd be banned.
jchiu1106··on Binance served crypto traders in Iran despite U.S. sanctions
Reuters is deliberately ruining their own credibility.
jchiu1106··on The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe
> China has been celebrating his death.

You mean some people on Weibo? Lol.

It's also not surprising that some people would view him unfavorably when he denied Japanese war crimes in the past.

jchiu1106··on Sue Big Oil
Of course it's from a .ca domain
jchiu1106··on Researchers discover oldest-known ochre workshop in East Asia
What are you talking about? Source? I was in China until I was 20 but never have I heard anyone saying humans are migrated out of China.
jchiu1106··on Hi, I’m Russian. Ukraine and Russia is a story of a divorce
Considering how mainland China (PRC) and Taiwan (ROC) are separated, they're more like siblings, with ROC being the elder one.
jchiu1106··on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
America dropped more bombs, killing more civilians in other countries than the rest of the world combined in the last 50 years. Oh I forgot it's justified bc they're fighting terrorism, for freedom and/or the killed are brown people which doesn't count. Got it.
jchiu1106··on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
Bless your heart. Take any modern media information with a grain of salt.
jchiu1106··on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
This is a terrible move. Virtue signaling at it's worst. Putin literally gives p 0 f'ck about namecheap. It doesn't do squat to him but meanwhile you're hurting regular Russian users for something they have no control over. Do you think they will be pressuring Putin to stop the war bc they can't use namecheap anymore? They will likely to be more mad at the west. Lastly, doing this is just going to increase the segregation of the internet even more which goes completely against the original intention of the internet.
jchiu1106··on Rethinking Triplebyte
Without passing the minimum bar, how does Triplebyte distinguish itself from other 1000 platforms where people post resumes?

Also, dissing those who have passed the bar as "engineers who like tests" is disrespectful. When they first launched, passing the bar makes you (in their words) a highly qualified engineer, and now passing the bar means nothing except that you only "like tests"...lol

Fundamentally, I think this invalidates Triplebyte's business model. Companies don't really care if someone passes your tests. They still put you through LC type interviews onsite. They simply save a phone screen.

jchiu1106··on Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university
And CMU
jchiu1106··on Wuhan hospital traffic, search engine data indicate virus activity in Fall 2019
Can someone enlighten me: with Google being blocked in China, how the heck does one search the term in Wuhan and had it being recorded by Google? I know people in China can use VPN to search Google, but the recorded IP would be the exit node of the VPN wouldn't it?
jchiu1106··on Privacy Not Included
It would be a much shorter list if they just do "privacy included"
jchiu1106··on Current Wuhan Situation
Check out the Spanish flu. It originated in America...
jchiu1106··on Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6
I don't work for Azure and having used both GKE and AKS, I can say GKE is superior, however, I don't understand why this comment isn't cool. It's not like they're capitalizing on your misery. It's a decision you have taken and it's a fair game IMO that they want to emphasize their advantage over you.
jchiu1106··on Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6
It wouldn't surprise me if Azure charges for control plane at some point. Seems like EKS and GKE can get away with charging so why not...
jchiu1106··on Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6
Hey Seth, I know you used to work at Hashicorp on vault. I think Vault recommends that if you want to deploy it on Kubernetes, it should have the cluster to itself.
jchiu1106··on Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6
This is really disappointing. I've been a big proponent of GKE not only to my employer but to my friends as well. I think it's the best Kubernetes implementation available. The justification for a management fee b/c there are abusers just feels like an excuse for making some extra revenue. Truly with Google's prowess you can detect and deal with abusers without having to raise cost for everybody. I'm worried this is going to dampen the momentum of Kubernetes adoption unfortunately...
jchiu1106··on If this project is dead, just tell us
Wow I didn't know it became that bad. He came across as an egostic person but I didn't know he's more than that...
jchiu1106··on Taiwan flag emoji disappears from latest Apple iPhone keyboard
It's the Republic of China flag. It represents the whole of China.
jchiu1106··on The Cult of Kubernetes
lol use kubernetes to deploy a blog...
jchiu1106··on Goodbye Joe
whoa didn't know Joe Armstrong passed away...

Still remember learning Erlang with his book and listening to him on podcasts talking about concurrency about a decade ago... Erlang is not my daily driver, but learninng Erlang's actor concurrency model has shaped my view on concurrency and functional programming... For that, thank you Joe and RIP.

jchiu1106··on Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone
Exactly my thought! I appreciate Google's effort in many fields such as distributed computing but in the past few years, a lot of Google IO announcements feel like vapourware/demoware that they're going to scrap/rebuild in a few years.
jchiu1106··on Au Revoir
> Wrappers like Docker and Kubernetes ...

How's Kubernetes a wrapper? Wrapper on what? The ones you listed are dependencies. What projects don't have dependencies?

> Docker initially wrapped the LXC project without proper credit ...

Docker hasn't been a wrapper for lxc for a long time (at least 3+ years, which is a long time in tech world). Also, the debian package at the time was called lxc-docker.

> Many commentators even today are not clear about containers and think Docker invented containers.

Misguided people are always going to be the majority, especially in the tech world. People actually working with these technologies, they will bother to figure out the differences.

jchiu1106··on Extended Validation is Broken
I don't use Safari but if I did, I think I would fall for it if someone sets up a phishing website with Safari only showing "Stripe, Inc [US]" in the address bar, but I definitely will not if I was presented with the full URL of the site.
jchiu1106··on Extended Validation is Broken
Simple. Don't use Safari or any browser that makes the users dumb by making it "friendly" to make them vulnerable to things like this. It's not that EV is broken - it's the bad UX decisions and the mentality behind it.
jchiu1106··on Founder Stories: Leah Culver of Breaker (YC W17)
Cool. Remembered her from the oauth 1.0 days (She's the author of the oauth python library IIRC)
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