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I believe it is because a lab origin would mean that we, humans, are not just the subject of the arbitrariness of nature. The virus exemplifies that we do not have control over everything. And that is a truth which is hard to accept.

> I would rather have a collection of small parts making up a complex solution than the complexity of k8s.

I feel the same way. If I wouldn't have stumbled over Ansible 6-7 years ago I would have left the industry already. I don't mind complexity in general but I feel it should be in line with company needs. And k8s often isn't.

You are right, FreeBSD jails, lxc, etc are great technologies. It's k8s and related topis I have my issues with.

Do you regret leaving the industry?

I have invested a lot of effort into my career and it would feel kind of stupid to give up on it because I have some issues with today's industry trend. On the other hand you are right, k8s is the technical side of a people problem in the industry. While I'm hopeful that things around k8s will settle on the long run, I'm pessimistic that the cargo cult and believe in easy answers to complex problems will disappear any time soon.

Yes, it's true that at some point I have to stick with a tech I don't like. In general I don't mind doing that. At the end of the day I work for money. The question I'm asking myself is at which point that might be. Sadly when interviewing I'm not in the position to point out architectural pain points. It feels impossible to argue against k8s. Every time I tried that I get some unreflected cargo cult answer. The people I interview with already invested in k8s so it seems pointless to indicate that there are some massive downsides.

org-mode

It's the most flexible software I know. It was a pain getting used to Emacs. I used it for a decade now and it was probably the best decision I ever made. I believe it is worth some effort to find a way to organize yourself and with Emacs + org-mode I feel save that I won't ever need to adapt to something new.

Berlin has such laws since 2014 and it is working poorly. Turns out that it is hard to get an overview of empty apartments. City government has to rely on other tenants reporting empty apartments.

Docker has a layer file system. Meaning if you do it right, that Chrome container will share the same 500 MB base image layer with the Gimp container, or whatever, making it less bloated than it appears when looking only at the footprint of the first image.

I'm not stating that I believe it is a good idea to run desktop apps in Docker containers. It is not a good idea. But it is also not true that if someone would do it, it would necessary lead to a bloated filesystem.

Docker will use a lot of disk space when using multiple base images.

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh (2016)

Ghosh changed my perspective on climate change. He argues that the modern novel struggles as an art form to describe and grapple with the concept of climate change which lowers our awareness of it. Further the book gives an rare non scientific view on climate change from a third world perspective.

In Germany that is already the case. Streaming is "ok" here for the consumer whereas torrenting is illegal and practically dead by now. The legal argument is that you are distributor when using peer to peer. Under German law it doesn't matter if that is done for profit or not.

I believe that inequality is one of the most pressing issues of our time. On a national as well as on the global scale. However I'm not that sure if the inequality among generations is a big as the article pictures it. Most billioniares don't fall in the millenial generation. That disorts the picture. I assume that if those extrem rich wouldn't be taken into account the wealth gap between those generations wouldn't be that big.

Employers pay half of social security, health insurance and stuff like that on top of the salary. The costs for a company to hire one employee for 60k gross is about 75k. US dollar does not equal Euro. 75k Euro is currently around 92k USD. The difference is not that big.

I have worked with EKS for the most when it comes to k8s and I don't find it as smooth as AWS's other offerings. Check the upgrade guide https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/update-clus... There is still quite a lot of engineering needed even when using a "managed" service.

I find it a bit contradictory to argue for boring technology and operate it with Kubernetes at the same time.

The article talkes about threatening to block sales. But apparently Lenovo has already stopped selling devices using the video codec completely. The German online store has currently only accessories to offer.

ratpoison (https://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/)

a simple tiling Window Manager modelled after GNU Screen. It hasn't seen any updates in 3 years but still works very well for me.

git-annex is a useful program written in Haskell

org-babel is a really cool extension of org-mode and Emacs. But it is only useful for Emacs users and therefor useless for any professional use-cases. As much as I love Emacs expecting people to learn it is a bit too much.

Looking at the answer-rate-over-time[0] SO benefits from the Corona pandemic.

0: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/303570/an...

That wouldn't be legal. There is a minimum wage of 9,35 Euro per hour in Germany. You cannot legally work more than 48,13 hours per month on a 450 Euro mini job in Germany.

Yes, you are right, that might be a reason. But work experience is a huge factor in infrastructure engineering. From my perspective it is what counts the most. Companies usually would like see that a candidate already worked on a similar stack, so that she/he won't make stupid beginner mistakes on your payroll and potentially ruining your business.

Obviously a typo, they probably meant 1-2 years, which is realistic. While this is probably not actually the case here, I see it quite often that companies have unrealistic expectations when it comes to work experience with technologies like k8s. For example it is quite common here in Berlin to expect 4+ years of k8s experience. Which is unrealistic to find taking into account that k8s initial release was 6 years ago. It is paradox that companies want to use the latest technologies and require years of work experience at the same time.

There are packages for ROS in the aur. And there are wrappers for the commands needed to install packages from AUR. To install ros on my system I just need to execute pacaur -S ros-noetic-desktop-full In this case it will indeed compile the package with cmake. But there are also many binary packages on the aur. The user experience is not like Gentoo. I have never had problems finding a package with Arch.

You should do that. I did so in 2012 and I have never looked back. Besides that ArchLinux just works better the ArchLinux community understood that a good documentation is way more important than a flashy gui.

The raw data for loans under $150k seem to be here: https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/cares-act/assistance...

https://pppreport.org/about.php > Details for loans under $150,000 remain mostly private, though industry codes and issuing bank details are available.

I doubt that video will become the modern equivalent of the book. Written text is still the best medium to transmit information. For entertainment purposes sure. But video probably already dominates that domain since we have more than 3 TV channels. Electronic repair might be a special case but I claim that a blog post with a bunch of annotated photos makes a more practical repair guide. People make YouTube videos nowadays because they can be better monetized. I agree with you, it is not a nice development, but I don't see free speech endangered because of that. (Google dominance in the search market is of course another story)

The two parties forming the government of Hamburg made an agreement. Its here: https://www.spd-hamburg.de/fileadmin-hamburg/user_upload/Koa... The relevant section is on page 161. Most relevant is: - base new software project on open protocols - "Design award procedures in such a way that we maintain and expand a broad mix of manufacturers and suppliers - for this purpose, award procedures are designed in such a way that all cooperation and business models (e.g. provider communities of startups, open source offers and license models) be treated equally." - "In the new parliamentary term, the Hamburg citizenship has decided to introduce a cloud-based system - Phoenix - based on the model of Schleswig-Holstein via Dataport for all members of the parliament and employees."

Dataport is a sort of state owned software company for Hamburg and some other northern states. This appears to be the product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpl0Xds1NMU

I couldn't find any open repos on the dataport website. Maybe I haven't looked hard enough. But that doesn't look like the big Open Source revolution to me.