mdekkers

> The tradeoff here is to decouple services in order to allow them to be developed somewhat independently of each other. Monoliths remove the overhead of network requests but they present their own challenges. You have a lot of implicit dependencies and feature development becomes complicated with changes having unexpected effects very far from the source.

I have seen, developed, designed, managed, deployed, operated, fondled, and otherwise been around thousands of large systems that are anything between trivial importance to “must always be running, in the national interest”. I was around when SOAs were a hot new thing, and SOAP was being rumoured as the thing that was going to save us from everything. A fondly recall an overpaid Compaq consultant talking about “token passing systems” when they were describing message queues.

I have seen exactly two systems that really had to be designed and built along a microservice architecture. Both of these had requirements that introduces a scale, scope, and complexity you simply don’t see very often. All other microservice architectures didn’t solve for requirements, they solved for organisational inefficiencies, misalignments, mismanagement, and - in no small part - ego.

When discussing this topic, proponents of microservice proponents talk about many of the advantages these architectures bring, and they are often not completely wrong. What is lacking from these discussions is often a sense of perspective. “Is this solving real problems we have?”, “What is the compound lifecycle cost of this approach?”, and, of course, “How much work is involved in displaying the users’ birthday date in the settings page?”[1], and “when will Omega Star get their fucking shit together?!”[2].

Don’t start with microservices as the default. I will typically work out the monolithic approach as a point of departure. Want microservices? I’m open to that, just demonstrate how that will be better.

[1][2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

I got the Musso Stella 5030. Worth it. :)

I didn’t see the Whynter when I was shopping around, not sure if it is sold in the EU?

I absolutely love NFS and pay for the support option even though I don’t need it, simply to support them. Everything about that service is simply ace.

One of the many reasons why I will never work in an office again.

Background: https://huggingface.co/blog/starcoder2

This is the same in most of Europe. I invested in a gourmet catering class ice cream maker, and delved into the fine art and chemistry required to make the perfect ice cream. Making the perfect batch of ice cream takes a few days but it is so worth it, nothing beats the taste and creamy mouthfeel of made-at-home ice cream, and you know exactly what you are eating. I figure another 14 years of making ice cream at home instead of buying at the store, and I’ll have my investment back!

Shein probably has the return site or handling agent throw most of it in the trash, which is terrible.

Never demo anything unrehearsed, or where you cannot predict the outcome with a very high level of confidence

> this strategy aims to leverage digital advancements to optimize customer flow and manage demand effectively.

They have a typo in “increase profits”

Yes! It was complete with a complete GUI, browser, networking stack, ISDN dialler, everything there :)

As I said, all my chronic stress can immediately be resolved with a large amount of money, since the lack of is the direct cause of that stress.

I appreciate the “money doesn’t buy happiness” advice, even if it comes from someone that was financially independent at 35 - good for you! - but you are making some _wild_ assumptions about the causes of my chronic stress, none of which have to do with my hangups, or hobbies, or anything else like that.

I have had financial lows, with “low” being “homeless at 17” and I have had some financial highs, with “high” being “impactful startup exit”. I have never made assumptions about what would solve someone else’s’ problems, and I would dream of making the presumption of telling them that the thing they have identified as their issue isn’t really their issue.

$5m a year would make me plenty happy, thanks, and would absolutely allow me to focus on my health and fitness, and take up a hobby. Right now, there are not enough hours in the day for any of those kind of luxuries.

Fond memories of being completely blown away by the QNX disk that came with some magazine

> The issue isn’t the doctors, it’s that society, or even just the human condition, often makes it impossible to eliminate the source of chronic stress.

Indeed, all my chronic stress can immediately be solved with large quantities of money.

I was considering signing up for the pro plan. Now I won’t even give them my email. I tried the model and it is genuinely nice, but this is a huge red flag.

> grep filename.txt “thing I want”

> grep “thing I want” filename.txt.

…every time

Take them to whatever the Swedish equivalent of the small claims court is. You are in the EU, the court will have a field day.

> just last night had to mash the brakes after seeing an old man with walking canes emerge from the glare of an oncoming cars lights right in front of me while doing 70kph on a country road.

You should always adapt your speed to the prevailing conditions. 70pkh on a country road after dark is fast at the best of times, but combined with “I don’t see great at night” is grounds to reconsider your driving habits.

If you had happened to hit that old man with cane, it would have been 100% you at fault both legally and morally, and depending on the outcomes, that’s jail time.

NASA: “Here are some idea around Nuclear propulsion in space”

HN: > It's about as realistic as propelling the vehicle with unicorn farts.

I have bought Skyrim a few times, for different platforms and some special edition stuff

I’ll have one, thanks

Counter-Counter point, those studies were not of very high quality. Very small groups, and the “hard to read font” was Comic Sans which isn’t actually hard to read, just different. Also, Comic Sans is well known to be the butt of all font jokes, which could have been acting as some kind of marker for the content. A lot for variable unaccounted for.

On the other hand, the author of OPs “beginners’ guide” treats presentations like a brochure, which is in itself a beginners’ mistake. If you want to provide truly *excellent* advice to a beginner, point them to Guy Kawasaki’s 10/20/30 rule, you cannot really go wrong with that - yes, it is geared towards pitching for VCs but the approach makes sense regardless.

For a bit more of an in-depth approach, see this dude: https://www.presentationzen.com

Also see https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=5306.0 for info on where to find and play Lemmings!

> They do not take security and privacy seriously

Anything specific about the privacy angle?

Can you be more specific? I exclusively use Kagi, and I am a heavy search user. I have not noticed anything like what you are mentioning.

> An average American from the 1950s was already living better than a king from a few hundred years ago.

Arguably, the average “Westerner”, including Americans, from today does not live better than their 50s counterparts.

Salt is genuinely awesome, I think it far outshines other tools in the same space.

Unfortunately the project has never done a great job communicating that, and the acquisition by VMWare, and subsequently Broadcom do not fill me with hope.

I hope it will go the way of StackStorm2 which used to live under the Broadcom shadow and is now part of the Linux Foundation thanks to some good souls at Extreme Networks

Rands is awesome, and “Managing Humans” is just about the best management book I own.

> The lack of a backlight was surprising

This is common across electronic notepads. The lighting adds a thickness to the screen that would mean the input device would hover over the “paper”, instead of writing directly on it, which would be offputting.

I spent a lot of time looking for a digital notepad, and the RM2 was high up on my list. I ended up buying a Supernote recently for exactly the reasons you mention in your post. Remarkable just come across as a really shitty company with a really shitty (and inexplicable) approach to software for their platform.

> They inherited a booming economy and have been reluctant to change because they never had to. And now they are old and incapable of change, like most old people.

Can you share your unique insights about the characteristics of other demographic groups, and their impact on German society? Immigrants, perhaps? People of color? Muslims?

As a “old person” (not a boomer, before you “OK, Boomer” me) I deal with folks like you in the workplace every day. I have to listen to “oh you are too old to understand”, and “you are just too old to change” regularly told to all colleagues over 50.

Those prejudices are shameful.