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miller_joe··on Show HN: Blotato – Declarative Architecture Diagrams
Looks great so far. I feel like I've tried almost every text-based diagramming tool ever made.

The lang reminds me a little of graphviz/dot but hopefully with better layout options.

Are there docs available? Do you have icons/objects for other clouds (GCP) ?

miller_joe··on A Framework for Writing Better Documentation
This looks like a great resource, thank you for sharing.

One trick I learned many moons ago from a tech writer was what he called the "SEE" method - statement, example, explanation. I've never found any references to it. I've found it effective for simple cases such as helping engineer's "just get started" to break writer's block. It's not a grand theory covering all doc types.

miller_joe··on Show HN: kubectl-flame – Effortless profiling on Kubernetes
Looks super cool, but we don't run any java apps. Can't wait for the Go version!!!
miller_joe··on Show HN: I made 1M (!) syntax highlighting themes
Killing me. I’m going to have to try all of these. I should be mad
miller_joe··on How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cyberattack on Iran
Co author is Kim Zetter the Wired journalist who has been covering Stuxnet for years and wrote a great book on it “Countdown to Zero Day”.
miller_joe··on $499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core I9-9980XE
There might be meaningful differences in the hardware encode/decode for video. In the Plex community for example it seems like Intel CPUs are the best bet. They support a lot of codecs and can service multiple transcode streams. Consumer Nvidia GPUs are limited to 2. I don't think Plex supports hardware transcoding on AMD Ryzen or discrete GPUs at all right now. I haven't really looked into why yet, and could likely just be a software support issue in Plex.

This, unfortunately, would be a deal breaker for my home-server use case, although I'm very happy AMD is finally competitive again, overall.

miller_joe··on Google Cloud Is Down
They initially opened an incident against GCE (https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/19003) then opened one against Networking (https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/19...).

The networking incident looks like the one to follow for updates now.

miller_joe··on Google Cloud Is Down
I'm seeing that with northamerica-northeast1. I can't access anything over the network in that region and most of the GKE clusters and VMs in that region aren't listed in the console
miller_joe··on Amazon leads $575M investment in Deliveroo
This reminds of a service named Sprig we had in SF. It closed down a couple years ago, however, after a short run.
miller_joe··on Show HN: Google's New Cloud Run Service Is Amazing
I am in the gcp web ui daily and just noticed Cloud Run appear on Friday along with several other changes. We will probably hear more during Next this week
miller_joe··on New in Chrome 73
Is there a list of popular apps that are available as PWAs yet? Or info on if/when major apps will be available as PWAs (slack, spotify, etc)?
miller_joe··on Delta Debuts World's Largest Jet Engine Test Room
Something I think was left unsaid here is that airlines are starting to take over more of their own engine maintenance to reduce costs. The engine makers have secured huge margins with their maintenance contracts for years and the airlines are looking to bring this in-house.
miller_joe··on Next-generation of GPS satellites are headed to space
> But some of their most highly touted features will not be fully available until 2022 or later because of problems in a companion program to develop a new ground control system for the satellites, government auditors said.

Hey, maybe they need AWS GroundStation! =)

miller_joe··on Show HN: Dedicated VPN Server(s) with Tor Bridges and a Tiny Hardware Client
Jason Bourne
miller_joe··on China to have 626M surveillance cameras within 3 years
No
miller_joe··on SIDH in Go for quantum-resistant TLS 1.3
Excellent. Explained so simply.
miller_joe··on Show HN: Warp – Simple terminal sharing for better developers interactions
Looks cool. Any benefits/advantages over tmate?
miller_joe··on 'Why did eBay side with the buyer when he returned my Apple MacBook?'
I am not surprised. I used to sell old iPhones and MacBooks on eBay but stopped since every experience became bad in some way and the fees are already high and getting higher.

The last straw for me was a MacBook sale. I took great care of it and listed it in great condition and included pictures. The buyer considered it "good" not great condition and after several back and forths arguing I sent him $50 to buy a cover. I searched around for information and experiences from others during the process and eventually realized that he had all the control and eBay essentially always sides with buyers. I'm glad I only got taken for $50 instead of the outcome from the story. Never again though. F eBay

miller_joe··on Run Kubernetes on a Mac with Kube Solo
Have you run into any issues where the minikube env is sufficiently different from production that you it requires some tweaks/hacks?

Also curious if you run multiple services in local minikube for integration testing?

miller_joe··on Discovering Cuba: Economics, Entrepreneurship, and the Future
FTA

"When I told people I was going to Cuba, the reaction was predictable. I was told I was lucky to witness Cuba because it was ‘”untouched.” I was told something along the lines of: “Oh, you get to see Cuba before Starbucks and McDonald’s go down and ruin it all.” I heard the same thing from some Americans I met at El Floridita. I confess part of me shared in this naive romanticism about Cuba, that somehow there is a ‘purity’ to Cuba that will soon be ‘corrupted.’ I was wrong about this. Not only because of my naiveté about the condition on the ground in Cuba, but because of the insidiousness such a belief implies about what the Cuban people want and deserve.

“Untouched” is a romantic way to look at the poverty that Cuba has become. There is nothing romantic about poverty. Poverty is sad. Poverty is sick children and malnourishment. Poverty is no books or school supplies. Poverty is no toilet paper, no soap, no toothpaste, no clean water, and unmet basic needs. Poverty is constant exposure to punishing heat and humidity. Poverty is torn up shoes and broken cars. Poverty is dangerous tools and equipment. Worst of all, poverty is wasted human capital: time spent waiting on lines for food instead of producing goods and services to better society. Poverty is unwritten literature, unsung music, unconducted experiments, undiscovered breakthroughs, and unfulfilled ambition."

miller_joe··on Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005)
I missed the original postings so it's nice to see this for the first time. That would be difficult if HN didn't allow reposts. Though I can understand if I had seen it already.
miller_joe··on Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons
OJ Simpson
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