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smetj··on Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience
Understood ... thanks for clarifying ... I'm genuinely intrigued. You're right that image is generated by a generative model, however my humble blog content .... I do write myself. "Don't judge a book by its cover!" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
smetj··on Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience
Could you elaborate please? Genuine question.
smetj··on Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience
Shameless plug. My experience with emergency lane keeping systems in my car and reporting it to my dealership: https://www.smetj.net/its-for-your-own-safety.html
smetj··on What would a Kubernetes 2.0 look like
Kubernetes has all the capabilities to address the needs of pretty much every architecture/design out there. You only need one architecture/design for your particular use case. Nonetheless, you will have to cary all that weight with you, although you will never use it.
smetj··on What would a Kubernetes 2.0 look like
Hard no to HCL!

Yaml is simple. A ton of tools can parse and process it. I understand the author's gripes (long files, indentation, type confusions) but then I would even prefer JSON as an alternative.

Just use better tooling that helps you address your problems/gripes. Yaml is just fine.

smetj··on Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX
I totally agree with this. Same for metrics.
smetj··on Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX
wow didn't know about rotel ... looks very interesting indeed. Especially those python bindings ... Bookmarked!
smetj··on Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX
I think settling to otel as transport/wire-format is an excellent strategic choice offering most possibilities towards the future. Two concerns less.
smetj··on My website is ugly because I made it
You mean the browser in question is broken? :) No in all seriousness table rendering broken?
smetj··on My website is ugly because I made it
Static generation. Tables. End of story.
smetj··on Data centers contain 90% crap data
> Why were they created?

Proof of work. Look at all this data I/we created.

And the article didn't talk about logs and other operational data yet

smetj··on Microsoft cancels leases for AI data centers, analyst says
No it's one level deeper. The exclusive claim to the "hype" is heading down towards reality.
smetj··on Microsoft Cancels Leases for AI Data Centers, Analyst Says
> Wall Street stepped up its questions about the massive outlays after the Chinese upstart DeepSeek released a new open-source AI model that it claims rivals the abilities of US technology at a fraction of the cost.

And that's the crux of it and that's also why DeepSeek was such a big deal.

smetj··on "the Zooms don't show up" Jamie Dimon
Its not remote work itself. ... that just amplifies the inability of some people to "see the work" and to self-organize.
smetj··on Euro-cloud provider Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform
Congratulations Anexia, well done! Pulling this off means you have experienced leaders and excellent engineers.
smetj··on Geometric line-art of Wacław Szpakowski (2017)
Just wow. You have to take into account the year these were made and its zeitgeist... It took a different mind to come up with those back then ... nice ... well done ... thats the importance of artists .... they are the ice breakers .. the rest just follows ...
smetj··on The Pythonic Emptiness
Yup!
smetj··on Venvstacks: Virtual Environment Stacks for Python
Put it in a container?
smetj··on Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction
> Would the CEO resigning or getting laid off, make your situation any better if you were one of those laid off?

No, of course not. But he is the leader, and he guided the company to a point where certain areas became "over-invested or under-performing." In other words, he didn’t do a good job. So, it should be him stepping down. Nobody ever said being a CEO would be easy.

smetj··on I discovered mysterious hidden signals on a public radio channel (2013) [video]
It comes down to genuine, natural unforced interest (its there or not) and mastering the ability to systematically deal with and how to tackle the next unknown. After years this make you a true wizard.
smetj··on RabbitMQ 4.0
Agreed. I ran a log ingestion infra 8 years ago doing 20k msg/s sustained on RabbitMQ ... back then we went through a lot of instabilities though they settled over time with new releases. Great times. Besides a quality product the development/release process was very professional and mature.

The biggest issue back then was finding a quality client implementation for the language you were using. Not sure what the status of that is these days.

smetj··on Rediscovering the Small Web (2020)
Excellent point made
smetj··on Why do remote meetings suck so much? (2018)
They don't but they do if you have too much of them. In my experience, the amount of meetings only increased when working remotely. I would welcome a meeting budget ... how many time one is allowed to spend in meetings over a certain time window ... once consumed you cannot be invited to, organize or join a meeting anymore.
smetj··on Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes
Yes, I agree with that.
smetj··on Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes
Thank you for highlighting that, much appreciated.
smetj··on Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes
I have no experience with this particular implementation but I do have experience with some important business process developed in Azure Logic Apps, which is kind of the same in spirit I believe.

From what I have seen, these kind of frameworks facilitates the worst possible combination of factors: A solution designed, created and implemented by non-programmers, not using a programming language ending up in a production environment.

One could argue this is a success in its own but I have only seen these kind of things hit their limits almost immediately after the initial POC and evolve into terrible tech debt. Just learn to program or script already.

That being said, I do not want to disrespect the effort into building this and perhaps there is a place for these kind of solutions I yet have to experience.

smetj··on Ask HN: What's Wrong with IRC?
Agreed!
smetj··on My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore
Windows, after 98SP2 and XP it just became absolutely untenable. (it started during XP already) Any pre-installed version was rife with junk one just wanted to get rid of. What still remains to this day, the inexplicable slowdown between a fresh install and a couple of months down the road, at boot time processes which keep writing to hd choking the os for tens of minutes, restore point hell, ... anti-virus which guaranteed ruins your OS ... software that somehow gets installed out of nowhere ... a printer completely impossible to install, then there's the 600mb HP printer software you need to install ... the endless dialog questions you are bombarded with at random times ... I think many people accept this as normal, part of how things are. I switched to Linux and it stays out of my way. I do recognize that some of its configs are difficult for the non-experienced user, however on the flip side you can actually do fixes yourself. Its comparable to someone who can work on his/her own car. YMMV.
smetj··on A collection of 2,299 blogs about every topic
Absolutely awesome ... an oasis in a hostile desert. We needs more webrings and curated link portals (which this essentially is) ...

Thank you devs!

smetj··on An Ode to Deluxe Paint (2023)
I remember the first moments switching from C64 to a 386AT PC with VGA card/screen and be blown away by Deluxe Paint II's included artwork named pueblo (http://www.randelshofer.ch/animations/anims_ibm/electronic_a...), kingtut (https://www.datagubbe.se/dpaint/img/kingtut.png) and of course celtic (https://amiga.lychesis.net/assets/AvrilHarrison/AH_Celtic.pn...)
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