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Some of these are wild. This one reads like him journaling on an acid trip:

24. questions = AI to the minus 1

If this was from 2025, I'd put his RADICAL BREAKTHROUGH down to spending too much time on ChatGPT.

https://www.jmail.world/thread/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019871?view=i...

So what do you use instead now?

Which one of those is preferable? It seems to me that they are both historically based. 10 x 10 is also 100 in base-12 (it's only in base-10 that it looks like 144).

IMHO, in a modern setting base-16 would be the most convenient. Then I maybe wouldn't struggle to remember that the CIDR range C0.A8.0.0/18 (192.168.0.0/24) consists of 10 (16) blocks of size 10 (16).

Yes, not everyone is allowed to use cloud services. There's also the cost. I haven't spent a cent on infrastructure in 5 years (other than my time). Using cloud services comes with extra costs and meetings to justify those costs. Plus, not everyone is in the USA or 1st world country where those costs are negligible. Necessity is the mother of invention.

For an SME with nonetheless critical workloads, 10000 containers is not small. To me that's massive in fact. I run less than 10 but I need those to be HA. uncloud sounds great for my use case.

I still run docker swarm on 3 servers. Haven't needed to update it much over the past 5 years.

That's really interesting and cool. In that case calling it imperative rather than declarative is underselling it imho. I haven't worked that much with Terraform but in my usage from the cli, that is how it works too and I consider that declarative.

I get that putting the declarative spec in the control plane and having the service autoreconcile continuously is another layer but this is great as a start.

In fact could you not just cron the cli deployment command on the nodes and get an effective poor man's declarative layer to guard against node failures if your ok with a 1 min or 1 sec recovery objective?

I looked into this yesterday for making Caddy HA on my Proxmox cluster and stumbled upon keepalivd. It will provide you with a virtual IP and failover but not load balancing so you'd need to still point that at something like HAProxy for that.

Could be something interesting to integrate though.

Wow, this sounds very cool.

I share the same concern as top comments on security but going to check out out in more detail.

I wonder if you integrated some decentralized identity layer with DIDs, if this could be turned into some distributed compute platform?

Also, what is your thinking on high availability and fail failovers?

This!

I've been posting the manifesto to friends and colleagues every tau day for the past ten years. Let's keep chipping away at it and eventually we won't obfuscate radians for our kids anymore.

Friends don't let friends use pi!

Thanks. I hadn't heard of RustFS. I've been meaning to migrate off my MinIO deployment.

I recently learned that Ceph also has an object store and have been playing around with microceph. Ceph also is more flexible than garage in terms of aggregating differently sized disks. Since it's also already integrated in Proxmox and has over a decade of enterprise deployments, that's my top contender at the moment. I'm just not sure about the level of S3 API compatibility.

Any opinions on Ceph vs RustFS?

That's cool.

I watched both of these at the time. FWIR Python took some learnings from the Perl experience and it was still close.

Thank you for that tldr. Wow

How can the New Iork Tymes just choose how they spell things? That's messed up.

I get what you're saying but I don't think that's the right analogy here.

Part of the cost is the amortization of the development cost of building and training the model. Perhaps that's why there is a monthly subscription component. That would make economic sense, although I suspect it's more psychological in that you want people to use your product and a subscription makes that easier. If you think about the cost of each generation then you're not going to have a good time using it.

My point was more though that you pay for the convenience and the inference cost. I can also make my own bread, but my local bakery or supermarket can make it much more efficiently at scale and cheaper.

Why do shops charge for strawberries when they grow for free in my garden?

They're still a decade ahead of most people. It seems only now that people are becoming aware of privacy coins. I go to a lot of crypto meetups and every time I bring up that bitcoins aren't fungible (because they carry full provenance and you might not be able to cash out tainted coins) I just get blank stares. FATF Travel Rule is turning up the heat on this.

I haven't kept up with developments though. What are best privacy coins these days. ZCash seems to be the institutional favourite while Monero hasn't moved much.

I also use it a lot but the app has always been terrible. I forget exactly what the problems are but I think the text input becomes unresponsive and it becomes unusable.

Afrikaans also users the -tje ending for diminutives.

Fair enough. I'm just sick of the reflexive anti-Chinese hysteria. I wouldn't want to live there personally and condemn the human rights abuses as much as the next guy. However in international politics it's clear who the two largest terrorist regimes have been over the last fifty years and yet they're still somehow held up as the good guys.

Ok, good points. Thanks

I wouldn't go quite as far but overall i agree

I'm a big statin sceptic so just putting that up front.

I think things haven't changed because most people underestimate how slow institutional scale change is. There is a reason why HR departments and consultants have Change Management experts. The inertia is huge. Young people don't appreciate this because they thrive on new ideas. Old folks don't and will subconsciously push back, like a form of institutional homeostasis.

Also, while I believe your heart attack stats are correct, I'm more interested in all cause mortality. I believe there statins are a net negative.

Why is that? Does Chinese company really equal Chinese government?

Yeah, same for OpenAI because of Sama. I'm proud to say I haven't touched either for over a year. There are enough good alternatives out there.

Very cool. I have seen Futhark mentioned before but I don't know anything about it.

The example you showed is very much how I think about PRQL pipelines. Syntax is slightly different but semantics are very similar.

At first I thought that PRQL doesn't have scan but actually loop fulfills the same function. I'm going to look more into comparing those.

"Carb-heavy diets produced the least sexy of scents."

Thanks, makes sense.

Idk. At one point I was at 11% body fat and still had BMI over 25. (83kg and 1.82m) I don't think I've ever been BMI < 25.