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thepumpkin1979

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thepumpkin1979··on Statement on the IBM Acquisition of Red Hat
They just wanted to say this:

> The decline in RHEL growth contrasted with the acceleration in Linux more broadly is a strong market indicator of the next wave of open source. Public cloud workloads have largely avoided RHEL. Container workloads even more so. Moving at the speed of developers means embracing open source in ways that have led the world’s largest companies, the world’s fastest moving startups, and those who believe that security and velocity are best solved together, to Ubuntu.

thepumpkin1979··on Managed CockroachDB: Geo-Distributed Database as a Service
I've been using CRDB 2.0 for a toy project for a few weeks now, today I notice 2.1 was available so I started playing with some of their new features, I ran a SQL query with correlated sub-queries and then the server crashed. It's the first time I see a crash, so I rushed to the GitHub report to report the bug and to my surprise a GitHub issue was already created for the crash[0], it included the stack trace and an anonymized version of my SQL query that caused the crash.

This really demonstrates they really care about the stability of their product, one more reason to keep recommending CockroachDB.

[0] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/32048

thepumpkin1979··on Zolang – A programming language for sharing code between multiple platforms
OP, this is the comment you should be paying attention to. The (now downvoted to oblivion) counterpart to this comment sounds a lot like the top comment on Dropbox “Show HN” of it’s time: a totally engineered reasoning with zero core product value thinking [0]. Instead you should go deep, as in digging a hole or “Well”[1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

[1] http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html (special emphasis on the the “Well” section)

thepumpkin1979··on Scheduling in Go: Part II
Interesting, in my mind the memory usage of M threads is too expensive when you’re mostly waiting for network or file system events, the advantage I remember from green threads is that the thread can be used to execute another CPU bound task while waiting for network events which intrinsically makes it more memory efficient. I’m interested in how Linux has evolved to reduce memory consumption when you have millions of threads, because you can have millions of green threads.
thepumpkin1979··on Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Extreme: Hex-Core, GTX 1050 Ti, 64GB RAM, Under 4 Pounds
dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17881103
thepumpkin1979··on VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing
Exactly. I like the idea of having VSCodium as an option but I don’t have an urging need to use this fork since just removing a license and telemetry endpoints doesn’t really add any value compared to the official package.
thepumpkin1979··on Show HN: Ultralight – Lightweight, Pure-GPU HTML UI Renderer for C++
I downloaded it and launched the Browser sample Xcode project, take a look: https://vimeo.com/284388678
thepumpkin1979··on [dead]
How has AMD managed to come up with more processor and speed count the Intel? Why now?
thepumpkin1979··on Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration platform
Nice, all CI should be per minute.
thepumpkin1979··on Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux
There’s a bigger chance Figma comes to Linux faster than Sketch, Figma since is based on Electron. Sketch is heavily dependent on Cocoa and Mac.
thepumpkin1979··on Intel patches new ME vulnerabilities
Can MacBook owners do something to disable or cripple Intel ME? Is Apple disabling it for us? I can’t find Apple responses to these issues.
thepumpkin1979··on Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one
I can relate to this, two weeks ago I started streaming from my Xbox and I've been enjoying 1-2 viewers at the time, sometimes 4 when I post the link to Facebook. To me 1-2 viewers is a lot, of course I play a game no one is playing: Battlefield Hardline.

The twitch channel for Battlefield Hardline has 3 streamers tops on weekends and I happen to be one of them. I bet I'd be getting zero viewers if I was playing Fortnite.

thepumpkin1979··on Certified Translator, stuck in Venezuela, looking for remote freelance work
It seems like you know your away around getting paid in the country, any chance you can get in touch and explain it to them? I wish I could, I'm also Venezuelan but I left in 2010 so I have no idea.
thepumpkin1979··on Certified Translator, stuck in Venezuela, looking for remote freelance work
op is not the Venezuelan behind the service, explained here[0].

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17512031

thepumpkin1979··on Certified Translator, stuck in Venezuela, looking for remote freelance work
That’s correct, everybody is hungry so corruption is everywhere. To get a passport you need to give the officer an iPhone 7 or a few thousand dollars. I read this today, it’s pretty bad.
thepumpkin1979··on Fedora CoreOS, Red Hat CoreOS, and the future of Container Linux
Wow it looks pretty neat. NixOps looks also really cool, you can deploy in VirtualBox and to the cloud. Reminds me of the old Hashicorp Otto.
thepumpkin1979··on Fedora CoreOS, Red Hat CoreOS, and the future of Container Linux
does Alpine Linux provide Transactional Updates?
thepumpkin1979··on HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Service Mesh
Oh what I meant to say is, it's a real kubernetes cluster, it's a good thing.
thepumpkin1979··on Mastodon WTF timeline (2017)
(2017)
thepumpkin1979··on Rewards of Up to $500K Offered for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux Zero-Days
> Who was mentioned in the release changelog? The person who committed that. Then I stopped spending my precious time on such things like giving someone the credits for my work. I love programming, I work on my own projects instead.

That was handled very poorly by the open-source project, I think all projects need something like kentcdodds's all-contributors[0] guidelines which does require additional tooling and there is definitely additional code reviewing care in order to merge Pull Requests but it makes all contributors feel good when they look back at the effort of all contributions. I experienced this first hand when I contributed to one of the open source modules of the guy, the repo tooling didn't let me submit the code and I said to myself "well this is stupid, I just need the code to be merged ASAP", after a few minutes at first I figured it out and the PR got accepted. Now I can actually go back and say "hey look at my face in the Readme of the repo, that's me, yay!" which sounds stupid but I assure you I won't hesitate to contribute again.

[0]https://github.com/kentcdodds/all-contributors

thepumpkin1979··on HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Service Mesh
this instruqt thingy is pretty cool, it's actually addictive. I started with the Connect course and I'm not going for Istio:

> Please wait while we setup a Kubernetes cluster with Istio preinstalled. In the meantime, browse through these notes to learn more about the sample application.

damn

thepumpkin1979··on China hacked a Navy contractor and got a trove of sensitive submarine data
dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17268941
thepumpkin1979··on Kubernetes best practices: upgrading your clusters with zero downtime
Found it on Reddit https://m.twitch.tv/events/-5UFZXuCQEK9X7avTUh_Mg
thepumpkin1979··on Consider using Digital Mars C compiler
This is going to sound like an stupid question but it could be just lack of marketting or lack of documentation but I'm reading through the website and it only mentions supports for Win32, Win16, DOS and DOS32, is this correct? I'm curious to know how is that going to work for VirtualBox given that I use it on my Mac. Is the ticket suggesting they switch from VisualC++ compiler to DMC?
thepumpkin1979··on Ask HN: What SaaS or apps are you paying for?
Backblaze business(two computers), Spotify, Github, Amazon EC2 and RDS(Rancher DB and Master), Digitalocean(Rancher Workers), Circleci, Buddybuild, Google Business (three seats), Name.com( one IO, a dozen dot coms), Netflix, Amazon Video
thepumpkin1979··on The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)
(2015)
thepumpkin1979··on Malware Found in the Ubuntu Snap Store
There is no review process for sandbox apps, the manual review is for apps with access system wide.
thepumpkin1979··on Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand
Super nodes where added to mitigate the problem of battery consumption in Skype mobile apps. They explained this a long time ago.
thepumpkin1979··on True cost of email: We only get 1h 12min/day of uninterrupted productive time
It's a YC company
thepumpkin1979··on Mindfulness may have been over-hyped
The cease and desist included, in addition to some screens they said we copied from their design, part of the scripts which I wasn't aware they copyrighted.

We didn't copy anything, the text from the meditation we took it from Shunryu Suzuki's book.

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