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vergessenmir··on Rebuilding Netflix's video processing pipeline with microservices
It might not be, but who are we comparing them to? Secondly who out there is doing this scale as "cheaply"

Disney is already finding out that a streaming platform isn't cheap to run and hard to do efficiently.

vergessenmir··on Sudo for Windows
How do you wax lyrical for an entire article about the excellently engaging ergonomics of sudo and not mention Linux/Unix family of OSes
vergessenmir··on OpenAI compatibility
Personally I'd recommend Ollama, because they have a good model (dockeresque), the APIs are quite more widely supported

You can mix models in a single model file, it's a feature I've been experimenting with lately

Note: you don't have to rely on their model Library, you can use your own. Secondly, support for new models is through their bindings with llama.cpp

vergessenmir··on Obsidian 1.5 Desktop (Public)
I find the desktop and mobile experience you be fairly aligned. There are few plugins I've installed that won't work on the mobile version (e g Surfing plugin)
vergessenmir··on LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud
Lift and shift is a cloud migration strategy which involves moving your applications to the cloud with little to no modification. For example, you have an application running on a server in your data-centre, you then deploy a VM in the cloud with a similar spec and install the application.

It's usually done to avoid the engineering cost of making the services more cloud native. What tends to happen a lot is that after a considerable portion of the migration is completed, the cost of the lift-and-shift effort start to overtake the savings, and the projected costs, dwarf the future savings.

I suspect this is what happened with Linkedin.

vergessenmir··on Italy bans cultivated meat products
I'm not sure looking at the dictionary helps your argument since The OED, Collins and the Etymology dictionaries state the meat definition as the primary and some don't even have the more modern variations.

Also, shouldn't you be looking at the Italian dictionary. I think there is a very heavy cultural slant to this that you're ignoring that is informed by the inflexibility of non-english languages.

vergessenmir··on Italy bans cultivated meat products
This decision avoids confusion. To see how ridiculous this sounds try the naming convention in the opposite direction: Meat-based spinach - tastes like the real thing.

It's confusing, what am I really eating here?

vergessenmir··on Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London
Which is why it's pretty much the safest area to cycle because motorists are primed to expect cyclists on the roads but you only have to travel 2 minutes east and traffic becomes much heavier and more chaotic pretty quickly
vergessenmir··on Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve growth
I'm based in London and wondering if there are places to buy lion's mane whole?
vergessenmir··on Slackware 15.0 release candidate one
I took a similar journey. I remember getting slackware on 16 3.5inch floppy disks and being super excited on being able to run an OS that took less memory and being able to build and run polyray faster. Then I moved onto slack from walnut creek. Then mandrake Then redhat Then Ubuntu when I got to uni.
vergessenmir··on Older job seekers get fewer offers on LinkedIn but a younger profile photo helps
Or none at all.
vergessenmir··on Inventor of mRNA vaccines suspended from LinkedIn
I'm not sure where I stand on this since the topic is outside of my expertise. From a distance it looks like someone talking about their area of expertise, related to their work.

How different is someone like me making a questioning a claim that the ECS scheduler clusters can't possibly reach 5000 nodes based on the fact the I wrote the original code (the example is obviously contrived and doesn't match neatly like for like).

This comment would be outside the expertise of readers and moderators at Linkedin. They'd be ill-equipped to intervene, I'd say.

I'd say this would be problematic and way too subjective for anyone not to be worried about said action.

vergessenmir··on Setup AWS Cloudwatch Monitoring and Alerts Using Bash Scripts
Custom Cloudwatch metrics are expensive to write to making them useful for coarse grained high level service metrics. If you can afford it go ahead but setting up some other cloud native monitoring service may be the way to go.
vergessenmir··on I will never not talk about my depression
If I read it right she didn't say it was chronic, unless I missed that.

It may have been episodal which happens to most people at some point in their.

I can understand the approach ( and not necessarily agree) if it were a chronic life long condition.

vergessenmir··on I will never not talk about my depression
I agree wholeheartedly while being empathetic with what she's going through.

The identification is, as you say, dangerous. Most people have depressive episodes at least once in their lifetime, and it can leave just as suddenly as it comes.

It makes me wonder if this intense identification slows her recovery or even worse blinds her from seeing its cause; if in this case it has to do with how she is living her life in terms of family, work and social life.

I hope she gets better.

vergessenmir··on Changes to Docker Hub Autobuilds
They got the developer facing API just right making containers accessible but their promised plugin architecture never did come.

There was an arms race between them and the community to lead the story on new functionality. For example flannel came out first before docker acquihired SocketPlane for networking, while Calico was also in the works.

There was pressure from the community for a stable plugin API to allow for external contribution, but I imagine that it was ultimately against their best interest

vergessenmir··on Changes to Docker Hub Autobuilds
They are hard for sure. Docker did make some fundamental mistakes early on, especially on community engagement and open stable APIs.

It is a shame since I rooted hard for them in the early days.

vergessenmir··on We’re all paying for someone else’s 4-hour work week, not ours
The EU has a cap on the work week which you can opt out of, so most businesses 'asked' you to sign a waiver to work at the company.

You can't force people not to work, so you'll have some people who will choose to and some who won't, hence the people who do will have an obvious advantage.

That being said, progressing isn't everyone's life goal and I hope projects like this help create a market that 4-day weeks are the norm. The CTO at my last role was seriously considering this.

vergessenmir··on In Response to Oversight Board, Trump Suspended for Two Years
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe you thought I meant left/right bias, I was looking at this from the lens of Facebook being a global platform.

To expect an even response across all political parties across all governments by the metrics they gave around incitements to violence and danger to the public is a bit unrealistic.

Bias can easily be introduced in every phase of these cases being accessed. Arguably, long before the political and activist leanings are considered.

From that it's not to difficult to see it being extended to other groups.

vergessenmir··on In Response to Oversight Board, Trump Suspended for Two Years
Facebook is a public company and can do whatever it feels right to do as long as its legal. The concentration of power here is worrying. The bias in their corrective action should worry us more, as should the possible extension of these type of actions to other groups.

EU leaders expressed concern over these policies because even they could see that this problematic intervention into the politics of a country is a line that need not be crossed. This extended ban isn't just FB, since other tech platform will likely fall in line.

It will be interesting to see if this will increase Trump's popularity when he does return to social platforms since his fanbase has been starved of his attention.

EDIT - since I'm being downvoted. The bias being referred to isn't strictly left/right leanings in America since FB is a global platform.

vergessenmir··on GitHub was having issues
Hate to pile on GoCD. But I second this. In 2015 they were a contender when Jenkins was showing it's age and Gitlab was in its infancy. Development was fairly stagnant and felt 'closed' to external contributions.

I was hopeful, but ultimately disappointed.

vergessenmir··on Best practices around creating production ready web apps with Docker Compose
I second this. Nomad is a nice middle. Like the post above I've built tools to fill that gap. What I don't understand sometimes is why there aren't many more orchestration tools in the ecosystem. Some tools emerge; work and then somewhere along the line get kubernetes feature envy and never quite get there.

My home setup is now k3s.

vergessenmir··on How I Practice Piano
Some comments have mentioned memorising the piece which helps a great deal. One major difference I employ in my practice is this:

Instead of speeding up, I speed down. I play the section of notes as chords (which is the fastest you can go). Then I gradually slow down by rotation of my hand as I'm discovering the fingering dynamics. I find this to be considerably faster for me. I find it hard to speed up and never do so enough when starting slow.

I'm by no means an expert but this has helped me

vergessenmir··on Diving Deep on S3 Consistency
I have wondered if anyone is using minio at really large scale, or if there any examples of production use at its limits?
vergessenmir··on Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021
I have started looking at this for Svelte projects from a post yesterday on non-javascript build tools. Very promising indeed,
vergessenmir··on Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results
I believe you're referring to the lawsuit from last year filed by the Texas attorney general. It's a complaint where nothing has been proved in relation to the scanning of WhatsApp backups.

Unless there's something new on this case that I haven't seen?

vergessenmir··on Are you a lazy programmer?
I'm not sure what you're saying here. I can see this being a problem when you have cross-team dependencies and your roll-back requires coordination.

Even then it's manageable if your production deployments are version pinned, it only becomes a problem if schemas in your database or messaging have had non compatible changes and data has been written (i.e you have binary and data dependencies in a release)

All this being said with the assumption that the CI/CD pipeline has been designed to best practices.

vergessenmir··on You Don't Need a GUI
One of my favourite snippets of bashrc code for navigating directories below. Whether it beats navigating with a file explorer is up to you but I drastically prefer it.

<code>

export MARKPATH=$HOME/.marks

function jump {

  cd -P "$MARKPATH/$1" 2>/dev/null || echo "No such mark: 
$1"

}

function mark {

mkdir -p "$MARKPATH"; ln -s "$(pwd)" "$MARKPATH/$1"

}

function unmark {

rm -i "$MARKPATH/$1"

}

function marks {

ls -l "$MARKPATH" | sed 's/ / /g' | cut -d' ' -f9- | sed 's/ -/\t-/g' && echo }

</code>

To bookmark a directory:

$/home/user/Documents> mark

To jump to it

$/tmp> jump Documents

source: https://datascienceworkshops.com/blog/quickly-navigate-your-...

I can't find the orginal HN discussion on this but it has shown up a few times with incremental improvements like tab completions added.

vergessenmir··on Honest Microservices
The article does not address any of the problems related to microservices and provides approaches that seem deceptively language agnostic which are in fact heavily dependent and influence your microservices design. It's interesting that this is not compared to the 12 Factor App or similar methodologies.

Points 5 (maintainability),6 (testability) and 8 (test coverage) are added like they are trivial things to achieve.

Points 3 (composability),10 (single responsibility) - gloss over the fact that even if you do achieve this, deployment of services with detailed dependency graphs is still a big problem for complex environments. Deployments are a problem with microservices and it isn't clear how they address this.

I like the idea of the supercompiler at the end. It's a lofty ideal and don't think anything remotely near it will exist in a long time (or ever) where you compile to a cloud environment (unless it is purely immutable and versioned). Also consider that cloud services change. Can't imagine how a compiler will evolve with that, we have a hard enough time with changing ABIs.

vergessenmir··on Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed
It's also been reported that it wasn't the season for the bat species.

Those in favour of the lab leak hypothesis point out that the virus showed up on the scene with all the evolutionary capability to spread amongst humans i.e with batteries included.

With previous Sars viruses my understanding is that each zoonotic jump was traceable with examples of previous forms in prior animal hosts to corroborate the lineage.

What makes Covid-19 interesting is that these zoonotic jumps or the gain of functions can be accelerated in the lab with the purpose of preparing us ahead of time for a dangerous forms of Sars style viruses. It looks like covid-19 may be that type of strain, not man made, but given the lab conditions for it to gain the capability. It may have escaped.

It's worth exploring the lab leak hypothesis but I would say that it's not politically expedient for any of the scientists or parties involved. We will never really know the truth and that is something we need to grow comfortable with.

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