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Curious to see Josef answer this one.

Sovol has been flatout copying Prusa part for part for a long time now. Qidi seems to be doing the same with Bambu. Time will tell, but their oss contributions are not at the same level.

Hey, that's a very mature perspective. Thanks for sharing.

Yes, I remember those days. I don't want to go back there, and I agree that we need to pursue balance in managing things versus the actual work. It's just that we all seem to have converged on a very complex model, and I'm starting to wonder what's the driver behind it: is it technical progress, or is there something nefarious at play, say faster cycles, more features, more non-work (an endless discussion, that one).

Omg, that does bring a different perspective. I've heard of the dreaded broom cupboard and you're right, I don't want to go near it.

Good insight. I am into therapy and have been for a while. I don't intend to stop, because I see the positive impact it had in the other areas of my life. Perhaps it's time to address the work thing; it's something that didn't take priority so far.

And yes, MORE people should go!

Good advice, I thought I would do exactly that, and ended up at a startup. Looks like they are not trying to achieve super-scale, and that's good. Perhaps we're mired in the old ways of thinking, where we over-optimise for everything, even though we don't need it (nor indeed, we ever will).

Perhaps I'm an attitude-adjustment away from it. Time will tell!

Bambu leaped by 5 months at most. Everyone has high speed options now, with Prusa being notably last to ship. Speed isn't the only important factor, don't feed the Boat race.

Interesting takes on Linux and ipads. My 2-year old is interested in typing with colours. I found that the iPad is better in many ways: its size is perfect, the 1st gen keyboard is light and thin, and the touchscreen is a boon.

But I'm not going to let her have one when she's older. I now realise that I would love a Linux tablet. Not a small laptop, but a touch tablet, thin, with a light keyboard too.

Is there such a thing out there? Or should I start building one now?

Um, k8s was built for hundreds of clusters. I doubt it's 0 adoption for 100+ clusters, we have hundreds across AWS and Azure.

I've read of smaller companies building their own PaaS over K8s, which is in fact how Kubernetes makes sense.

I used to do consulting calls on Clarity.fm. People looked me up and we had 1-2 hour calls on high-level stuff, but I feel that the more implementation-heavy discussions never really helped anyone.

If you want, feel free to reach out via my bio.

This comment is exceptional. Well put. I'm baffled by the lack of replies. It's probably because you made such a good case, that there's nothing to add.

I've played poker and Roulette and Monopoly a lot when I was a kid. Didn't learn that much because no one really knew how to play. Getting piano lessons has been life-changing and I still play to this day.

Let's see, how do we attract some comments here...

People who think that teaching kids serious poker are parents who don't understand the needs of their children, are not in touch with the reality in which their kids live and are more concerned about being great parents than nurturing a young life.

Bold statements? I sure hope so. If the above comment left you unfazed, then read this again: "Raising kids is not an optimisation problem." There's a lot more to life as a young/early parent. Stop obsessing over these silly things and go and spend an hour with your kids, ask them what do to and do it with them in a childish way. They know what they want much better than you do.

The crux of the issue is scaling. Devops is, for the most part, automation. You could never run 500 nodes across 10 geos and 2 clouds by hand. What works for 100 http reqs/s cannot work for 100k.

Kubernetes is a different beast. Most people think of it as a cluster manager: instead of managing your own nodes, then running scripts or automation on them, you write a bunch of yaml and K8s deploys and runs it. While that is fine and true, that's not why Kubernetes was built.

Instead, k8s is a platform for building platforms. You don't run your microservices on it, you run your clouds on it, which in turn run your stuff. At this level, you can see why you need the comical amount of complexity.

Is Datadog worth it? I thought it was too expensive, although they do have a lot of features.

Yup, the colors are jarring. The contrast is very poor. My eyes hurt! I guess the UI isn't that bad, but the blue boxes with white text need to be replaced.

This is super awesome! I soo need this. Drafting with a structure is a part I often skip when trying to write something, which is why writing has become quite hard. I should stop doing it. But your idea is great, looking forward to seeing it in action!

I'm actually trying to make this switch as well, for development services.

I see a lot of value in putting a price tag on deliverables. Do you mind if I reach out over email to ask for some advice on making the switch?

Found this book to be valuable when you think about different pricing models and what that means for your services as a provider: Pricing Design by Dan Mall https://abookapart.com/products/pricing-design

This is a remarkable point you're making. Everything is relative to one's own reality. Thanks for the comparison with runners, I will use it, it's a telling example of what recovery means.

I'm a programmer, and I don't know how it relates to what I do, but I've already set my mind on finding out.

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Imho the core of this idea is that "recovery" applies to many things: how early can you get another 4-hour coding session? How much did the first one tire you out?

How well do you recover after a failure? Bug in my code? I jump on that immediately and don't think twice about it; an argument with my girlfriend / co-worker / boss / parents? Not so much.

I believe you can train both your body and mind to get better at this; get better sleep, see a therapist.

Even more, you can tweak life's settings to work in your favor: a stable relationship, better/quieter housing (or job), savings etc.

"battery life, build quality, screen resolution" = total agreement, I can't wait to be back on Gnome 3.

Now that I think about it, mashable.com is a great example.

There would be no way of telling - someone might've just found your cc data some other way - but yeah, knowing that it's out there is scary. I'm still checking my balance every day.

Hotels will still ask you for your credit card, most (if not all) payments on Booking.com reservations are done upon arrival, and not online. So, honestly, Booking asking for your card details is completely useless.

Hotels might as well shoot you an email or call you to confirm - in fact, I think that would make for a better experience.

One more thing: they are sharing my personal data without my consent - in this regard, it is very different than me providing my card data over the phone.

Thanks for the details, indeed I'm finding out that it makes some sense from their perspective.

Still, there's no notice of Booking.com sharing your data. The fact that hotels print it out and leave it at the reception is again another problem, though not entirely Booking's fault.

I still wonder why they chose to work like this, seeing as it's so easy to implement an authorization process without sharing card data.

I see that they're starting to shy away from requiring card details, which is a good thing.

Hi! I feel you, bailing out at this point would not be great.

This stood out for me: "This attitude, day in, day out." from everyone on the team. This sounds great, it means that you have built a culture that sticks.

Also, it means that you can turn things around: getting people on the same page is hard; it sounds like you only need to sit down and think where you want to be, then shift gears and change the team's attitude towards the new goals. If you establish common goals, it sounds like you'll be able to create a company culture around them pretty easily.

Oh, and have fun! There is light at the end of this!