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- Comment on The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money 11 months ago:
I must be a special, fantasy person that does road trips with 700mi or longer drives
Assuming you have the ability to drive at a perfect, ideal, consistent 80mph 700miles is 8h45m of driving. You aren’t going to stop for a bathroom break in 8 hours?
200 miles will likely give you 3.5 or so behind the wheel. Take a break and stretch your legs… It’s better for your health anyway than sitting for so long.
Not to mention it’s 3000 kilos. They really need to start adding vehicle weight limits to licenses. The US license test is a joke in most states, and then people are allowed to drive 3 metric ton vehicles from a 10 minute drive.
Yeah agreed but that’s a different conversation unrelated to this thing.
- Comment on New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic 11 months ago:
Wonder what the engineering solution to this could look like…
Thinking something like a zero trust model being required for all web requests… Like the target address would need to receive a validated identity token from some third party but that token couldn’t contain identifying info about the requester. Likewise, the validating third party would need to verify the identity of the requester without having knowledge of the target address.
Then that raises more questions like who would we all be comfortable trusting as a verifier and what data would we use for that validation? The validation system and the data used to validate would need to be provided for free too to account for low income people so no subscription services or hardware MFA keys. Also who counts as an identity to be validated?
What do enforcement mechanisms look like if this does get built? Are the validators entirely passive or do they actively participate in the process? Like do we have rate limits imposed by the validation engine or do we just leave that to the target address/organization to impose themselves? What happens if someone is banned from a site? Does the site notify the validators to drop requests earlier in the lifetime of a request? Do individuals get a lower request quota than corporations? Would you have to form a company just to prototype a new tool/product?
If someone seriously wanted to work on this I’d jump on the opportunity to work with them. It sounds like a fascinating project.
- Comment on The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money 11 months ago:
It’s a big, stupid truck but so is every other truck it’s competing against. It’s got poor visibility but so does every other truck/suv being sold in America. The cheapest option doesn’t have the longest range but it’s still longer than the average person would realistically drive in a day. It can’t haul much but the overwhelming majority of people driving trucks in America aren’t towing or hauling things on a day to day basis… The people doing real work buy vans or have special purpose trucks.
The steering geometry seems nice and the rear wheel steering is interesting. Those seem like the only major positives though.
It’s not as bad as everyone seems to be making it out to be but it’s obviously still a dumb car that shouldn’t exist. That’s all cars though really.
- Comment on Yes, you can have too many CPU cores - Ampere's 192-core chips break ARM64 Linux kernel in two-socket systems, company requests higher core count support 11 months ago:
Yep. I would LOVE one of these chips in a kubernetes node.
- Comment on GitHub user claims Twitch has malware 11 months ago:
This is what it feels like to interact with the Linux/opensource/selfhost people sometimes.
“bUt ThEy CaN wAtCh YoU!!1!”
- Comment on Any recommendations for a career change? 11 months ago:
Certs are a waste of time tbh. If you have 8 years of experience, you should have more than enough to fill out a resume already.
An AWS cert is almost certainly even more useless for you specifically unless you wanted to get into devops/sre and do systems design. I have been in sre for a very long time and have never even heard of anyone writing tooling in Java. That section of the industry is entirely dominated by go, python, and (more often than anything else) bash for really quick automation.
- Comment on Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated 11 months ago:
Yeah agreed. I use copilot too. It’s fine for small, limited tasks/functions but that’s about it. The overwhelming majority of my work is systems design and maintenance though… There’s no AI for that…
- Comment on The reincarnation of totaled Teslas—in Ukraine | Ars Technica 11 months ago:
I’m living in Tbilisi, Georgia. There are TONS of older foreign cars here with damage that would clearly fail an inspection in places like America… Lots and lots of cars driving around with crumple zones that have been destroyed but the engine works fine. Apparently it’s cheaper to import one of these than it is to buy a car here.
It’s not just American and European cat’s either. There are significant numbers of Japanese imports as well which have the steering wheel on the wrong side. Sometimes you’ll get picked up in a taxi and the whole radio/infotainment screen is all Japanese.
- Comment on When a place is called " Heights", what does "heights" mean/refer to? 11 months ago:
Higher’d’n AC.
- Comment on What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech? 11 months ago:
Containerization (even for small things) makes modern infrastructure a LOT easier.
- Comment on An entire state's population just had its data stolen in a ransomware attack 1 year ago:
I think Mashable needs to talk to their own InfoSec team for an education… Stealing data and ransomware are not the same thing.
- Comment on I would like some advice on where to go after university 1 year ago:
I honestly love it. Of course it’s not perfect but I don’t ever want to go back to the old way if I can avoid it.
- Comment on I would like some advice on where to go after university 1 year ago:
Most resistance I have seen mostly comes down to a misunderstanding in the benefits that kubernetes offers. The assumption is that kube is used for autoscaling and that, if the inbound traffic is predictable then the added complexity is unnecessary. When that happens the “kube isn’t right for all situations” turns into “kube isn’t right for any situation” whether the person in question would ever admit that or not…
All of this ignores the MASSIVE reliability enhancement kube delivers and the huge amount of effort currently going into modern tool development surrounding the kube ecosystem.
- Comment on I would like some advice on where to go after university 1 year ago:
Real talk, you don’t have the luxury of being an idealist right out of university. Your goal is to get a job. When you’re in that job you will likely not have the luxury of being an idealist either.
When you have enough experience making practical, reasoned decisions, then you can stand on principals.
For context, I have been in this business for nearly 20 years. The people I have personally worked with who have resisted things on philosophical grounds ALWAYS get left behind. I’ve seen it with systemd, the cloud, and now I’m seeing it again with kubernetes. You cannot escape the collective inertia of an entire industry.
Obviously there are still thresholds… I would never work for someone like Raytheon. You have to draw lines somewhere but saying you aren’t going to work for a company that does user behavior tracking is short sighted and impractical.
- Comment on Do any ATMs in Belgium support balance inquiries? 1 year ago:
I only access banks electronically if they accommodate Tor.
So they know when you logged in and what you did when you got there. So you can’t escape it there.
The bank only gets to know my physical location when I do a transaction where that’s unavoidable.
So you can’t escape this either.
Even if I were to carry a mobile phone on standby wherever I go, the bank would get nothing from it if I don’t run their app.
They would get nothing except the time, location, amount, business, and how that relates to the other purchases you make and all the data those transactions generate as well. That data is shared with the bank, Visa or MasterCard, and all credit reporting agencies. This is unavoidable too.
You are not getting out of this unless you allow it to seriously affect your life.
- Comment on Scientists make breakthrough in research that could change the way our homes are constructed: mycocrete 1 year ago:
- Comment on Do any ATMs in Belgium support balance inquiries? 1 year ago:
My man… You are not getting around the tracking. It’s never going to happen. Unless you literally toss everything with a network connection and disconnect from the electric, gas, and water grids, you are going to be tracked.
- Comment on Do you feel, as I do, that this adblocker ban by Youtube will harm all of Alphabet's companies? [discussion] 1 year ago:
Who cares.
- Comment on I Can't Drink Now Like I Used to a Few Years Ago (26M), is that Normal? 1 year ago:
Enjoy it. A night out is now cheaper.
- Comment on Docker vs Podman, which one to choose for a beginner and why ? 1 year ago:
Don’t overthink this. Just start using something.
- Comment on What are some of the best optimizations you applied to your code? 1 year ago:
We had a service that compiles a dataset once per quarter. The total size is ~30gb. We were starting a container, storing it on an EFS volume, and mounting like any other disk.
Every time a pod started it would need to read this data into memory so we would get quick initial start-up time but the time to be ready for traffic still took a while.
Since we didn’t need to update it very often, we decided to just package the compiled dataset into the container and skip the EFS volume. We updated the image pull policy to
ifNotPresentso it cut egress traffic pricing from EFS to zero. Now there is a cost to pull the image from ECR but that’s only if the pod is being scheduled onto a node it hasn’t been run on before. There was no noticable change in behavior or performance and we saved a bunch on cost.Sometimes the big, dumb option is the right choice.
- Comment on US to build new nuclear gravity bomb 1 year ago:
Dispersal of liability if something goes wrong?
It’s not the ground-based targeting system so that company can’t be sued. It’s not the onboard nav so that company can’t be sued. It’s not the software so that company can’t be sued. It’s not communication latency or interference so we can’t blame it on a bad command decision to push forward without more reliable data points.
The only thing that will ultimately result in a nuclear weapon being dropped is if the guy with human eyes is looking at the target, makes a judgement call, and pushes the button.
All that being said, we should not be building more nukes regardless. This is dumb.
- Comment on Hi, I want to start programming but dunno where to start and which language to learn 1 year ago:
Thing is, I had a reachable goal which made it easier for me to learn and feel good as I had a tangible result.
IMO, this exact thing is what separates the people who succeed and those who give up. If you are only approaching the code as some abstract concept then it will never work. Anyone learning this stuff needs to understand that the code is more like a hammer to a carpenter than anything else… It’s a very physical tool used for doing a real job. If you don’t have any nails to hit, you’re not going to get anything done.
- Comment on Spotify Removes Offensive Imagery But Keeps Transphobic Song Despite Outcry 1 year ago:
It really is. The beat, the hook… All great. It’s a legit fantastic song if it wasn’t for the absolute dog shit content of the lyrics.
- Comment on Spotify Removes Offensive Imagery But Keeps Transphobic Song Despite Outcry 1 year ago:
Just checked. Seems like Where The Hood At by DMX is still there. Is this really any worse?
- Comment on Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore? 1 year ago:
I don’t drink coffee at all but I do live outside of the US. I have noticed that in MANY places in the world, instant coffee is the norm. It’s not normal to see coffee beans in the grocery store at all really where I am now. I would have to go to a more upscale place or to a specialty spot to find whole or ground coffee.
- Comment on Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly' 1 year ago:
I was the same way… It’s been about 20 years since I last owned a mac. I skipped the intel years entirely. I was given an M1 mbp for my current job though and its honestly fantastic… One of the best machines I’ve used in years. The chip is a huge part of it.
Since there are so many developers on mac these days, there is a ton of tooling around there to customize the UI enough to be flexible. I’m quite happy on it.
- Comment on YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end “$600 less than cable” ads 1 year ago:
I don’t think the sports management people are hurting for cash in any way but there has to be some tipping point eventually when the value of the exclusive broadcast contracts is overshadowed by the losses from people just straight up not watching anymore.
I live in Turkey but if I try to watch a legal MLB stream I am told I’m in a blackout region. What local advertiser or broadcaster is being harmed by me watching baseball from fucking Turkey!? They would rather change the literal rules of the game to drive engagement rather than just allow more people to watch in a convenient way…
- Comment on Net neutrality’s court fate depends on whether broadband is “telecommunications” 1 year ago:
My eyes rolled back in my head so hard I gave myself a concussion.
- Comment on What's the dumbest thing you've shipped? 1 year ago:
An RFC that essentially boiled down to saying, in excruciating detail, that I am qualified for the job I was hired for and that I can be trusted not to break the website.