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The whole thing takes a lot of time and multiple round trips and stays which is expensive.

I'm glad that my country is doing this. On one hand, we have free healthcare and there is the argument that we don't need this and that it's just a way to save money on the weakest of us all. But in practice it is not the case.

I have 2 grandfathers who have been denied certain surgeries because they are too old, not because it would be dangerous, but because there are waiting lists of several years and they never get priorities. Now, none of them are in a hurry to use this procedure of course (only one mentionned going to Switzerland when he almost lost total mobility, but of course cannot afford it), but both of them are in pain, and when it will become excruciating and quality of life will converge to 0, I feel it is a much better prospect than staying for weeks in a hospital room, suffering despite the morphine, with the spouse having to book taxis for visits because of course nobody is going to pay for that.

We are talking about people who have enjoyed near 40 years of happy retirement and a slow but very steady health decline at the end, with lots of time to think and discuss this topic. To me it's a relief to think that I will have this option for myself eventually.

What if the market expected 25% more then reported ? Nobody "knows" what the market expects. People infer it by looking at forward valuation, company guidance, investor expectations, and many many other things happening in the world, in competition, in the value chain. And of course the market does its thing and figures that this company has x% chance of beating (or missing) by $y, and when it's wrong the moves can be huge.

Well, the answer is in your question, it's all about expectations ; the market wanted more, didn't get it, and re-rates.

I remember reading about the minecraft port earlier, very impressive work ; those writeups are a great read too.

Ah there is liquidity too, but your brother comment makes my point clearer.

About liquidity, yes most people with a million net worth actually have more than half in their house, so technically it is much harder for them to throw cash than somebody with a billion and a much smaller % of their worth in illiquid assets such as property or unlisted companies. I wish I had made this point too.

Thanks, that is much clearer than my wording.

A few things to note. 1 billion isn't a thousand times a million. If you make a conservative 5% let's say out of your net worth, you still need to work with a million, whereas you don't with a billion. So, technically, $400 with a million is some amount of work hours, whereas $400k with a billion is just pocket change taken out of more than most people lifetime's of earnings that is just 1 year of your interest.

Also, a lot more people (more than 1000x) have $400 to give than $400k so in a sense if people with $400 to give were all being very generous, they could amount to a lot more than what billionnaires could give.

So you agree that it is not kube specific, then ?

I give a counter example to a general statement, in logic, it is enough to debunk the original statement. My point is, SOME things wouldn't run predictably inside the cluster (in that case without pinning to nodes, which the article says isn't necessary, and which in general defeats the purpose), so you'd need to run some things outside of it.

As per standardized knowledge, I can't see how somebody even proficient with kube, could jump into any app and troubleshoot bad behavior. Apps each have their quirks and subtleties, specific components that behave a certain way. The layers still exists, the kube cluster itself (which again has many component options at every layer of the stack ; hard to know them all), and the app (which will require at least some specialty knowledge).

If it's just about pushing helm charts we wouldn't need SRE anymore, just a CI.

None of those arguments make sense.

Uniformity ? Try deploying openbao inside kube, if kube decides to restart your pods, you're in for unsealing them at 3am, waking up everybody who owns a Shamir key. So bao stays out of the cluster, or pinned to certain nodes, defeating the purpose entirely. Also, with the ultra wide variety of tools at every layer of the stack, uniformity is a joke ; there are no 2 kube cluster deployment that are the same really.

Standardized knowledge ? The operating system is standardized knowledge. Any competent SRE should be able to login into a Linux box and figure out what's running there. And if you let your previous ops shadow it all you're just a pretty bad CTO.

Tracing who does what ? First of all anybody with admin access can run one time jobs just like anybody with sudo can run one time commands. That's like chapter 01 of the kube doc. Also again at the kube layer itself, below the helm chart, the ops who set that up or updates it can and will change stuff that breaks stuff.

Kube isn't necessarily bad and has it's purpose but it's not a product. It's like Linux, a complex piece of tech that requires a lot more knowledge than "just push this helm chart" to work.

I'd be happy to try some more, I used to play this seriously (even studying with solvers) and I also know and trust a couple of pros, will share with them as well.

Alpine is (was ?) a Renault brand, which is a French company, so it is a little less exotic than a Japanese police force buying a German car (Japan being such a massive car exporter themselves).

Tried daily puzzles on pokerchallenges.com ; 2nd one is "jam or fold" 5bb deep, from the big blind. But no information on what other players do, and we are last to act on this spot, so the question doesn't make sense.

Edit : another one didn't make sense, it asked for my equity with A5o on KK7 or something, but I have no information on opponent's hand or range or betting pattern. Apparently it assumed villain had any2, but pretty much nobody has any 2 here.

I work with junior ops "engineers". Even though some of them won't admit it, they want to do everything with AI, and they do not care much about testing. Even their peer review is done by AI, you can tell by the way the comments are written. They want to deploy stateful clusters, manage VM lifecycles, and even deploy our own Kube cluster, probably entirely vibe coded.

One of them tried to use tabs in yaml instead of spaces, didn't know what a virtualenv was, and didn't know why Kube jobs asked for xp in writing operators ; yet he is pushing multi-files features in less than a day that are meant to manage our backups, and is pushing for managing our own kube clusters in front of management (which finds that it is a lovely idea). At this point I am not sure what to do but it won't end very well I feel.

I tried win 11 for 11 minutes and switched to Linux and never looked back.

"Worst case" is back to more "normal" depreciation.

I would absolutely not count on that, if and when it drops it will drop hard.

Funny, they have the "honesty" to cancel the transaction and not take your money, just to keep their ebay reputation high ?

I functionned this way for a very long time, plain vim with 5-6 options in .vimrc, no plugin (aside for the very occasionnal syntax highlighting like jinja.vim iirc). I kept this setup for more than 10 years mainly to stay compatible with multiple systems (in my case Solaris/Illumos, Linux, MacOS and even Windows).

But I made the switch to nvim / LazyVim. And it is actually pretty good. I had in mind those endless hours of config and lua scripting. At the end of the day all I needed actually was to remove a plugin (folke, which messes with my 's' key) and learn to use the package manager to setup the languages I wanted.

Having things like GrugFAR or lazygit at the tip of my finger is actually a quality of life improvement. I could do without those for sure but they fit my workflow and muscle memory well.

Still wish there was something better for ansible ; I should have gone with pyinfra with my current job's project but I only learned about it after writing 12k LoCs of ansible :'(

No way I see the difference between 120 and 144, but it's just annoying to have to set it up that way, it's like getting a new motherboard and setting your cpu to 3.7Ghz instead of 3.8 or something. It's one more thing to figure out (because my screen would just go dark and it annoyed me for a couple days), setup, and remember next time.

For the desk I'm actually happy I got a reasonnably small one for my new place, the big one I had was just always filled with junk, now it forces me to tidy it up and throw away things. Also it's in my living room, not a dedicated room, so saving space feels better.

I got a DeLock KVM switch recommended by the shop vendor (who actually did spend a good 15 min understanding my need and doing web searches), and quickly confirmed by ChatGPT as a solution to my need (plug the work macbook alongside my personal linux tower, no exchange of data between hosts, no driver needed, and do a KVM switch).

I actually end up using 2 mice and switching the keyboard from bluetooth (for the mac) to usb (for the linux) because I can't get usb working through the HDMI. And the screen is limited to 120hz (instead of 144hz) because of the switch quality or the HDMI cables, I do not know (it lights up and works for a minute and then goes black a few seconds every few seconds, losing sync).

In the end it is more tedious and less featureful than just plugging the mac to the screen via a USB to HDMI cable, switching everything from the screen (and doing the same mice / keyboard juggle than above), because at least I would get the 144hz and save the 150€ from the switch. I can't return it anymore because the 15 day window has passed so I still use it, it's a little bit easier to switch from the remote control than from the screen anyway, but that's expensive just to switch from a different button.

Incus is pretty damn good to be fair. You can mix and match VMs and containers, the terraform provider "just works", the setup is fast and easy, it plays well with ZFS. Now I wouldn't be surprised if it still lags jails (or Illumos Zones) in robustness or some capabilities but I'm a happy user of them now.

Any connection with bao or openbao, the fork of hashicorp vault ? I fail to see any reference on the site

In my new position (on a different product) I don't have enough fingers to count how many times the previous guy bullshitted the PO/PM with "that's not possible" of having some features / workflows enabled. Just because he didn't bother thinking through it or just didn't want to do it. Most of the stuff is a bit boring but just a few days of work and test. So yeah I entirely agree with you.

I still fail to see if that is their side hobby or the entire point for them.

You are missing out the entire point. In a justice system, a single innocent in prison is a thousand times worse than a free criminal. This is where most people draw the line if they think about it. Because when you put innocents under arrest, suddenly you are no better than dictatorships and terrorist state.

The real justice is investing in a security system that tracks, investigates, and condemn actual criminals, in a targetted way, so that honest people can live securely and free. Believe it or not, plenty of countries manage to do that pretty well.

There are companies I wouldn't candidate for, even with kids I think, although it's hard to say, I don't have kids, and apparently there is a mind-shift happening when you get one. Oracle, Palantir come to mind. But maybe not Microsoft, I don't know about that one. It's probably bad, but maybe not "I prefer to watch my kids starving" kind of bad.

Maybe not, there are plenty of hard things to do at Microsoft scale, hypervisors (which I guess could count as "OS" but maybe not "Windows" in the consumer-product line sense), compilers, languages, hardware since Microsoft is doing that too, browsers (although the hard part is chrome-based, probably they contribute to it), databases, distributed systems for cloud products, etc. Plenty of hard things to do.

Depends on everybody needs obviously, but say you have your dev machine that is remote, and you want to connect to it from a laptop (for real-estate reason or just for working from everywhere you want), maybe you want everything on the same (remote) machine like browser, db, IDE, etc and access to it as a remote "desktop" not just an ssh session.

Of course cli tools would be enough for somebody who likes a full TUI dev environment (and for my own use cases that would be enough) but for some people I understand the need, and I feel it is a regression for them to not have it.

Maybe not a shit company but a trash company indeed.