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Related: Github Actions control plane is no longer free https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291500 https://www.blacksmith.sh/blog/actions-pricing

incredible movie. supposedly does james hunt dirty though

friend has been familiarizing himself with agentic workflows recently and was initially struggling. he figured out an instructive model that works for him, and generated a blog post about it. thought i'd show him some love, and share for others who might be feeling the same pain as him.

yeah our findings were similar. the issues we saw with iptables rules, especially at scale with ephemeral workloads, was starting to cause us a lot of operational toil. nftables ftw

Hi! no plans for more resolution than per minute currently

yeah, like the others have said, the tradeoff isn't really worth it for us as a business. spot instances also generally come with low qos guarantees (since they tend to be interruptible). tbf there are on-demand alternatives with better guarantees though

another thing to note is that we bootstrap the hosts, and tune them a decent amount, to support certain high-performance features which takes time and makes control + fixed-term ownership desirable

[disclaimer: i work at blacksmith]

I would probably hesitate but, if I had some financial safety, I would eventually decide to quit. Is there a lot of upside to staying in terms of career growth and/or compensation?

I think the statement was meant to be softer

“But I’m guessing we cover most of the applications you’d use”

I’ve read a couple other comments from them, and am pretty sure it’s a minor fluency thing. I’d give them the benefit of doubt :)

Oh yeah, I know. Let me rephrase - do you actually leverage the functionality that git (through Github/Gitlab) provides you in your note-taking? Do you go back in the history to see what you committed - do you bisect or look at meta, or commit in atomic ways so that things are more "organized" from a timeline perspective?

Yeah, web IDEs have made life a lot easier but I don't think the experience works well for a minimal note taking flow. one of the most important things for me when it comes to a note-taking app is to be able to write free form and without the need for too much process - obviously this is not quite possible in markdown or really most digital formats, but also just the fact that I know git is backing my notes store creates a maintenance burden in my mind that I'm not sure I care for. I used to use jupyter notebooks way back when which felt more flexible but even that began to feel too heavy a process.

Do you use git at all in terms of committing notes and looking through history, or are you only ever adding on top and treating a commit like a save in a notepad app? This is a bit peripheral but I've been considering investing in a remarkable tablet, but using it obviously requires me to carry an additional physical device around.