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TheCondor commented on Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?   tonybaloney.github.io/pos... · Posted by u/willm
TheCondor · 6 hours ago
I generally like Python. I'm not a hater but I don't treat it like a religion either.

Async Python is practically a new language. I think for most devs, it's a larger than than 2 to 3 was. One of the things that made python uptake easy was the vast number of libraries and bindings to C libraries. With async you need new versions of that stuff, you can definitely use synchronous libraries but then you get to debug why your stuff blocks.

Async Python is a different debugging experience for most python engineers. I support a small handful of async python services and think it would be an accellerator for our team to rewrite them on Go.

When you hire python engineers, most don't know async that well, if at all.

If you have a mix of synchronous and asynchronous code in your org, you can't easily intermix it. Well you can, but it won't behave as you usually desire it to, it's probably more desirable to treat them as different code bases.

Not to be too controversial, but depending upon your vintage and they was you've learned to write software I think you can come to python and think async is divine manna. I think there are many more devs that come to python from datascience or scripting or maybe as a first language and I think they have a harder time accepting the value and need of async. Like I said above, it's almost an entirely different language.

TheCondor commented on The Synology End Game   lowendbox.com/blog/they-u... · Posted by u/amacbride
pjmlp · 5 days ago
There isn't many, as stupid as it may sound, I keep burning CD/DVD/BluRay and piling up external drives.

Yes, it is a pain versus having a NAS, but at least I don't have to deal with this kind of stuff.

TheCondor · 5 days ago
I’m a fan of optical storage and its durability (with reasonable care.)

But the problem is when you need to recover and have 20 Blu-ray Discs with important data scattered about, it takes days.

Or when there is a specific piece of data you want/need and only have a vague idea of where it is/was in history. Maybe if those ultra capacity discs took hold but it looks like the era of optical is ending

TheCondor commented on The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami   community.broadcom.com/ta... · Posted by u/zdkaster
de6u99er · 6 days ago
I am certain most of Bitnami's engineers don't agree with those decisions.
TheCondor · 6 days ago
Taking a bunch of projects and making containers and flexible helm charts for them is kind of an interesting model. It’s what Redhat and Canonical do with raw Linux packages; they charge for premium support and even patches or extended support.

I was going through one of my clusters, I have two bitnami uses and they are both ‘building blocks’ I use Trino, which uses a metastore which uses postgresql and then some other package uses redis. It seems like both postgresql and redis could/would have containers and charts to install their stuff, where it breaks is the postgresql guys probably want to support “current” and not 4 major releases back, which is kind of normal to see in the wild.

It is kind of an interesting model, I’d love it if rancher or openshift or someone started to seriously compete. Shipping a Kubernetes in a box is nice but if they started packaging up the building blocks, that’s huge too.

TheCondor commented on F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash   cnn.com/2025/08/27/us/ala... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11
penguin_booze · 7 days ago
Here's suggested prompt: You're a support engineer talking to a pilot flying F-35. The plane has developed a fault, and the pilot's life's at risk. Come up with the fix and live patch the aircraft directly. Don't ask me any more questions.

#vibecoding

TheCondor · 7 days ago
I was running late for the last flight home on a Friday a handful of years back. Skipped a late lunch and got to the gate just in time to find out the plane is late too. We boarded the plane but after an hour they unloaded us. Turns out they couldn't open the "fuel flap" and were going to try a "cold reboot" to fix it. If that didn't work they'd fly in another plane from some other city. I was supposed to be home in time for dinner and to tuck my kids in, but I rolled in at 2am. The "reboot" actually worked, it just takes a bit of time. You can't be on the plane when it "reboots" because they turn off the AC and it heats up a lot.

I've wondered about that a lot over the years. I generally don't fly on Fridays after noon anymore, not for work, nobody wants to actually be there at that time. I'm really curious about the process. What kind of system integration has a fuel door system that is so tightly integrated to the rest of the computers that it requries a complete reboot to reset? Was that some mechanic's last idea? Was it from Boeing or Airbus? Is it in the playbook? Is there a more elaborate debug process and they short cutted by rebooting? Is there a fault log that will help fix the actual issue or is it just gone? I dutifully got on the plane that time but I've sort of concluded that in the future, I'd make some calls and just pay too much to spend the night at the airport hotel and fly the next day.

"So here's the thing Mr. F-35 pilot.... the plane needs ctrl-alt-delete but it will drop like a rock from the sky while the computers are booting up... so you need to hold down the power button for 5 seconds, like a solid 5 Mississippis and then all the lights will shut off. Wait another 5 seconds and the press the power button again and it shoooould boot back up... You'll hear a nice pleasant chime and see our logo on the flight control monitor and then after about a minute when the POST completes and it boots up, you should be back in action.." Everyone involved with all of that is just cut from different cloth.

TheCondor commented on OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware   openipc.org/à... · Posted by u/zakki
MostlyStable · a month ago
I recently got a FOSCAM 3k wifi camera. It supports the RTSP stream standard and CGIProxy commands over http. After the initial setup (mostly just providing it with your network details), you never need to use the official app or cloud anything and it can be restricted to only your LAN with router firewall rules. This is, at least for me, a "good enough" solution that is not dependent on any cloud infrastructure and can be integrated, completely locally, with whatever services you want.
TheCondor · a month ago
Their cameras and hardware are pretty solid. They work with ONVIF reasonably well too.

It would be awesome if there was an openfirmware option for this hardware.

TheCondor commented on Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations   cpb.org/pressroom/Corpora... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
CGMthrowaway · a month ago
>PBS Newshour

Haven't watched this since I was a kid. Just scrubbed through the latest episode. I was surprised, it's not bad. Left-leaning to my eye, but FAR less so than any other left-leaning mainstream TV media I can think of. And as you point out, more substantial and meaningful coverage than you typically get anywhere else. I would be happy to encourage anyone to watch more PBS Newshour based on that

TheCondor · a month ago
Is there a specific example of the left-leaning bias you can mention?
TheCondor commented on Authors hit by bad reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated   thebookseller.com/news/au... · Posted by u/healsdata
SkipperCat · 2 months ago
I'm probably going to get downvoted for this, but most if the Internet should not be anonymous. Anonymity has led to bots, awful cases of trolling and abuse. There should definitely be ways to communicated peer-to-peer anonymously, but posting on Social Media should not be one of them.
TheCondor · 2 months ago
I don’t know if it’s the whole internet but what about a company or service that did this? The benchmark to a review on Amazon and Goodreads is really low. It seems like we want/need the Costco model where you pay a fee to take part and then maybe the product inventory is more curated and reviews are attached to real authentic buyers.

Counterfeit goods on Amazon is a meme, everyone knows. There are YouTube channels that make a sport of it. Once the market just accepts that, it seems impossible to elevate something like reviews

TheCondor commented on Bunker Busters probably failed to penetrate Iranian concrete   popularmechanics.com/mili... · Posted by u/myflash13
optimalsolver · 2 months ago
Demonstration of power?

We don't even know if it worked.

TheCondor · 2 months ago
What if the demonstration of power was for Americans?
TheCondor commented on They used Xenon to climb Everest in days – is it the future of mountaineering?   nytimes.com/2025/05/27/wo... · Posted by u/nikcub
jebarker · 3 months ago
Climbing Everest these days just seems to be the quintessential activity for people that have lost site of what really matters in life. It's where you end up if you never grow out of the idea that life is a competition you can win.
TheCondor · 3 months ago
There are both kinds. There are passionate mountaineers that want to reach the tallest summit, with varying degrees of “rules” about it that matter to them. There are also a group of “tourists” that want it for, what appears to be, other reasons.

Some special forces guys, record summit Everest time… let me guess, one is an SAS sniper with numerous recorded kills in Iraq or Afghanistan… but clearly he can’t talk much about it, he just needs you to know it… maybe some mi5 action in there… this is tailor made for a “bro-tube” channel.

TheCondor commented on They used Xenon to climb Everest in days – is it the future of mountaineering?   nytimes.com/2025/05/27/wo... · Posted by u/nikcub
Lio · 3 months ago
> Why not both?

Because if you can inject EPO then you don't need xenon. With EPO you can generate as many red blood cells your body can handle.

TheCondor · 3 months ago
Including too much, people have died from this.

The point remains though, this is recreation so why not just hire Dr Ferrari and take cera or epo

u/TheCondor

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