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eatmyshorts commented on Tailscale Kubernetes Operator tailscale.com/kb/1236/kub... · Posted by u/l2dy

nineplay · 2 years ago

What's the alternative? I don't know of any reason to think that tarballs or <os> installers are any better. I suppose I could clone the code and look for security flaws myself but I'm no expert and on something like nginx it's certain to be a waste of my time.

eatmyshorts · 2 years ago

OCI registries.

Harbor + Notary + admission controllers - AKA private image repository with image signing.

Sigstore. Another method for signing & verifying artifacts.

eatmyshorts commented on Lunik: The CIA’s plot to steal a Soviet satellite (2021) technologyreview.com/2021... · Posted by u/marcodiego

somat · 3 years ago

The space shuttle had "steal satellite out of orbit" as a mission profile but I don't think it ever did.

I have suspicion that the airforce interest in the x-47 is to retain the possibility of this mission.

eatmyshorts · 3 years ago

It did, but only as a test. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-49

eatmyshorts commented on Show HN: DevPod – Codespaces but Open Source, Client-Only, and Unopinionated github.com/loft-sh/devpod... · Posted by u/gentele

eatmyshorts · 3 years ago

This sounds kind of like Tilt and DevSpace, but for just general purpose containers. From a quick look through the website, I didn't see these features, but these would be great additions:

- File sync with the local filesystem and the container (2-way)

- Port-forwarding to localhost for debugging (I guess the DevPod way is to run the entire IDE in the container, but I love Tilt/DevSpace for allowing me to work in my local fat IDE)

eatmyshorts commented on A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call twitter.com/TurnerNovak/s... · Posted by u/slyall

eatmyshorts · 3 years ago

This doesn't surprise me much. From what I've seen consulting/contracting, SaaS-based observability tends to cost 30-50% of cloud spend--EC2, storage, S3, RDS, maybe k8s, and other cloud services, or whatever the equivalent is on GCP/Azure. I wouldn't be surprised to see Coinbase with a >$150M quarterly cloud spend, so $65M on observability would make sense.

That said, managing observability yourself should result in <5% of cloud spend. So I'm figuring someone at Coinbase said "WTF" to this bill and migrated to Grafana/Loki or Kibana/OpenSearch or Kibana/Elastic. Well, that, and Coinbase's business also dropped off a cliff. Combined, I could easily see a one-time influx of $65M from one customer, gone the next quarter.

eatmyshorts commented on The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030 weforum.org/agenda/2023/0... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

eatmyshorts · 3 years ago

The beauty of EVs with respect to the grid is they present an opportunity to make our grid much more resilient and reliable, all while enabling renewables much greater percentages of our overall power generation. Renewables (well, specifically solar and wind) are very peak-y, with peaks that can overwhelm a grid and blow out transformers, and troughs that require additional power generation from other sources. This limits the base load power that can be generated from wind/solar to around 40% of total demand. Unless you have a way to store and retrieve power on demand. You’d need enough storage to handle roughly 2 days of power usage needs in order to smooth power usage to cover peaks and troughs. And, lo and behold, the typical EV car has enough power to cover a typical home for about 3 days!

If we incorporate inverters into home building standards today, we can guarantee that our EV fleet can be used to provide storage and auxiliary power for our grid and allow renewables to approach 100% of power generation. But we will need to deploy wind and solar in a distributed fashion so that power generation and storage is local to where the power is consumed. And a grid like this will be much more resilient to power outages and weather.

eatmyshorts commented on SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas apnews.com/article/spacex... · Posted by u/fnordpiglet

eatmyshorts · 3 years ago

Watching the mission, I noticed that engines kept shutting down. There are 33 of them. When they had turned off 7 of them, with 26 engines remaining lit, it started to lose control. The engineers all seemed ecstatic about the mission. I have to wonder if they weren't intentionally shutting off engines to see how many could fail while still retaining control. If that was indeed tested, the answer appears to be 6--they can operate nominally with 27 engines lit.

eatmyshorts commented on Previous: A NeXT Computer Emulator previous.unixdude.net/... · Posted by u/ecliptik

eatmyshorts · 3 years ago

Does it also emulate the wickedly slow I/O times of the CD/RW drive (er, Canon Magento Optical drive, apparently)? I seem to recall waiting really long for anything to read or write to that thing, despite the wonder of having a CD that I could erase, with 660MB of storage.

eatmyshorts commented on System76 AMD-Only Laptop Returns system76.com/laptops/pang... · Posted by u/bananicorn

lwhi · 3 years ago

Same here .. I think we need a comma.

E.g. "System76 AMD-Only Laptop, Returns"

eatmyshorts · 3 years ago

How about "The Return of the System76 AMD Laptop"?

eatmyshorts commented on Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023? · Posted by u/csomar

eatmyshorts · 3 years ago

I have one about ChatGPT. ChatGPT ends up not being useful as a replacement for junior software developers. But ChatGPT does end up taking over middle management. It is more reliable, with better results than humans, at getting software updates from developers and communicating them with coherence to upper managers. Someone will use it to develop an Agile ChatGPT, then another with a Scrum ChatGPT, and then a third, initially a joke, but later accepted as the preferred one, the Waterfall ChatGPT.

eatmyshorts commented on Driving Amazon’s electric delivery vehicle: Rivian EDV [video] youtube.com/watch?v=3TFz1... · Posted by u/bane

FlyingSnake · 3 years ago

Whoever decided to introduce touchscreens inside cars and vehicles should be chastised. Touchscreens inside a vehicle are akin to texting while driving for me.

eatmyshorts · 3 years ago

Yep. I've passed on this generation of fully electric vehicles because none of them offer physical buttons to operate the climate control.

Automatic climate controls don't cut it--change directions such that the sun starts beating down on me and I'm going to need to turn up the fans beyond what automated systems would choose. Test driving the Tesla Model S, on two separate occasions while attempting to set the climate controls I almost got into a wreck--it not only is only on the touchscreen, but also buried under something like 5 menus. WTF? Volvo XC-40 and Mustang also have no climate control buttons. In my area, all the other electric cars have a waiting list longer than a year. I want to buy electric, but safety is paramount--driving a car is far and away the most dangerous thing I do on a daily basis and I'd like it to be as safe as possible. I ended up with a Subaru this time.

Hopefully someone will make an electric car with physical buttons for the climate controls.