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gnufied commented on An investigation into egg prices thebignewsletter.com/p/ha... · Posted by u/Armic

gerdesj · 9 months ago

"The big suppliers can ratchet up prices with zero consequences. What are you gonna do about it?"

If I was that bothered about eggs, I'd simply grow my own. Americans on average have way more space to mess around in than say most Europeans - the place is fucking huge. Chickens are very easy to "grow your own".

I'm not an American and clearly you have managed to get your collective knickers in a twist over a non issue, which almost certainly means that there is a bigger picture and a rather more important issue that really needs fixing.

Please stop fiddling whilst Rome burns.

gnufied · 9 months ago

A lot of Americans live in houses and neighborhoods where keeping chickens is simply not allowed.

Source: just got done cutting some pine trees on a hill behind my house because we got a notice. They will absolutely throw a fit, if we kept chickens

gnufied commented on New Zealand welcomes digital nomads by loosening visitor visa rules abc.net.au/news/2025-01-2... · Posted by u/curiousObject

Taniwha · a year ago

This is a piece of political posturing by the current government. People have been coming here and working on holiday for years, even though people are supposed to get a work permit if you come as a tourist and work remotely there's no practical to enforce it and no government has tried in the past. Making this change will have no practical effect on the economy.

gnufied · a year ago

It would affect people who were not allowed to work because their company was not sure if they are allowed to work in New Zealand. At individuals level sure, this is going to have little to no effect.

But - lot of people need their employers permission to work in a different country and Employers have specific policies about where an Employee is allowed to work depending on Employee's status in that country.

gnufied commented on Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history lichess.org/@/Lichess/blo... · Posted by u/alexmolas

stormfather · a year ago

Excuse? You must not follow chess too closely. He is the undisputed GOAT. He is clearly bored - he plays atrocious opening moves these days just to get an interesting game. He's so good he transcended the need to keep proving it. Excuse. Lmao. Gukesh is the WC only because he is not good enough to present an interesting challenge.

gnufied · a year ago

Magnus may be better player than Gukesh, but the reason he is not defending WC title is not because Gukesh or any opponent is not good enough, but because it takes too much freaking preparation to defend WC title and he doesn't think it is worth the effort.

A completely unprepared Magnus vs a 100% prepared opponent will go to a better prepared opponent (See Magnus interviews if you don't believe this). 4-6 months spending memorizing lines is not easy. It is too much work. Magnus has already proven he is GOAT, he doesn't have to prove anything.

But - this doesn't take away achievement from other players, if Magnus doesn't want to be bothered doing all the prep.I wonder if we will say the same thing in any other sport.

Ma Long for example - did not participated in Paris Olympic singles, does that mean Fan Zedong or Truls moregard achievement was any less? Nobody would say that.

gnufied commented on Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare kevinchen.co/blog/autonom... · Posted by u/kevinchen

kortilla · 2 years ago

I have a desk calculator with a worse error rate than that because of a button that sticks. I still use it

gnufied · 2 years ago

I was thinking about this and one way of thinking is what u said. We already allow sale of spaceships which have non-zero failure rate. So we don't necessarily need zero failure rate self driving.

But a problem with cars is, usually ur malfunctioning calculator just harms u, but a malfunctioning car will affect people who don't agree with ur choice of driving non-zero failure rate self driving car.

So it is not a personal choice anymore.

gnufied commented on Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US businessinsider.com/elect... · Posted by u/NN88

mvdtnz · 2 years ago

The edge cases are the important cases though. Those parties I throw are the highlight of my year. My parents staying here with me is important to me, I wouldn't have it any other way. Yeah I have a desk job but that landscaping work I do in my weekend is one of my favourite hobbies.

I refuse to live my life as if these things aren't important to me. I refuse to average my entire life style down to my median day. My median day is boring.

gnufied · 2 years ago

>hose parties I throw are the highlight of my year. My parents staying here with me is important to me, I wouldn't have it any other way.

There is a silver lining in smaller houses. They tend to be in denser neighborhoods and hence has some benefits in raising kids. There is no need to setup play dates, they can literally hear each other screaming and come out to play.

In my bigger house neighborhood, I see very few kids just playing casually outside and hence we have to setup play dates. Yes now I have place for table tennis table that I always wanted but I have to call my friends over because bigger house in my case also is bit more further in suburbs.

So big house might be great for parties and hosting guests but i probably traded away closeness to my existing friends for myself and kids both. I just made my median day more boring than before.

gnufied commented on Self-hosting a high-availability Postgres cluster on Kubernetes ryan-schachte.com/blog/ha... · Posted by u/siamese_puff

mikepurvis · 2 years ago

"K8s is not really for stateful systems"

As a relative novice in the space, I'm grateful to hear someone say this out loud. K8s seems perfect to me for quickly scaling transient stuff like pipeline workers, web servers, but I've always been pretty leery of giving up the trivial snapshotting and rollbacks and other creature comforts of old-school virtualization when it comes to deploying long running applications, databases, and so on. And I've always felt kind of kind of guilty for not being on board to just mindlessly k8s-all-the-things.

gnufied · 2 years ago

>but I've always been pretty leery of giving up the trivial snapshotting and rollbacks and other creature comforts of old-school virtualization when it comes to deploying long running applications,

You can do that too with k8s with APIs which support more than just one backend.

gnufied commented on Self-hosting a high-availability Postgres cluster on Kubernetes ryan-schachte.com/blog/ha... · Posted by u/siamese_puff

levkk · 2 years ago

In the case of running Postgres on K8s, the problem arises immediately when you try to resize a data volume and you can't because the API doesn't support it. K8s is not really for stateful systems, yet, and systems like Postgres that prefer to manage their own resources, you don't want another layer which doesn't cooperate to get in your way.

gnufied · 2 years ago

I am the author of k8s resizing feature and its been GAed for awhile and feedback we have got so far has been good. If anything running inside k8s makes it relatively easy to support resizing. You just need to specify new size for PVC and it will both perform resizing on the cloudprovider and of the file system (if needed).

Modifying IOPS and other volume attributes is something less frequently needed but we just released alpha support for that too, if you must need it.

We have also added support for reporting volume usage in CSI specs, which I know some operators use to automatically resize volumes when certain threshold is reached (I however do not recommend using ephemeral metrics for automating something like this). But point is - you can actually define CRDs that persist volume usage and have it used by an higher level operator.

Another thing is - k8s makes it relatively easy to take snapshots which can be automated too and that should give someone additional peace of mind if something goes haywire.

Obviously I am biased and I know there are some lingering issues that require manual intervention when using stateful workloads (such as when a node crashes), but k8s should be just as good for running stateful workloads IMO.

Another thing is - k8s volumes are nothing but bind mounts from host namespace into container's namespace and hence there should be no performance penalty of using them.

gnufied commented on Intel's CEO says Moore's Law is slowing to a three-year cadence but not dead yet tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/dangle1

Buttons840 · 2 years ago

What's wrong with the Turing test? Has any AI passed it?

Note, the Turing test is not giving people 5 minutes to exchange, what, maybe 2 or 3 messages with an AI and then guess.

The Turing test is putting 2 people in a chat, and the 3rd participant is an AI. Give all three an hour or more to chat and offer a reward if they guess correctly to ensure incentives are aligned.

I ask again. Has any AI passed the Turing test?

gnufied · 2 years ago

I dont know but numerous articles point out that gpt4 has passed turing test. Are you refuting their claim entirely?

gnufied commented on Why libvirt supports only 14 PCIe hotplugged devices on x86-64 dottedmag.net/blog/libvir... · Posted by u/andreyvit

josephcsible · 2 years ago

> It already supports a number of obscure options (you can make QEMU claim to support a CPU feature regardless of whether the host CPU supports it, really?), so adding one more woild fit in just fine.

> Nope. “there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release”.

<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1408810>

I could see that being the response of an individual open-source developer working for free. But that was IBM saying that, and people pay big bucks to IBM to fix things like this.

gnufied · 2 years ago

> . I guess SeaBIOS can't figure out how to assign I/O space to all devices that want some, and so it simply gives up?

It appears that although for some devices VM works fine but for others the VM refuses to boot (esp e100)

So the answer might be more nuanced than it seems?

gnufied commented on Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI thedeepdive.ca/shopify-em... · Posted by u/notRobot

ghaff · 2 years ago

Grocery stores and others absolutely still need cashier checkout. If I have a handful of items I can barcode swipe and even a couple pieces of produce that's fine. But they simply aren't designed for a full shopping cart which includes a ton of non-barcoded items.

Ditto with home repair stores. Scan a new smoke detector? Sure. Check out a bunch of lumber etc. That would be no.

In my experience, most stores are finding a reasonable balance. And one of my cheaper grocery stores doesn't use self-checkout at all for now. Which is just fine.

gnufied · 2 years ago

I would say it is getting harder. Walmart for example I think has switched to largely self-checkout with some helpers thrown in.

Other stores where had more than 3 or 4 human manned lanes, now have just 1 most of the time.