i am so grateful for this man's effort and content. his ability to distill topics into super accessible and actionable nuggets of information is something i've never really experienced before. it's almost too good to be true - i'm a little worried there's some guruism going on that's subtly increasing my opinion of him (granted he's super charismatic, well spoken, and sharp, but still)
Readit Newsmaximente commented on You Are Burned Out and Don’t Even Know It [video] youtube.com/watch?v=jqONI... · Posted by u/meken
maximente commented on BumbleBee: Run and distribute eBPF programs using OCI images github.com/solo-io/bumble... · Posted by u/ithkuil
Not to be confused with:
https://www.bumblebee-project.org/
which also expanded use of the Linux kernel in new ways.
also shouldn't be confused with this old bumblebee project, in which a space makes a large difference in what is rm -rf'd:
https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...
comments on commit are also legendary: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...
their CDN is omicroncdn.net - cannot make this stuff up
maximente commented on Updating the Go Memory Model research.swtch.com/gomm... · Posted by u/g0xA52A2A
Somewhat related, how are other gophers handling dynamic configuration in their go apps? Such as if the app is tied to consul or vault to get some config value. How do you handle the propagation of config changes cleanly, especially if it impacts something "big" like your DB pool? Do you have mutexes everywhere you read from the config pointer you pass around?
I noodled on this a while ago and figured it was easier to just restart the app on config changes than try to change things on the fly =D
viper, which nicely handles env vars, also can watch for config changes: https://github.com/spf13/viper#watching-and-re-reading-confi...
if you're rotating creds or need to open/close the DB, this will typically just add another select case to your main method, where you also block on e.g. signal catching to cleanly shutdown the app
maximente commented on Once on the brink of eradication, syphilis is raging again npr.org/sections/health-s... · Posted by u/georgecmu
Moral argument: functioning societies don't move the burden of the consequences of known risky behavior from those doing such behavior to those who are not. In fact, that's a recepie for a civilizational death spiral.
strange: drunk driving continues to cause grave personal, public health and economic harm to non-participants and has for, what, well over 50 years? yet the US seems to be largely "functioning".
maximente commented on OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana aws.amazon.com/blogs/open... · Posted by u/ke4qqq
It's absolutely price gouging. I'm not going to rant about this for the 100th time, but at least I'm in good company [0]. Do the math on the cost you pay if you saturate 1gbps for a month vs. the cost you pay for 1gbps IP transit at basically any colocation provider.
Really this is the secret sauce of the cloud. Create new abstraction layers where you can charge for logical separation on a physical basis. First VMs, then containers, then serverless... Would be cool if somebody did it with bandwidth (looking at you, Cloudflare). Why can't I buy an elastically sized pipe? Why do I need to pay for the stuff I put through it instead of reserving a size for the time I'll need it?
[0] https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1371252709836263425
boy howdy, with all the flak i hear about this and the awesome talent in tech, you'd figure an entrepreneur or 1000 would take a stab at this, make it better, charge less. apparently there's gazillions to be made by even charging 50 percent of what AWS does.
so, when should we expect this gloriously efficient competitive market to kick in to action?
my guess is that the AWS ecosystem, despite "price gouging", is simply the best and will be because this is really hard, non-glorious engineering, where solid reliability actually matters. anyone who wants to can go ahead and co-lo, so, whatever. people who want cloud will pay, and those who can't or won't, will not.
maximente commented on Herd Immunity Is Near, Despite Fauci’s Denial wsj.com/articles/herd-imm... · Posted by u/mrfusion
Masks don’t help for privacy, and already privacy advocates are becoming aware of this. The extensive networks of surveillance cameras in e.g. Russia and China are now able to identify people wearing masks – this was recently used in Moscow to go to the homes of masked demonstrators a couple of days after the protests and arrest them there, for example.
Modern surveillance software can draw on things like gait analysis, the person’s mobile phone’s IMEI, and tracing people’s movements around the city in order to identify people even if they are masked.
> Masks don’t help for privacy
alrighty then. glad that's cleared up.
seriously, what's up with this binary thinking where there's just no room for nuance whatsoever? "no, patching systems isn't effective, because unknown 0 days exist, so it doesn't help."
how about - bear with me - wearing a mask is merely /one/ component of not being mass surveilled, and is part of several layers, each one of which is clearly helpful although each one independently may not solve the problem entirely?
maximente commented on Herd Immunity Is Near, Despite Fauci’s Denial wsj.com/articles/herd-imm... · Posted by u/mrfusion
"Nobody wants anyone to wear 2 masks forever."
Don't say this. Among the scientific advisors to governments, there have been a few (thankfully a fringe who don’t have any real influence) who in media interviews have advocated mask wearing and even social distancing in perpetuity, even after COVID is long gone. This is because they want to get rid of influenza, too, or they want public-health practices in place that could stop the next pandemic from ever starting at all.
there are also eg privacy advocates who may now be able to wear masks without too much hassle for the foreseeable future to defeat mass surveillance.
for example, pre pandemic, police in Berlin would absolutely stop and harass anyone wearing a mask in a U station/train; that'd be extremely awkward going forward, at least for a little bit.