paulryanrogers (u/paulryanrogers)

paulryanrogers commented on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions resources.github.com/acti... · Posted by u/kevin-david

I haven't used Actions in a professional context so am just wondering (and this might help coming up with arguments should $c-suite start requiring a move): is a "runner" equivalent to an executor slot in Jenkins? As an example, we currently have some builders with 20 executor slots and they might all be orchestrating test runs in parallel (these do not consume much CPU as all they are doing is instructing _other_ VMs, created on the fly, to do the actual work). Would that count as 20 runners in Github Actions, hence costing $0.002/minute times 20?

paulryanrogers · 8 hours ago

Each GHA runner gets its own VM. So every minute those are running you're billed. The runners do work independently which can save wall time.

paulryanrogers commented on Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial bbc.com/news/articles/cp8... · Posted by u/onemoresoop

dh2022 · 2 days ago

Is quite an assumption to make left wing movements and organizations in the West the defender of democracy. And another assumption to make the right movements the enemy of democracy. Also, take it from me who lived 15 years in communist Romania - the socialist states were very weak relative to the West.

Concentration of wealth and power was (and is) the highest in communist dictatorships - literally a handful (i.e. less than 5) people control pretty much everything in Cuba. North Korea is ruled with an iron fist by 1 guy - that is some concentration of power, right? In Communist Romania / East Germany power was concentrated in 2 people (a couple). In USSR power was concentrated in the 7 members of PolitBuro. In China power used to be concentrated in the hands of Mao Zhedong, now it seems it is concentrated in the hands of Xi Ping (but I could be wrong about Xi Ping. Maybe he shares some power with other people). I could go on forever, baby!!!

Capitalism has its problems but capitalism is quite fine all kinds of political systems - see German capitalism before, during, and following Hitler's rule.

paulryanrogers · a day ago

Unregulated Capitalism is just as bad as autocratic "socialism". It just has more steps.

Concentrations of power seem bad, regardless of the mechanisms that do the concentrating.

paulryanrogers commented on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? english.elpais.com/techno... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

unglaublich · 2 days ago

Just distribute the fruits of the automated labor.

The robots and automations are like the trees and bushes from our gatherer's past.

People would just take what they needed. No one would say: you are not allowed to take a berry from this bush because it's mine!!!

paulryanrogers · 2 days ago

This would require some pretty huge cultural changes. People's modern sense of fairness, duty, and competition feed into stratification and instinctual tribalism.

paulryanrogers commented on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? english.elpais.com/techno... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

hexasquid · 2 days ago

When I was young I imagined a future where nobody had to work because computers and robots could do it all.

paulryanrogers · 2 days ago

I imagine this future could come true, if we're willing to accept that there would be many fewer people.

paulryanrogers commented on Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/rbanffy

romaaeterna · 3 days ago

The people most susceptible to consensus mirage are, by the very nature of the beast, the ones least aware of it happening to themselves. Any opinion that you find yourself praised for by any of the groups in your social circle is infinitely suspect.

paulryanrogers · 2 days ago

> Any opinion that you find yourself praised for by any of the groups in your social circle is infinitely suspect.

It is insidious how easily we divide ourselves into rival tribes. For too many it's not enough to feel belonging within a group, they/we crave others to look down upon or fight. IMO we are our best when we can debate ideas dispassionately, without defining ourselves by them.

paulryanrogers commented on Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1 libroot.org/posts/going-t... · Posted by u/libroot

koakuma-chan · 6 days ago

Why isn't Russia torturing him to get all the secrets out of him?

paulryanrogers · 6 days ago

There already did? And or little to get since he didn't memorize secrets and most--if not all--his digital copies were given to the press?

paulryanrogers commented on AI chatbots can sway voters with remarkable ease nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/marojejian

techblueberry · 6 days ago

I've been going down a bit of a rabbit hole on "what conservatives believe" and weirdly, and this is from both Roger Scruton, and the book "The conservative mind". is it's a bit like porn, you can't define it, but you know it when you see it. I mean this is sort of a tangible points conservatives make about believing in "common sense" that there's basically a higher truth that we all know exists that should guide us.

Roger Scruton in I think this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eD9RDTl6tM. Says that basically conservatism in the 80's in the UK was whatever Margaret Thatcher believed. This really I think helped me understand why the conservative transition from Reagan/Bush to Trump went more smoothly than I thought it would among trad conservatives.

paulryanrogers · 6 days ago

Growing up indoctrinated into conversative evangelism, I saw that the Midwestern flavor valued freedom of individuals from government. It was a shallow flavor of self sufficiency, which discounted all social support except family and churches. Abortion was a wedge issue preached from every platform.

Tribalism was a key substrate. This often manifested as a near blind loyalty to the party and chosen thought leaders like Bill Graham, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and now Tucker Carlson. They told us how to interpret events and we repeated the talking points. They gave us the (often contradictory) rules and principles we were to use to view everything in life.

paulryanrogers commented on Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know kroah.com/log/blog/2025/1... · Posted by u/voxadam

dredmorbius · 7 days ago

2nd 'graph of TFA links five talks on the topic all within the past two years.

paulryanrogers · 7 days ago

Perhaps I misunderstand, but aren't those far above the "So here’s a series of posts" and its bullet list?

paulryanrogers commented on Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know kroah.com/log/blog/2025/1... · Posted by u/voxadam

paulryanrogers · 7 days ago

Looking forward to posts links in the series. This seems like a bit of a tease.

paulryanrogers commented on Bag of words, have mercy on us experimental-history.com/... · Posted by u/ntnbr

drivebyhooting · 9 days ago

That old saw is patently false.

paulryanrogers · 9 days ago

Why?

It suggests to me, having encountered it for the first time, that programs must be readable to remain useful. Otherwise they'll be increasingly difficult to execute.