This article is from mid-October.
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topher200 commented on AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong lastweekinaws.com/blog/aw... · Posted by u/keithly
I have a preempt-able workload for which I could use Spot instances or Savings Plans.
Does anyone have experience running Spot in 2025? If you were to start over, would you keep using Spot?
- I observe with pricing that Spot is cheaper
- I am running on three different architectures, which should limit Spot unavailability
- I've been running about 50 Spot EC2 instances for a month without issue. I'm debating turning it on for many more instancestopher200 commented on What HashiCorp’s license change means for our customers spacelift.io/blog/hashico... · Posted by u/cube2222
While I’m sure you are earnest, you should probably stop right now. Forking a repo is not sufficient. You need to remove trademark infringement and anything which does not fall under the MPLv2 license - much like the (former) CentOS process for rebuilding RHEL.
Should you ever distribute binaries, you also need to do a better job than HashiCorp of obeying the license terms of your dependencies around attribution.
Finally, as someone who has actually done the job of core maintenance of Terraform, I suspect you are also vastly underestimating the amount of work involved. I just set a reminder to look at this fork in 3 months, I’d put money on it being dead.
It didn't last 3 days -- the repo now 404s
topher200 commented on Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily · Posted by u/diminikolaou
Different but related idea, this creates a personal podcast feed: https://reca.st
Also https://audioread.com/. I love that you can forward emails to audioread and they'll be transcribed into podcasts. Thank you AI-voiced Matt Levine!
So often we hear after someone dies how great they really where when infact they were like most people, a mixed bag. We all have ups and downs etc.
There are some though that really do live up to the postmortem messages and for sure Bram is one of them, i was lucky to meet him and actually spend some time shooting shit with him. At the time i didn't realize how big a deal he was, it was only later i would actually get to know and appreciate VIM, but from all of that it made me appreciate him a lot more. So when I read these kind of posts i can't help feel sad of course but I do get shivers of how damn ossum he really was. The testimonials to him hit so hard knowing they're 100% genuine. We need more like him, he will be really missed.
I occasionally ponder on how frustrating it is that the deceased don't get to hear their eulogies. It would have been amazing for Bram to have been able to experience all the outpouring of support and love from people he is interacted with during his life. Especially in a context where the speakers aren't considering him as an audience -- they're sharing their deep and true feelings.
No one can really be sure how their acquaintances feel about them. Eulogies are the closest we get. Imagine if he were able to hear all these great things said about him... It would be such a joy.
topher200 commented on Lazygit: Simple terminal UI for Git commands github.com/jesseduffield/... · Posted by u/thunderbong
How does this stack up against tig?
tig is great for a read only operations. Looking at the tree, peeking at diffs, finding specific commits. It's quicker to get in and out of. I reach for it instead of `git log`.
lazygit makes it super easy to make modifications. Reorder commits, revert specific hunks from commits. I find it easier to use if I need to look at a really big diff. I reach for it instead of `git rebase -i`, and it can do things no native tool can do easily (such as revert or extract specific hunks from commit earlier in the tree.
I use both multiple times per day. tig if I just want to look at stuff (fewer keystrokes to look at diffs in the tui!) and lazygit if I want to modify stuff (more powerful!).
topher200 commented on Google urges Android phone users to switch off Wi-Fi calling scrippsnews.com/stories/h... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
If you click through to the Project Zero blogspot it says the Mar 2023 security update fixes the issue for the Pixel devices.
My Pixel 7 didn't show an update was available (last checked 30 minutes ago) but when I manually checked it found it and downloaded it.
topher200 commented on Black Hole Star – Kurzgesagt youtube.com/watch?v=aeWyp... · Posted by u/stared
Perhaps watch the video before commenting on it. It goes over how Gates has financed the Kurzgesagt channel to produce favorable videos for his initiatives with the only sources being other groups owned/funded by Gates.
It's incredibly deceptive at best, and destroys all his credibility.
I've watched those videos, and they're always super upfront with "this video was sponsored by the Gates foundation." I don't see a problem here.
topher200 commented on Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 14 infoq.com/news/2022/07/am... · Posted by u/schranz
What about RDS Proxy? I believe it's still only supports 13 which means if you use both the Proxy and Aurora you will have to wait? RDS Proxy does still mention only support for v13[1].
[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...
RDS Proxy is very specific with which versions it supports. If it says it doesn't support it, it doesn't support it.
Postgres 14 is supposed to have built-in connection pooling. If you're on it, do you still feel the need for RDS Proxy? We're using pgbouncer and can't decide if we should switch to RDS Proxy or upgrade to Postgres 14 and drop the external connection pooler.
topher200 commented on Ship it: our $20M bet on developer productivity graphite.dev/blog/post/Ej... · Posted by u/tomasreimers
Congrats team!