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Comment · 1 year ago
It's crazy reading these comments here. We are really living in some dystopian future to some degree. Let's unite and fight. Act local, do what you can and don't lose hope. The Internet is broken. Not sure if it's just brainwashed people commenting here or bots or some societies just embrace destroying everything for profit and capitalism.
Comment · 1 year ago
1. You can't bend physics and the known solutions don't work out in scale. It's magical thinking to continue doing what we are doing.

2. We can already fix this but for this we need to radically change the power structures that are in place and figure out a way to peacefully solve the problem. Reducing emissions should be the biggest priority everywhere.

Comment · 1 year ago
We know what to do. We don't need to wait for some magic AI that's basically learned from books written by humans to tell us what to do. It's all about power structures, capitalism and money.

Everyone in the oil business knew in the 80ies.

We could probably even figure out how to keep our standard of living but consumerism needs to stop but then capitalism breaks down.

Comment · 1 year ago
1. No we can't - at least not enough that it matters and it's energy intensive. There is no technical solution here but the powers that be want you to believe that to continue generating profits.

2. That's not how it works. It's more like a greenhouse and climate gases absorb more energy. Also look up after how many meters a steel cable ruptures under it's own weight. It's not exactly easy. Thermonuclear war might help.

Comment · 1 year ago
Simple is not easy.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks. Wonderful take and optimistic. You are correct I think.
Comment · 1 year ago
You can use it with tanka or kubecfg, argo and flux also have native support. You can also just render yaml and use kubectl apply
Comment · 1 year ago
Ah I see. I disagree because it's impossible. Even the next village or town has a different language even if it's subtle. I'm more for embracing the differences.

On the other hand we are probably almost there - it's English and social media is the global teacher.

Comment · 1 year ago
This (ragebaity/ai?) post kind of mixes things up. Kubernetes is fine I think but almost everything around it and the whole consulting business is the problem. You can build a single binary, use a single layer oci container and run it with a single config map with memory quota on 30 machines just fine.

Take a look at the early borg papers what problem does it solves. Helm is just insane but you can use jsonnet that is modelled after Google's internal system.

Only use the minimal subset and have an application that is actually build to work fine in that subset.

Comment · 1 year ago
I think you misunderstood my post. It's wonderful technology and a great aid. I just wanted to say there is so much more to learning a foreign language (and culture) than machine translation - even if almost perfect. At least that was my take away from learning Czech as a German. Lot's of subtle details.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's not personal but I can't help myself to think that's such a sad post here. Reducing learning a different culture through language by plugging in an earbud. Is the battery is gone or your phone is stolen you realize you can't automate anything and that you've learned nothing. It's not about the tech if it works it's amazing it's like babelfish but it's so shallow to assume everything has some direct and simple "value" that can be replaced by some machine or even better some paid service. It's so common here. Is this an US thing?
Comment · 1 year ago
I concur. Doing this for almost all my technical equipment and mobile phones and never had a problem. For important/expensive things you can buy on refurbished stores that offer a 1-year warranty in EU.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's not only public facing websites - Azure is also pretty inconsistent and lately any offer to preview a new UI was a downgrade and I happily reverted back - it's like they have a mandatory font and whitespace randomizer for any product. Also while far from a power user I've hit glitches that caused support tickets and are avoidable with clearer UX. Copilot in Azure - if it works at all - has been pretty useless.

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