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"To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim." -- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

To overcome the limitations on cluster size in Kubernetes, folks may want to look at the Armada Project ( https://armadaproject.io/ ). Armada is a multi-Kubernetes cluster batch job scheduler, and is designed to address the following issues:

A single Kubernetes cluster can not be scaled indefinitely, and managing very large Kubernetes clusters is challenging. Hence, Armada is a multi-cluster scheduler built on top of several Kubernetes clusters.

Achieving very high throughput using the in-cluster storage backend, etcd, is challenging. Hence, queueing and scheduling is performed partly out-of-cluster using a specialized storage layer.

Armada is designed primarily for ML, AI, and data analytics workloads, and to:

- Manage compute clusters composed of tens of thousands of nodes in total. - Schedule a thousand or more pods per second, on average. - Enqueue tens of thousands of jobs over a few seconds. - Divide resources fairly between users. - Provide visibility for users and admins. - Ensure near-constant uptime.

Armada is written in Go, using Apache Pulsar for eventing, Postgresql, and Redis. A web-based front-end (named "Lookout") provides easy end-user access to see the state of enqueued/running/failed jobs. A Kubernetes Operator to provide quick installation and deployment of Armada is in development.

Source code is available at https://github.com/armadaproject/armada - we welcome contributors and user reports!

Obesity has become a pervasive problem in the U.S (and parts of the rest of the world). The average waistline of American adult males is now 40.5 inches![https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/body-measurements.htm] That is jaw-dropping to me. I live in a U.S. state that is well-known for being one of the thinnest states in the country, and people don't seem particularly thin to me here - but when I visit other parts of the country, the obesity is pervasive and extreme. (No need to name states - there are numerous maps of obesity rates online.)

There are strong indicators of several causes for this, but America really needs to get serious about health and overall wellness of the population.

This could be consequential for a number of diseases. I suffer from Rheumatoid Arthritis, and have tried innumerable solutions (diets, supplements, etc) to reduce the fundamental inflammation that is the core of R.A. - if this discovery is applicable to multiple types of inflammation, it may be a huge help to R.A. sufferers as well.

I believe London referred to as the "The Big Smoke" in Victorian times, due to the pollution from coal fires - people could see the near-permanent dark cloud over the city from several dozens of miles away.

I strongly second these suggestions - the Gibson book is absolutely excellent, and finding a good therapist is worth the search. Doing the work is time-consuming (and can be costly) but the returns are totally worth it.

This is an uncharitably suspicious inferring of the other person's motives. Is it required that the "older person" self-identify their technical limitations every time, before you will read their verbalization of the situation as a basic statement of frustration and/or admission of technical defeat?

For many people, the notion of debugging a MySQL installation on Windows so that it works seems about as plausible as summitting K2 - they don't expect others nearby can simply do it, either. (Also, the suggestion of inter-generational manipulation is not attractive.)

Note that New York City (50% larger population than Colorado, and can be reasonably considered to be much more economically & politically influential) just passed a similar law mandating salary ranges to be posted, to take effect in April 2022:

https://www.inc.com/melissa-angell/new-nyc-law-will-require-...

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/new-york-city-council-p...

Dan Gillmor did a lot of very astute writing (not necessarily just reporting, but also commentary) about many aspects of the scene in SV when he wrote for the San Jose Mercury-News. He didn't seem to care much for gossip or writing purely about personalities, and was more interested in cultural and legal effects of new technologies. I believe he's now occasionally writing for the Guardian, as well as teaching journalism at the university level.

"The Assertiveness Workbook: How to Express Your Ideas and Stand Up for Yourself at Work and in Relationships" by Randy Paterson is the best I've read, although "Crucial Conversations" is very good as well. He discusses the three types of barriers (Stress, Social, and Belief) to assertiveness, and offers specific exercises to work through them. He's also very realistic - for example, he mentions that some relationships will become temporarily more difficult once you start asserting yourself more, but you shouldn't be deterred.