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bbu··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
that's just lifting the ban and is pure virtue signaling. none of the electricity producers in switzerland actually want build nuclear power plants, because they are way too expensive.
bbu··on OpenAI acquired AI training monitor Neptune
> Are they shutting down the product

Yes. And you only have until 4th March to migrate away!

bbu··on Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
Quite the opposite: Given how few people actually walk in the US these numbers are even crazier...
bbu··on Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews
I’ve heard this argument before but I don’t get it. It’s trivial to setup your code editor to format on save. Why do people not do that but rather complain about files linter checks on CI?
bbu··on Yoke: Infrastructure as code, but actually
ok, that makes sense. A better Helm would be nice. timoni.sh is getting better and better, but Cue is a big hurdle.

Unfortunately, I'm not a big fan of the yaml-hell that crossplane is either.

But as a Terraform replacement systeminit.com is still the strongest looking contender.

bbu··on Yoke: Infrastructure as code, but actually
Looks promising but it starts with a (justified) rant about terraform and then goes into how to replace Helm.

I am confused. Can yoke be used to create and manage infrastructure or just k8s resources?

bbu··on Do you want to be doing this when you're 50? (2012)
I am in my 40 and joined a startup last year. Best decision ever. I still love what I am doing and I can’t imagine doing something else.
bbu··on Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
Increased productivity has to more, not less toiling in the last 50 or so years. This is not gonna be different with AGI (if it ever happens). Some people will get very rich while the rest is still gonna work just as much as they are now. The jobs just gonna suck even more.
bbu··on System Intiative is generally available
I love seeing innovation in this sector. I’ve long felt that there must be a better way than terraform and pulumi. Excited to try it out.
bbu··on PlanetScale performs layoff and prioritizes profitability
Firing sales and marketing and getting rid of the free tier. How are they planning to find new customers?
bbu··on What Was ISDN?
ISDN is what made my parents’ phone bill explode. 128kb/s with two channels was like a dream come true haha
bbu··on Live Map of Swiss Trains
Nice story but that has never happened. Delays are announced when >=3min are expected.
bbu··on The curse of the goitre in Switzerland
The country: Switzerland The people: Swiss

The word Switzer isn’t in use since a very long time :)

bbu··on A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique)
It’s not integrated well into the UI and thus a big hassle to use. Much easier to just checkout the branch and create a commit (or just write a comment…)
bbu··on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
if AGI is as close as autonomous cars, I think we are going to be ok.
bbu··on Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB
yes, massively over the last ~12 months. https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing-announce
bbu··on The Tyranny of the Marginal User
me too :)
bbu··on Editorial: California should say goodbye to grass that’s only there for looks
Native plants do that just as well, if not better though.
bbu··on Euros Bills Drawn Not to Represent Real Bridges. He Built Them All on This River
ever bought a car in cash?
bbu··on Profits are driving inflation. When will politicians and the BoE admit it?
> If the headline read consumers now willing to pay twice the price it wouldn't have the same clickbait value

that's not how it works though. Inflation affects a lot of goods where you have no choice, you just need it (e.g. food, utilities, housing, transportation).

bbu··on Notes on Vision Pro
I rarely watch tv all by myself. I couldn’t imagine but two, three or four of these devices and then sit on the couch with three other ppl in isolation.
bbu··on Why Self-Checkout Is and Has Always Been the Worst
Here you can scan what you buy with your phone and when you exit the store pay with app. I can pack the things straight in my bike bag and just walk out of the store. So much more convenient than everything else.
bbu··on Ocean Warming Study So Distressing, Some Scientists Didn't Want to Talk About It
Us outsourcing manufacturing to china is driving co2. Can’t blame that one on china.
bbu··on Show HN: We built a ClickHouse-based logging service
How does this compare to Loki?
bbu··on Keycloak with PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
I gotta say the (new) keycloak operator is super basic and doesn't really support changes in image tag. it always assumes a keycloak upgrade and will automatically scale down your keycloak to 1 instance to do an "upgrade". of course this will overload that one node, it will crash, and all your sessions are gone. I'm not sure if anybody is actually using keycloak & kc-operator in production on kubernetes. the state of the documentation and guides make it look like it's an abandoned product.
bbu··on Are spreadsheets a true programming language?
In the first semester we had to write a Turing machine. Our profs solution was in excel
bbu··on Ask HN: Anyone else having IPv6 issues with Cloudflare?
that might be possible. I don't have ipv6 where i am right now, so I can't test it myself. it's also only at certain locations.
bbu··on Ask HN: Anyone else having IPv6 issues with Cloudflare?
same for me :/ since 1:41 CET https://status.ioverlander.com/
bbu··on Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software
not so surprising when read about what a dump google ads has become: https://www.propublica.org/article/google-display-ads-piracy...
bbu··on CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI
this is such a clusterfuck... and the circleci api doesn't even allow to automate most of the steps. and the ones that should work, error with "internal server error". of course, support is completely unresponsive
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