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comradesmith··on CloudNativePG – Postgres Operator for Kubernetes
Always kubernetes, but I’ve heard some engineers with accents say it in a way that sounds like “kubernets”
comradesmith··on Cache headers could probably be more aggressive
That means that after a deployment all my users will find themselves refetching everything on the next page load regardless of if it has changed.
comradesmith··on Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password
There is still time for it too
comradesmith··on OpenTF repository is now public
OpenForme maybe?
comradesmith··on Musicogenic seizure
I’m sure I remember reading a short story about a kind of mind virus.
comradesmith··on Schumer launches ‘all hands on deck’ push to regulate AI
It doesn’t matter if I agree or disagree, if I think ai is a net positive or a negative.

It’s too late.

comradesmith··on Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
I don’t think backups were used, likely all comments are just soft deleted and versioned.

So I think they just toggled off soft deleted comments, and reverted to older comment versions. That might show up as comments missing their added “edit:”s.

Another commenter here said they think this was an accident, I’m inclined to agree

comradesmith··on No_color
That’s still up to the developer of the producer to implement
comradesmith··on Show HN: I created a game to memorize the fretboard
I’m so glad you included bass and left handed mode, thank you!
comradesmith··on What are the most common tinnitus frequencies? (2015)
Are you sure you’re not hearing something real from the electrical grid?
comradesmith··on The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks
What about the Nissan leaf?
comradesmith··on The end of Type 1 fonts
I thought this would be about the transition to a Type 2 Civilisation…
comradesmith··on Making a terrarium with an Arduino-powered artificial sun
If the leds are addressable yeah that would be cool.

You could even consider the weather outside, and when it’s a fine day have the “sky leds” cast blue and bright, and if it’s cloudy have them a more uniform grey.

comradesmith··on Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks
Thank you Tobias
comradesmith··on HHS purchases $290M worth of drugs for nuclear emergencies
Yes but that’s not a good argument against buying them now, instead it’s an argument in favour of setting up a replenishment programme for some fraction of the reserve every year after some initial delay.
comradesmith··on Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (2019)
Now my mind is wondering if insects could be a source and transmitter of prion diseases.

Perhaps the proteins in bugs don’t line up with humans though.

comradesmith··on Ultra-flat timepiece, the RM UP-01 Ferrari, is 1.75 millimetres thick watch
Technology Connections did a really interesting video showing how a traditional clock face can give a different perspective on the flow of time through the day, as the face and hand let you easily judge the remaining fraction in an hour.

I don’t think this format is antiquated at all

comradesmith··on Scunthorpe Sans, A font that censors bad language automatically
Isn’t that the same justification for Shitake vs Shiitake?

In Japanese it would be kanji or occasionally hiragana, some transliterations will be imperfect, and so long as the authors intent is clear, to me that’s all that matters

comradesmith··on Why don't more people use throat mics?
To me it just sounds bad, like he’s coming in over a poor cellphone connection. If I was in a call I’d find that I’d have to put some effort in to listen.
comradesmith··on Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part I)
Does the same criticism apply equally to GitHub’s pull requests? I feel like they are essentially the same thing layered on top of a repo, gitlab even supports merge requests across forks.
comradesmith··on Seven Teslas have caught fire in the last four days
My Toyota 86 has a manual door handle, and it will also automatically lower the window a little too.
comradesmith··on Tyre Extinguishers
But under inflated tyres are had for fuel economy.

edit: They should he pumping those bad boys up to 50psi, send them around corners like nobodies business

comradesmith··on San Francisco police linked a woman to a crime using DNA from her rape exam
I don’t think that’s a logical reading.

The point is that being raped shouldn’t have made her more likely to be caught.

I think this is a fair stance to take, as DNA from rape kits being used for future tracking of the raped is going to disincentivise the use of rape kits.

I want to live in a world with less sexual violence, and if rape victims can submit DNA evidence without having to worry about state tracking (and those kits actually be analysed) then I think we can get a step closer to that world.

comradesmith··on Nearly 1k mysterious strands revealed in Milky Way’s center
I agree. Not because I’d ever hope to meet them in my lifetime, but I could know that our people could reach those same heights, and in small ways, each of us can be part of that story.
comradesmith··on Minecraft as a Kubernetes admin tool
That sounds like a lot of fun to write! Do you still have the code for that?
comradesmith··on Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend
For monitoring I’d also say the alerting side of things can be done via the older monolith. That is, catch exceptions and log/re-raise them as “PdfServiceException”.
comradesmith··on Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study
I don’t think this indicates omicron is vaccine resistant.

But rather that the current vaccines aren’t effect for because omicron is substantially different from the original covid strain used to develop those vaccines.

The same thing happens every year with the flu.

comradesmith··on Colour-changing magnifying glass gives clear view of infrared light
Finally, night vision goggles that look like something out of the movies
comradesmith··on Dask – A flexible library for parallel computing in Python
I worked on a project that used dask to distribute integration tests. It worked, but it was painful and unintuitive.
comradesmith··on Glass is the hidden gem in a carbon-neutral future
Sand mining is ecologically destructive.
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