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crb002··on It’s Time to Embrace Kubernetes Really?
What is your utilization? IMHO I would rather do one EC2 instance then have EC2 Batch spot and lambda workers take the other load. In a good design most media assets should never hit the full time provisioned server.
crb002··on Cypress: Fast, easy, and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser
It is visually appealing but sluggish and sucks at non-standard authentication to the point of not being usable.

Also no out of the box way to run more than one instance with incognito tabs to have communication to test multi-user bugs.

Perhaps radical, but I think it should support hooks with Playwright/Puppeteer that you can hand control back and forth to as a safety valve just like being able to shell out to the command line when your favorite programming language doesn't have a library for what you need.

The difference here is that the browser context needs to be passed - that means some janky handoff (which with crypto will be a PITA) or using the Playwright/Puppeter connector under the hood.

crb002··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
https://redocker.com profile guided recompilations of Linux containers, AWSLinux2 packages, macOS arm64 Homebrew packages, and maybe a PGO WSL2 5.x kernel.

Downloads for optimized binaries and profiler binaries will be requester pay S3 buckets that anyone is free to mirror. It will monetize from re-compilation as a service, and eventually compete with AWS Codebuild to generate faster builds at a fraction of the cost with an interface as simple as yum/apt.

Also some UNIX CLI tooling as a service behind Lambda/Batch where you provide a signed S3 URI to operate on.

Looking for a better payment/auth provider than RapidAPI.

crb002··on It’s Time to Embrace Kubernetes Really?
I think the answer is Linux on Linux. Fault Tolerant Linux on Distributed Machine Linux on traditional multicore Linux. Distributed machine Linux just sees the multicore Linux boxes as devices. Fault Tolerant Linux does reruns when things fail.
crb002··on It’s Time to Embrace Kubernetes Really?
What devs really want:

* Easy simulation of networks between cgroups.

* A mechanism for splitting a ulimit across kernels.

* Hot swappable kernels and kernel tuning parameters so machines can be quickly re-configured.

crb002··on Comparing Fauna and DynamoDB: Architecture and Pricing
1) What is the latency within an AWS Region for a key lookup?

2) What is the latency of a global sync between all AWS regions for say a 100kb update?

crb002··on The Airbnbs
Watch the lawsuits fly from their trade violations during COVID-19. I think the early shutdowns violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act will hit them hardest - my house was delisted without fair notice - hitting me so hard the property had to be liquidated. Looking for an attorney if anyone knows of a class action.
crb002··on Elon Musk Decries ‘MBA-Ization’ of America
It's been a drag on the U.S. economy for decades. Design by PowerPoint. Even Drucker in "The Practice of Management" didn't preach technical ignorance - but federation (2 pizza rule) and nurturing the craftsmen.

What I want to know is why hasn't A16Z industrialized the SAAS startup? A whitelabel RapidAPI. Support MVP templates in a few stock frameworks (Django,Rails,Rocket, Serverless) with a shared proprietary catalog of widgets, testing suites, and feature toggling management. Offer HR as a service for pay/benefits management and general ledgers as a service to simplify accounting. Internal git bounties on features - send us a PR to do X and we pay Y - for low friction contracting and to lower global burn rate.

crb002··on Why an Apple search engine has a real shot at competing with Google
It has to be Siri first if they want adoption - probably brand the thing as Siri.
crb002··on EU countries team up for semiconductor push
I'd negotiate with TSMC to build a EU plant and a recycling center to source rare earths. Compare this deal and chose the one that is more economical.
crb002··on Show HN: This website is valid JSON
This perversion needs a Qt example. Any takers?
crb002··on Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-End PCs
How many M1s can Apple fit in a rack? 256? IBM should ship a water cooled rack and hook them in the same toroidal topology as Blue Gene/L and figure out a real Borg like scheduler for them.
crb002··on Web Scraping Is Vital to Democracy
Web scraping == 1st Amendment.
crb002··on Liquidity Is Coming
On the flip side, I see a lot more Github style buyout deals - but with companies splitting the pie by pooling their public stock. Like IBM and Walmart going in to buy GitLab.
crb002··on “I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”
You can arbitrage AWS with your own servers as long as network costs don't eat you. Run say a TravisCI type service on your own hardware?

The big lockin is network pricing. No egress fees when their data is already in S3. You have to run where the consumer has their data or you eat that network transfer as overhead for your SAAS.

I see GitHub slowly charging for egress downloads as the next lockin. You "save" by paying for builds on Azure.

crb002··on “I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”
Abuse the hashtable/dictionary/map Luke. Also learn prefix sum. That's enough to pass 90% of these.
crb002··on TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream
How was the test set up? Big difference between slamming localhost and ingesting edge inserts from IoT devices all over.
crb002··on New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support
CodeBuild builds Docker images. You can write a proxy wrapper in a few lines. Write a lambdalith that processes all the root level functionality.
crb002··on Urbit Precepts Discussion
For urbit to be relevant it needs a libc and coreutils. Even Rust doesn't have a solid coreutils yet.
crb002··on AWS just went multi-cloud
Bezos wants you controlling everything from AWS, be that your own servers with GreenGrass or GCP/Azure through managed Kubernetes.
crb002··on Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions
If Bezos was really naughty he would fund unionizing at competitors like Walmart, Hy-Vee, Kroger, ...
crb002··on Stripe Treasury
Interest on short term holdings - sweet. Then again, AWS is a bank that gives 30 day loans - they still win because the payment friction is after the fact.
crb002··on Oasis: a small statically-linked Linux system
It's a joy to deploy. I loved the IBM Blue Gene/L. Like AWS Lambda, except instead of a zip you deployed a static linked binary.
crb002··on M1 Mac mini overtakes entire Japanese desktop market in less than 2 weeks
I bet it is far more than just M1. For the first time I launched an m6g (Gravition 2) instance of AWS Linux2. Ruby and node are working without a hitch. Bye bye x86.

sudo yum update

sudo yum install git

gpg2 --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3 7D2BAF1CF37B13E2069D6956105BD0E739499BDB

\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails

sudo yum install zstd

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.37.2/install... | bash

source ~/.bashrc

nvm install v12.16.1 #From project I am working on

rvm install 2.5.1 #From project I am working on

crb002··on Apple Create ML: Creating an Image Classifier Model
What apps do you use for drawing the labeling/bounding boxes?
crb002··on TSMC and Google push chipmaking boundaries with 3D 'stacking'
3D allows you place circuits closer together reducing latency, and to build more efficient layouts.
crb002··on Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case
Apple openly bribed the City of Waukee to abate $170m in State property tax. "... the company is contributing up to $100 million to a newly created Public Improvement Fund dedicated to community development and infrastructure around Waukee." [1]

Wouldn't it be nice if we could all cut a $1000 check to the city to evade $1700 in State/County property tax on our homes?

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/08/apples-next-us-data-c...

crb002··on Run Homebrew Natively on Apple Silicon Arm M1
Most of the gnu tools are working fine. Javascript stack is still a tire fire. JVM is ok. Ruby/Python are fine.
crb002··on Programming Language Fragility
The opposite seems true on M1 support. C is always #1 followed by LLVM ecosystem languages, then the VMs.
crb002··on Use macOS Recovery on a Mac with Apple silicon
Disabling allows you to run dtrace...
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