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fells··on Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery
The title reads perfectly fine to me. Especially with the `in` preposition.
fells··on How We Found 7 TiB of Memory Just Sitting Around
>you just gave every namespace a vector instance that was responsible for that namespace and pods within.

Vector is a daemonset, because it needs to tail the log files on each node. A single vector per namespace might not reside on the nodes that each pod is on.

fells··on Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs
Because, in reality, they voted for his regressive cultural policies, not his regressive economic policies.

Though in November I'm sure they were telling us how good he would be on the economic front.

fells··on Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)
> Would this not be the same as asking; "Are you 14 years old?"

"between x and y" normally includes the endpoints.

For example, if someone asks you to pick a number between 1 and 10, everyone would pretty much agree that 1 and 10 are acceptable choices.

fells··on DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes
> To not have the money that you want to spend is, to me, the definition of spending too much.

I suppose no one should ever be able to take a loan.

fells··on The case for letting Malibu burn (1995)
> Government doesn't pick up bills, taxpayers do.

Is this an interesting comment to make? Yeah... the tax payers foot the bill because like we elect the representatives to maintain the government.

> Someone in Montana should not have to pay to rebuild homes in California.

Is this a joke? Should I, as a Californian, also be able to say "oh, my tax money? You damn well not send it to Montana to help subside program XYZ that doesn't help me."

fells··on Susan Wojcicki has died
No? The person on Threads does not appear to be her husband. They're merely posting a screenshot of her husband's Facebook post.
fells··on Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit
It's always struck me that these are two wildly different concerns though.

Use metrics & SLOs to help diagnose the health of your systems. Derive those directly from logs/traces, keep a sample of the raw data, and now you can point any alert to the sampled data to help go about understanding a client-facing issue.

But, for auditing of a particular transaction, you don't need full indexing of the events? You need a transactional journal for every account/user, likely with a well-defined schema to describe successful changes and failed attempts. Perhaps these come from the same stream of data as the observability tooling, but I can only imagine it must be a much smaller subset of the 100PB that you can avoid doing full inverse indexes on this, because your search pattern is simply answering "what happened to this transaction?"

fells··on Costs of running a macOS app studio business
Great blogpost and congrats to OP on the success.

As someone who, in a past life, also sold apps on the Mac App Store (with some success), I could never escape the sense of insecurity, whether it be Apple "breaking" (or fixing?) things every WWDC, constant pursuit of the next idea, or potential competition. Not to mention, the fact that sometimes reviews seemed oddly personal and the occasional rude customer support emails could ruin a day. (This all probably says more about my own mental psyche than anything and I'm glad some people thrive in it.)

In the end, I felt more comfortable doing the 9-5 engineering job, but it was definitely worth it and really taught me to be self-sufficient and exploratory in software development.

fells··on Things we learned analyzing 515M Wordles
This is how I play as well, because in my mind it makes it basically just a long, never-evending game of Wordle, which I find slightly amusing.

Though the number of days where I forget the previous day's word is probably too damn high.

fells··on Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath
There's lots of places on the internet for those people too. They are also free to find them and share them! Maybe they'll even been upvoted on HackerNews!
fells··on Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath
Turns out lots of people play video games!
fells··on In 1980s Los Angeles, a bank was robbed every hour
> The banks and police just don't make it public.

Is there evidence of this? Anytime someone mentions declining crime rates its always with "well, they clearly don't report it!"

fells··on Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value
So much of commerce is predicated on contracts, and courts/the government help enforce them. So it'd seem to me that income/wealth taxes, much like land taxes, are a just tax for the service the government offers in providing enforcement mechanisms.
fells··on Reasons the banking crisis isn’t a repeat of 2008
The fed doesn't have access to taxpayer money.
fells··on IRS builds task force to explore running its own free e-file system
A direct e-file, obviously, is great, but I really just want to get a document near the beginning of the year where the IRS tells me what they believe my taxes owed/returned should be. Let me accept/verify or contest it and make everyone's lives easier. Anyone who'd need to contest/change theirs, probably already has an accounting firm handling all this anyways.
fells··on Nationwide FAA weather reporting outage
If you're going to attack them, you could at least spell some of those words correctly.
fells··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)
Are these links accurate? Unfortunately just getting "Sorry, but we can't find that page."
fells··on How Twitter moderated the Covid debate
They live in this alternate universe where the COVID pandemic didn't involve Trump at all.
fells··on Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll
There's no evidence "just start running it well please" is possible.
fells··on Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists
And so the truth is made abundantly clear now. Elon & his right wing sycophants have never actually cared about free speech & fight against "cancel culture."

What they want is simply being the ones who get to cancel under vague tropes of "safety."

fells··on Elixir-style pipelines in Ruby
OCaml :: https://v2.ocaml.org/api/Stdlib.html#1_Compositionoperators, it has `|>` for (unary) pipelines and `@@`.
fells··on U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech
They'd have to hit 50 million users first, or whatever arbitrary bar Texas will make so they don't have to.
fells··on Empty offices are becoming apartments in Texas’s big cities
> California has some of the strictest in the nation.

Typically to stop the encroachment of commercial or industrial buildings into residential areas? Wouldn't this, offices into apartments, be rather amenable?

fells··on US moves closer to recalling Tesla’s self-driving software
Presumably they will if they're involved in a statistically significant number of incidents.
fells··on Musk SEC Filing
What makes you think Twitter isn't actually providing the data, doesn't want to believe it, and -- in the end -- this is just yet more bluster from Musk?
fells··on The New York Times buys Wordle
Does this mean as soon as I enter my second guess, I'm going to have a huge overlay to sign in to a New York Times account?
fells··on Would you take free land in rural America?
> What is the necessity for a "diverse" culture, as opposed to say a cohesive culture, or at least one that promotes healthy and strong values (such to cultivate healthy, strong people)?

Strange to pit "diverse" against "cohesive" and "healthy and strong values" as if they are opposites.

fells··on Material Design Guidelines for Dark Mode
Or travel back in time a month. It was added in Safari 12.1.

https://webkit.org/blog/8718/new-webkit-features-in-safari-1...

fells··on Advent of Code 2018
Yes, Rust is my other option I'm leaning towards. In process of learning it by building a ray tracer, so doing Advent of Code would be another way to get more familiar with it.
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