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fosk··on How I Failed to Change Wasmer
Reality is that nobody knows what is the long lasting impact of web assembly in our industry in the years (or decades) to come, unless somebody can predict the future. As such, if somebody is passionate about it and gives all their heart and mind to it, I see where they are coming from and I respect their commitment.

To imply that "It is just XYZ" in dismissive tone, well that is quite rude and disrespectful at this point in time.

fosk··on How I Failed to Change Wasmer
I mean the "wheel" is also really a weird shaped object yet it advanced humanity.

The impact of what anybody is building expands beyond the technology itself to all the potential use cases that this new thing enables. It doesn't have a depth of 1. It has a depth of 100.

fosk··on [dead]
After all, Facebook is down, so those comments have to go somewhere.
fosk··on 6th Generation Stealth Fighter: Joint Effort by UK, Japan, Italy and Sweden?
Italy - believe it or not - has top notch expertise in producing military and space technology. I recall they also export lots of military equipment, of all types.
fosk··on Monitoring my home's air quality with AirGradient's DIY sensor
Link?
fosk··on Will the rich world’s worker deficit last?
Wouldn’t this incentivize automation?
fosk··on Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Gulf Stream
Although the benefit would be increased reflection of sunlight due to more icy (reflective) surface which would alleviate (or reverse?) the current weather warming trend.
fosk··on 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
How is your vacuuming done automatically? You mean with a Roomba robot?

Have you found those working? All my friends that have one just end up storing them somewhere never to be used again.

fosk··on Electromagnetism is a property of spacetime itself, study finds
I dream of faster than light travel by bending the space time fabric in “U” shape (like pinching a piece of paper) and allowing to travel across the two planes of reference.
fosk··on Designing Our Serverless Engine: From Kubernetes to Nomad, Firecracker, and Kuma
May I ask why you wouldn't use Kuma?
fosk··on Two days before condo collapse, a pool contractor photographed damage in garage
It works like this everywhere in the world. Humans are...humans
fosk··on We Can't Let People Work from Home, for Stupid Reasons
The two fronts of people shouting "Working at home" vs "I want the office" can be almost always summed up by how long the commute is:

* Working at home: commute longer than 30-45 minutes.

* Working at office: commute shorter than 30-45 minutes.

Like everything in life, people optimize for different things in life. Optimizing for a short commute is a choice that people can make if they want, likewise optimizing for a bigger home 60 minutes away.

I still have to hear somebody who lives at a short walk to the office, wanting to work from home, because it really wouldn't make any sense at all. Remove the commute from the equation, and the office is superior in any possible way: socially, economically, mentally. Now if they were to move 60 minutes away, I would understand why they would want to work from home.

It's all a function of commute, which in and by itself is a choice in our highly paid industry.

fosk··on After 50 years of the war on drugs, 'what good is it doing for us?'
This is false. Arrest drug dealers day after day for a generation, and the demand will lower because new generations won't even know what drugs are, or when the effect of heroin is, therefore they won't chase it.

Demand for a good (or drug in this case) it is not inevitable. It can be disrupted too, it's not a given.

But the demand for any good cannot be disrupted without first and foremost removing the supply. So we must start disrupting the supply, which shows up every day at 6am on our street corners.

fosk··on After 50 years of the war on drugs, 'what good is it doing for us?'
Besides the controversial political agenda behind the "War on Drugs", I guess we all agree that drugs are obviously bad for society as a whole.

But it's kinda hard to do a war on drugs without - you know - arresting the drug dealers on known corners. Looking at you San Francisco.

Drugs enable misery, poverty, overdoses and homicides. Especially the ones that create physical addiction (opioids, meth, fentanyl, etc). But most importantly, they enable lower social economical classes into thinking that selling drugs is a viable and alternative way to level up in life (wealth), instead of allowing them to focus on real career paths. It's a false shortcut that distracts people from being able to focus on their real future. It also encourages illegal immigration.

Why aren't the Feds arresting drug dealers on every corner in a large scale operation first and foremost? Perhaps the simplest thing to do in order to disrupt the supply.

fosk··on The architecture of Uber’s API gateway
For anybody looking at OpenResty, it’s also worthwhile to a look at Kong, which is the largest openresty-based application and already provides the right abstractions in place for API management: https://github.com/Kong/kong
fosk··on Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers
How did this happen? Ugh.
fosk··on Coinbase from YC to DPO
I mean, re-read that 2-3 times.

With the emergence of a new group of people that have massive crypto reserves at their disposal, paying for a timeshare in crypto would make that asset accessible to them natively.

It’s not a bad idea. If crypto is a new paradigm, the world will need crypto-XYZ to appeal to that crowd. Cars (Tesla), and timeshares are among them.

fosk··on Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
How on Earth did we end up having so many ingredients in what essentially is just pizza. The food industry really has gone too far by over-processing everything.
fosk··on 75% of the original Disney+ executive team is no longer at Disney
This is not fair to those human beings that are outside of our bubble and indeed do a lot for others and create a net-positive for the world.

By generalizing all human beings in your statement, you are severely disrespecting the ones that do deserve recognition.

fosk··on Waymo pulls back the curtain on 6.1M miles of self-driving car data in Phoenix
In San Francisco if you do decide to prosecute, the district attorney's team will call you to convince you to drop charges for "restorative justice".
fosk··on Understand a little about TCP (2015)
Worth nothing that TCP_NODELAY is on by default on NGINX[1].

[1] http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#tcp_...

fosk··on L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground, but no one could see it until now
San Francisco also hosts radioactive waste close by, located at the Farallon Islands[1].

> From 1946 to 1970, the sea around the Farallones was used as a nuclear dumping site for radioactive waste under the authority of the Atomic Energy Commission at a site known as the Farallon Island Nuclear Waste Dump. Most of the dumping took place before 1960, and all dumping of radioactive wastes by the United States was terminated in 1970. By then, 47,500 containers (55-gallon steel drums) had been dumped in the vicinity, with a total estimated radioactive activity of 14,500 Ci. The materials dumped were mostly laboratory materials containing traces of contamination. Much of the radioactivity had decayed by 1980.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farallon_Islands

fosk··on Comparison of Kubernetes Ingress Controllers
This setup has been running in production in mission critical use-cases already, and unlike Istio, it provides fully automated multi-zone support across both Kubernetes and VM environments on both the CP and DP.

If you have questions, you can always reach out at https://kuma.io/community

fosk··on Comparison of Kubernetes Ingress Controllers
I am seeing more and more users wanting to implement end-to-end connectivity from GW to service mesh. Particularly when it comes to Kong, we have done all the heavy lifting in Kong[1] + Kuma[2] (the latter a CNCF project) to do that.

Typically we want to create a service mesh overlay across our applications and their services - to secure and observe the underlying service traffic - and still expose a subset of those via an API GW (and via an Ingress Controller) at the edge, to either mobile applications or an ecosystem of partners (where a sidecar pattern model is not feasible).

With Kuma and its "gateway" data plane proxy mode, this can be easily achieved via the Kong Ingress Controller, which is mentioned in this spreadsheet.

Disclaimer: I am a maintainer of both Kong and Kuma.

[1] - https://github.com/Kong/kong

[2] - https://github.com/kumahq/kuma

fosk··on Work is changing profoundly and NYC will not be able to adapt
Does somebody know how much SF spends on police annually?
fosk··on Kuma and Envoy: Multi-Cluster and Multi-Cloud Service Meshes
Yes, multi zone mode can be used to enable hybrid service meshes via the built-in service discovery and native ingress that enables connectivity across both K8s and VM services. Kuma itself supports Universal mode and Kubernetes mode to run pretty much the CP and the DP anywhere (including environments like AWS ECS).
fosk··on Show HN: Multi-Cluster and Multi-Cloud Service Meshes with CNCF's Kuma and Envoy
Not much, the project is very efficient but if you have questions you can always reach out to the official Slack channel: https://kuma.io/community
fosk··on Show HN: Multi-Cluster and Multi-Cloud Service Meshes with CNCF's Kuma and Envoy
Yes. In Kuma the “.mesh” DNS zone will route to either an IP address of a replica of the service in the same zone, or to the IP address of a Kuma ingress in another zone for automatic cross-zone connectivity (only if mTLS is enabled so we can leverage SNI). Any TrafficRoute will be honored, and we can also apply zone-shifting rules by using the “kuma.io/zone“ tag in a “TrafficRoute” [1] policy.

[1] - https://kuma.io/policies

fosk··on Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down temporarily in California
Both. As a driver, no medallion mafia and astronomical prices to deal with. As a rider, no taxi drivers and their horrible service to deal with.

Taxi companies are monopolies allowed by the state, it sucks for the last ones who paid $300,000 for a license to operate just before Uber took off, but technology finds its way.

fosk··on Instacart shoppers besieged by bots that snatch lucrative orders
Any system - or market - sophisticated enough will see the emergence of bots as the ultimate decision makers/arbitration players. It’s quite fascinating.
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