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hitpointdrew··on Ask HN: What would you put in your dream home?
Home gym complete with cold plunge, and sauna.
hitpointdrew··on Ask HN: What tools would make your Kubernetes development experience better?
I have yet to find a good solution that accomplishes both these goals.

  1. Have a central location for our helm charts so that we have one copy of our charts with separate values for our various environments.
  2. Have tight controls around who is allowed push what where (allow devs to push to the dev environment, allow team leads push to QA, etc.)
Separately each goal is easy to accomplish, but if you want both, it seems to break the GitOps paradigm. Multiple branches or repos means you now have helm templates all over the place and quickly you get drift. Having one branch and repo consolidates your templates, but now you need to either allow any dev to change any value for any environment, or you have to slowdown your devs and gatekeep the repo and only those who are allowed to make prod changes are responsible for merging in ALL changes to every environment.

Ultimately it seems like the best compromise is you end up with multiple deployments of Argo/Rancher (whatever CD tool you have), which monitor your helm charts pointing at least two separate repos, one that is for non-prod, and another that is prod.

hitpointdrew··on Ask HN: Fear of First Employee
Have a lawyer draft up an NDA, require any hire sign one as a condition of employment.

Make sure the lawyer would be willing to work on a contingency fee basis if you had to go after someone who broke the NDA.

hitpointdrew··on N.F.L. Suspends Five Players for Gambling
How is it absurd to punish players who have a conflict of interest?

It’s pretty normal, and just, to have special rules when there is a conflict of interest.

hitpointdrew··on [dead]
Link to study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36597886/
hitpointdrew··on NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
> Is Disney state-affiliated

Yes, clearly.

hitpointdrew··on NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
> In that case, very nearly every business (including mom and pop shops)

How so? In what capacity are “most businesses” getting federal money? Tax credits/breaks don’t count, that is the companies money that they don’t have to pay, not the federal government directly funding the business.

hitpointdrew··on NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
You expect me to believe that gov funding NPR receives is “no strings attached”. LOL yeah right.
hitpointdrew··on NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
How on earth can anyone say "falsely labeled"? NPR does get money from the federal government, that is an undisputable fact. How are they not "state-affilated"? I don't care how small a % of the budget is money from the government. The fact they take any money at all from the gov makes them sate-affilated.
hitpointdrew··on [dead]
Just because you don't agree with the data, doesn't make it a conspiracy.
hitpointdrew··on ‘Scary’ new data on the last Ice Age raises concerns about future sea levels
Yeah, that will happen when a huge ass pice of comet slams into the planet.
hitpointdrew··on Abortion Pill Blocked Nationwide Under Order from US Judge
For the unborn child.
hitpointdrew··on Covid vaccines are not needed for healthy kids and teens, says WHO
'It's Easier to Fool People Than to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled'

It's so sad how many "smart" people STILL believe that mRNA coivd vaccines are SaFe AnD EfEcTiVe. It is quite clear from studies and evidence they they are most certainly neither safe or effective.

hitpointdrew··on Covid vaccines are not needed for healthy kids and teens, says WHO
Myocarditis, pericarditis, "long COVID" symptoms, Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), cerebral venous thrombosis, blood clots, acquired hemophilia A, death.

Just to name few.

hitpointdrew··on Covid vaccines are not needed for healthy kids and teens, says WHO
> the shots simply provide a less serious infection

That's nothing more than talking point with no evidence.

hitpointdrew··on Covid vaccines are not needed for healthy kids and teens, says WHO
> I know everyone likes to ignore this now but hospitals and morgues are still overflowing with the unvaxxed.

I can't tell if you are being sarcastic, or if you're completely delusional. But either way this statement is patently false.

hitpointdrew··on Show HN: How teenagers get out of trips to see grandpa 2023
"That's a well thought out argument."

"Thanks!"

"You're still going to see Grandpa though."

That would be how I would handle it.

>As a student, I thrive on structure and routine, and I've worked hard to establish a productive daily routine that helps me stay on track with my goals. Being away from home, even for a day, would mean abandoning my routine and risking falling behind on my schoolwork

Life is always going to throw you curve balls kid, you aren't some delicate vase. You need to learn to roll with the punches, be flexible, and adapt. You'll manage.

> For example, I've been meaning to catch up on some reading, explore a nearby hiking trail, ...

Spend less time watching TV, playing video games, being on your phone when you are not on vacation and read or go for a hike instead. If it is important to your well being you should make it a higher priority.

hitpointdrew··on Ask HN: Besides Video Games what is stopping you from running Linux full time?
Nothing.. I dual boot and only use Windows for games.
hitpointdrew··on Ask HN: Is "Stop Writing Classes” still good advice in modern Python?
I have never seen that talk, I might check it out later though.

>If a class has two methods and one of them is __init__ it doesn't need to be a class.

That seems like dumb advice to me. I don't use classes often in Python, but when I do it is typically because I have a more complex data set to work with and I don't really need database. Usually this is a class that ONLY has an __init__ function in it. Having data set that is a dictionary with nested dictionaries, with nested arrays ,etc. gets ugly and often you end up with a mess of loops trying to parse the data. I find classes super helpful here and would just instance a bunch of class objects with attributes I need, then put all those objects in a list. You can then iterate over a nice, simple, clean, list of you objects and access any attribute you wish. Without having to do nested loops trying to dig down the the value you want.

hitpointdrew··on Stellantis CEO: There may not be enough raw materials to electrify globe
You should probably read more than the headline.

  1. This article is specific to the UK, not the US.
  2. The article is published by an Electrical company, obviously as PR piece to make it look like they have things under controll. This is not an idependaty study.
  3. One the "solutions" to the problem the UK came up with is regulations which state:
>The regulations ensure charge points have smart functionality, allowing the charging of an electric vehicle when there is less demand on the grid, or when more renewable electricity is available. The regulations also ensure that charge points meet certain device-level requirements, enabling a minimum level of access, security and information for consumers.

In other words, even the grid the UK cannot handle an influx of EV's to combat this they are making the charge points "smart" (i.e. you won't be able to charge your vehicle when you wish only when the "smart" point says demand is low enough). This is hardly a solution. It attempts to "spread" out the charging with these "smart points", the problem is most people work during the day (and are parked somewhere where they cannot charge) and will want to charge at night. This would leave many SOL when they wake up to find their vehicle hasn't charged at all.

Hard, fucking, pass. Additionally, EV's are complete non-starter until they can go from 0% charge to full charge in 2 min or less IMO. If am on a road trip and trying to make good time I am not waiting around an hour+ for my vehicle to charge. Until charging is as easy and quick as pumping gas I have no interest in an EV.

hitpointdrew··on Stellantis CEO: There may not be enough raw materials to electrify globe
Not only are there not enough resources, our electric grid is nowhere near where it needs to be to remotely support a large shift to EVs. Any ideas that in 5-10 years we will only sell EVs is a grand delusion.
hitpointdrew··on Senate Bill to Ban TikTok
Jeremy Hambly does a decent job breaking parts of it down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6AynjtnJG8
hitpointdrew··on Senate Bill to Ban TikTok
It's MUCH WORSE than the Patriot act. This bill is absolutely horrific. And calling it at bill to "ban TikTok" is extremely disingenuous as it egregiously goes well beyond that.
hitpointdrew··on The Ban TikTok Bill Is Terrifying and Must Be Stopped
Did you watch the video, or read the bill? The bill goes way and well beyond "banning Tik-Tok", it's basically the Patriot Act on Steroids.

No one really cares if one app is banned. But you should be VERY concerned with the sweeping measures the bill would actually accomplish.

hitpointdrew··on Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news
>It's been a long time since Microsoft made an operating system.

Mostly true, it's been a long time since Microsoft made a CONSUMER operating system.

Windows Server isn't plagued with this crap, it costs a whole lot more, but doesn't have this nonsense. Also, isn't designed to be a desktop, the recommend install model these days is to install without the desktop gui (you basically get a powershell prompt, and that's it).

hitpointdrew··on Prove email and phone are required in online services
How do you purpose Netflix, Salseforce, etc. charge their clients if they don’t even know who their clients are?

Please don’t say crypto.

hitpointdrew··on Prove email and phone are required in online services
I think the point is NOT to identify users, but only to not have spam/bots. Unless it’s a paid service, users should not have to identify themselves. You can keep out bots with CAPTCHA.
hitpointdrew··on Bill Gates: ‘I Worry We’re Making the Same Mistakes Again’
What mistake would that be Bill? Would it be the mistake of making a fat, not physically fit, college drop out, a prominent "expert" when comes to health and medicine?
hitpointdrew··on How to politely decline a take-home test task
>I would agree that companies that give "2-3 hour" take home problems are a red flag for me

I wouldn't say simply having at 2-3 hour take home by itself is red flag. But if the take home is a pile of hot garbage (poorly or inadequate documentation on how to setup a local env for example) then that is red flag.

My first hire (that wasn't someone I knew/previously worked with) I did not require that they complete a take home test. That hire turned out to be a complete disaster. I have since started requiring take home tests, and I will never again hire anyone that I don't know without a take home test. After requiring take home tests the candidates that have been hired have been much better.

hitpointdrew··on How to politely decline a take-home test task
>Not everything is a docker run.

It doesn't have to be a docker run.

>I can think of several well documented setups that can take upward of 2 hours

If ALL you have is "well documented" setups that take 2 hours, then that company sucks.

Look you don't have to have docker, but if you have a setup that is merely a Confluence page, or a pdf file, and don't have ANY shell scripts, or any way whatsoever to bootstrap setting up your environment locally, then that is a massive red flag.

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