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igmor··on We were wrong about GPUs
These components are very different in complexity and scope. Let's be real: a seasoned developer is mostly familiar with load balancers and ingress controllers, so this will be mostly about naming and context. I agree though once you learn about k8s it becomes less mysterious but that also means the author hasn't pushed it to the limits. Outages in the control plane could be pretty nasty and it is easy to have them by creating an illusion everything is kind of free in k8s.
igmor··on Dropbox saved millions building a custom load balancer
I don't think it would be possible for them to stay with AWS considering their storage volume usage. As soon as the storage was out everything else has followed as well
igmor··on Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead
Go team has built a remarkable tool under your leadership. A tool that moved a niddle to the better side of things for the industry. Thank you and God speed!
igmor··on Amazon's exabyte-scale migration from Apache Spark to Ray on EC2
Can you share any data on how big of a cluster is running Ray jobs?
igmor··on The Sphere
Been there yesterday, can confirm what the author wrote about immersion. Cathedral and opera scenes are something I have never experienced before, fully blown away. The storyline is garbage.
igmor··on Bard Can Now Connect to Your Google Apps
can't do image search in a photos app too which is a major bummer for me personally. I protocol things there and it's impossible to find without annotations.
igmor··on Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty
well, he is supposed to be an expert in it. Why are you so surprised?
igmor··on Can Italians Understand Latin?
Let me save some time for you: No, they can't.
igmor··on Physical 3x3x3x3 hypercube and other physical 4d twisty puzzles [video]
gyro move kinds feel extremely artificial compared to the simplicity of all other canonical moves.
igmor··on Greg Robinson fixed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, reluctantly
I also listened to NPR with a couple of scientists who has worked on JWST and they said there were times when they felt pretty down on news JWST would get cancelled or NiRCam would need to get removed from the program.

Edit: it's this one https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101889805/the-james-webb-tele...

igmor··on What's the role of Go in a universe where Rust exists?
That's a wrong question to ask. Rust is the one trying to squeeze in to the already crowded place, not Go.
igmor··on Farmers are having to hack their own tractors to make repairs
Wait, what?
igmor··on Navalny team releases investigation into ′Putin′s Palace′
Rat's bite. There was nothing lion about it.
igmor··on Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
I'm a little cautious about this mRNA vaccine. Novavax though looks awesome, it produces some insane amount of anitbodies and uses a very well established vaccine tech.
igmor··on The Fall of Silicon Valley
That's one of the myths created by media.
igmor··on A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?
No
igmor··on Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver
that was a test for a particular type of person that OP failed to pass. He could not lie to a simple question.
igmor··on Lyft vs. Uber: A Tale of Two S-1’s
It's weird because he calls it out in the comparison as a potential explanation for the gap in average booking per ride:

"This gap is likely also due to Uber’s heavier international presence (where they now generate 52% of their bookings). It would be interesting to see this data on a country-by-country basis (or, more importantly, a market-by-market one as well)."

yet still proceeds to draw this questionable conclusion: "Lyft has made impressive progress at increasing the value of rides on its platform and increasing the share of transactions it gets."

igmor··on Traffic Director: Traffic management for open service mesh
From documentation:

Traffic Director delivers a GCP-managed Pilot along with additional capabilities such as global load balancing and centralized health checking. However, note that Traffic Director cannot be configured using Istio APIs in this Beta release; you can use GCP APIs for configuration. Both Traffic Director and Pilot use open standard APIs (xDS v2) to communicate with service proxies.

igmor··on Former Google exec: AI will replace 40 percent of jobs in 15 years
With 30% probability
igmor··on Kubernetes 1.3 released
Don't you guys use Borg that I don't know how close to kubernetes?
igmor··on Google, HP, Oracle Join RISC-V – Open-source processor core gains traction
they will be competing with Apple's ARM product
igmor··on Show HN: Easy Email Encryption inside Gmail (Alpha, Open-Source)
how would you do attachments and search? Big stopper for me for using something like this.
igmor··on Vipassana Trip Report by Rap Genius Founder
Is there a way to get similar introduction to meditation without spending 10 days on it in a wild and listening to all that chanting? Some kind of good old western rational approach to it.
igmor··on Modern Physics From Scratch
For those interested in QM I highly recommend this intro Quantum Mechanics for Engineers http://www.eng.fsu.edu/~dommelen/quantum/