jessebro

Back in the days of manual machining it was definitely true. CNC, especially modern 5+ axis high speed high rigidity machines are god level cheating.

A lot of the armor plate on the big battleships like New Jersey were welded. Some of those are over a foot thick.

It would take a LOT of passes.

Did we mention that the manual was burned, and the guy and the guy who wrote the manual died in the explosion that burned the manual?

It was at the end of a massively destructive war of annihilation.

Better hope they done have one set of 50mm bolts which are mild steel, and another set that are hardened high tensive steel that aren't clearly marked and the same length!

Or you're going to have quite an adventure when you go to do your thing and a random selection of bolt heads come pinging off at you at mach 5.

Anyone who has worked in a job classified 'unskilled' generally doesn't need a pejorative to feel unloved. It's the nature of the game.

Digging ditches generally sucks, same as I imagine being a striker, but most anyone can do it (until their body gives out, anyway, which in some cases is 'immediately').

HDPE is also what Nalgenes and the like are made of (or used to be anyway), and is very popular for storing chemicals as well. It is very nearly completely inert.

The problem with that attitude is when the body count gets high enough, there is incredible pressure to 'do something' - because enough people are terrible at judging this (or don't have the right friend group, or whatever) that we end up with huge crime problems, destroyed lives, and other social ills.

The libertarian 'you can do what you want and it's your own responsibility' is great until the people who obviously made the wrong decision stop quietly owning the results of their decisions and start murdering random people for money to fund their habit.

An argument can be made that the answer is free heroin and mental health treatment of course, and maybe it is the right answer. It seems hard for societies to accept however, outside of some very niche locations (Netherlands) though.

You aren't hungover if you never stop drinking - which is the point.

It's really, really prevalent in some industries. I've hired concrete finishers before (multiple times), and I've never NOT had a bunch of empty cans crushed up and hidden somewhere random on the worksite afterwords, even if it's only for a couple hours. When I worked with some writers years ago, they kept bottles of cheap scotch and 2 buck chuck in their desks, and had to replenish them regularly.

The go to drug selection in tech skews our perception a bit (weed being incredibly pervasive, but lsd,shrooms,stimulatns far from absent).

Jesse here. I'm the eng manager for GKE and GKE On-Prem Storage lifecycle over at Google. For basic persistent volumes, we have working vSphere (block) support, which allows us to do a lot (including persistent/stateful services).

We also have great storage abstraction layers built into K8S - CSI, FlexVolumes, and a large suite of in-tree plugins - so adding additional ones is pretty easy.

I think you're talking about something else however - specifically scaled/distributed storage services.

We're investigating options here, though keep in mind you should have no problems running containerized storage services in GKE On-prem. They would be on top of the existing block support I mentioned above. I saw a couple comments in other threads from some vendors that sell solutions that do just that.

For storage systems that don't containerize, that is a different discussion. Happy to talk more.