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So you mean just literally put the .h and .c files at '.'?

I've noticed this was posted in 2023. Thought I'd post it again and see how people feel about this today as LLMs and AI in general just get better and better.

Here's something I struggle with: where do I install the C libraries too and then how do you include them? I always want to try these really cool libs, but then I remember that although I know C well enough to try them, I've not solved the ecosystem and dependency management side of developing in C.

Any suggested reading?

Like the article's writer, I remember the Netscape days and when JS came into existence. I was only a kid back then, like 9 years old, and was _just_ getting into coding in C and playing around with HTML/CSS. The results I produced, as you might have imagined, were akin to the results a toddler would produce given a wet loaf of bread to play with: mess everywhere.

Anyway, back then the HTML was simple (but it was tables and spacer GIFs ha ha!) and the CSS even simpler. Now it's just such a chaotic mess that people actually think Web Assembley is a good idea; as if somehow they've invented something new: the sandbox and the machine code. Like running a process at the OS level and making _that_ better, more secure, etc. wasn't the right path.

HTMLx is as close to the UI as I'll come. Everything else is an absolute headache to get into.

When I was doing Econometrics at Uni, the lecturer wouldn't let us use the functions in the software that did the mathematics for us. He made us learn using Spreadsheets and doing the calculations manually, _then_ he let us use the automated functionality once we understood it.

> As the matter of fact we had another product that was running on Kubernetes, they are now migrating off from it, turned out that the old school approach with bare EC2 instances, Ansible, Terraform and Packer is much more reliable, scalable and cost effective than Kubernetes.

Absolutely it is. I've found this to be the case across a lot of orgs now.

> ... without thinking about it much

God forbid if you had to think and know about your infrastructure and how it worked, and whether it was as minimal and simple as possible whilst delivering results. Best to just use abstractions upon abstractions you don't know well and hope for the best.

It's not the second biggest search engine in the world :(

You literally skipped the part where I said I'd be happy to be limited to a set number of videos per channel.

Precisely. I used to rent dedicated servers in the early 2000s that gave me such options.

I know, and neither of them are the second biggest search engine in the world and have _all_ the traffic and viewers.

> In this scenario you’d also have to pay for bandwidth since that’s the variable cost here.

For Google? You think Google get a monthly bill for their bandwidth?

Then how are Vimeo doing it? They're fixed price.

Exactly. Kubernetes and micro services? Sure, for about 0.5% of the industry. Everyone else needs two servers and a load balancer.

I couldn't agree more.

As a content creator with seven years experience, hundreds of videos and thousands of hours of content: just charge me a fee to host my videos. I'd pay $100/month, possibly more, to run a YouTube channel without.

Why is running ads the _only_ choice? Why can't a creator opt to pay to host videos on their channel with limitations? $10/month? That's 30 videos in HD max. $100? 300 videos in 4K... etc. ... or whatever.

As a content creator with seven years experience, hundreds of videos and thousands of hours of content: I use Freetube. Please use it until abusive adverts and practices aren't a thing anymore.

>> This style of form is aggravating to fill out,

> In what sense?

You just answered your own question.

I want to see what I'm getting my self in for so that companies/entities can't trick me into filling out a questionnaire with 50 questions in that, "Will only take a minute!" It's easy to get people to get answer enough questions that they reach the point that stopping now would mean everything they've just done is a waste of their time, so they keep going. It's abusive.

Give me everything up front and let me decide if I have the time to commit to that.

I got really excited about this and then realised it's only for Kubernetes: the one platform I've never believed you should deploy a database to (relational or otherwise.) I guess there are some use cases for such a deployment, but after 20 years of experience across many organisations on three continents, I've never encountered a situation that involves constantly rolling forward the database engine. Bring the engine inline with updates, sure, but weekly? Even monthly? No.

OIDC integration, RBAC, data persistence/replication across nodes, observability, mTLS.

And yes, you're right, all these things are complex in any situation, except when you simply use a load balancer and two servers. There are companies estimated to be worth close to US$2B using with sub 30 servers using a service you may have heard of: Stack Overflow (https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-ha... && https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/05/03/stack-overflow-how-we...).

(As an aside: K8s does not free you from your Cloud vendor - after floating around my city working on various "platforms", all locked in due to IAM, for example.)

No idea why you're being downvoted. Makes sense to me.

> If you want a fun fact: the communication between kubectl and the kube-api-server is actually in JSON, not YAML.

YAML is a super set of JSON. All JSON is valid YAML. No one uses YAML over the wire as you cannot guarantee the conversion from YAML to JSON as YAML is a super set and make contain things like anchors, which the JSON parser cannot handle.

That's why :)

Not all of us do. If you can get to an average of 300k+ view per video then you can hire an editor and maybe someone else on a contract basis to assist. Must of don't have a team though.

Couldn't you use the raw module to get Python into place and then use the rest of Ansible's feature set after that?

> since Pyinfra doesn't need Python on the host node I can kick off tasks in bulk to do server things.

And you can do this with Ansible, too. Check out the raw module/command.

But you can just write a small module in Python, have it do the looping logic for you, install it at the root of your project's configuration-as-code repository, and then use the module in the YAML, removing the need to do complex, ugly loops in YAML.

Is there a reason this isn't an option for you?

Better everything: Matrix.

Matrix is the best option, for sure.

Time to move to Matrix.

CSAM was pushed on big tech by most governments.