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stbenjam··on California Pizza Hut operators laying off all delivery drivers
Whaaaat? It’s been a while since I lived in california (Monterey and later the Bay Area) but I found California to have some of the best pizza anywhere…

Pesto and potato pizza in the Castro was amazing.

stbenjam··on Crown shyness
Thank you! I’m looking for a new book to read.
stbenjam··on Crown shyness
I learned about this from “A Prayer for the Crown Shy”. Great book.
stbenjam··on Beeper Mini is now open-source
Apple has done a good job of making it feel exclusive. It’s like the Berghain of message apps. I wish more friends would move to WhatsApp.
stbenjam··on Polish DRMed trains stop as predicted due to date-based logic-bomb
Nobody frames it as an evil thing. It’s spun to sound good the engineers don’t put any critical thought into it.
stbenjam··on VMware transition to subscription, end of sale of perpetual licenses
They are, but Red Hat is driving people to kubevirt which I’m not sure is ready for all vsphere customers. But it totally makes sense for anyone wanting to make the container journey eventually.
stbenjam··on Single-Dose Psilocybin for Major Depressive Disorder: Randomized Clinical Trial
Not just a larger dose, most people on SSRI’s won’t trip no matter how much psilocybin they consume.
stbenjam··on Tech management has bestowed glory upon me
This person sounds quite disgruntled and should find somewhere else to work for their own well being.
stbenjam··on Email the President (Clinton Era)
They replied by snail mail. Someone read them or at least some of them.
stbenjam··on Playstation is erasing seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries
What good is that? If I buy a book or a movie I want to own it forever not until the company decides to take it back regardless of giving a refund…
stbenjam··on 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users
Most terms of service include automatic acceptance of future changes, so if you continue to use the service the terms apply to the past too.

“23andMe may make changes to the Terms at any time. If we make a material change to the Terms, we will notify you, such as by posting a notice on our website or sending a message to the email address associated with your account. By continuing to access or use the Services, you agree to be bound by the revised Terms.”

stbenjam··on Kubernetes Needs an LTS
2 years is still not very long for large enterprises, they'll be conservative on the uptake - 3-6 months after it gets released, so they only have maybe 12-18 months before they're planning the next upgrade. It's better than vanilla kube, but compare that to RHEL where you get 10 years of maintenance, and can often extend that even further.
stbenjam··on Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
Finding people who can run infra at Spotify scale isn’t easy. Even if they could find those people, it tough to leave aws (by design).

They could’ve been more careful about avoiding lock-in by building more on something like kube but most startups don’t have that foresight, and the expense of moving to on-prem is compounded even more when they have so much wrapped up in the aws ecosystem.

stbenjam··on Gron: Make JSON greppable
This is brilliant, I can't wait to have a json problem to try it out.
stbenjam··on UniFi Express
Another confused product from UniFi. Is it targeting home users or businesses? It looks like businesses from their web page yet feels very much like a better fit for home.

It only runs UniFi Network, so you have to buy more things, that also run UniFi Network, to get into any of their other products like Protect.

I like their stuff but lately a lot of their stuff feels just confused to me, like they don't know what they want to be.

stbenjam··on Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs
11kish is usually ther upper limit of most half ton pickups. Probably a function of what the frame can handle.

But Towing 11k on that thing is already going to tank your range to ~100 miles. I couldn’t imagine towing our camper with this thing (and the design is stupid enough that you probably can’t tow a fifth wheel right the cybertruck anyway)

stbenjam··on X may lose up to $75M by year-end on advertiser exodus
The other day when the rainbow bridge accident happened I went to go see what was happening on X. I hoped to see more up to date info, instead it was ONLY right wing nuts with insane conspiracy theories tying it from everything to the war in Palestine to “Biden’s” southern border crisis (do these people not know where Canada is?)

The place has become a sad joke. I wouldn't be surprised if ad revenue drops 90% or more.

stbenjam··on Cannabis that people are using for anxiety is probably making it worse
At least for depression half of people fail multiple drug trials and don’t find relief in conventional treatments ever. It’s similar for anxiety unless you’re getting into benzodiazepines which do work for basically everyone but horrible for your brain long term.

Weed does wonders for my depression but unfortunately makes my anxiety worse but it does help some people. Especially high CBD strains.

Mescaline, found in cacti, is basically a cure for my anxiety. A single dose once every 6 months or so keeps it at bay. It’s illegal, and movements to legalize it are all money grabs and won’t do much to increase access (the ballot measures for psychedelics are all backed by a single PAC who are interested in $$$$$ from treatments and training). Sorry for the rant lol

stbenjam··on Amazon cuts 'several hundred' jobs in Alexa division
You’ll be cursing HA off and on for as long as you use it. The local control angle is the right one (Apple’s HomeKit is also local for its devices and its great, I wish they’d invest more in it).

The breaking changes in HA are out of control, every release is a dozen or more - a good chance at least one integration you use will have a breaking change every time you update.

If you wait too long to upgrade it’ll just implode.

stbenjam··on Lemming Suicide Myth: Disney Film Faked Bogus Behavior
I mean in an interview they’re claiming it’s real https://www.fastcompany.com/3068093/heres-the-story-behind-t...

It looks very convincing to me if it is a fake.

stbenjam··on Does Market Timing Work?
100 years ago it was definitely on the radar the US government should support retirement. Social security started in 1935.
stbenjam··on Hyundai, Kia to adopt Tesla EV-charging standard from 2024 in US
At most EA stations one of them still has chademo. EVgo also still has it.
stbenjam··on Hyundai, Kia to adopt Tesla EV-charging standard from 2024 in US
EVgo works the same way. They have chademo and ccs cables and only one works at a time.

Chademo is also dying and I think only Nissan continues to use it on HALF their ev line up (only the leaf which is an awesome car otherwise). Kia soul did use it but I think they moved to ccs

stbenjam··on Dalle-3 Examples
The speed at which AI is getting better is honestly a bit terrifying.
stbenjam··on Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman
Title needs fixing: Nobel prize.
stbenjam··on WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
I doubt Delta made this. It’s an official the shelf product that can do ships, trains, planes, etc.
stbenjam··on BOOX Palma
My BOOX reader has the play store. Works fine. Not all apps work great on eink but most are serviceable (sometimes with some tweaks to the per-app UI settings on boox)
stbenjam··on BOOX Palma
Same.
stbenjam··on We Are Not Supporting OpenTF
OpenTF is a good thing. Hashicorp basically stopped reviewing community terraform contributions a while back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28425849

They have no skills in managing true open source projects. We’re better off in an OpenTF World. We don’t need their support.

stbenjam··on Applying SRE Principles to CI/CD
I disagree about extensive validating of email addresses. This is why: https://davidcel.is/articles/stop-validating-email-addresses...
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