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New comment by cowgoesmoo in "How Tesla is proving doubters right on why its robotaxi service cannot scale"

cowgoesmoo — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 23:16:47 +0000

Or cheap cars and no labor, which is the entire goal of driverless taxis

New comment by cowgoesmoo in "Migrating from AWS to a European Cloud – How We Cut Costs by 62%"

cowgoesmoo — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:23:47 +0000

Yes, OVH was the one that had a fire that burned down a data center a few years back.

New comment by cowgoesmoo in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

cowgoesmoo — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:26:39 +0000

I'm pretty sure that's what Trump wants if the mineral deal isn't signed. And now the mineral deal seems more and more unlikely.

New comment by cowgoesmoo in "IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp"

cowgoesmoo — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 03:35:50 +0000

20k+ nodes and 200k+ allocs. To be fair, Kubernetes cannot support this large of a cluster.

Most of my issues with it aren't related to the scale though. I wasn't involved in the operations of the cluster (though I did hear many "fun" stories from that team), I was just a user of Nomad trying to run a few thousand stateful allocs. Without custom resources and custom controllers, managing stateful services was a pain in the ass. Critical bugs would also often take years to get fixed. I had lots of fun getting paged in the middle of the night because 2 allocs would suddenly decide they now have the same index (https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/10727)

New comment by cowgoesmoo in "IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp"

cowgoesmoo — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 01:07:48 +0000

Having worked with a very large Nomad cluster, I cannot disagree more.

For simple use cases, sure, but you could also just use AWS ECS or a similar cloud tool for an even easier experience.

New comment by cowgoesmoo in "Small plane crashes in Northeast Philadelphia"

cowgoesmoo — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 01:06:50 +0000

Multiple accidents per day. A fatal one every ~2 days

https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/air-safety-institut...

New comment by cowgoesmoo in "Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees"

cowgoesmoo — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:55:18 +0000

extremely rare in countries with falling birth rates

New comment by cowgoesmoo in "Teen behind hundreds of swatting attacks pleads guilty to federal charges"

cowgoesmoo — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 19:27:45 +0000

So you want police to deal with 10k+ gun related homicides using only batons and pepper spray?

New comment by cowgoesmoo in "Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs"

cowgoesmoo — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:53:09 +0000

It's really quite simple. Guns are protected by the constitution so citizens have a fighting chance to overthrow a tyrannical government, porn is not. Whether or not guns are a net positive to society is a different discussion, but the reasoning is clear and simple.

New comment by cowgoesmoo in "New York bans 'addictive feeds' for teens"

cowgoesmoo — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 21:05:50 +0000

> They of course have the right to refuse that request and decline my money, but in the real world, contractors usually comply with such requests as smoking is known to harm health.

Right, but you're suggesting that they should legally have to comply with this request and can't refuse service.

New comment by cowgoesmoo in "300k airplanes in five years"

cowgoesmoo — Thu, 23 May 2024 22:10:29 +0000

It's hard to abuse for aircraft - you can't just strap a bunch of lead to a plane because then it won't fly.

New comment by cowgoesmoo in "Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate"

cowgoesmoo — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 22:59:41 +0000

We know for sure that there are issues with our current theories. Our two best theories, general relativity and quantum mechanics, are not compatible with each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity#Relationshi...

New comment by cowgoesmoo in "The current state of OpenTelemetry"

cowgoesmoo — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 23:06:27 +0000

Meh, I work in metrics observability and there's very little support for otel. Most new open source products are still based on Prometheus, which has much better SDK support than otel.

I think it's a mistake for Otel to do its own thing instead of just building on top of Prometheus.

New comment by cowgoesmoo in "FedNow Is Live"

cowgoesmoo — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 20:17:22 +0000

There's also no take backs on Zelle, Venmo, or Cash App.

New comment by cowgoesmoo in "A glitch in the SEO matrix"

cowgoesmoo — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 00:08:33 +0000

I've been using reddit for this purpose

New comment by cowgoesmoo in "Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (2013)"

cowgoesmoo — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 18:08:31 +0000

meh, it's arguably the most important new technique in espresso making in at least the last 20 years. I think John Weiss deserves some credit for that.

New comment by cowgoesmoo in "Report: U.S. pedestrian death rate increased during COVID"

cowgoesmoo — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:05:34 +0000

Cars have lights and reflectors

New comment by cowgoesmoo in "Long Covid is keeping significant numbers of people out of work, study finds"

cowgoesmoo — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 21:05:47 +0000

At the start of the pandemic, between March 29 and July 25 2020, everyone claiming unemployment benefits got an extra $600/week on top of their normal payment. Later between December 27 2020, and September 4 2021, everyone was paid an extra $300/week for 9 months. For reference, the maximum unemployment benefit previously was $450/week.

This is all on top of the checks, of which there were 3.

Assuming you claimed unemployment the entire time, you would've gotten paid ~$24k + normal UI.

New comment by cowgoesmoo in "Plaid Layoffs"

cowgoesmoo — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 21:17:22 +0000

I highly recommend this video for a deeper understanding of macroeconomic trends and the role of central banks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0

New comment by cowgoesmoo in "Show HN: Sprig, open-source game console and engine, by teenagers for teenagers"

cowgoesmoo — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 03:04:15 +0000

Roblox is a thing. I got into programming back in 09 cause I wanted to make a Roblox game.