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New comment by eatmyshorts in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

eatmyshorts — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:19:51 +0000

My daughter says that Northeastern is also affected. Is it more widespread? Did they infect all SaaS Canvas universities?

New comment by eatmyshorts in "Tailscale Kubernetes Operator"

eatmyshorts — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:48:56 +0000

OCI registries.

Harbor + Notary + admission controllers - AKA private image repository with image signing.

Sigstore. Another method for signing & verifying artifacts.

New comment by eatmyshorts in "Lunik: The CIA’s plot to steal a Soviet satellite (2021)"

eatmyshorts — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:29:35 +0000

It did, but only as a test. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-49

New comment by eatmyshorts in "Show HN: DevPod – Codespaces but Open Source, Client-Only, and Unopinionated"

eatmyshorts — Wed, 17 May 2023 15:36:39 +0000

This sounds kind of like Tilt and DevSpace, but for just general purpose containers. From a quick look through the website, I didn't see these features, but these would be great additions:

- File sync with the local filesystem and the container (2-way)

- Port-forwarding to localhost for debugging (I guess the DevPod way is to run the entire IDE in the container, but I love Tilt/DevSpace for allowing me to work in my local fat IDE)

New comment by eatmyshorts in "A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call"

eatmyshorts — Tue, 09 May 2023 00:27:09 +0000

This doesn't surprise me much. From what I've seen consulting/contracting, SaaS-based observability tends to cost 30-50% of cloud spend--EC2, storage, S3, RDS, maybe k8s, and other cloud services, or whatever the equivalent is on GCP/Azure. I wouldn't be surprised to see Coinbase with a >$150M quarterly cloud spend, so $65M on observability would make sense.

That said, managing observability yourself should result in <5% of cloud spend. So I'm figuring someone at Coinbase said "WTF" to this bill and migrated to Grafana/Loki or Kibana/OpenSearch or Kibana/Elastic. Well, that, and Coinbase's business also dropped off a cliff. Combined, I could easily see a one-time influx of $65M from one customer, gone the next quarter.

New comment by eatmyshorts in "The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030"

eatmyshorts — Sun, 07 May 2023 12:55:55 +0000

The beauty of EVs with respect to the grid is they present an opportunity to make our grid much more resilient and reliable, all while enabling renewables much greater percentages of our overall power generation. Renewables (well, specifically solar and wind) are very peak-y, with peaks that can overwhelm a grid and blow out transformers, and troughs that require additional power generation from other sources. This limits the base load power that can be generated from wind/solar to around 40% of total demand. Unless you have a way to store and retrieve power on demand. You’d need enough storage to handle roughly 2 days of power usage needs in order to smooth power usage to cover peaks and troughs. And, lo and behold, the typical EV car has enough power to cover a typical home for about 3 days!

If we incorporate inverters into home building standards today, we can guarantee that our EV fleet can be used to provide storage and auxiliary power for our grid and allow renewables to approach 100% of power generation. But we will need to deploy wind and solar in a distributed fashion so that power generation and storage is local to where the power is consumed. And a grid like this will be much more resilient to power outages and weather.

New comment by eatmyshorts in "SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas"

eatmyshorts — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:47:06 +0000

Watching the mission, I noticed that engines kept shutting down. There are 33 of them. When they had turned off 7 of them, with 26 engines remaining lit, it started to lose control. The engineers all seemed ecstatic about the mission. I have to wonder if they weren't intentionally shutting off engines to see how many could fail while still retaining control. If that was indeed tested, the answer appears to be 6--they can operate nominally with 27 engines lit.

New comment by eatmyshorts in "Previous: A NeXT Computer Emulator"

eatmyshorts — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:16:19 +0000

Does it also emulate the wickedly slow I/O times of the CD/RW drive (er, Canon Magento Optical drive, apparently)? I seem to recall waiting really long for anything to read or write to that thing, despite the wonder of having a CD that I could erase, with 660MB of storage.

New comment by eatmyshorts in "System76 AMD-Only Laptop Returns"

eatmyshorts — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 15:17:13 +0000

How about "The Return of the System76 AMD Laptop"?

New comment by eatmyshorts in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?"

eatmyshorts — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 12:28:24 +0000

I have one about ChatGPT. ChatGPT ends up not being useful as a replacement for junior software developers. But ChatGPT does end up taking over middle management. It is more reliable, with better results than humans, at getting software updates from developers and communicating them with coherence to upper managers. Someone will use it to develop an Agile ChatGPT, then another with a Scrum ChatGPT, and then a third, initially a joke, but later accepted as the preferred one, the Waterfall ChatGPT.

New comment by eatmyshorts in "Driving Amazon’s electric delivery vehicle: Rivian EDV [video]"

eatmyshorts — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 12:59:58 +0000

Yep. I've passed on this generation of fully electric vehicles because none of them offer physical buttons to operate the climate control.

Automatic climate controls don't cut it--change directions such that the sun starts beating down on me and I'm going to need to turn up the fans beyond what automated systems would choose. Test driving the Tesla Model S, on two separate occasions while attempting to set the climate controls I almost got into a wreck--it not only is only on the touchscreen, but also buried under something like 5 menus. WTF? Volvo XC-40 and Mustang also have no climate control buttons. In my area, all the other electric cars have a waiting list longer than a year. I want to buy electric, but safety is paramount--driving a car is far and away the most dangerous thing I do on a daily basis and I'd like it to be as safe as possible. I ended up with a Subaru this time.

Hopefully someone will make an electric car with physical buttons for the climate controls.

New comment by eatmyshorts in "As last module docks, China completes its space station"

eatmyshorts — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 17:44:28 +0000

"table" is an antonym depending upon your location. For Americans, in the context of a discussion, the verb "table" means to set it aside and stop discussing it. For Brits, it means to bring up a topic and discuss it.

New comment by eatmyshorts in "Do we need a better understanding of 'progress'?"

eatmyshorts — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 20:15:02 +0000

I think your data is a little old. The undernourished, defined as fewer than 1800 calories per day, has steadily declined from 2000 until 2019, and then risen very slightly as a result of Covid. There's about 660 million that meet this threshold. Global malnutrition really has gotten significantly better over the past few decades. https://ourworldindata.org/hunger-and-undernourishment

New comment by eatmyshorts in "Ask HN: Pros and cons of V8 isolates?"

eatmyshorts — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 20:16:24 +0000

V8, at its core, is single-threaded. I think that's the reason for separate processes for each isolate.

New comment by eatmyshorts in "Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo (2020)"

eatmyshorts — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 15:20:37 +0000

Is there any way to do this as a 2nd factor, so that both my password and my fingerprint are needed for sudo?

New comment by eatmyshorts in "Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industrial levels"

eatmyshorts — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 13:10:45 +0000

It's happening throughout Europe and North America. The United States has had declining per-capita carbon consumption since around 1970. Absolute levels, which include population growth, have been going down since around 2000. We're replacing high-carbon power sources (i.e. coal) with lower carbon power sources (i.e. nat gas) and carbon-based sources with renewable sources, with wind and solar now producing some 13% of the total energy consumption and 20% of domestic energy production, more than double the percentages from 2015.

New comment by eatmyshorts in "Minikube quickly sets up a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, and Windows"

eatmyshorts — Thu, 26 May 2022 12:52:03 +0000

K3D also mimics a multi-node cluster. K0s, K3s, Rancher Desktop, Minikube, and Docker all run (by default) a single-node cluster. This can be useful when learning about Kubernetes and how it would function in a "real" cluster.

K3s and K0s both operate with control plane components not running in containers. Again, when learning how Kubernetes functions, hiding these control plane components can be counterproductive. However, this also means K0s and K3s require fewer resources than the others, giving you more room to run workloads. Additionally, K3s now supports multi-node clusters and multiple options for etcd, including several options that allow for an HA control plane.

Personally, I am a big fan of Rancher Desktop (K3s under the covers), and on my M1 Mac I find Docker to be the most complete and easiest to use. Docker Desktop is for-pay except for small companies and for open-source projects.

New comment by eatmyshorts in "Controlling the nuclear fusion plasma in a tokamak with reinforcement learning"

eatmyshorts — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 16:41:56 +0000

Another big one is the default-to-safety nature of fusion vs. fission. With fission, if things go wrong, the nuclear process often speeds up and can run out of control. With fusion, generally when things go wrong temperatures dissipate and the fusion process halts naturally.

New comment by eatmyshorts in "‘Farms are failing’ as fertilizer prices drive up cost of food"

eatmyshorts — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 17:59:53 +0000

No, it's correct. The plains states are so fertile because of hundreds of millions of years of shallow ocean water led to huge amounts of plankton to die and settle. That's also why there's oil in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

New comment by eatmyshorts in "Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up space debris in orbit"

eatmyshorts — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 16:08:11 +0000

How much money would SpaceX lose per day in that event? I imagine the thread of a cascading set of collisions becomes more likely after the first one, also. I think SpaceX would be very interested in clearing debris as soon as possible in the event of a collision. Months or single-digit years likely would cost SpaceX many billions.