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New comment by keewee7 in "Docker 2.0 went from $11M to $135M in 2 years"

keewee7 — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 21:50:54 +0000

This article from 2013 might give an indication on why some people choose FOSS even when they can afford the non-FOSS solutions:

  The licensing. My God, the licensing. It's not so much the money, as the infernal, mind-bending tax code level complexity involved in making sure all your software is properly licensed: determining what 'level' and 'edition' you are licensed at, who is licensed to use what, which servers are licensed... wait, what? Sorry, I passed out there for a minute when I was attacked by rabid licensing weasels.

  I'm not inclined to make grand pronouncements about the future of software, but if anything kills off commercial software, let me tell you, it won't be open source software. They needn't bother. Commercial software will gleefully strangle itself to death on its own licensing terms.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-ruby/

New comment by keewee7 in "Alpine Linux in the Browser (2020)"

keewee7 — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 21:38:15 +0000

It's worth mentioning that the initial version of this didn't use WebAssembly. Bellard literally implemented i386/PC emulation in pure JavaScript (ES5) back in 2011.

New comment by keewee7 in "India’s caste system limits diversity in science"

keewee7 — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 15:27:35 +0000

Why should Google let Tamil ethno-nationalists like Thenmozhi hold a talk?

New comment by keewee7 in "India’s caste system limits diversity in science"

keewee7 — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 15:22:51 +0000

A lot of research into the genetic history of the Indian subcontinent seems to be from the late 90s and early 2000s.

Is there a reason it has stopped? We have gotten a lot better at genetic anthropology since then but for some reason there is very little new research on the genetic history of the Indian subcontinent.

New comment by keewee7 in "Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden"

keewee7 — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:07:40 +0000

Maybe it's time for the rest of the world to do sustainable rare earth metal mining or end up being more geopolitically subjugated by China and Russia.

New comment by keewee7 in "Microservices are hard"

keewee7 — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:02:13 +0000

>Your X is a shit and it crashes every second?

Companies that repeatedly fail to detect and solve this type of problem using automated testing and QA are exactly the companies that lack the sophistication to do distributed microservice architecture.

Learn to do proper CI/CD, end-to-end testing, and logging/metrics on your monolith before you decide to transition to microservices.

New comment by keewee7 in "House Republicans to vote on bill abolishing IRS, eliminating income tax"

keewee7 — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 03:46:14 +0000

You're probably correct if you don't consider Southern Europe and Eastern Germany to be developed.

New comment by keewee7 in "Production Twitter on one machine? 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast"

keewee7 — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 21:21:34 +0000

In the coming years we will probably see a lot of complicated microservice architectures be replaced by well-designed and optimized Rust (and modern C++) monoliths that use simple replication to scale horizontally.

New comment by keewee7 in "U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022"

keewee7 — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:15:00 +0000

As long as I have been browsing the English-language Internet the overall mood among Americans has been that the S&P500 and US dollar hegemony will collapse in a month.

Why is that? I'm European but the US doesn't seem too different from most of Europe in terms of stability and the risk of unrest.

New comment by keewee7 in "Automatic1111's GitHub account suspended for "ToS violations" [restored]"

keewee7 — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 17:06:25 +0000

>Reddit has a whitelist of a handful sites

That is not true. I have submitted plenty of links from new domains (side projects) to reddit.

New comment by keewee7 in "Automatic1111's GitHub account suspended for "ToS violations" [restored]"

keewee7 — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 12:52:37 +0000

I think Rust/Cargo does this to warn against bad words being used as identifiers.

New comment by keewee7 in "Automatic1111's GitHub account suspended for "ToS violations" [restored]"

keewee7 — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 12:47:09 +0000

A1111 did the following things:

- Made a mod removing all non-white characters in a video game.

- Put black people and artists who draw black people in a category/folder called "n".

- Is allegedly also anti-semitic but I don't think the "((()))" thing is proof of that.

I don't think there is anything Micro$ofty going on. Just a racist being banned.

New comment by keewee7 in "Microsoft is preparing to add ChatGPT to Bing"

keewee7 — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 14:12:07 +0000

OpenAI was conceptualized and founded in 2014/15 to avoid AI being dominated by one country and one company (Google).

That is no longer the case. OpenAI should change their misleading name but it's worth remembering that their original mission statement has been fulfilled by OpenAI, academia, Chinese/European companies alike.

New comment by keewee7 in "First LNG tanker arrives at Germany's new floating terminal"

keewee7 — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 17:44:43 +0000

That is not true. Seismic monitoring show that the explosions were equivalent to several hundred kilograms of explosives. With that much explosives there was no need to remove the concrete. The "concrete removing CIA robots" narrative is only pushed by Russian propaganda accounts.

New comment by keewee7 in "First LNG tanker arrives at Germany's new floating terminal"

keewee7 — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 17:26:02 +0000

As a European I'm glad the CIA/Poland/aliens blew up the pipelines that were funding the Russian invasion.

Even the environmental effect was minor; the methane emission from the leaks had 1/5th of the GHG effect of my small country's, Denmark, annual GHG emission.

New comment by keewee7 in "First LNG tanker arrives at Germany's new floating terminal"

keewee7 — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 17:18:08 +0000

Most heavy US military vehicles like the Abrams can run on gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

Rust for Professionals

keewee7 — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 20:59:31 +0000

Article URL: https://overexact.com/rust-for-professionals/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34223557

Points: 126

# Comments: 100

New comment by keewee7 in "Bezos, Gates, Zuck, Behind every “self-made” millionaire is a father with money"

keewee7 — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:48:20 +0000

The children of millionaire lawyers and doctors also make a lot of noise on social media about "millionaires being the new middle class" and why we should only eat Zuckerberg and Bezos but leave out their wealthy parents.

New comment by keewee7 in "“Internet in space” will transform the satellite imagery industry"

keewee7 — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 20:24:34 +0000

This kind of naive thinking is what lead to the West being caught off guard in Ukraine.

Russia and China have been weaponizing space for decades.

New comment by keewee7 in "“Internet in space” will transform the satellite imagery industry"

keewee7 — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 20:22:01 +0000

Russia and China have been weponizing space for decades and they already have working hypersonic missiles.