Hacker News: p_l

New comment by p_l in "A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024)"

p_l — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 11:33:58 +0000

A good term for it is that every bigger system is going to be at best metastable

New comment by p_l in "A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024)"

p_l — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 22:30:16 +0000

It's why, except for upstream charts, I use exclusively jsonnet (through kubecfg) when I can.

String interpolation is a pox on the ecosystem, especially given how YAML was only originally a debug helper...

New comment by p_l in "Butlerian Jihad"

p_l — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:11:15 +0000

And which is better explained as two eugenics programs at clashing into each other, both working on dominating the general populace (Bene Gesserit arguably on larger scale than Komos' single-system thing), and Bene Gesserit using their long-worked socio-religious manipulation for revenge that gets out of hand

New comment by p_l in "Butlerian Jihad"

p_l — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:07:05 +0000

His target was removal of prescience - which would have allowed that, AI or no AI.

In fact he also explicitly prepared a renewal of computing and thinking machines in order to break free from spacing guild

New comment by p_l in "Butlerian Jihad"

p_l — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:04:36 +0000

Yes, but it never goes into what actually happened - it's just the belief of the time.

And curiously a critical part of Golden Path became a reversal of major Butlerian Jihad effects, allowing humans to be free from feudal system

New comment by p_l in "Butlerian Jihad"

p_l — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:03:11 +0000

The Dune Encyclopedia is essentially two eugenics programs clashing together, with one of them triggering a holy war in revenge that turned into self-destructive orgy of wholesale murder

New comment by p_l in "Gemini 4 Argon"

p_l — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:41:43 +0000

Both for gemini app / website, antigravity only for Ultra (because let's be honest, that's the way to put a lot more load on it)

New comment by p_l in "A plea not to use uv-build"

p_l — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:44:55 +0000

It is still a problem where there are no binaries for platforms otherwise supported by the distro, and in fact supported by the package being built - because uv-build is the only part that does not run on given platform and can't be reliably built for it

New comment by p_l in "A plea not to use uv-build"

p_l — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:43:36 +0000

It also made it nice base for both ChromeOS and its descendants like COS and Flatpak (continuation of original CoreOS)

New comment by p_l in "A plea not to use uv-build"

p_l — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:42:39 +0000

My somewhat ignorant experience is full of dealing with combinatorial expansion of python build backends and needing to husband them in nixos including all sorts of overrides to deal with, iirc, weird circularities in deps.

New comment by p_l in "A plea not to use uv-build"

p_l — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:40:42 +0000

Well, it did force me to work on better build caching and the like, but at the same time, it accelerated my wish to remove python where possible

New comment by p_l in "Worlds more habitable than Earth?"

p_l — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:18:20 +0000

Time experienced will be slowed down for the person in spaceship as you near lightspeed

New comment by p_l in "A plea not to use uv-build"

p_l — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:16:58 +0000

The problem is packages that use the build backends, and Gentoo is generally not in the business of maintaining that kind of patch.

Admittedly rustification like that is a problem not only for gentoo, I have commercially deployed systems where one of the most annoyings elements of updating is presence of rust in python deps...

New comment by p_l in "Solar panels that plug into your wall"

p_l — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:25:23 +0000

Depending on country, you still need to hit the right phase if you want the power to go to your appliance (metaphorically)

New comment by p_l in "I'm in a Meeting"

p_l — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:46:07 +0000

It's normal in many places for the only video to be shared screen

New comment by p_l in "Sorry, I'm in a meeting"

p_l — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:20:43 +0000

Unless you have good ANC headphones, or find something like pink noise that fits you, you're still dealing with all the talking to microphone of your colleagues.

New comment by p_l in "Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model"

p_l — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:27:14 +0000

I wish they supported older gen XDNA though :(

New comment by p_l in "Reasons to Dislike AI Coding"

p_l — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:10:52 +0000

Washing by hand, both dishes and clothes, as well as drying them "old school" are all skills I found very practical to keep even if rarely used (hand washing dishes is pretty common when for me though if I only have one or two items...)

New comment by p_l in "Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion?"

p_l — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:28:03 +0000

DEC BASIC on VMS even had somewhat common-lisp comparable condition facility thanks to OS support, for those who don't know that means non-unwinding exceptions that allow continuing from where the condition was signaled

New comment by p_l in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

p_l — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:23:32 +0000

The only case that would match for 90dB anywhere outside a datacenter are abominations like the xAI one with ton of barely-legal to straight out illegal (before recent rule change) gas turbines providing power, which is an issue downstream from US grid being utter shit